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Title
Oral History of Suzie Xuyen Dong Matsuda
Creator
Matsuda, Suzie Xuyen Dong
Contributor
Nguyen, Lena
Date Created and/or Issued
2012-11-26
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: Dr. Suzie Xuyến Đông Matsuda graduated from Chapman University with a bachelor in the field of Psychology and further her education to a career as a Clinical Psychologist. Dr. Suzie Xuyến Đông Matsuda struggled emotionally and verbally as a child. She was one of the boat people who arrived in a refugee camp in Indonesia. In the interview, Dr. Suzie Xuyến Đông Matsuda, discusses her achievements, involvements and overcoming obstacles to be where she’s is in the moment.
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 Dr. Suzie Matsuda, photographer Lena Nguyen, 2012, Santa Ana, CA
Type
sound
Format
1 mp3 audio files; 1 pdf transcription English; 1 pdf field notes English; 1 pdf time log English; 8 jpg image files
Extent
01:03:59
Identifier
ark:/81235/d8356v
VAOHP0096_P01.JPG
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/5885
Language
English
en
Subject
Boat People | Catholic | College or university | Communist | Education | Family | Festival | Freedom of religion | Freedom of speech | Health | Human rights | Immigrant | Marriage | Refugee camp | Religion | Social worker | Sponsors or sponsorship | Student | Writer | Garden Grove, California | Little Saigon (Orange County, California) | Santa Ana, California | Long An (Vietnam) | Saigon (Vietnam)
Time Period
1960-1969
Relation
Vietnamese American Experience Classes Oral Histories, 2012 Fall

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