Workbook
For Cambodian (American) Families
A Workbook on Inherited Silence, What the Genocide Took, and What You're Building From What Remains
What your family survived is not nothing. This is where you name what you built from it.
Cambodian American families navigating the silence around the Khmer Rouge genocide and what it means to build identity from a rupture that cannot be fully spoken. Survivors, their children, and their grandchildren who carry the weight of what was taken and are asking what they are building from what remains.
The Name It First Experience
Your family survived the Killing Fields. Or they did not, and you are descended from those who rebuilt from the pieces. Either way, the silence that surrounds it is real — the kind of silence that says the weight is too heavy to put into words. This workbook does not ask your family to relive what happened. It asks you to name — together and on paper — what Cambodian American means in your specific household, what you are carrying on purpose, and what you are choosing to build from what remains. Grounded in Racial Identity Development theory (Cross, Helms), Acculturation Theory (Berry), Intersectionality (Crenshaw), diasporic identity scholarship (Brah, Hall), and research on Cambodian American refugee identity and intergenerational trauma, this workbook gives your family a structure for the conversation that has never had words. The work is yours to do together. This is where you write it down. You leave with The Cambodian (American) Families Agreement.
You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.
Sample questions
- What has your Cambodian American family survived — not just the historical fact of it, but what you understand about what it cost the people who came before you, and what was carried into your life as a result?
- What is the inherited silence in your family — the things about what happened that were never spoken directly but that shaped everything?
- What would The Cambodian American Family Record say — honestly and across the silence — about what was survived, what was lost, and what you are building from what remains?
Research basis
Cross (1971, 1991) Nigrescence Model adapted for Asian American identity / Helms (1990) racial identity statuses / Berry (1997) acculturation strategies with focus on refugee adaptation / Crenshaw (1989, 1991) intersectionality / Brah (1996) Cartographies of Diaspora / Hall (1990) Cultural Identity and Diaspora / Kiernan (2008) The Pol Pot Regime on Khmer Rouge genocide / Ong (2003) Buddha Is Hiding on Cambodian refugee identity in America / cultural frameworks of Theravada Buddhism, Khmer Rouge rupture of Buddhist institutions, and khmer (Khmer) identity in diaspora / intergenerational trauma from genocide (Eisenbruch, 1991 / Mollica et al., 1993) / Cambodian American community rebuilding in Lowell and Long Beach (Needham & Quintiliani, 2007) / Cambodian American youth identity (Prickett, 2013) / Boss (1999) Ambiguous Loss applied to genocide survivor families.
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