Descriptive Summary
Important Information for Researchers
Historical Background
Collection Scope and Content Summary
Collection Arrangement
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: James Freeman files
Date: 1978-2003
Collection Number: MS-SEA033
Creator:
Freeman, James
Extent:
3.2 linear feet
(6 boxes)
Languages: The collection is in English and Vietnamese.
Repository:
University of California, Irvine. Library. Special Collections and Archives.
Irvine, California 92623-9557
Abstract: This collection is comprised of materials collected by James Freeman, a professor of anthropology at San Jose State University.
Correspondence and reports of organizations and individuals involved in refugee issues and reports from refugee camps are
included, as are handwritten notes and cassette tapes of interviews with Vietnamese Americans who settled in the United States
after the Vietnam War that were conducted for Freeman's book
Hearts of sorrow: Vietnamese-American lives.
Important Information for Researchers
Access
The collection is open for research. Interview tapes and transcripts are restricted until 2039-01-01. Restrictions are noted
at the file level.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and
their heirs. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact the Southeast Asian Archive Librarian.
Preferred Citation
James Freeman files. MS-SEA033. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
Acquisition Information
Gift of James Freeman, 2004.
Processing History
Processed by Julia Stringfellow, 2005. Processing was supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant.
Historical Background
James M. Freeman is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at San Jose State University in San Jose, California. He received a
Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Northwestern University in 1958, a Master of Arts in Social Relations from Harvard University
in 1964, and a PhD in Social Relations from Harvard University in 1968. His area of research since 1992 has included work,
identity, and community in high-tech regions, involving in depth interviews in high-tech companies on the connections between
work, family, and cultural identity. He has also collected the life stories of people living in India, of Vietnamese refugees,
and of the people in the Silicon Valley Cultures Project over the past 25 years. Freeman hoped to capture the spirit of these
people through their narratives and to convey this to a wide reading public, such as through the publication of his book
Hearts of sorrow: Vietnamese-American lives in 1989.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection is comprised of materials collected by James Freeman, a professor of anthropology at San Jose State University.
Correspondence and reports of organizations and individuals involved in refugee issues and reports from refugee camps are
included, as are handwritten notes and cassette tapes of interviews with Vietnamese Americans who settled in the United States
after the Vietnam War that were conducted for Freeman's book
Hearts of sorrow: Vietnamese-American lives.
Collection Arrangement
This collection is arranged in 2 series.
- Series 1. Topical files, 1978-2003. 1.4 linear feet
- Series 2. Interview notes and audio cassette recordings, 1983-1999. 1.8 linear feet
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Freeman, James M., 1936- -- Archives.
Refugees -- United States -- Archives.
Refugees -- Vietnam -- Archives.
Refugees -- Services for -- United States -- Archives.
Vietnamese Americans -- Archives.
Vietnamese Americans -- Interviews.
Genres and Formats of Materials
Letters -- 20th century.
Reports -- 20th century.
Sound recordings -- 20th century.
Audiocassettes -- 20th century.
Interviews -- 20th century.
Titles
Southeast Asian Archive.
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