Mimi Thi Nguyen

Mimi Thi Nguyen
Born	Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Occupation	Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies
Ethnicity	Vietnamese American
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley
Notable works	Evolution of a Race Riot zine

Mimi Thi Nguyen (née Thanh-Huong Thi Nguyen; born in 1974) is a Vietnamese-born American scholar,^[1] punk^[2] and zine author.^[3]

Biography

Born in 1974 in Ho Chi Minh City to Hiep and Lien Nguyen, Nguyen earned a bachelor's degree in Women's Studies and a doctorate in Ethnic Studies from University of California, Berkeley. Her master's degree was in American Studies from New York University.^[4]

Nguyen earned tenure in 2012 at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.^[5] She is a frequent conference keynote speaker or invited panelist,^[6] and received the Outstanding Book Award in Cultural Studies from the Association of Asian American Studies, 2014^[7] for her first single-author monograph, The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt and Other Refugee Passages.

Nguyen is possibly best known for her compilation zine, Evolution of a Race Riot, first published in 1997 with a second issue in 2002,^[8] in which she and contributors of color challenged racism in the punk scene.^[9] She also publishes the zine, Slander, and is a former Punk Planet columnist and Maximumrocknroll contributor. In June 2013, Sarah McCarry's Guillotine ("a series of erratically published chapbooks focused on revolutionary non-fiction") released PUNK, a conversation between Nguyen and Golnar Nikpour.

Selected works

Books

• Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America, edited with Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu^[10]
• The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages^[11]

Zines

• Aim Your Dick^[12]
• Evolution of a Race Riot,^[13] editor
• Guillotine Series #4: Punk,^[14] written with Golnar Nikpour
• Race Riot,^[15] editor
• Race Riot Project Directory,^[16] editor
• Slander^[17]
• Slant^[18]

References