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“Vietnamese American Oral History Project Announces Website Launch” -Asian Week (October 1, 2012)

“Fortunate son” -UC Irvine School of Social Sciences (February 16, 2012)

“UCI undertakes regional Vietnamese American oral history project” – UC Irvine Today News (Nov. 11, 2011)

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Community

Created in 2011, Viet Stories: Vietnamese American Oral History Project assembles, preserves, and disseminates the diverse life stories of Vietnamese Americans in Southern California for future generations.

Viet Stories connects the university and community by partnering with local and national organizations, community leaders and volunteers, and the media.

The collection focuses on the legacy of refugees and immigrants whose life stories contribute to our understanding of American history and of Vietnamese in the diaspora.

Education

The Department of Asian American Studies at UC Irvine offers “Vietnamese American Experience” and “Asian American Research Methods” courses that train students to be community oral historians.

The Associate Director, students, interns, and volunteers conduct interviews that are transcribed, translated, digitized, and made accessible online.

Viet Stories works with K-12 teachers and college instructors to include the oral histories in their curriculum and collaborates with researchers on their projects.

Preservation

The Department of Asian American Studies in the School of Humanities at UC Irvine is responsible for Viet Stories. Visit humanities.uci.edu/aas.

The oral history collection is permanently housed at the Southeast Asian Archive at UC Irvine Libraries as well as digitized for online access. Visit the website at vaohp.lib.uci.edu.

The Southeast Asian Archive, established in 1987, documents the experiences of refugees and immigrants from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos and collects books, journals, dissertations, theses, photographs, paintings, and other materials. Visit seaa.lib.uci.edu.

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