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Title: Oral History of Tinh Ho
Creator: Ho, Tinh
Contributor: Ho, Thao
Date Created and/or Issued: 2019-03-17
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: Oral history of Mr. Tinh Ho, who was born in Quang Nam, in the province of Da Nang in 1964. He grew up during the Vietnam War and completed school in Vietnam 10 years after the war ended. He recounts his memories of the war as a child and shares his story about coming here as an adult. He came to the United States by plane with his parents in 1995, when he was 31 years old. With support from members of his community, he did his best to learn English and get certificated to become a machinist. He sponsored his wife and his children to come to the US in 2003 and lives with them now, along with his parents-in-law in Fontana, California. He is currently chief executive of his local Cao Dai temple.
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: Tinh and Ho posing in the front doorway, 2019.
Type: sound
Format: 1 mp3 audio file; 1 pdf transcription English and Vietnamese; 1 pdf time log; 1 pdf life map; 1 jpg image file
Extent: 01:07:25
Identifier: ark:/81235/d84p2t
VAOHP0359
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/14632
Language: English
en
Subject: Children | Communism | Communist | Community service | Death | Discrimination | Education | Employment | Escape | English as a second language (ESL) | Family | Family reunification | Farming | Freedom of speech | Health | High school | Immigrant | Language barrier | Language schools | Marriage | Newspaper | Poverty | Prisoner | Re-education camp | Religion | Soldier | Student | Fontana, California | Fountain Valley, California | Garden Grove, California | Ontario, California | Orange County, California | Westminster, California | Quảng Nam (Vietnam) | Đà Nẵng (Vietnam)
Time Period: 1960-1969
Relation: Vietnamese American Experience Class Oral Histories, 2019 Winter

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