Research Catalog

Title

The dust of life : America's children abandoned in Vietnam / Robert S. McKelvey.

Author

McKelvey, Robert S.

Publication

Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1999.

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Details

Description

xx, 135 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"The Dust of Life is a collection of vivid and devastating oral histories of Vietnamese Amerasians. Abandoned during the war by their American fathers, discriminated against by the victorious Communists, and ignored for many years by the American government, they endured life in impoverished Vietnam. Their stories are sad, sometimes tragic, but they are also testimonials to human resiliency."--BOOK JACKET. "Robert McKelvey is a former marine who served in Vietnam in the late 1960s. Now a child psychiatrist, he returned to Vietnam in 1990 to begin the long series of interviews that resulted in this book."--Jacket.

Subjects

• Oregon authors
• USA
• Vietnam
• United States
• Vietnamese Americans
• Ameriasians > United States
• Children of military personnel > Vietnam
• Ameriasians > Vietnam
• Eurasier
• US-Soldat
• Ethnizität
• Diskriminierung
• Minderheitenpolitik
• Unerwünschtes Kind
• Soldat
• Vietnamkrieg
• Amerasians > United States
• Abandoned children > Vietnam
• Amerasians > Vietnam

Genre/Form

Oregon authors.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Who are the Vietnamese Amerasians? -- Amerasians in Vietnam -- Growing up without a mother or father -- Prejudice and discrimination -- Adventurers and entrepreneurs -- Amerasians in the United States -- Adapting to life in the United States -- Expectations and later adjustment -- Disabled Amerasians -- Searching for father -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 0295978252
• 9780295978253
• 0295978368
• 9780295978369

LCCN

99022670

OCLC

• ocm40996109
• 40996109
• SCSB-14480086

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library