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Scope/Content: An oral history of Huy Bui, a former United States Marine who is now an electronic technician for Ricoh Electronics. This interview focuses on his experiences as a first generation Vietnamese American who lived through the time of the Vietnam War and under communist rule for three years prior to fleeing to the United States in 1978 by boat. He speaks in detail about his life before and during the war and how things changed quickly as the communist took over control during 1975. He speaks out to the youth to remember and know about the events that occurred in Vietnam during the Vietnam War and to become activists in society to help free Vietnam and the youth who are struggling. He now resides in Midway City, California, in the heart of Little Saigon along with his wife and two children who are activists alongside him. 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 Huy Bui and Khang Nguyen, photographer Truong Bui, 2012
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1 mp3 audio file; 1 pdf transcription English; 1 pdf field notes English; 1 pdf time log English; 1 pdf narrator life map English; 3 jpg image files
Activist | Amerasian | Boat People | Communist | Family | Festival | Politics | Refugee camp (Malaysia) | Sponsors or sponsorship | Technician | Tet Festival | Vietnam War | Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, California | Vietnam, Northern | Vietnam, Southern | Saigon (Vietnam)
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