Narrator: Toan, Jack

Interviewer: Vo Dang, Thuy

Date of Interview: 2012-08-13

Permanent Link To This Item: http://hdl.handle.net/10575/3275

Summary: Oral History of Jack Khu Dang Toan who was born in Hanoi, Vietnam in 1970 and left Vietnam in 1979 by boat from Hanoi. His family arrived in a Hong Kong refugee camp before being sponsored by a South Carolina Christian church looking to specifically sponsor a Chinese-Vietnamese refugee family. He attended a few years of school in South Carolina and then his family relocated to Orange County, California where he finished high school and attended college at UC Irvine. He met and married a non-Vietnamese woman and they have three children. At the time of the interview, he works for Wells Fargo Foundation, the charitable arm of the bank and is active among the Asian American community in Southern California.

Decade of Birth: 1970-1979

Subjects: Acculturation | Boat People | Children | China | Chinese and ethnic Chinese | Citizenship | College or university | Death | Discrimination | Employment | English as a second language (ESL) | Ethnicity | Family | Gangs | High school | Identity | Interracial relationship | Marriage | Refugee camp (Hong Kong) | Resettlement | Student | Vietnam War | Vietnamese Student Association (VSA) | Youth | Little Saigon (Orange County, California) | Orange County, California | Ha Noi (Vietnam)

Type: Sound

Duration: 01:35:45

Language: English

Provenance: Recorded Digitally