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Title: Oral History of Thai Viet Phan
Creator: Phan, Thai Viet
Contributor: Le, Jeanie
Date Created and/or Issued: 2019-02-02
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: My narrator’s legal name is Viet Thai Phan, but that is because her mother messed up her documents. The name she actually goes by is Thai Viet Phan which she will change in the future. Her family had escaped from Vietnam into Thailand where they gave birth to her in 1988, before setting off for the Philippines and finally America. Her sister was born when she was two, and her biological father was diagnosed with cancer shortly after. He passed away when she was 11, and her stepfather passed away recently in 2017. Thai did her undergraduate school at UCLA and got her law degree and public policy. Master's degree at USC. She also met her current husband at USC. They got married in 2016 shortly before Thai moved back to Santa Ana and began rebuilding her political connections via local government and Democratic organizations. Thai now works at Rutan and Tucker as a lawyer.
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: Thai Phan in her role as Assistant City Attorney, 2018.
Type: sound
Format: 1 mp3 audio file; 1 pdf transcription English; 1 pdf life map; 1 pdf time log; 3 jpg image files
Extent: 01:17:19
Identifier: ark:/81235/d8h27x
VAOHP0362
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/14637
Language: English
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Subject: Activism | Activist | Boat people | Cancer | College | University | Death | Education | Escape | Lawyer | Law | Marriage | Politics | Refugee camp (Philippines) | Refugee camp (Thailand) | Student | Vietnamese Student Association | University of California, Los Angeles | Orange County, California | Santa Ana | University of Southern California | Democrats | Insurance
Time Period: 1980-1989
Relation: Vietnamese American Experience Class Oral Histories, 2019 Winter

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