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	<title>The Global Viet Diaspora</title>
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		<title>A Vietnamese Afro-Amerasian Testimony: In Search of the “Place” in Displacement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Vietnamese Afro-Amerasian Testimony: In Search of the “Place” in Displacement
*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.




Documentary Featured on Visions – Channel 13/ABC

Watch the Documentary

Documentary’s Synopsis

The Vietnamese Amerasian Experience

Online Reading and Questions


Documentary Featured on Visions – [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.bauer.uh.edu/vietDiaspora/2009/a-vietnamese-afro-amerasian-testimony-in-search-of-the-%e2%80%9cplace%e2%80%9d-in-displacement/</link>
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		<title>Historicizing Vietnamese America</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Historicizing Vietnamese America.
This powerpoint was given at the UNAVSA&#8217;s 6th Conference in Atlanta, Georia on July 31, 2009. Please click on the picture below to download the presentation


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		<link>http://blogs.bauer.uh.edu/vietDiaspora/2009/historicizing-vietnamese-america/</link>
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		<title>Narrating the Vietnamese American Experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Narrating the Vietnamese American Experience* 



Cultural and Intellectual History of Vietnamese Americans

Making Cultural Statements

Conclusion

Online Reading and Questions

Reference


* A version of this article will appear in the Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore (Greenwood Publication)
The starting point of Vietnamese American experience is often linked to the mass refugee exodus following the Fall of Saigon on April 30th, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.bauer.uh.edu/vietDiaspora/2009/narrating-the-vietnamese-american-experience/</link>
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		<title>Assessing the Anti-Communist Identity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Assessing the Anti-Communist Identity



Contextualizing the anti-communist identity

The social action of the anti-communist identity

Conclusion

Online Reading and Questions


As a professor of Vietnamese Studies courses, one of the toughest topics to articulate to my students is the anti-communist ideology and identity in the Vietnamese American community.
That is, much of what is associated with the anti-communist identity are the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.bauer.uh.edu/vietDiaspora/2009/assessing-the-anti-communist-identity/</link>
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		<title>Political History of Vietnam and Cambodia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Political History of Vietnam and Cambodia



Immigration is as old as Southeast Asia’s history

Southeast Asia from prehistory to history

Political history of Vietnam

Political history of Cambodia 

Contemporary Cambodia politics

Contemporary Vietnam politics


* The following was a presentation given on November 8, 2008 for the World Affairs Council of Houston&#8217;s Global Issues in Depth - Portrait of Southeast Asia.
Immigration [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.bauer.uh.edu/vietDiaspora/2008/political-history-of-vietnam-and-cambodia/</link>
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		<title>Vietnamese Katrina Experiences: Windows to the Past and Present</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vietnamese Katrina Experiences: Windows to the Past and Present*



The Role of Historical Narratives and Memories

The “Other” Vietnamese Katrina Experiences

Online Reading and Questions


* A version of this article was published by the BBC-Vietnamese. 
Click here for the link.
There has been a growing interest among social science scholars to study Vietnamese Katrina evacuees, who were initially and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.bauer.uh.edu/vietDiaspora/2008/vietnamese-katrina-experiences-windows-to-the-past-and-present/</link>
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		<title>Vietnamese Americans: Place Making in the Mosaic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vietnamese Americans: Place Making in the American Mosaic.
This PowerPoint presentation was given at the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi on May 20, 2008.   The PowerPoint presentation can be found by clicking 
here or on the picture.





For more information please go to 
http://vietnam.usembassy.gov/


 
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		<link>http://blogs.bauer.uh.edu/vietDiaspora/2008/vietnamese-americans-place-making-in-the-mosaic/</link>
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		<title>The Making of the Western Version of Being Vietnamese</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Making of the Western Version of Being Vietnamese 



Westernization in Vietnam

French Mission Civilisatrice: Creating Irreconcilable Vietnamese Political Communities

Bao Dai’s National Solutions: Breaking Away from Monarchy and Communism

Going West: Different Version of Being a Good Vietnamese

Further Reading

Online Reading and Questions


For American observers of the Vietnam War, many are quite drawn to the question of how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.bauer.uh.edu/vietDiaspora/2008/making-of-the-western-version-of-beign-vietnamese-i/</link>
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		<title>French Colonial Diaspora (1862-1954)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[French Colonial Diaspora (1862-1954)



The Fragile Unity under the Early Nguyen Emperors (1800-1859)

Vietnamese Approaches to Salvation: The Heritage of The Tale of Kieu

Nationalist Assessment of Local Responses to French Conquest

The Road to Socialist Revolution and Back 

Further Reading

Online Reading and Questions


Before French expansion, “disasters that come flying on the wind” have been the common denominator among [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.bauer.uh.edu/vietDiaspora/2008/french-colonial-diaspora-1862-1954/</link>
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		<title>Vietnam’s Expansion &#038; Colonial Diaspora (1471-1859)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vietnam’s External Expansion and Colonial Diasporas (1471 -1859)



The External Expansion of Dai Viet

The Nguyen’s Colonial Diaspora

Different Versions of Being Vietnamese: A Southern, Nationalist/Anti-Communist Perspective

Further Reading

Online Reading and Questions


In Vietnamese history, a theme that transcends across time and space is the advance or the march to the south (“nam tien”).  The southern advancement, as noted by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.bauer.uh.edu/vietDiaspora/2008/vietnam%e2%80%99s-external-expansion-and-colonial-diasporas-1471-1859/</link>
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