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Family Tightrope: The Changing Lives of Vietnamese Americans

In recent years the popular media have described Vietnamese Americans as representatives of the quintessentially American immigrant success story, attributing their accomplishments to the values they learn in the traditional, stable, hierarchical…

The Unwanted : A Memoir of Childhood

Memior: "Saigon fell to the Viet Cong on April 30 1975. Kien Nguyen was there. He watched the last U.S. Army helicopter leave without him without his brother without his mother without his grandparents. Told with stark and poetic brilliance this is a…

Issei Pioneers: Hawaii and the Mainland 1885 to 1924

Accompanies the Museum's inaugural exhibit which focuses on the early immigration and settlement years of the first generation of Japanese immigrants in the United States.