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Morning Glory
“During Pol Pot’s [regime in the] 1970s, the most important source of nourishment for the population, other than rice, was morning glory.
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No Crying at the Dinner Table
Filmmaker Carol Nguyen interviews her own family to craft an emotionally complex and meticulously composed portrait of intergenerational trauma, grief, and secrets in this cathvisual artic documentary about things left unsaid.
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Poor Amina
As a second-generation Hmong-American, I am constantly haunted by the Hmong narrative, a story that is “inherently” my own as it is unbelonging to me, elements of my core being stemming from that of the Secret War in Vietnam, diaspora, and cultural brokenness.
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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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Scattered Box: Clustered Bomblets
Sisavanh Phouthavong’s sculpture, “Scattered Box: Clustered Bomblets”, immerses the audience into the reality of Laos as the most bombed country in history, with landmines and unexploded cluster bombs littering the floor.
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