Iyko Day, "Alien Capital: Asian Racialization a...
Day explores how the historical alignment of Asian bodies and labor with capital's abstract and negative dimensions became one of settler colonialism's foundational and defining features....
55 min
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Ivan V. Small, "Currencies of Imagination: Chan...
Overseas Vietnamese are estimated to remit 15 billion dollars annually to family that remains in Vietnam...
48 min
228
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
36 min
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Jane H. Hong, "Gates to Asia: A Transpacific Hi...
Over the course of less than a century, the U.S. transformed from a nation that excluded Asians from immigration and citizenship to one that receives more immigrants from Asia than from anywhere else in the world...
45 min
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Great Books: Ava Chin on Kingston's "The Woman ...
What stories should we remember, and which ones are we forced to forget?
43 min
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
54 min
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
Nuevo South explores the history of an ever diversifying U.S. South...
51 min
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
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Steven White, "World War II and American Racial...
Intriguingly, White shows that the white public's racial policy opinions largely DID NOT liberalize during the war against Nazi Germany
20 min
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Jason Bayani, "Locus" (Omnidawn Publishing, 2019)
"Poetry gave me back a way to find my culture, my history,” says Jason Bayani...
40 min
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T. L. Bunyasi and C. W. Smith, "Stay Woke: A Pe...
Bunyasi and Smith compile social science research and data to explain the current situation for white citizens, African-American citizens, Latinx citizens, and citizens of other races in the United States...
Bahng traces the cultural production of futurity by juxtaposing the practices of speculative finance against those of speculative fiction...
61 min
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Jinah Kim, "Postcolonial Grief: The Afterlives ...
Kim explores questions of loss, memory, and redress in post WWII Asian diasporic decolonial politics...
91 min
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Genevieve Carpio, "Collisions at the Crossroads...
Carpio considers tensions around mobility and settlement in the 19th- and 20th-century American West, especially California’s Inland Empire....
68 min
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Anne A. Cheng, "Ornamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Ornamentalism offers arguably the first sustained theory of the yellow woman...
65 min
242
Camisha Russell, "The Assisted Reproduction of ...
While there is a robust scientific consensus that there is no meaningful genetic basis for race, Russell’s analysis of the role of race in ARTs reveals that when it comes to producing kinship, race is still doing a great deal of work.
75 min
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Long T. Bui, "Returns of War: South Vietnam and...
Long T. Bui examines the complicated relationship between the Vietnamese diasporic community and its home country, the former South Vietnam...
48 min
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Manu Karuka, "Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Natio...
What does anti-imperialism look like from the vantage point of North America?
64 min
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Anne A. Cheng, "Ornamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Anne A. Cheng illustrates the longstanding relationship between the ‘oriental’ and the ‘ornamental’...
33 min
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Ali Michael, "Raising Race Questions: Whiteness...
In Raising Race Questions, Ali Michael worked with a group of white teachers to inquire about race and schooling...
69 min
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Ann Gleig, "American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Mo...
Gleig focuses on meditation-based convert Buddhist lineages in North America, and in particular she is interested in the generational changes underway in these groups...
86 min
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Nancy Yunhwa Rao, "Chinatown Opera Theater in N...
The story of popular entertainment in American immigrant communities is only just beginning to be told...
55 min
249
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Op...
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...
29 min
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Geraldine Heng, "The Invention of Race in the E...
In creating a detailed impression of the medieval race-making that would be reconfigured into the biological racism of the modern era, Heng reaches beyond medievalists and race-studies scholars to anyone interested in the long history of race.