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Roy Vu, Historian, Teacher, Author

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ROY VŨ is a history professor at Dallas College North Lake Campus and an
advisory board member for Foodways Texas and Keep Irving Beautiful, where he is
the 2018 recipient of the Sadie Ray Graff Education Award. His previous books
include Our Finite Bounty: An Anthology of Sustainable Topics and Feasted
Landscapes: Sustainability in American Topics. He lives in Irving, Texas.


FARM-TO-FREEDOM: VIETNAMESE AMERICANS AND THEIR FOOD GARDENS



Home gardens, in addition to providing sustenance and satisfaction, embody a
sense of self identity. In this groundbreaking work on Vietnamese foodways,
Farm-to-Freedom: Vietnamese Americans and Their Food Gardens brings to light how
the Vietnamese diasporic population in Texas uses gardens literally and
figuratively to set down roots in a new country.

These gardens, often hidden in plain sight, establish the seat of Vietnamese
immigrant culture, according to author Roy Vũ. They can also offer Vietnamese
Americans an empowering pathway to forging a new homeland duality by retaining
ties to the foods and environs they drew comfort from in Vietnam.

Farm-to-Freedom uses the concept of emancipatory foodways as a lens into gardens
that serve a semi-palliative purpose by succoring the experienced tragedies of
war and exile for Vietnamese immigrants and Vietnamese Americans, which arguably
adds another dimension to the importance of the home garden. Vũ covers topics
including but not limited to culinary citizenship, food democracy, culinary
justice, and food sovereignty. Farm-to-Freedom reveals how these gardens not
only provide those who tend them a greater sense of security and agency in an
unfamiliar land but also give them the means to preserve and expand Vietnamese
cuisine for themselves while simultaneously enriching food culture in the United
States.

With a wealth of original oral histories, community-based recipes and poetry,
and photographs of home gardens in suburban and urban settings, Farm-to-Freedom
provides a deeper understanding of the Vietnamese diaspora in Texas for
scholars, professionals, and general readers alike.


Link to Purchase
Front cover of the book, Farm-to-Freedom: Vietnamese Americans and Their Food
Gardens, by Roy Vu.


VIDEOS



Academic Presentations, Interviews, and Panels


2022 HUMANITIES TEXAS PUBLIC LECTURES


2022 Humanities Texas Public Lectures, “The Banh Mi: From Foreign Food to All-
(Vietnamese) American Cuisine,” by Roy Vu.


2020 HOUSTON BOTANIC GARDEN ASIA SERIES


2020 Houston Botanic Garden Asia Series, “Farm-to-Freedom: Vietnamese Americans
and Their Home Gardens,” by Roy Vu.


2024 TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY IPAC AND VNCA VIETNAM WAR CONFERENCE: SECOND
GENERATION VIETNAMESE SCHOLARS OF THE VIETNAM WAR PANEL




2021 THE VIETNAMESE WITH KENNETH NGUYEN PODCAST


Roy Vu is a guest on “The Vietnamese” podcast with Kenneth Nguyen.


2021 LOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS: RACE IN AMERICA AND BEYOND


2021 Lower Columbia College Community Conversations, “Fighting Exclusion and
Perpetual Foreignism: Asian Pacific Americans and Civil Rights,” by Roy Vu.


2017 HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA


The Vu Family, a “Getting Here: Journeys from Vietnam” Bonus Story with Houston
Public Media.


2024 TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY IPAC AND VNCA VIETNAM WAR CONFERENCE: THE POSTWAR
VIETNAMESE DIASPORA PANEL PRESENTATION


MORE VIDEOS

Academic Presentations, Interviews, and Panels




2020 DALLAS COLLEGE SUSTAINABILITY SUMMIT


2020 Dallas College Sustainability Summit, “New Roots in the Texas Soil:
Congolese Refugees, Plant It Forward Farms, and Sustainable Urban Farming,” by
Roy Vu.


2022 URBAN HARVEST OF HOUSTON LECTURE, “FARM-TO-FREEDOM: VIETNAMESE TEXANS AND
THEIR HOME GARDENS”


2022 Urban Harvest of Houston Lecture, “Farm-to-Freedom: Vietnamese Texans and
Their Home Gardens,” by Roy Vu.


2022 HOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE HISTORY SPEAKERS SERIES

https://edutube.hccs.edu/media/History+Speakers+Series+present+Dr.+Roy+Vu/1_jkd44xst


2021 UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS TEACH-IN: CONFRONTING AAPI VIOLENCE AND
DISCRIMINATION


2020 Dallas College Sustainability Summit, “New Roots in the Texas Soil:
Congolese Refugees, Plant It Forward Farms, and Sustainable Urban Farming,” by
Roy Vu.


