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Oral History of Tracy Minh Do
No full textAn Oral History with Ms. Tracy Do, born in Saigon, June 1975. Her parents are boat people, sponsored by a church in Seattle, Washington to relocate to the United States in 1979. She has continued to live along the California West Coast. She obtained a college degree in education at the University of California, San Diego. She mainly discusses growing up moving in and out of the enclave, feeling isolated from Asian American collectives in college, and butting heads with her mom about cultural preservation. She is a single mother, raising one mixed-race daughter. She currently lives in West Covina and works at the district level in Rowland Heights School District. Recorded digitall
Oral History of Tu Ngoc Tran
No full textMrs. Tran Ngoc Tu was born in Saigon, Vietnam on June 6, 1954. Tu completed her education in Vietnam and graduated from high school in 1972. Afterward, she worked as a textile worker in a factory. Tu was the third person from her family who escaped Vietnam, leaving behind her parents and three younger sisters. Both depressing and miraculous events occurred within the week she was at sea. Tu reached a refugee camp in Indonesia called Pulau Cucu in 1980. A month later, she was transferred to another camp named Pulau Galang. The following year, she was chosen to resettle to San Francisco, California. After a short stint at a paper company in Connecticut, she settled down in Garden Grove, California. For 35 years, Tu worked at a fabric manufacturing company in which she went from being an employee to the supervisor. As of 2018, Tu is now retired and lives with her husband and two sons in Garden Grove.
In her interview, Tu discussed her journey at sea, the people that she encountered, and her experience at the two refugee camps. Some significant events that she talked about were her reunion with her siblings, her employment history, and her attempts to sponsor the rest of her family from Vietnam to the U.S.Recorded digitall
Bridget Cooks & Tiffany Willoughby-Herard
No full textOral history between Bridget R. Cooks '96, founding Chair and Associate Professor of African American Studies, and Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Associate Professor of African American Studies
Harry Colin Slim
No full textOral history of H. Colin Slim, founding faculty member and former Chair of the Department of Music
Marjorie Caserio & Vy Dong
No full textOral history between Marjorie Caserio, founding faculty member, former Chair of the Department of Chemistry, and former Chair of the UCI Academic Senate, and Vy Dong '98, Professor of Chemistry
William Thompson & Elizabeth Loftus
No full textOral history between Elizabeth Loftus, Distinguished Professor of Social Ecology, and Professor of Law and Cognitive Science, and William Thompson, Professor of Criminology, Law & Society
Julia Lupton & Eli Simon
No full textOral history between Julia Reinhard Lupton, Professor of English, Faculty Director, Illuminations:The Chancellor's Arts and Culture Initiative, Associate Dean for Research, School of Humanities, and Co-director of the UCI Shakespeare Center, and Eli Simon, Chancellor’s Professor of Drama, and Co-Director of the UCI Shakespeare Center