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Title: Oral History of Tiffany Vi Tran, restricted until 2089-02-01
Creator: Tran, Tiffany Vi
Contributor: Ung, Daniel
Date Created and/or Issued: 2019-02-01
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: My narrator is Tiffany Vi Tran, age 30. She was born and raised in Fountain Valley, California to two Vietnamese American refugees. She is the youngest in her family and has spent most of her life in Southern California. For her primary education, even though she was raised Buddhist, she attended a private Catholic school in for the first few grades, and the private Christian school. She completed two years at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa and later went on to finish her Bachelor's Degree at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Before completing her final year at UCLA, she took about a year off to move back home to recover from an illness and jaw surgery. Since then she has been battling chronic pain due to nerve damage from dental surgery. In 2012, Tiffany completed her degree and became involved with several Vietnamese American organizations such as Project Motivate and Common Ground. Today, Tiffany is currently taking care of her parents at her home in Fountain Valley. Materials restricted until 2089-02-01.
Scope/Content: At what point in time can one pinpoint the beginning of Vietnamese America? Does it begin with the Fall of Saigon? Does it begin with the creation of Little Saigons throughout America? In looking to define Vietnamese American experiences, do we limit what it has been and what it could be? Whatever the entry point, experiences of Vietnamese Americans are inextricably tangled with the political, economic, and social structures of racial, class, and gender hierarchy in the United States and notions of authenticity and nationalism. Thus, to begin learning what the Vietnamese American experience entails, is to also begin unlearning. This course seeks to understand, unravel and complicate what Vietnamese America is through a critical refugee and critical race lens. By analyzing various issues, we are able to see how Vietnamese Americans are affected by larger societal forces such as capitalism and imperialism. This course aims to: 1. To introduce the student to the history, culture, and contemporary experiences of Vietnamese Americans, highlighting how power and privilege entangles them all together. 2. Expand current discourse around social issues that affect Vietnamese Americans by using both scientific literature, creative works and scholarly articles. 3. Expose students to the multitude of historical, contemporary and local Vietnamese American narratives, taking advantage of the proximity to one of the largest Little Saigons.
Scope/Content: Headshot of Tiffany Tran.
Type: sound
Format: 2 mp3 audio files; 2 pdf transcriptions English; 1 pdf time log; 1 pdf life map; 8 jpg image files
Extent: 01: 21: 46
Identifier: ark:/81235/d8tc4p
VAOHP0381
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/14641
Language: English
en
Subject: Activism | Activist | Art | Arts | Entertainment | Artist | Asian American Studies | Buddhist | College | University | Dentist | Diaspora | Education | Elderly | Emigration | English as a second language (ESL) | Ethnicity | Factory worker | Family | Filmmaker | Gangs | Health | Healthcare | High school | Higher education | Identity | Immigrant | Intergenerational gap | Language barrier | Mental health | Paris by Night | Pharmacist | Physician | Public health | Refugee Camp (Guam) | Social Worker | Student | Unemployment | Vietnam War | Vietnamese Student Union (VSU) | University of California, Los Angeles | Orange Coast College | University of Southern California | Fountain Valley, California | Little Saigon (Orange County, California) | Orange County, California
Time Period: 1980-1989
Relation: Vietnamese American Experience Class Oral Histories, 2019 Winter

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