2009 POSTCARDS FROM TEXAS: VIETNAMESE SHRIMPERS INTERVIEW


Postcards from Texas: Vietnamese Shrimpers Interview in 2009.


2021 DALLAS COLLEGE CIVIL RIGHTS SPEAKER SERIES

https://www.dallascollege.edu/events/black-history/civil-rights/pages/default.aspx


PUBLICATIONS

Academic Articles, Book Chapters, Edited Volumes, and Monographs




BOOKS (AUTHORED OR CO-EDITED)

 * Farm-to-Freedom: Vietnamese Americans and Their Food Gardens (Texas A&M
   University Press, September 2024)
   https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781648431852/farm-to-freedom/
 * Feasted Landscapes: Sustainability in American Topics, Vols. 1 and 2, 2nd
   Edition, Co-Editor (Kendall Hunt Publishing, August 2018)
   https://he.kendallhunt.com/product/feasted-landscapes-sustainability-american-topics-volume-1
   and
   https://he.kendallhunt.com/product/feasted-landscapes-sustainability-american-topics-volume-2
 * Our Finite Bounty: An Anthology of Sustainability Topics, Co-Editor (Kendall
   Hunt Publishing, August 2017)
   https://he.kendallhunt.com/product/our-finite-bounty-anthology-sustainability-topics
 * Feasted Landscapes: Sustainability in American Topics, Vols. 1 and 2, 1st
   Edition, Co-Editor (Kendall Hunt Publishing, August 2015)

Roy and Ngoc. Photo taken at Ba Na Hills, Viet Nam, 2023.

Photo of the Imperial Citadel, Hue, Viet Nam, 2023.


ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, AND REVIEWS

 * “For You and Bánh Mì: From Foreign Food to an All-(Vietnamese) American
   Sandwich,” Edible Houston Magazine, Spring 2023, Issue 38, April 10, 2023
   https://ediblehouston.ediblecommunities.com/eat/you-and-b-nh-m-0
 * Book Review, Grain and Fire: A History of Baking in the American South by
   Rebecca Sharpless, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 126, Issue 4, pp.
   581-582, April 2023,
   https://www.tshaonline.org/publications/southwestern-historical-quarterly-april-2023
 * “Vietnamese Houstonians’ Home Gardens Are a Sliver of Homeland,” Edible
   Houston Magazine, Spring 2022, Issue 34, April 19, 2022
   https://ediblehouston.ediblecommunities.com/food-thought/vietnamese-houstonians-home-gardens-are-sliver-homeland
 * “Turbulent Seas,” Sugar and Rice Magazine, Issue 2, April 1, 2014
 * “Natives of a Ghost Country: The Vietnamese in Houston and Their Construction
   of a Post-War Community,” Asian Americans in Dixie: Race and Migration in the
   South, edited by Khyati Y. Joshi and Jigna Desai (University of Illinois
   Press, November 2013) https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p079382
 * “The Asian Texans: A Common History” with Irwin A. Tang, Asian Texans: Our
   Histories and Our Lives, edited by Irwin A. Tang (The it Works Press, August
   2007)
 * “From the Ashes of the Cold War: Constructing a Southern Vietnamese Community
   and Identity in Houston,” The Houston Review Magazine, Volume 3, Number 1,
   Fall 2005
   https://houstonhistorymagazine.org/2010/10/from-the-ashes-of-the-cold-war-constructing-a-southern-vietnamese-community-and-identity-in-houston/


MEDIA




SELECTED MEDIA LINKS

 * ABC 13 Shares Stories of Vietnamese Refugees Who Made All-or-Nothing Escape
   and Rebuilt Their Lives, ABC 13 Eyewitness News, June 1, 2022, by Rosie
   Nguyen,
   https://abc13.com/vietnamese-vietnam-war-refugees-immigrants/11913968/
 * “How Asian Americans Use Kitchen Gardens to Reclaim Their Heritage,” by Alana
   Dao, Huffington Post, August 23, 2019,
   https://www.huffpost.com/entry/asian-american-kitchen-gardens_l_5d541892e4b05fa9df083eb5
 * “Collateral Damage: Decades Later, a Suicide Can Be Added to Domestic Terror
   Campaign’s Toll,” by A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, April 13, 2016,
   https://www.propublica.org/article/decades-later-suicide-added-to-domestic-terror-campaigns-toll
 * “The Search for America’s Best Food Cities: Houston,” by Tom Sietsema,
   Washington Post, November 10, 2015
   https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/style/2015/11/10/the-search-for-americas-best-food-cities-houston/

Roy and Ngoc. Photo taken at near Hue, Viet Nam. 2023.

