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Title Toward a framework for Vietnamese American studies : history, community, and memory / edited by Linda Ho Peché, Alex-Thai Dinh Vo, and Tuong Vu
Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2023
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 374 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction / Linda Ho Peché, Alex-Thai Dinh Vo, and Tuong Vu -- Part I. New directions in historiographies. Legacies and diasporic connectivity : dialogues and future directions of Vietnamese and Vietnamese American studies / Y Thien Nguyen -- Voluntarism and social activism in wartime South Vietnam / Van Nguyen-Marshall -- Universities and intellectual culture in the Republic of Vietnam / Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox -- The August revolution, the fall of Saigon, and postwar reeducation camps : understanding Vietnamese diasporic anticommunism / Tuan Hoang -- Part II. Explorations of Vietnamese America. Building a place in the space of Los Angeles : Vietnamese refugee community creation, 1975-1990 / Elwing Suong Gonzalez -- Vietnamese Americans and their homeland : transnational advocacy efforts and diasporic ties / Ivan V. Small -- Vietnamese American politics : evolution at the grassroots, 1981-2020 / Christian Collet -- Diversity in identities, industries, and business strategies : female Vietnamese American entrepreneurs / Jennifer A. Huynh -- Trapped within the white frame : Vietnamese Americans in post-Katrina New Orleans / Nguyen Vu Hoang -- Part III. Paradigms of diasporic knowledge. The unreconciled : Phan Nhiên Hạo's poetry of diasporic testimony / Hai-Dang Phan -- Diasporic nationalism : continuity and changes / Duyen Bui -- Remembering war and migration : mapping the contours of diasporic Vietnamese Memoryscapes / Quan Tue Tran -- Devotion in diaspora : invoking holy mothers among Vietnamese American faith communities / Thien-Huong Ninh -- The preservation and production of diasporic knowledge : oral history and archival contributions / Thuy Vo Dang -- Timeline of key events and selected milestones in Vietnamese and Vietnamese American history, 1900-2021
Summary "This collection is the first work of its kind to synthesize the current state of Vietnamese American studies. Offering cutting edge analysis from social sciences and humanities perspectives, this volume serves as a foundational resource and a site for interrogating underexplored facets of the field"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 24, 2023)
Subject Vietnamese Americans -- Study and teaching
Vietnamese Americans -- Social conditions
Vietnamese diaspora.
Vietnamese -- United States.
Intellectual life
Vietnamese
Vietnamese Americans -- Social conditions
Vietnamese diaspora
SUBJECT Vietnam (Republic) -- Intellectual life
Subject United States
Vietnam (Republic)
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
Author Peché, Linda Ho, 1979- editor
Vo, Alex-Thai Dinh, 1983- editor
Vu, Tuong, 1965- editor
LC no. 2022029452
ISBN 9781439922903
143992290X