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KUCI Subversity: Vietnamese Americans Mobilize in S. Leo Chiang's A Village Called Versailles

Published: May 25, 2010, 1 a.m.

b'Hurricane Katrina, instead of just devastating the Vietnamese community at the edge of New Orleans, galvanized the residents there into mobilizing against a potentially toxic dump site that the mayor imposed on them without consultation. \\n\\nThat mobilization - among young and old - members of the Vietnamese American community, is well captured in a documentary by filmmaker S. Leo Chiang, "A Village Called Versailles" -- to air 25 May 2010 on PBS stations nation-wide, as part of its Independent Lens series.'