Vietnamese Boat People Podcast Records
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Abstract
VietnameseBoatPeople.org is comprised of a team of volunteers, contributors, and students who dedicate their labor and time to recording the narratives of refugees of the Vietnam War. The recordings in this collection take the form of a podcast, Vietnamese Boat People, which is accessible both through the organization's website and on various podcasting platforms. Tracey Nguyen Mang, born Nguyen Quan Truong-Anh, founded the project as a means to honor and preserve both her family's and her own stories of fleeing Vietnam by boat, living in refugee camps, surviving familial separation, and being reunited in the United States. The Vietnamese Boat People Podcast Records (dated 2020-2021) consists of materials documenting the creation and production of the Vietnamese Boat People podcast, including electronic audio files, transcripts, and supplemental photographs. Each podcast episode is documented through an edited audio version with soundbed music, an edited audio version without soundbed, raw interview files, English-language transcripts, and digitized photographs. The collection documents narratives of refugees of the Vietnam War, as well as an effort on the part of the podcast team to "preserve and carry forward the stories of this generation so that younger Vietnamese-Americans can understand and be inspired by their heritage."
Historical Note
VietnameseBoatPeople.org is comprised of a team of volunteers, contributors, and students, who dedicate their labor and time to recording the narratives of refugees of the Vietnam War. The recordings in this collection take the form of a podcast, Vietnamese Boat People, which is accessible both through the organization's website and on various podcasting platforms. Tracey Nguyen Mang, born Nguyen Quan Truong-Anh, founded the project as a means to honor and preserve both her family's and her own stories of fleeing Vietnam by boat, living in refugee camps, surviving familial separation, and being reunited in the United States. According to their website, "The Vietnamese Boat People podcast project is to preserve and carry forward the stories of this generation so that younger Vietnamese-Americans can understand and be inspired by their heritage. And if these stories evoke others outside of this community to have more empathy towards the millions of refugees around the world today, then this project has accomplished more than we had hoped for."
Source:
Vietnamese Boat People. "About." https://www.vietnameseboatpeople.org/about (retrieved November 8, 2022).
Arrangement
This collection is arranged by episode.
Scope and Contents
The Vietnamese Boat People Podcast Records (dated 2020-2021) consists of materials documenting the creation and production of the Vietnamese Boat People podcast, including electronic audio files, transcripts, and supplemental photographs. Each podcast episode is documented through an edited audio version with soundbed music, edited audio version without soundbed, raw interview files, English-language transcripts, and digitized photographs. The collection documents narratives of refugees of the Vietnam War, as well as an effort on the part of the podcast team to "preserve and carry forward the stories of this generation so that younger Vietnamese-Americans can understand and be inspired by their heritage."
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Conditions Governing Access
Access to audio files of episodes with soundbed music are restricted to the reading room; otherwise materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use materials in the collection in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Vietnamese Boat People Podcast Records; TAM 800; box number; folder number or item identifier; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Tracey Nguyen Mang in November 2022; the accession number associated with this gift is 2022.085.
Born-Digital Access Policies and Procedures
Advance notice is required for the use of computer records. Original physical digital media is restricted. An access terminal for born-digital materials in the collection is available by appointment for reading room viewing and listening only. Researchers may view an item's original container and/or carrier, but the physical carriers themselves are not available for use because of preservation concerns.
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Processing Information
At the time of accessioning, electronic files were transferred from an external flash drive to network storage. Materials were arranged by episode, amd described on the collection-level with an interview-level inventory. Materials were described on the collection- and item-level, with the majority of the archival description written by the Vietnamese Boat People podcast team. New York University Libraries follow professional standards and best practices when imaging, ingesting, and processing born-digital material in order to maintain the integrity and authenticity of the content.
