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Quiet As They Come
Set in San Francisco from the 1980s to the present day, this debut collection explores the lives of Vietnamese immigrants as they struggle to adjust to life in their new country.
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Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam War
In Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu explores the international journeys of antiwar and anti-imperialist activists from the United States during the Vietnam War era (1959–1975).
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Returns of War: South Vietnam and the Price of Refugee Memory
Returns of War argues that Vietnamization–as Richard Nixon termed it in 1969–and the end of South Vietnam signals more than an example of flawed American military strategy, but a larger allegory of power, providing cover for U.
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The Best We Could Do
This beautifully illustrated and emotional story is an evocative memoir about the search for a better future and a longing for the past.
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The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages
Bringing together critiques of liberalism with postcolonial approaches to the modern cvisual artography of progress, Nguyen proposes ’the gift of freedom’ as the name for those forces that avow to reverence aliveness and beauty, and to govern an enlightened humanity, while producing new subjects and actions–such as a grateful refugee, or enduring war–in an age of liberal empire.
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