Cambodian American Community of Oregon Oral History Project

Cambodian American Community of Oregon Oral History Project
Held by	Portland State University Library, Special Collections
Scope	Cambodian American life stories recorded in Oregon
Subjects	History & Remembrance; Migration & Diaspora; Family & Intergenerational Life

The Cambodian American Community of Oregon Oral History Project recorded interviews with Cambodian Americans in Portland in spring 2009, and is held in Special Collections at the Portland State University Library. (PDXScholar project collection)

Overview

Younger family members and community members conducted the interviews, and the wider archive contains seventeen of them. The project is connected to the documentary The OH Project: Healing from the Cambodian Genocide. (PDXScholar project collection)

Material coverage

The library publishes a sample of five video clips drawn from the interviews, in which narrators describe conditions under the Khmer Rouge, separation from family, and escapes across the Thai border. Each clip is presented as streaming media with the interview date and the timing of the excerpt. (PDXScholar project collection) (Clip from Interview with SivHeng Ung)

Catalogue and access

Clips carry persistent identifiers in the form http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/12691. The library states that digital access copies are made available as streaming media for personal, educational and non-commercial use within fair use, that they may not be reproduced, distributed or screened commercially, and that enquiries go to Special Collections at [email protected] or (503) 725-9883. (Clip from Interview with Melanie Lim)

Selected recordings

Entries in this index for recordings held in the collection. KhmerConnection indexes this material and does not hold or provide access to the recordings.

Sources