HUMAN 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Vietnamese Boat People, Militarism, Unexploded Ordnance
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Research on war & atermaths by prof. thuy vo dang, ph. d. Documening the histories of cambodian, laoian, hmong, and vietnamese diasporic communiies: french indo-china; southeast asian community. 1960s/1970s: a lot of acivism on campus: librarians collected all these pamphlets and liers primary sources of research. The only way vietnam"s been popularly discussed in the west is as a war. It"s not just a war it"s a country, a culture, a people: how stories are framed, what the narraive tells, who the subject of history is. Resetlement & secondary migraions: agency in choosing where to go. Transforming orange county: home to the largest populaion of vietnamese anywhere in the world (outside of. Cambodia, laos, and vietnam: vietnam borders the south china sea, just below china, many refugees in hong kong, malaysia neighboring countries. What types of stories are told about vietnam and its refugees in mainstream media: sad and terrible event, but happy to be in america now.
