The cultural work of anticommunism in the San Diego Vietnamese American Community

Amerasia Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 65-86

  Dang, Thuy Vo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 63149108357     PISSN: 00447471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17953/amer.31.2.t80283284556j378     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Lisa Lowe and David Lloyd, "Introduction," in The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997), 1
2. Lisa Lowe, Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (Durham: Duke University Press, 1996)
3. See, for example, Scott Martelle and Mai Tran, "Protestors Urge Boycott of Vietnamese Media," Los Angeles Times, April 30, 2000
4. Philip P. Pan and Phuong Ly, "3 Roads from Vietnam," Washington Post, April 30, 2000
5. Mike Toison, "Exiles Carry Old Hopes in New Light," Houston Chronicle, April 28, 2000
6. Seth Mydans, "Journeys: A Fallen Saigon Rises Again in the West," New York Times, April 5, 2002. http://travel2.nytimes.com/mem/ travel/articlepage.html?res=9C0CE4DAlF3AF936A35757C0A9649C8B63
7. For an critical reading of U.S. mainstream media representations of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, see Yen Le Espiritu, "The War, the Warriors, and the Refugees: U.S. Press Coverage of the 25th Anniversary of the 'Fall of Saigon,'" working paper, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego, 2005
8. Christian Collet and Nadine Seiden, "Separate Ways...Worlds Apart? The 'Generation Gap' in Vietnamese America as Seen through the San Jose Mercury News Poll," Amerasia Journal 29:1 (2003), 199-217
9. See Karin Aguilar-San Juan, "Creating Ethnic Places: Vietnamese American Community Building in Orange County and Boston," Ph.D. diss., Brown University, 2000
10. and Nhu-Ngoc T. Ong and David S. Meyer, "Protest and Political Incorporation: Vietnamese American Protests, 1975-2001," Center for the Study of Democracy, UC Irvine, 2004. http://repositories.cdlib.org/csd.04-08
11. I borrow the phrase "moral community" from Guillermo J. Grenier and Lisandro Perez, who argue that the Cuban community in Miami shows the persistence of an "exile ideology" which is dependent on the construction of a "'moral community' that serves to build political capital and a sense of solidarity in the enclave." See The Legacy of Exile: Cubans in the United States (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2003), 87
12. Yen Le Espiritu and Diana Wolf, "The Paradox of Assimilation: Children of Filipino Immigrants in San Diego," Ruben G. Rumbaut and Alejandro Portes, eds., Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), 157-186
13. See Hien Duc Do, The Vietnamese Americans (Connecticut: Green-view Press, 1999)
14. Gail Paradise Kelly, From Vietnam to America: A Chronicle of the Vietnamese Immigration to the United States (Boulder: Westview Press, 1977)
15. and Darrel Montero, Vietnamese Americans: Patterns of Resettlement and Socioeconomic Adaptation in the United States (Boulder: Westview Press, 1979)
16. Min Zhou, "Straddling Different Worlds: The Acculturation of Vietnamese Refugee Children," in Ruben G. Rumbaut and Alejandro Portes, eds., Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), 187-227
17. See http://www.fva.org/vnflag/ for a complete listing. The Vietnamese-American Public Affairs Committee (VPAC) has a FAQ section on their website explaining why Vietnamese Americans are pushing for this flag resolution, http://www.vpac-usa.org/
18. Linda Trinh Vo, "Performing Ethnography in Asian American Communities: Beyond the Insider-versus-Outsider Perspective" in Martin F. Manalansan IV, ed., Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000), 17-37
19. The VFSD's annual new year publication had a long story detailing the history of the South Vietnam flag and refers to it as the "Freedom and Heritage Flag" or the "yellow flag with three-red stripes." "Giai Pham Xuan Ky Mau - Hiep Hoi Nguoi Viet San Diego," San Diego, January 2004
20. I borrow this phrase from Marita Sturken, Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997)