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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Vietnamese-American"”.
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Vietnamese American attitudes toward intercultural and interracial marriage
… of this thesis was to examine the attitudes of Vietnamese Americans towards Vietnamese interracial marriages. It also sought to extend previous research in this field and incorporate insights regarding the literature of Vietnamese, Vietnamese- American, and American culture to the literature …
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Vietnamese-American students at Midwestern Community College: a narrative inquiry study
… developed in the academic and social journeys of Vietnamese-American students enrolled at Midwestern Community College, MWCC (a pseudonym). Additionally, the study explored how Vietnamese-American students are able to utilize heuristic knowledge to overcome barriers to their success, as identified …
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The Politics of Care: Historical Retrieval in Vietnamese American Cultural Production
My dissertation examines care in post-war Vietnamese American cultural production. I argue that care is a significant method of historical retrieval that resists dominant understandings of time, gender, and political action. Vietnamese refugees have often been portrayed as a problem to be solved or …
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Reppin' 4 Life: The Formation and Racialization of Vietnamese American Youth Gangs in Southern California
The experiences of Vietnamese American youth gang members need to be considered in order to theorize racialization and clans formation in a changing world. There are material and ideological consequences for Vietnamese and Asian American youth gang formation in Southern California, including local, …
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Effects of an educational intervention on breast cancer screening and early detection in Vietnamese American women
… and clinical breast exam with a group of Vietnamese American women living in Houston and its vicinity. Using chi-square and one-way ANOVA statistical analyses, demographic data and the effects of the intervention were evaluated with a sample of 94 Vietnamese American women who were …
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Strategies for multicultural cities : overcoming barriers to effective planning and community development in three Vietnamese American communities
Today, 34 years after the first large wave of Vietnamese refugees arrived in the United States, the challenges that the Vietnamese American community face cannot be under-stated. However, there have been many strategies deployed by a variety of actors, both community-based and those who are less …
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What comes next? : employment opportunities for Vietnamese American fisherfolk affected by the BP gulf oil spill in Louisiana
… efficiency construction and aquaculture for Vietnamese American fisherfolk significantly impacted by the BP oil spill in Louisiana. First, the thesis explains the history of the Vietnamese American community in Louisiana and the affects of Hurricane Katrina as well as the BP oil spill on the …
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HOME DEPO[R]T: [Un]Documented nostalgia and memories in Vietnamese/American diasporic stories at the center of [Re]Alienation
… to produce untold ghost stories, or stories from Vietnamese refugees and war survivors who continue to live in the margins and elsewhere, obscured and stilled into ghastly silence as their stories remain untold and undocumented. In this dissertation, divided into three different articles, but with …
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Rice Paddy to Wheatfield: Caodaism in America's Heartland
… result of the diaspora following the end of the Vietnamese-American War and the Fall of Saigon in 1975. This documentary film project explores Caodaism from its origins in colonial Vietnam to its emergence in the United States; exploring the history, beliefs, rituals and customs of this …
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Reading the Vietnam War and Encountering Other Others: Race and Ethnicity in American Novels of the Vietnam War
… De Mojo Blues, which focuses on African American soldiers’ experience and highlights intra-racial conflicts and Lan Cao's Monkey Bridge, an exploration of Vietnamese American women living as refugees in the United States. Additionally, Alfredo Véa's Gods Go Begging and Linda …
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The massacre at My Khe 4: a different story.
My Khe 4 was the name given by the Americans to a sub-hamlet in the village of Son My in South Vietnam. According to the Vietnamese, American soldiers killed over ninety civilians there on 16 March 1968, the day that, less than two miles away, another unit was massacring the inhabitants of My Lai …
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Year of the Snake
… parallels between the struggle to attain the American dream with the struggle of living in Vietnam's impoverished, communist world. My intent is to illuminate all that is both beautiful and sad about claiming identity as any ethnic minority in America. However, I push past the idea of being …
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Year of the Snake
… parallels between the struggle to attain the American dream with the struggle of living in Vietnam's impoverished, communist world. My intent is to illuminate all that is both beautiful and sad about claiming identity as any ethnic minority in America. However, I push past the idea of being …
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Family social networks and mental health service use among Vietnamese-Americans in multigenerational families
… large body of research demonstrating that Asian-Americans underutilize mental health services compared to other ethnic groups, little is known about how Vietnamese-Americans use formal mental health services. The traumatic war, post-war and refugee journey contributed to incidences of PTSD and …
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Adoption Wars: American Missionaries and International Adoption in Twentieth-Century South Korea
… to be the progeny of Korean prostitutes and American servicemen, who were subjected to intense discrimination or complete abandonment from their Korean families. By 1960, keen to redeem the image of U.S. intervention into Asia, American missionaries and non-professional humanitarian agencies …
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Influences on Mental Health Service Utilization for Vietnamese Young Adults
BACKGROUND: Vietnamese-Americans underutilize mental health services. Several factors have been proposed to influence rates of service utilization within this population, including cultural identification and families' acceptance of such services. Most measures of cultural identification are …