Many people have described the shrimpers and fisherpeople affected by the BP oil spill as unheard by the mass media. What many people don’t understand, is many of these people are literally unheard in the midsts of this crisis –a large proportion of the shrimper and fisherpeople demographic in the Gulf Coast are Vietnamese and do not speak English. Unheard Voices from the Gulf Coast Oil Spill gives a necessary voice to this issue.