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Scope/Content: Oral history of Ms. Annthy Thao Nguyen, born in 1956 in Saigon, Vietnam. She is the seventh child in a family of eleven children, and her father worked for USAID. She described her childhood in Saigon attending school up until her second year of college when South Vietnam collapsed. During the final days of South Vietnam, she was separated from her parents and siblings who escaped the country at that time and thought she had died. Four years later, she escaped Vietnam as a boat refugee, passed through Pulau Bidong, Malaysia and resettled in Orange County, California. She put herself through ESL and community college courses and then transferred to Cal State Long Beach to complete her degree. She hopes to retire at 62 and focus on her photography hobby. Scope/Content: Dr. Thuy Vo Dang is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Project Director for the Vietnamese American Oral History Project (VAOHP) in the Department of Asian American Studies at UC Irvine. She earned her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, San Diego in 2008 and was a Fellow at the Institute of American Cultures/Asian American Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles from 2009-2010 and a Visiting Scholar from 2010-2011. Her research and teaching specializations include comparative race and ethnic relations, immigration, ethnography, community studies, and oral history. For her doctoral dissertation on cultural politics and memory, she conducted oral history interviews with first generation Vietnamese Americans in San Diego. She has also collaborated on a Pacific Rim Foundation-funded project, interviewing over 70 Vietnamese Americans in the southern California area. Her academic research has been published in Amerasia Journal, the anthology Le Viet Nam Au Feminin, and Journal of Vietnamese Studies. Dr. Vo Dang currently facilitates and co-hosts a weekly Vietnamese-language radio show called Oral history; stories between the generations on VNCR (FM 106.3). Scope/Content: Annthy Thao Nguyen, Photographer Thuy Vo Dang, 2013
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1 mp3 audio file; 1 pdf transcription English; 1 pdf transcription Vietnamese; 1 pdf field notes; 3 jpg image files
Anticommunism | Anticommunist | Acculturation | Boat People | Buddhist | Catholic | College or university | Communism | Communist | Education | Emigration | Employment | Escape | English as a second language (ESL) | Ethnicity | Family | Family reunification | Orderly Departure Program | Poverty | Refugee camp (Malaysia) | Resettlement | Sponsors or sponsorship | Orange County, California | Saigon (Vietnam)
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