Vietnamese American Studies

Re-Writing Home

by Minh-Ha T. Pham

Published in This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Vision for Transformation eds. Gloria Anzaldúa and AnaLouise Keating (New York: Routledge, 2002): 176-180.

Family Pressure and the Daughters of Vietnamese Refugees

by Carl L Bankston

co-authored with Min Zhou

The Biculturation of the Vietnamese Student

by Carl L Bankston

co-authored with Min Zhou

Adolescents and Deviance in a Vietnamese American Community: A Theoretical Synthesis

by Carl L Bankston

co-authored with Min Zhou

Vietnamese Ethnicity and Adolescent Substance Abuse

by Carl L Bankston

SIbling Cooperation and Scholastic Performance among Vietnamese Students: An Ethnic Social Relations Theory

by Carl L Bankston

Gender Roles and Scholastic Performance among Adolescent Vietnamese Women: The Paradox of Ethnic Patriarchy

by Carl L Bankston

Vietnamese American Catholicism

by Carl L Bankston

Delinquency and Acculturation: A Decade's Change in a Vietnamese American Community

by Carl L Bankston

co-authored with Min Zhou

Vietnamese Language in the USA

by Carl L Bankston

co-authored with Vy Thuc Dao

Social capital and the adaptation of the second generation: The case of Vietnamese youth in New Orleans

by Carl L Bankston

The Ethnic Church, Ethnic Identifcation, and the Social Adjustment of Vietnamese Adolescents

by Carl L Bankston

The social adjustment of Vietnamese American adolescents: Evidence for a segmented-assimilation approach.

by Carl L Bankston

Disaster and the Vietnamese of New Orleans East: The Assets and Liabilities of Ethnic Cohesion

by Carl L Bankston

Religious participation, ethnic identification, and adaptation of Vietnamese adolescents in an immigrant community

by Carl L Bankston

Effects of minority-language literacy on the academic achievement of Vietnamese youths in New Orleans

by Carl L Bankston

Listening as a Labor of Love: Commerce, Community, and Little Saigon Radio

by Minh-Ha T. Pham

positions: east asia cultures critique 21.4 (Fall 2013)

This article draws together communications and media studies with feminist theory and refugee scholarship to closely... more This article draws together communications and media studies with feminist theory and refugee scholarship to closely consider Vietnamese American subject and community formations from the reference point of sound and audition. Specifically, it examines the ways in which institutionalized regimes of listening are configurations of power, the effects of which subtly but powerfully impact Vietnamese Americans’ ordinary lives. Such regimes of listening operate as technologies that regulate subjects’ quotidian modes of conduct and in so doing work to reproduce recognizable forms of ethnic, refugee, and national subjectivities and communities as well as the hegemonic discourses that underwrite them. This essay urges an epistemological shift from the site/sight-specific approaches to race, ethnicity, and nationalism that typically dominate ethnic studies, area studies, anthropology, and refugee studies to sonorous approaches that take into account the subtle and ephemeral configurations and effects of power that constitute this ethno-national community and its subjects. The production and management of national subjectivity, as this article shows, is routinely and oftentimes unspectacularly undertaken in sites that are ethnically and temporally local.