Youth Identities in North and South Vietnam during the War (1965-1975)

FAIN: FB-58028-15

Olga Dror
Texas A & M University, College Station (College Station, TX 77843-0001)

I will complete a book titled "Raising Vietnamese: Youth Identities in North and South Vietnam during the War (1965-1975)," a comparative analysis of how Vietnamese on both sides of the conflict shaped the identities of their youth, using texts produced for youth and by youth in North and South Vietnam. The project contrasts the highly centralized agenda of indoctrination in the North with the lack of any such policy in the South and the results produced by these approaches. Primarily focused upon literary, journalistic, and pedagogical writings, this project is also oriented toward historical, social, and political contexts. It opens the unexplored field of research on children and youth in Vietnamese studies and allows an inside view of northern and southern Vietnamese societies with contrasting visions of the present and future for each side. It will also significantly expand our understanding of children/youth studies.

Associated Products

“Love, Hatred, and Heroism in Socializing Youth in North Vietnam during Wartime, 1965-1975" (Article)
Title: “Love, Hatred, and Heroism in Socializing Youth in North Vietnam during Wartime, 1965-1975"
Author: Olga Dror
Abstract: n/a
Year: 2016
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 9:3, Fall 2016, pp. 424-449.
Publisher: John Hopkins University

"Traditions and Transformations in the Formation of Ho Chi Minh's Cult" (Article)
Title: "Traditions and Transformations in the Formation of Ho Chi Minh's Cult"
Author: Olga Dror
Abstract: n/a
Year: 2016
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Journal of Asian Studies, 75:2, May 2016, pp. 433-466.
Publisher: Associations of Asian Studies and Cambridge University Press

Making Two Vietnams: Vietnamese Youth Identities During the War (1965-1975) (Book)
Title: Making Two Vietnams: Vietnamese Youth Identities During the War (1965-1975)
Author: Olga Dror
Abstract: North and South Vietnamese youths had very different experiences of growing up during the Vietnamese War. The book gives a unique perspective on the conflict through the prism of adult-youth relations. By studying these relations, including educational systems, social organizations, and texts created by and for children during the war, Olga Dror analyzes how the two societies dealt with their wartime experience and strove to shape their futures. She examines the socialization and politicization of Vietnamese children and teenagers, contrasting the North's highly centralized agenda of indoctrination with the South, which had no such policy, and explores the results of these varied approaches. By considering the influence of Western culture on the youth of the South and of socialist culture on the youth of the North, we learn how the youth cultures of both Vietnams diverged from their prewar paths and from each other.
Year: 2019
Primary URL: http://https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/making-two-vietnams/BE086D9C1DA355B33EDBABC1C628701A#:~:text='By%20bringing%20to%20light%20the,failure%20of%20communism%20in%20Vietnam.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 1108455247
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

“Education and Politics in Wartime: School Systems in North and South Vietnam, 1965-1975,” Journal of Cold War Studies, 20:3, Summer 2018, pp. 57-113. (Article)
Title: “Education and Politics in Wartime: School Systems in North and South Vietnam, 1965-1975,” Journal of Cold War Studies, 20:3, Summer 2018, pp. 57-113.
Author: Olga Dror
Abstract: .
Year: 2018
Access Model: Subscription only
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Journal of Cold War History
Publisher: Journal of Cold War Studies

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