Sound set / Oral History of Nguyet Trinh, restricted until 2032-02-21

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Title: Oral History of Nguyet Trinh, restricted until 2032-02-21
Creator: Trinh, Nguyet
Contributor: Nguyen, Emeline
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: An Oral History Project with Nguyet Trinh, currently a housewife with one daughter who recently graduated from Boston Dental School, Lanchi Guan. This interview focused on Nguyet’s experience as a 1st generation Vietnamese Refugee after 1975 and how she assimilated into a new culture as an American. Material is restricted until 2032-02-21.
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 Nguyet Trinh's family photo, photographer and date unknown
Type: sound
Format: 1 mp3 audio file; 1 pdf transcription English; 1 pdf time log English; 1 pdf field notes English; 2 jpg image files
Extent: 01:17:12
Identifier: ark:/81235/d8v271
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/2393
Language: English
en
Subject: Acculturation | Buddhist | Children | Discrimination | Employment | Family | Identity | Refugee camp (Thailand) | Student | Tradition or custom | Orange County, California | Saigon (Vietnam)
Time Period: 1960-1969
Relation: Vietnamese American Experience Classes Oral Histories, 2012 Winter

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