Yearly Archives: 2011
True Laws (Pt. 2) and a New Song
In the course of the past couple of years, I have been trying to "accomplish" my work. Writing, music. Trying to get some foothold...
Remembering Tam Tran: UCLA’s Vietnamese Culture Night
By two days, the diaCRITICS editors have chosen to delay dao strom's sequential post — "True Laws (Pt. 2) and a New Song"—in order...
True Laws? (thoughts on selling "Vietnamese-ness" in America)
I have struggled with how to use these tools - the endeavor of making art and the paradox of trying to share it with...
Trịnh Công Sơn, Movie Star: A Review of Đất Khổ (Land of Sorrows)
I didn't know Trinh Cong Son was in a movie until I saw Đất Khổ (Land of Sorrows). Filmed in 1971, the movie is set...
Second Take: New Voices from Vietnam Film Series
Here is the first post by our newest diaCRITIC, Michelle Ton. Michelle is a graduate student of Cinema and Media Studies in the Department of...
DVAN Holiday Fundraiser: Silent Auction
The first annual holiday party and the second annual fundraiser for DVAN (Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network) is a week away, and we're excited about...
Mondega’s "For the People" – A Montagnard Hip-Hop Debut
At diaCRITICS, we center a cross-ethnic and transnational approach, as fifty-four ethnicities live within present-day Vietnam and as the Vietnamese diaspora has resettled on...
Jade Hidle: Rap in Sai Gon–An Interview with Vietnamese Emcee Nah Nguyen
by Jade HidleClick here to hear Nah Nguyen's "I Have a Dream."A majority of the studies of diasporic culture focus on the aspects of the...