Linda Ho Peché is project director for the Vietnamese in
the Diaspora Digital Archive, a digital humanities project by The
Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation.
Alex-Thai Dinh Vo is a Research Fellow at the U.S.-Vietnam
Research Center at the University of Oregon.
Tuong Vu is Professor and Department Head of Political
Science at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Vietnam’s
Communist Revolution: The Power and Limits of Ideology and Paths to
Development in Asia: South Korea, Vietnam, China, and Indonesia,
and coeditor of The Republic of Vietnam 1955-1975: Vietnamese
Perspectives on Nation-Building; Dynamics of the Cold War in Asia:
Ideology, Identity, and Culture; and Southeast Asia in Political
Science: Theory, Region, and Qualitative Analysis, among other
titles.
“Toward a Framework for Vietnamese American Studies makes an
important contribution as the first broad-based, edited volume
about Vietnamese Americans by primarily Vietnamese American
scholars. The many valuable chapters offer a wide range of
chronicles of this diasporic community’s history over the past half
century. The editors and contributors ‘let Vietnamese Americans
tell their own story’—and this book does that, with a largely
younger generation of Vietnamese studies scholars who have done
careful, meticulous scholarly work.”—Janet Hoskins, Professor of
Anthropology and Religion at the University of Southern California,
and author of The Divine Eye and the Diaspora: Vietnamese
Syncretism Becomes Transpacific Caodaism
“Focused on the social sciences while branching into humanistic
fields such as literary and archival studies, Toward a
Framework for Vietnamese American Studies makes Vietnamese
histories and actors central to any study of ‘Vietnamese America.’
The interdisciplinary essays offer nuanced research and
knowledge related to transnationalism, war, and war’s afterlife
while linking to broader questions of diasporic histories,
politics, and worldmaking. By displacing U.S.-centered frameworks,
the volume also questions how critiques of U.S. empire that
inform much American studies scholarship can replicate the problems
of U.S.-centric thinking.”—Marguerite Nguyen, Associate Professor
of English at Wesleyan University, and author of America’s
Vietnam: The Longue Durée of U.S. Literature and
Empire
"[T]his edited collection forges an interdisciplinary dialogue
between historians of modern Vietnam, specifically the Republic of
Vietnam, and scholars of Vietnamese American refugees in ethnic
studies and Asian American studies. Contributors argue that a
deeper engagement with the civic life and culture of postcolonial
South Vietnam allows for greater understanding of the formation of
Vietnamese American cultural, civic, and political engagement....
Overall, a strong effort to begin connecting Vietnamese studies and
Vietnamese American studies.... Summing Up: Recommended."—Choice
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