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Title
Oral History of Huy Dieu Trinh
Creator
Trinh, Huy Dieu
Contributor
Trinh, Katrina
Date Created and/or Issued
2012-03-02
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 is an interview with Huy Trinh, an electrician working for a plastic company. He discusses what it was like in Vietnam during the Vietnam War and how it affected his family and loved ones. He further discusses what life was like for him when he moved to the United States and the difficulties he underwent trying to make a living 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: Huy Trinh, Photographer Katrina Trinh, 2012
Type
sound
Format
2 mp3 audio files; 1 pdf transcription English; 1 pdf field notes English; 1 pdf time log English; 3 jpg image files
Extent
00:48:58
Identifier
ark:/81235/d8cz5w
VAOHP0011_P1.JPG
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/1654
Language
English
en
Subject
Family | Saigon (Vietnam) | Los Angeles County, California | Chinese and ethnic Chinese | Children | Tradition or custom | Ancestor | Vietnam War | Boat People | Refugee camp (Indonesia) | English as a second language (ESL) | Technician | Employment | Restaurants | Little Saigon (Orange County, California)
Time Period
1950-1959
Relation
Vietnamese American Experience Classes Oral Histories, 2012 Winter

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