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Reika Sun oral history interview: transcript

Date

2021-06-21

Archival Collection

Description

Oral history interview with Reika Sun conducted by Kristel Peralta on June 21, 2021 for Reflections: The Las Vegas Asian American and Pacific Islander Oral History Project. Reika Sun discusses her childhood in Shanghai, China during the "one-child policy" and her upbringing by nannies while her parents worked. She shares how her family immmigrated to Las Vegas in 2009 to reunite with Reika's aunt and how Reika moved to Kansas to attend an English as a Second Language (ESL) program at Kansas State University. Reika also talks about her restaurant employment history after returning to Las Vegas, her membership in the Culinary Workers Union, and Chinese traditions and superstitions she grew up learning.

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Interview with David Browning Thomson, April 12, 2005

Date

2005-04-12

Description

Narrator affiliation: Physicist, Los Alamos National Laboratory

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Interview with Lawrence Crooks, July 21, 2004

Date

2004-07-21

Description

Narrator affiliation: Design Engineer; NTS Resident Manager, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory

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