Bernard Scott Lucious, in his work of “In the Black Pacific: Testimonies of Vietnamese Afro-Asian Displacements”, addresses the lived-experiences of blackness that Vietnamese Afro-Amerasians had in Vietnam. Reading these testimonies were interesting and definitely disheartening, hearing what some of these people had to go through growing up or even well past adulthood. As one woman named Pha mentioned, “‘I didn’t go to school [in Vietnam], I was embarrassed of my skin.” (Luscious, 124). This, out of the other stories mentioned, just goes to show the discrimination that was exemplified from anti-black racism. Taking a walk in their shoes, it must have felt disheartening to feel so displaced from your home country or just other people in general because of how you felt. This kind of displacement is seen in many other occasions as we have seen in history.
Q: How does one cope with displacement within your own country because of how you look?
Works Cited
Luscious, Bernard Scott. “Into the Black Pacific: Testimonies of Vietnamese Afro-Amerasian Displacements.” Displacements and Diasporas: Asians in the Americas. Rutgers University Press, 2005.
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