Social and Cultural Influences on the Health of the Vietnamese American Population

The Future of Agriculture in a Water-Rich State

“…Adaptation is most often demanded of the state's most underserved and underrepresented communities, who cope with the consequences of government-mandated projects that re-shape, create, and dissolve the land and water upon which they rely. As people who have been forced to bear the burden of U.S.-sanctioned violences for generations, Vietnamese/American fisherfolks' intimacies with adaptation and resilience are well documented, often by scholars and journalists who deploy racialized public health and sociological language, laying the groundwork for CPRA's own "resilience requirement" (Le and Nguyen 2013;Li et al 2010;VanLandingham 2017). The consequences of Mid-Barataria Bay sediment diversion will be overwhelming for Vietnamese/American fisherfolk.…”