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Candace Fujikane, "Mapping Abundance for a Plan...
An interview with Candace Fujikane
59 min
202
Pandemic Perspectives from a Recent College Gra...
An interview with Amy Sumerfield
48 min
203
Roundtable on Asian Migrant Sex Work
An interview with Alison Clancey, Kelly Go, Lily Wong, and Yuri Doolan
61 min
204
Christopher T. Stout, "The Case for Identity Po...
An interview with Christopher T. Stout
41 min
205
Bradford Pearson, "The Eagles of Heart Mountain...
An interview with Bradford Pearson
44 min
206
erin Khuê Ninh, "#WeToo Reader" (JAAS, 2021)
Journal of Asian American Studies Podcast
44 min
207
Bradford Pearson, "The Eagles of Heart Mountain...
An interview with Bradford Pearson
57 min
208
How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy: A ...
An interview with Michael Hanchard
55 min
209
Tara Fickle, "The Race Card: From Gaming Techno...
An interview with Tara Fickle and Christopher Patterson
50 min
210
Clara Han, "Seeing Like a Child: Inheriting the...
An interview with Clara Han
60 min
211
Laura Hyun Yi Kang, "Traffic in Asian Women" (D...
An interview with Laura Hyun Yi Kang
72 min
212
Sophia Chang, "The Baddest Bitch in the Room" (...
An interview with Sophia Chang
38 min
213
Caroline H. Yang, "The Peculiar Afterlife of Sl...
Yang explores how antiblack racism lived on through the figure of the Chinese worker in US literature after emancipation...
48 min
214
Elizabeth Son, "Embodied Reckonings: 'Comfort W...
In a bustling city-center of Seoul, women in yellow vests protesting over the “final” resettlement between the Japanese and Korean governments every Wednesday is an iconic sight, testifying to the strength and resilience of the “comfort women” movement...
42 min
215
Lucas A. Dietrich, "Writing Across the Color Li...
Dietrich investigates how ethnic literatures took shape in the U.S. context and how writers of color intervened in the “mainstream” writing...
55 min
216
Jana K. Lipman, "In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees,...
Lipman offers an in-depth study of the fate of the nearly 800,000 Vietnamese refugees who left their country by boat, and sought refugee in Southeast Asia and the Pacific..,
56 min
217
Joel S. Franks, "Asian American Basketball: A C...
What roles has the game played in the lives of individuals and communities of Asian Americans in the United States?
37 min
218
Ronak K. Kapadia, "Insurgent Aesthetics: Securi...
Kapadia theorizes the world-making power of contemporary art responses to US militarism in the Greater Middle East....
46 min
219
Kareem Khubchandani, "Ishtyle: Accenting Gay In...
Khubchandani follows queer South Asian men across borders into gay neighborhoods, nightclubs, bars, and house parties in Bangalore and Chicago...
47 min
220
Vanita Reddy, "Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Fem...
Central to Reddy's project is upending the male-centric understanding of the relationship between the diaspora and the “nation”.
40 min
221
Kevin Escudero, "Organizing While Undocumented:...
Undocumented youth activists are at the forefront of the present-day immigrant rights movement....
67 min
222
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
223
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
224
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
225
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
56 min