Yearly Archives: 2015
Tony Nguyen: A Chance for Truth in Little Saigon
Tony Nguyen, director of Enforcing the Silence, responds to criticism of FRONTLINE and ProPublica's new documentary investigating the murders of Vietnamese-American journalists, Terror in Little Saigon....
Unprotected by Assimilation: Lessons from the Case of Duy Ngo
When I began reading that a White House petition had collected 100,000 signatures — many of them reportedly Chinese names — in defense of Peter Liang, a cop who shot and killed an unarmed Black man during a patrol of a housing project in New York, I was perplexed. Why were so many Asian people defending an officer who wrongfully killed a Black man?
October 2015 News and Events
What happened in October 2015: socio-cultural, literary, and political news and events relating to Vietnam and to the Vietnamese diaspora. ") are the opinion...
Subscriber Drive! Win First Edition of The Sympathizer
It’s time for our third subscriber drive. We’re looking for 100 new subscribers for diaCRITICS, and we’ll be giving away a signed first edition of...
The First International Southeast Asian Film Festival: Nov 2015
In the past decade, we have seen a renaissance of artistic production by Southeast Asians that addresses our condition outside of the confines of mass-market big-ticket rat-a-tat-tat film. And for the first time, a film festival dedicated to Southeast Asians has made its appearance at a major city and a major venue.
Linh Dinh: Our Refugee Future
In 2021, it came to our attention that the featured writer, Linh Dinh, has expressed anti-Black, anit-Semitic, and overall harmful views since the publication...
Terror in Little Saigon
On November 3rd, PBS will be airing "Terror in Little Saigon", an investigative report on the unresolved events that inspired several stories in The Sympathizer.One of...
Mai Lan Gustafsson’s “The Warlore of Vietnamese Bargirls,” Part 2
In a sixteen-year oral history project, anthropologist Mai Lan Gustafsson interviewed Vietnamese women who served as bar girls during the war. Through the voices...
Mai Lan Gustafsson’s “The Warlore of Vietnamese Bargirls,” Part 1
In a sixteen-year oral history project, anthropologist Mai Lan Gustaffson interviewed Vietnamese women who served as bar girls during the Vietnam War. Through the...
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