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Title: Oral History of Ysa Le
Creator: Le, Ysa
Contributor: Le, Andy
Date Created and/or Issued: 2012-11-10
Contributing Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Southeast Asian Archive
Collection: Viet Stories: Vietnamese American Oral History project
Rights Information: Copyrighted
This material is provided for private study, scholarship, or research. Transmission or reproduction of any material protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Contact the University of California, Irvine Libraries, Special Collections and Archives for more information (spcoll@uci.edu).
Description: Scope/Content: An oral history was conducted with Ysa Le, Executive Director at the Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association in the city of Santa Ana. The interview focused on her early memories of Vietnam and departure from her homeland to France and her journey from France to the United States, as her family continues to start a new life. She is participating in the Vietnamese American Oral History Project in order to preserve her family history.
Scope/Content: “Vietnamese American Experience” examines Vietnamese American identities and communities through a sustained critique of United States imperialism and analysis of the wars in Southeast Asia, which spurned the mass migration of over 1 million Vietnamese to America since the 1970s. Drawing from interdisciplinary scholarly research, literary works and visual media, this course equips students with a critical and transnational framework for engaging Vietnamese American experiences. We explore how Vietnamese Americans have been made subject to US racial formation before and after their arrival in the US. Most importantly, we seek to understand how they craft their own lives and meanings, their memories of the homeland, as well as their triumphs and struggles to build community. Toward this end, a major component of this course is an oral history project each student will complete with a Vietnamese American elder. Students are trained in oral history methodology and required to conduct and process (transcribe, translate, and index) one oral history interview to donate to the Vietnamese American Oral History Project, which is archived in the UCI Libraries Southeast Asian Archive.
Scope/Content: Photograph of Andy Le and Ysa Le, photographer Giana Nguyen Foster, 2012, Santa Ana, Calif
Type: sound
Format: 1 mp3 audio file; 1 pdf transcription English; 1 pdf field notes English; 1 pdf time log English; 3 jpg image files
Extent: 01:02:09
Identifier: ark:/81235/d8bn90
VAOHP0102_P01.JPG
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/5914
Language: English
en
Subject: Activism | Art | Acculturation | College or university | Diaspora | Discrimination | Education | Employment | Escape | Family | France | Immigrant | Language schools | Marriage | Musician | Reeducation camp | Resettlement | Student | Tradition or custom | Saigon (Vietnam)
Time Period: 1970-1979
Relation: Vietnamese American Experience Classes Oral Histories, 2012 Fall

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