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Transnationalizing Viet Nam: Community, Culture, and Politics in the Diaspora (Asian American History & Cultu) Paperback – July 26, 2013
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Vietnamese diasporic relations affect—and are directly affected by—events in Viet Nam. In Transnationalizing Viet Nam, Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde explores these connections, providing a nuanced understanding of this globalized community. Valverde draws on 250 interviews and almost two decades of research to show the complex relationship between Vietnamese in the diaspora and those back at the homeland.
Arguing that Vietnamese immigrant lives are inherently transnational, she shows how their acts form virtual communities via the Internet, organize social movements, exchange music and create art, find political representation, and even dissent. Valverde also exposes how generational, gender, class, and political tensions threaten to divide the ethnic community.
Transnationalizing Viet Nam paints a vivid picture of the complex political and personal allegiances that exist within Vietnamese America and shape the relations between this heterogeneous community and its country of origin.
In the series Asian American History and Culture, edited by Sucheng Chan, David Palumbo-Liu, Michael Omi, K. Scott Wong, and Linda Trinh Võ
- Print length198 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherTemple University Press
- Publication dateJuly 26, 2013
- Dimensions6 x 0.45 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101439906807
- ISBN-13978-1439906804
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- Publisher : Temple University Press
- Publication date : July 26, 2013
- Language : English
- Print length : 198 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1439906807
- ISBN-13 : 978-1439906804
- Item Weight : 10.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.45 x 9 inches
- Part of series : Asian American History and Culture
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,077,749 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #404 inAsian American Studies
- #5,137 inCultural Anthropology (Books)
- #9,766 inAsian History (Books)
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About the author
Dr. Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis. She was a Fulbright, Rockefeller, and Luce scholar. Her teaching, research, and organizing interests include: Southeast Asian American history and contemporary issues, mixed race and gender theories, higher education, social movements, fashionology, national aesthetics, spirit realm, diaspora, and transnationalism studies. Prof. Valverde is the founding director of the New Viet Nam Studies Initiative. She authored Transnationalizing Viet Nam: Community, Culture, and Politics in the Diaspora (Temple University Press 2012). She founded the movement Fight the Tower with women of color and in the academy and follow it up with a co-edited the anthology, Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy (Rutgers University Press 2020).
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- Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2017Format: PaperbackVerified PurchaseThis book provides a nuanced understanding of the complex relationship Vietnamese in the diaspora have with those back in the homeland. Though this book might be controversial for some, personally I think that is what makes this book amazing because it challenges and evokes one's thought process. It is definitely refreshing to see someone portraying a vivid image of the political turmoil and allegiances within the Vietnamese American community and how that essentially leads to the way in which this heterogeneous group shapes their relationship with their homeland. Overall, fantastic read!
- Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2018Format: PaperbackVerified PurchaseEvery Vietnamese American should read this. I hope they will publish a Vietnamese version because the people who really need to read this are the older generation Vietnamese.
- Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2017Format: PaperbackAn in-depth and comprehensive analysis of the complicated transnational lives of Vietnamese Americans and activists. Caroline Valverde shows that she is unafraid of tackling some of the most stigmatized issues affecting the Vietnamese diaspora and constructs a viewpoint that is often stifled in the modern-day by "McCarthyistic" attitudes. A good read for all, from the casually interested, to the PhD-aspiring scholar. A testament to ethical and meticulous research, Valverde's work is thorough and exceeds the breadth of the mainstream.
- Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2017Format: PaperbackGreat read! Kieu-Linh fearlessly explores and discusses what many writers, scholars, political leaders, and media outlets are afraid to talk about. She turns things on it's head and discusses the stifling of diversity amongst Vietnamese Americans and how it leads to economic, social, and political stagnation.
- Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2013Format: PaperbackA fantastic book that covers the Vietnamese diaspora and the political turmoil in the Vietnamese American community. There seems to be a lot of anticommunism sentiment in the Vietnamese American community which is promoting ideological conformity. Professor Valverde's book is controversial because most other Vietnamese Americans are too afraid to come out and speak about the issues presented in the book. Her chapter on Madison Nguyen is a must read!
