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Revolutionary Love: Solidarity in the Vietnam Anti-War Movement Public Deposited

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  • The Vietnamese population that migrated to the United States is largely tied to South Vietnam. As the population settled, their strong opposition to communism has driven many in the community towards political alignment with the alt-right and even white nationalists. The proximity to these movements and their seeming tolerance of far-right ideologies causes generational rifts, divisions between refugees and their homeland, and tension between other marginalized groups. Within this community, a binary perspective of the war casts a dominant narrative that the United States were benevolent allies to the Vietnamese people because they militantly supported the South Vietnamese government. With intentions to contradict this perspective, this thesis will examine the political motivations of U.S. foreign policy during the Anti-French Resistance War and the American War in Vietnam to suggest that the racially-charged U.S. involvement in Vietnam impeded on the Vietnamese people’s right to self-determination in its efforts to protect capitalist hegemony within the context of the Cold War. This thesis will provide a contrasting perspective through an examination of the resistance tactics against the Vietnam war and political motivations of left-wing, anti-war activists of color in the United States, focusing on African American and Asian American activists.
  • Keywords: Vietnam war, activism, solidarity, anti-war, anti-imperialist, diaspora
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