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Title: Oral History of Marjolaine Feierbacher, restricted until 2032-02-23
Creator: Feierbacher, Marjolaine
Contributor: Pullecchia, David
Date Created and/or Issued: 2012-02-23
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: An oral history with Ms. Marjolaine Feierbacher, born in 1958, a mother of two. She lived in Vietnam until the age of 17 and has many vivid memories of Vietnam's past. In addition, she is a former refugee who spent time at American military bases like Camp Pendleton. Her family was one of the first families to come over to the United States by C-131. In Vietnam her family belonged to the South Vietnamese landowning class. She is volunteering her story along with much of her family's story for that sake of future generations and to preserve the culture of Vietnam that she carries with her. Material is restricted until 2032-02-23
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.
Type: sound
Format: 1 mp3 audio file; 1 pdf transcription English; 1 pdf field notes English; 1 pdf time log English
Extent: 01:32:25
Identifier: ark:/81235/d8pg4g
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/3277
Language: English
en
Subject: Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) | Business | Business owner | Children | Communism | Communist | Entrepreneur | Exile | Expatriate | Family | France | Geneva Conference | Refugee camp | Resettlement | Vietnam War | Camp Pendleton, California | Vietnam, Southern
Time Period: 1950-1959
Relation: Vietnamese American Experience Classes Oral Histories, 2012 Winter

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