Tag: Asian Americans

From Heart Mountain, Wyoming, to the Heart of Little Tokyo
Japanese American Resilience in Los Angeles

The Geography of Gold
Oliver Wang In the summer of 2006, my family and I moved from the Bay Area to Los Angeles. Having […]

Queering Desire from California
Việt Lê During and after my father’s two-year terminal illness, and my own simultaneous cancer scare (2000-2003), I became concerned […]

Viet Weekends
Thi Bui Note: The following are reconstructed memories, based on a conversation I had with my friend Christine Pham, who […]

Not Quite in California
Living in Louisiana, Longing for Little Saigon

Establishing Social and Political Identity in a New Land
Vietnamese American Communities and Confidence-Building for Students from Vietnam

From the Green of Vietnam to Toes Painted with Nirvana
Susan Straight They came here because of war, though people might not think of it that way when sitting down […]

Locked-Up Vietnamese California
A Boom Interview with Tin Nguyen

Our Lady of La Vang
Vietnamese Virgin Mary, Made in California