{"id":28814,"date":"2013-02-18T03:29:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T03:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=28814"},"modified":"2013-02-18T03:29:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T03:29:41","slug":"the-dust-of-life-americas-children-abandoned-in-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=28814","title":{"rendered":"The Dust of Life: America&#8217;s Children Abandoned in Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/uwpress\/search\/books\/MCKDUC.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Dust of Life: America&#8217;s Children Abandoned in Vietnam<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/uwpress\" target=\"_blank\">University of Washington Press<\/a><br \/>\n1999<br \/>\n160 pages<br \/>\nnotes, glossary, bibliog., index<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9780295978369<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohsu.edu\/xd\/education\/schools\/school-of-medicine\/departments\/clinical-departments\/psychiatry\/divisions-and-clinics\/child-and-adolescent-psychiatry\/faculty\/mckelvey.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Robert S. McKelvey, M.D.<\/a><\/strong>, Professor<br \/>\nDivision of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry<br \/>\nOregon Health &amp; Science University<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/uwpress\/search\/books\/MCKDUC.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/uwpress\/covs\/MCKDUC.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Dust of Life<\/em> is a collection of vivid and devastating oral histories of Vietnamese Amerasians. Abandoned during the war by their American fathers, discriminated against by the victorious Communists, and ignored for many years by the American government, they endured life in impoverished <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vietnam\" target=\"_blank\">Vietnam<\/a>. Their stories are sad, sometimes tragic, but they are also testimonials to the strength of human resiliency.<\/p>\n<p>Robert S. McKelvey is a former marine who served in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vietnam_War\" target=\"_blank\">Vietnam<\/a> in the late 1960s. Now a child psychiatrist, he returned to Vietnam in 1990 to begin the long series of interviews that resulted in this book. While allowing his subjects to speak for themselves, McKelvey has organized their narratives around themes common to their lives: early maternal loss, the experience of prejudice and discrimination, coping with adversity, dealing with shattered hopes for the future, and, for some, adapting to the alien environment of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>While unique in many respects, the Vietnamese Amerasian story also illustrates themes that are tragically universal: neglect of the human by-products of war, the destructiveness of prejudice and racism, the pain of abandonment, and the horrors of life amidst extreme poverty, hostility, and neglect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dust of Life: America&#8217;s Children Abandoned in Vietnam University of Washington Press 1999 160 pages notes, glossary, bibliog., index Paperback ISBN: 9780295978369 Robert S. McKelvey, M.D., Professor Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Oregon Health &amp; Science University The Dust of Life is a collection of vivid and devastating oral histories of Vietnamese Amerasians. 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