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The federal refugee resettlement system established by the Indochinese Assistance and Refugee Assistance Act of 1975, which was active from 1975 to 1988, designated Houston as a major resettling site for Vietnamese. [4] Texas received many Vietnamese refugees in the late 1970s because it had a warm climate, an expanding economy, and a location ...
In 1989, a group of Vietnam veterans from West Texas gathered at Texas Tech University to discuss what they might do, in a positive way, about their experiences in Vietnam. [13] Their meeting was spearheaded by James Reckner, a Texas Tech military history professor and Navy veteran of the Vietnam War, [ 14 ] who had become concerned with his ...
Discussions about the Vietnam War and issues with military recruitment on Wesleyan's campus had been pervasive for two years, but organized protests began a few days after President Nixon's announcement of the Cambodian campaign. The protests shut down the school's classes and schoolwork for the rest of the spring semester, and students were ...
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He became the editor of the French journals Études Vietnamiennes (Vietnamese Studies) and the Courrier du Vietnam (Vietnamese Courier). [7] Under the pseudonym Nguyen Nghe, he wrote a prominent critique of the book Wretched of the Earth by fellow anti-colonialist Franz Fanon, through the essay "Frantz Fanon and the Problems of Independence." [7]
Around 2.7 million American service members fought in the Vietnam War and 3.4 million served in Southeast Asia. The U.S. lost 58,000 service members in the unpopular war where 153,303 were wounded.
Vietnamese-language media in Texas (2 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Vietnamese-American culture in Texas" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
The Strategic Hamlet Program also reflected wider ideas of American Exceptionalism. In their approach towards Vietnam, the US saw itself as a moderniser and an exemplary form of democracy. “The Strategic Hamlet Program projected a national identity for the US as a credible world power ready to meet revolutionary changes”. [20]