Tag: Vietnamese

Classic Vietnamese Cookbook A Step-by-Step Guide to Vietnamese Cooking


Free Download Classic Vietnamese Cookbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Vietnamese Cooking by Nancy Silverman
English | March 3, 2019 | ISBN: 1798625407 | 88 pages | EPUB | 2.55 Mb
With its long coastline along the South China Sea and many winding rivers, Vietnam enjoys an abundance of fish and shellfish. Although the land is rich with chickens and ducks, pork is most commonly used because it carries such incredible flavor. Vietnamese dishes also call for a lot of vegetables, which can be served raw, braised, pickled, stir-fried, or salted.

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Vietnamese Immigrant Youth and Citizenship How Race, Ethnicity, and Culture Shape Sense of Belonging


Free Download Vietnamese Immigrant Youth and Citizenship: How Race, Ethnicity, and Culture Shape Sense of Belonging By Diem Thi Nguyen
2011 | 243 Pages | ISBN: 1593325037 | PDF | 2 MB
Nguyen focuses on the connections between immigrant youth and the role that schools function in shaping their citizenship. Drawing on data from an ethnographic study that took place in an urban high school, Nguyen examines the processes that recent immigrant youth underwent as they transitioned to their new school contexts and engaged with issues of race, ethnicity, culture, gender, language, and citizenship. Findings help to illuminate how immigrant youth constructed meaningful citizenship and forged a sense of belonging while other social processes – cultural maintenance, racialization, assimilative ideology, and exclusionary practices – were acting on them.

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Perfume Dreams Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora


Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora By Andrew Lam
2012 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 1597140201 | PDF | 64 MB
In his long-overdue first collection of essays, noted journalist and NPR commentator Andrew Lam explores his lifelong struggle for identity as a Viet Kieu, or a Vietnamese national living abroad. At age eleven, Lam, the son of a South Vietnamese general, came to California on the eve of the fall of Saigon to communist forces. He traded his Vietnamese name for a more American one and immersed himself in the allure of the American dream: something not clearly defined for him or his family. Reflecting on the meanings of the Vietnam War to the Vietnamese people themselves-particularly to those in exile-Lam picks with searing honesty at the roots of his doubleness and his parents’ longing for a homeland that no longer exists.

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