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Scope/Content: Oral history of Kien Tam Nguyen, born in 1947 in Cambodia. She lived part of her early years in north Vietnam until 1954 when her family migrated to Saigon, where she completed most of her schooling. As a student she often assisted injured soldiers during the war. She lost a brother during that time period. Her Buddhist faith is a strong part of her life, as she meditates often. After marriage she opened her own hair salon out of her home in Saigon. When the war ended, she was evacuated with her son, while her husband evacuated the country separately. She ended up in Fort Chaffee, Arkansas while he ended up in Camp Pendleton. They were able to reunite the family and resettled in Los Angeles and then Orange county. She co-founded Tam Beauty College with her husband, which later became Advance Beauty College under her children’s management. Scope/Content: Dr. Thuy Vo Dang is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Project Director for the Vietnamese American Oral History Project (VAOHP) in the Department of Asian American Studies at UC Irvine. She earned her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, San Diego in 2008 and was a Fellow at the Institute of American Cultures/Asian American Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles from 2009-2010 and a Visiting Scholar from 2010-2011. Her research and teaching specializations include comparative race and ethnic relations, immigration, ethnography, community studies, and oral history. For her doctoral dissertation on cultural politics and memory, she conducted oral history interviews with first generation Vietnamese Americans in San Diego. She has also collaborated on a Pacific Rim Foundation-funded project, interviewing over 70 Vietnamese Americans in the southern California area. Her academic research has been published in Amerasia Journal, the anthology Le Viet Nam Au Feminin, and Journal of Vietnamese Studies. Dr. Vo Dang currently facilitates and co-hosts a weekly Vietnamese-language radio show called Oral history; stories between the generations on VNCR (FM 106.3). Scope/Content: Photograph of Kien Tam Nguyen, photographer Thuy Vo Dang, 2012, Fountain Valley, Calif.
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2 mp3 audio files; 1 pdf transcription Vietnamese; 1 pdf transcription English; 1 pdf field notes English; 5 jpg image files
Acculturation | Buddhist | Business | Business owner | Children | Death | Education | Emigration | Employment | Entrepreneur | Escape | English as a second language (ESL) | Ethnicity | Family | Family reunification | High school | Identity | Marriage | Religion | Remittances | Resettlement | Student | Tradition or custom | Viet Cong | Viet Kieu | Vietnam War | Camp Pendleton, California | Fountain Valley, California | Fort Chaffee, Arkansas | Los Angeles County, California | Vietnam, Northern | Vietnam, Southern | Saigon (Vietnam)
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