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Title: Oral History of Tran Thi Huong
Creator: Tran, Huong Thi
Contributor: Buack, Jun
Date Created and/or Issued: 2012-02-21
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: The document presents an oral history with Ms. Tran Thi Huong, born in 1957, a first-wave Vietnamese refugee who became a hairstylist. The interview focused on her memory of Vietnam during the war, the experience of fleeing the country by a cargo airplane in 1975, and her career path to reconstruct her life in the United States. Ms. Tran owns a hair salon in Orange County, California since 2008.
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 Tran Thi Huong, Photographer Jun Buack, 2012, Lake Foreest, Calif
Type: sound
Format: 1 mp3 audio file; 1 pdf transcription English; 1 pdf field notes English; 1 pdf time log English; 2 jpg image files
Extent: 01:46:14
Identifier: ark:/81235/d8fr8k
VAOHP0026_P01.jpg
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/3276
Language: English
en
Subject: Acculturation | Business | Business owner | Chinese and ethnic Chinese | Employment | English as a second language (ESL) | Family | Refugee camp | Tradition or custom | Orange County, California | Vietnam, Southern | Saigon (Vietnam)
Time Period: 1950-1959
Relation: Vietnamese American Experience Classes Oral Histories, 2012 Winter

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