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dc.contributor.advisorVuic, Kara Dixon
dc.contributor.authorTran, Ann
dc.date2020-05-19
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-24T15:55:38Z
dc.date.available2020-08-24T15:55:38Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/40255
dc.description.abstractThis paper uncovers the history of antiwar activist Nguyen Thai Binh and the birth of the Union of Vietnamese after his death. Binh was a former student from the University of Washington, Seattle, who participated in numerous antiwar protests against the U.S. military and what he believed was an imperialist U.S. government interfering in South Vietnam. On July 2, 1972, he hijacked Pan Am Flight 841 headed to Tan Son Nhut airport to protest American bombings of North Vietnam but was assassinated in the attempt. Amidst the broiling anti-war movements of the 1960s and early 1970s, the Union of Vietnamese was the only group of Vietnamese in America to organize against the war following Binh's death, suggesting the unique positionality of Vietnamese students and early immigrants among other marginalized groups in their struggles for liberation. In this paper, I reference the works of scholars Karen Ishizuka and Sylvia Shin Huey Chong to compare different methodological approaches to writing about the Asian American antiwar movement. Their texts frame my discussions of the invisibility of the Vietnamese antiwar narrative, the cross-cultural alliances that formed from political convergences, and the orientalist perception of the Vietnamese body. Thus, I argue that Nguyen Thai Binh's activism and the Union of Vietnamese demonstrate a departure from the predominantly non-Vietnamese antiwar historiography. Through my analysis of letters, pamphlets, and government documents, I consider the ways in which Binh's fatal devotion to ending American brutality in Vietnam and the Vietnamese antiwar movement both challenges American perceptions of race and ethnicity and critiques the violent militarism of the war in Vietnam.
dc.subjectwar
dc.subjectVietnam
dc.subjectrace
dc.subjectethnicity
dc.subjectmilitarism
dc.subjectimperialism
dc.subjectanti-war
dc.subjecttransnationalism
dc.titleA Bloody Solidarity: Nguyen Thai Binh and the Vietnamese Antiwar Movement in the Long Sixties
etd.degree.departmentHistory
local.collegeAddRan College of Liberal Arts
local.collegeJohn V. Roach Honors College
local.departmentHistory
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