Tag: Vietnam

  • Daughter from Danang 2002 U.S.A. 81 Minutes Directed by: Gail Dolgin Vicente Franco A heartbreaking documentary that upsets your expectations of happily-ever-afters, Daughter from Danang is a riveting emotional drama of longing, identity, and the personal legacy of war. To all outward appearances, Heidi [Bub] is the proverbial “all-American girl”, hailing from small town Pulaski,…

  • “The Face Is the Road Map”: Vietnamese Amerasians in U.S. Political and Popular Culture, 1980–1988 Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 14, Number 1 (February 2011) pages 33-68 E-ISSN: 1096-8598; Print ISSN: 1097-2129 Jana K. Lipman, Assistant Professor of History Tulane University During the 1980s, U.S. politicians and the media presented Vietnamese Amerasians as quintessential…

  • Vietnamese Afro-Amerasian Testimony: In Search of the “Place” in Displacement The Global Viet Diaspora 2009 This documentary was produced/directed by Rojelio Vo, Long S. Le, and Aaron Hedge. The documentary is based on the lived-experience of a Vietnamese Afro-Amerasian, Khanh Le. “If the individual black self could not exist before the law, it could, and…

  • Crises of Whiteness and Empire in Colonial Indochina: The Removal of Abandoned Eurasian Children From the Vietnamese Milieu, 1890–1956 Journal of Social History Volume 43, Number 3 (Spring 2010) pages 587-613 E-ISSN: 1527-1897 Print ISSN: 0022-4529 DOI: 10.1353/jsh.0.0304 Christina Firpo, Assistant Professor of History California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo From 1890–1956, non-governmental welfare…

  • American Identities: California Short Stories of Multiple Ancestries Xlibris Press 2008 263 Pages ISBN: 1-4363-7705-6 (Trade Paperback 6×9) ISBN13: 978-1-4363-7705-8 (Trade Paperback 6×9) Eliud Martínez, Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing and Comparative Literature University of California, Riverside In many parts of the country, especially in California, when one passes by a school or strolls across…

  • Chameleon’s Fate: Transnational Mixed-Race Vietnamese Identities Amerasia Journal University of Califonia, Los Angeles Asian American Studies Center Press ISSN: 0044-7471 2005 Issue Volume 31, Number 2 Pages 51-62 Fiona I. B. Ngô, Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies & Gender and Women’s Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign The chameleon’s fate is an apt metaphor for the lives of…