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Scope/Content: An oral history with Ms. Thao Nguyen, born in 1957 in Ca Mau, Vietnam. She attempted to leave Vietnam 7 times and succeeded on her 8th try. She arrived in a refugee camp in Malaysia where she was denied resettlement and sent back to Vietnam in 1996. After waiting a few more years, she was sponsored to come to the United States in 2000 by a Christian church in Long Beach. She became a manicurist and currently lives in Santa Ana, California 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 Thao Nguyen, Photographer Mai, 2012, Santa Ana, Calif
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2 mp3 audio files; 1 pdf transcription Vietnamese; 1 pdf transcription English; 1 pdf field notes English; 1 pdf time log English; 5 jpg image files
Boat People | Children | Citizenship | Death | Detention camp | Escape | Family | Immigrant | Manicurist or nail technician | Nail salons | Refugee camp | Refugee camp (Malaysia) | Sales person | Sponsors or sponsorship | Tradition or custom | Little Saigon (Orange County, California) | Ca Mau (Vietnam) | Rach Gia (Vietnam) | Vung Tau (Vietnam)
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