- Collection:
- Social Change Collection
- Title:
- Cam Vuong oral history interview, 2018-09-24
- Creator:
- Vuong, Cam
- Contributor to Resource:
- Perulero, Brandon
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2018-09-24
- Subject:
- Refugees
Immigrant business enterprises
Immigration
Business
Education
Education, Secondary - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
Vietnam, 16.16667, 107.83333 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews
digital moving image formats - Type:
- Sound
Moving Image - Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Cam Vuong was born into the Chinese minority of Vietnam right before the Vietnam War. During the war, he escaped Vietnam as a refugee, and spent months in a Malaysian refugee camp awaiting his visa to the United States. Once here, he traveled to Atlanta, where he had family, got a job at a Chinese restaurant, and began learning English at Dekalb College. He went on to receive his bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science from Georgia State University. He worked as a programmer for Management Science America before opening his own business, a Chinese restaurant called Canton House on Buford Highway.
In this interview, Vuong describes his harrowing journey from Vietnam, the horrors he witnessed both during the war and as a refugee, and the difficulty of coming to the United States. He describes his first job experience, his decision to study English, and his academic career at Georgia State University. Finally, he explains his journey from a dishwasher to restaurant owner, and expresses his thanks to the university for the opportunity to earn his education. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/schange/id/844
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Vuong, Cam interviewed by Brandon Perulero, September 24, 2018, In Whose Hearts is a Highway: The Buford Highway Oral History Project, Social Change Collection, Special Collections and Archivse, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 2:03:22
- Original Collection:
- In Whose Hearts is a Highway: The Buford Highway Oral History Project
https://archivesspace.library.gsu.edu/repositories/2/resources/1696
Social Change Collection - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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