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Title: Oral History of Tu Ngoc Tran
Creator: Tran, Ngoc Tu
Contributor: Truong, Hanh
Date Created and/or Issued: 2019-02-08
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: "Mrs. Tran Ngoc Tu was born in Saigon, Vietnam on June 6, 1954. Tu completed her education in Vietnam and graduated from high school in 1972. Afterward, she worked as a textile worker in a factory. Tu was the third person from her family who escaped Vietnam, leaving behind her parents and three younger sisters. Both depressing and miraculous events occurred within the week she was at sea. Tu reached a refugee camp in Indonesia called Pulau Cucu in 1980. A month later, she was transferred to another camp named Pulau Galang. The following year, she was chosen to resettle to San Francisco, California. After a short stint at a paper company in Connecticut, she settled down in Garden Grove, California. For 35 years, Tu worked at a fabric manufacturing company in which she went from being an employee to the supervisor. As of 2018, Tu is now retired and lives with her husband and two sons in Garden Grove. In her interview, Tu discussed her journey at sea, the people that she encountered, and her experience at the two refugee camps. Some significant events that she talked about were her reunion with her siblings, her employment history, and her attempts to sponsor the rest of her family from Vietnam to the U.S."
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: Tu and Hanh, 2019.
Type: sound
Format: 1 mp3 audio file; 1 pdf transcription English; 1 pdf time log; 1 pdf life map; 2 jpg image files
Extent: 01:17:14
Identifier: ark:/81235/d8vc3m
VAOHP0380
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/14635
Language: English
en
Subject: Boat people | Civil Rights | Communism | Communist | Education | Employment | Escape | English as a second language (ESL) | Factory worker | Family | Family reunification | Garment worker | High school | Immigrant | Marriage | Refugee camp | Refugee camp (Indonesia) | Resettlement | Sponsors | Sponsorship | Thai pirates | Tradition | Custom | United States Catholic Charities | Viet Cong | Vietnam War | Welfare | Paper factory | Seamstress | Fabric company | Thailand | Garden Grove, CA | Little Saigon (Orange County. CA) | Los Angeles | California | San Francisco, CA | Santa Ana, CA | Waterbury, CT | Singapore | Pulau Cucu, Indonesia (Refugee camp) | Pulau Galang, Indonesia (Refugee camp) | Vietnam, Northern | Vietnam, Southern | Saigon (Vietnam)
Time Period: 1950-1959
Relation: Vietnamese American Experience Class Oral Histories, 2019 Winter

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