{"id":54360,"date":"2017-06-29T20:12:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T20:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54360"},"modified":"2017-06-29T20:12:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T20:12:20","slug":"surviving-twice-amerasian-children-of-the-vietnam-war-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54360","title":{"rendered":"Surviving Twice: Amerasian Children of the Vietnam War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?189035-1\/surviving-twice-amerasian-children-vietnam-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Surviving Twice: Amerasian Children of the Vietnam War<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">C-SPAN: Created by Cable<\/a><br \/>\n2005-09-11<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?189035-1\/surviving-twice-amerasian-children-vietnam-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.c-span.org\/Files\/ceb\/189035-m.jpg\/Thumbs\/height.630.no_border.width.1200.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trin Yarborough talked about her book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54354\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Surviving Twice: Amerasian Children of the Vietnam War<\/em><\/a>, published by Potomac Books. She talked about the lives of orphans who weren born to American soldiers during the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vietnam_War\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vietnam War<\/a>. Randy Tuan, who was one of many orphans adopted to work on a farm, spoke about his life and music. Following their presentation, Mr. Tuan and Ms. Yarborough responded to questions and comments from members of the audience.<\/p>\n<p>The book told the stories of five Vietnamese Amerasians born during the Vietnam War to American soldiers and Vietnamese mothers. Not among the few thousand <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amerasian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amerasian<\/a> children brought to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U. S.<\/a> before the war\u2019s end who grew up as Americans, speaking English and attending American schools, this group faced many more formidable obstacles, both in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vietnam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vietnam<\/a> and in their new home. She wrote that an estimated 100,000 children were born during the Vietnam War to American soldiers and Vietnamese mothers. She also wrote that many of these children faced difficult lives as a result of racial prejudice or an inability to identify completely with the Vietnamese culture. The book looked at the effects of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Homecoming_Act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amerasian Homecoming Act<\/a>, a Congressional program enacted in 1987 that brought 28,000 Vietnamese Americans to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a> before the program was stopped in 1994 because of problems with fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video (01:12:12) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?189035-1\/surviving-twice-amerasian-children-vietnam-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trin Yarborough talked about her book, Surviving Twice: Amerasian Children of the Vietnam War, published by Potomac Books. She talked about the lives of orphans who weren born to American soldiers during the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,459,8,26,20,842],"tags":[4759,27189,27187,1130,19929],"class_list":["post-54360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-history","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","category-videos","tag-c-span","tag-randy-tuan","tag-trin-yarborough","tag-vietnam","tag-vietnam-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54362,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54360\/revisions\/54362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}