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Title: Oral History of Trinh Ngoc Nguyen
Creator: Nguyen, Trinh Ngoc
Contributor: Nguyen, Christina
Date Created and/or Issued: 2012-02-23
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: This was an oral history interview with Trinh Ngoc Nguyen, a Vietnamese refugee who escaped post 1975. This interview focused much on Mrs. Nguyen stories about her life in Vietnam and then her life in America. She elaborated on many stories about when she was younger and told many stories about her family relationship. She escape from Vietnam to Indonesia and then to America. Mrs. Nguyen tells about how she feels about living in America, and how a sponsor helped her family. She met her husband in Illinois and lived there for a couple of years before moving to California. She also tries to preserve her Vietnamese culture within her family in America.
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 Trinh Nguyen, Photographer Christina Nguyen, 2012
Type: sound
Format: 1 mp3 audio file; 1 pdf transcription English; 1 pdf time log English; 1 pdf field notes English; 3 jpg image files
Extent: 01:00:22
Identifier: ark:/81235/d80s0v
VAOHP0030_P01.JPG
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/2392
Language: English
en
Subject: Children | Ancestor | Buddhist | Employment | Ethnicity | English as a second language (ESL) | Family | Student | Sponsors or sponsorship | Vietnam War | Los Angeles County, California | Little Saigon (Orange County, California) | Saigon (Vietnam)
Time Period: 1950-1959
Relation: Vietnamese American Experience Classes Oral Histories, 2012 Winter

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