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History on the Run

Ma Vang

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Ma Vang examines the experiences of Hmong refugees who migrated to the United States following the secret war in Laos (1961-1975) to theorize "history on the run" as a framework for understanding refugee histories, in particular those of the Hmong.

During its secret war in Laos (1961-1975), the United States recruited proxy soldiers among the Hmong people. Following the war, many of these Hmong soldiers migrated to the United States with refugee status. In History on the Run Ma Vang examines the experiences of Hmong refugees in the United States to theorize refugee histories and secrecy, in particular those of the Hmong. Vang conceptualizes these histories as fugitive histories, as they move and are carried by people who move. Charting the incomplete archives of the war made secret through redacted US state documents, ethnography, film, and literature, Vang shows how Hmong refugees tell their stories in ways that exist separately from narratives of U.S. empire and that cannot be traditionally archived. In so doing, Vang outlines a methodology for writing histories that foreground refugee epistemologies despite systematic attempts to silence those histories.

Format:
Hardback
Pages:
272
Publisher:
Duke University Press
ISBN:
9781478010272
Published Date:
12/2/2021
Dimensions:
229mm x 152mm
Weight:
522g
Category:
Social & cultural history

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