Photo of Da Nang, beach and skyline, Viet Nam, 2023.


MORE MEDIA LINKS

 * “Dallas College Toured Selma Last Weekend,” by James Jones, Selma
   Times-Journal, March 31, 2023,
   https://www.selmatimesjournal.com/2023/03/31/dallas-college-toured-selma-last-weekend/
 * “‘Every Story Matters’: Dr. Roy Vu Makes History Personal,” Dallas College
   Blog, October 31, 2022,
   http://blog.dallascollege.edu/2022/10/every-story-matters-dr-roy-vu-makes-history-personal/
 * “Documentary Prompts Vietnamese Immigrants to Re-Examine Roots,” by Mary
   Vuong, Houston Chronicle, April 26, 2004,
   https://www.chron.com/entertainment/movies_tv/article/documentary-prompts-vietnamese-immigrants-to-1972024.php
 * “Kerry’s Disclosure Stirs Ghosts of Vietnam,” by Andrew Guy, Jr., Houston
   Chronicle, May 8, 2001,
   https://www.chron.com/life/article/kerrey-s-disclosure-stirs-ghosts-of-vietnam-2018348.php


ORGANIZATIONS




ACADEMIC ORGANIZATIONS

 * Member, Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS)
 * Member, American Historical Association (AHA)
 * Member, Organization of American Historians (OAH)
 * Member, Western History Association (WHA)
 * Member, Urban History Association (UHA)
 * Charter Member, Alliance for Texas History (ATXH)
 * Member, Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)

Photo Taken at Gyeongbokgung Palace, Seoul, South Korea, 2024.

Photo Taken at Gyeongbokgung Palace, Seoul, South Korea, 2024.


COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS

 * Board Member, Keep Irving Beautiful
 * Board Member, Foodways Texas
 * Volunteer, KPRC Digital Collection Advisory Committee
 * Co-Ambassador, University of California – Irvine Libraries Southeast Asian
   Archive
 * Donor, Plant It Forward Farms
 * Donor, Urban Harvest of Houston
 * Donor, Houston Botanic Garden
 * Donor, Dallas Asian American Historical Society
 * Donor, North Texas Food Bank
 * Donor, Undermain Theatre


CONFERENCES AND AWARDS




SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

 * “Vietnamese American Gothic: Southern Vietnamese Reckoning in the U.S.
   South,” Association of Asian American Studies Conference, Panel: Our Southern
   Accents: How AANHPI Communities Reclaim and Reconstruct the U.S. South,
   Seattle, WA, April 25-27, 2024
 * “Burgers Today, Bánh Mì Tomorrow?  Vietnamese American Foodways from Việt Nam
   to Houston,” Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference,
   Panel: Asian Popular Culture/Asian American Experiences 2: It’s More than
   Just Food: Cultural Diversity, Power, and Intersectionality, Albuquerque, NM,
   February 21-24, 2024
 * “Sculpting the Homeland: Memorializing the Viet Nam War and Refugee Spaces,”
   American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch Conference, Panel:
   Trauma, Conflict and Memory, Portland, OR, August 10-12, 2022
 * “A Double Home Loss: The Rise and Fall of Houston’s Original Little Sài Gòn,”
   Association of Asian American Studies Conference, Denver, CO, April 14-16,
   2022
 * “Farm-to-Freedom: Vietnamese Americans and Their Home Gardens,” Panel:
   Re-Envisioning the Table: New Approaches to Food Studies in the U.S. West,”
   Western History Association Conference, October 16-19, 2019
 * “The Vietnamese Suicides: Postwar Trauma and Resistance,” Association of
   Asian American Studies Conference, San Francisco, CA, March 29-April 1, 2018

Photo of Starfield Library, Seoul, South Korea, 2024.

Photo Taken at Bongeunsa Temple, Seoul, South Korea, 2024..


AWARDS

 * 2021 President’s Award, Educator, Dallas College, North Lake Campus
 * 2020 Innovation of the Year Award, Dallas College Civil Rights Tour, Dallas
   College North Lake Campus
 * 2018 Sadie Ray Graff Education Award, Educator of the Year, Keep Texas
   Beautiful
 * 2017 National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD)
   Excellence Award
 * 2017 Innovation of the Year Award, Sustainability Awareness and Global
   Education Initiative, North Lake College
 * 2013, Educator of the Year Award, Keep Irving Beautiful
 * 2013 President’s Award, Educator, North Lake College
 * 2013 Voices of Excellence Award, North Lake College

“History never ends until every story is told.”



Roy Vu

Dallas College, History Professor




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