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The cultural library is a political education hub. It begins to answer the question: What is the story of Southeast Asian Americans?
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Cau Kieu Collective: Vietnam and Palestine
The Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) established diplomatic ties with the Palestinian Liberation Front (PLO) in 1968, making it one of the first countries to do so.
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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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Rising Power
“Rising Power” brings us to Madison, Wisconsin, where we meet community organizers Kabzuag Vaj and M Adams, co-directors of Freedom, Inc.
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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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Slow Anthropology: Negotiating Difference with the lu Mien
This study challenges the prevailing academic theory that groups living in the hinterlands of Southeast Asia have traditionally fled to the hills, seeking isolated independence and safety.
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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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