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The 1776 Project, TikTok nationalism, and four listener questions
Hello from the TTSG drop-out commune!
This week, a longer-than-we-intended show about the TikTok saga, Chinese/US hegemony, and nationalist traps. We…
5 years, 5 months ago
From 9/11 to 45: How Will We Remember Trump, USA?
Whither memory: Guantanamo W. Bush paints over his legacy.
Hello from the future!
Inspired (triggered?) by last week’s commemorations of 9/11, we get …
5 years, 5 months ago
Race Fakes, Disparity Discourse, and Mulan in Xinjiang
Greetings from Jay’s 95-degree basement!
This week, we start, inevitably, with our takes on Jessica Krug, the historian caught assuming a series of br…
5 years, 5 months ago
Basketball Revolution? Plus Death and Fear in Kenosha and Portland
Greetings from our virtual union hall!
This week, we talk protest and death in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and Portland, Oregon, and consider what to make of…
5 years, 5 months ago
'Racial disparity' and 'race vs. class' debates: historian Merlin Chowkwanyun
Hi everyone:
Today we’re presenting a conversation between myself (Andy) and my college friend Merlin Chowkwanyun, assistant professor of sociomedical…
5 years, 5 months ago
AOC at the DNC, WeChat, and Right-Wing Asians
Hello from behind the Great Firewall!
As summer winds down and election season begins to heat up, we reflect on the political prospects of Asian Ameri…
5 years, 6 months ago
Ethnic Studies, Revolutionary Politics, and the Third World Liberation Front with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Hello!
We’re very excited to have Pulitzer Prize winner and Macarthur Genius Grant recipient Viet Thanh Nguyen on the show. There was a lot to discus…
5 years, 6 months ago
Oh, Kamala!: Harris’s Identity in 3 Acts, Affirmative Action, and the Postal Service
In a late-Sunday-night mega-recording session, we discuss the big news of the past week: Kamala Harris, the first major vice presidential candidate w…
5 years, 6 months ago
"Indian Matchmaking," BAME, and Portland Whiteness with Historian Radhika Natarajan
In this episode, Tammy gabs with her old friend Radhika Natarajan, a professor of history at Reed College and low-key brilliant TV critic.
Radhika tal…
5 years, 6 months ago
An Intricate Castle of Good Intentions: ‘Nice White Parents,’ Historians vs. Journalists, and AsAm Christianity
Hello from the ledge of cancellation!
We have some heady stuff for you this week—on school segregation, the perennial struggle between historians and…
5 years, 6 months ago