 | Transnationalizing Viet Nam: Community, Culture, and Politics in the Diaspora Subjects: Vietnamese Americans -- Social life and customs; Vietnamese Americans -- Ethnic identity; United States -- Relations -- Vietnam; Vietnam -- Relations -- United States; Vietnamese diaspora; Transnationalism; Vietnamese diasporic relations affect--and are directly affected by--events in Viet Nam. In Transnationalizing Viet Nam, Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde explores these connections, providing a nuanced understanding of this globalized community. Valverde draws on 250 interviews and almost two decades of research to show the complex relationship between Vietnamese in the diaspora and those back at the homeland. Arguing that Vietnamese immigrant lives are inherently transnational, she shows how their acts form virtual communities via the Internet, organize social movements, exchange music and create art, find political representation, and even dissent. Valverde also exposes how generational, gender, class, and political tensions threaten to divide the ethnic community. Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde is Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis. |
