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Bụi đời : life like dust /

Life for most young Vietnamese youth in the United States is a "life like dust." This film goes inside the mind of Ricky Phan, once a gang leader in Southern California and now serving an 11-year sentence for armed robbery. Shot over a three-year period before Ricky's arrest, Bui doi...

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Bibliographic Details
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: San Francisco, CA : Center for Asian American Media, 1994.
Subjects:
Phan, Ricky.
Vietnamese Americans > Biography.
Vietnamese American families.
Juvenile delinquency > California.
Gangs > California.
Américains d'origine vietnamienne > Biographies.
Familles américaines d'origine vietnamienne.
Gangs.
Juvenile delinquency.
Vietnamese Americans.
California.
Documentaries and Factual Films
Biographies.
Documentary films.
Short films.
Documentaires.
Courts métrages.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:Life for most young Vietnamese youth in the United States is a "life like dust." This film goes inside the mind of Ricky Phan, once a gang leader in Southern California and now serving an 11-year sentence for armed robbery. Shot over a three-year period before Ricky's arrest, Bui doi ... explores his memories of childhood in war-weary Saigon, his days in the U.S. as a "gangster," and then his life in a state prison. Which is more violent: fleeing from a war-ravaged nation or trying to survive in an alien Western culture?
Item Description:Title from title screen (viewed May 27, 2021).
Physical Description:1 online resource (30 minutes)
Playing Time:00:29:58