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Red Earth Black Mountains: Essays and Narratives of the Secret War in Laos

Red Earth Black Mountains: Essays and Narratives of the Secret War in Laos

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20th Century United States HistoryGeneral World History

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ISBN13: 9798994607626
Publisher: Hmong Children's Books
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Red Earth Black Mountains brings together essays and narratives that trace the enduring legacy of the Secret War in Laos through history, memory, family, and return. Drawing from her Hmong family's experiences, archival research, and fieldwork in Southeast Asia, Yia Vue examines the forces that shaped a generation: covert warfare, forced displacement, refugee resettlement, cultural loss, and the long environmental aftermath of conflict.

Moving between personal narrative and historical inquiry, Vue considers what happens when a war ends on paper but continues in contaminated landscapes, fractured communities, inherited trauma, and suppressed histories. At once intimate and deeply researched, Red Earth Black Mountains restores Hmong experiences to the center of a history too often told without them-and asks what remembrance, accountability, and repair might look like for those who continue to live with the consequences.

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