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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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Vietnameasy: A Novel about Mothers, Daughters and Food
It tells the story of Kieu, a Vietnamese-American woman, and her quest for success on a TV cooking show, introducing the intoxicating allure of Vietnamese food to a general audience, interwoven with the haunting, sorrowful tale of her family and upbringing.
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Vietnamese America: On ‘Good Refugees’, Fake News, and Historical Amnesia
Vietnamese Americans are at a crossroads: the rise of mainstream misinformation and pro-Trump sentiment in their communities is not a historical aberration, yet attempts to explain it draw exclusively upon the good refugee narrative and fail to interrogate the legacy of imperialism and liberalism that all Americans inherit.
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Violence Against Asian American Women Is Rooted in More Than Just ‘Hate’
Understanding the legacies of violence and resistance in Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. Learn more here.
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Voices of the Highlands
A storytelling platform highlighting Montagnard/Indigenous identity and experiences est. 2018. Learn more here.
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We Were Meant to be a Gentle People
A memoir in text + image + song. In this unique work of literary multimedia, author/musician Dao Strom navigates the spaces between shores, mother and father, two cultures.
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