Khubchandani follows queer South Asian men across borders into gay neighborhoods, nightclubs, bars, and house parties in Bangalore and Chicago...
47 min
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Uzma Quraishi, "Redefining the Immigrant South"...
Quaraishi follows the Cold War-era journeys of South Asian international students from U.S. Information Service reading rooms in India and Pakistan, to the halls of the University of Houston, to the suburban subdivisions of Alief and Sugar Land....
Central to Reddy's project is upending the male-centric understanding of the relationship between the diaspora and the “nation”.
40 min
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Kevin Escudero, "Organizing While Undocumented:...
Undocumented youth activists are at the forefront of the present-day immigrant rights movement....
67 min
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Crystal Mun-hye Baik, "Reencounters: On the Kor...
This interview coincides with the 70th anniversary of the Korean War, a war that, as Baik reminds us, has not officially ended...
76 min
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
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Jia Lynn Yang, "One Mighty and Irresistible Tid...
Yang recounts the personalities and debates that brought about the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which forms the foundation for modern U.S. immigration policy...
64 min
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
56 min
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Pawan Dhingra, "Hyper Education: Why Good Schoo...
Dhingra offers up-close evaluation of the competitive nature of the United States education system and the extra-curricular and co-curricular activities associated with them...
43 min
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Pankaj Jain, "Dharma in America: A Short Histor...
Jain offers a concise history of Hindus and Jains in the Americas over the last two centuries..
71 min
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Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
51 min
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Tobie Stein, "Racial and Ethnic Diversity in th...
Stein analyses the longstanding failure of America’s theatre industry to address issues of diversity...
30 min
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
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Franny Choi, "Soft Science" (Alice James Books,...
Choi explores queer, Asian American femininity through the lens of robots, cyborgs, and artificial intelligence...
52 min
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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
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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?