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'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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 10 months ago
Trump 'bans' TikTok, the NBA Bubble protests, and teaching during COVID-19
Hello from three time zones!
This week, we mull the Covid-era classroom (fears of contagion and falling behind), the meaning of Trump’s attack on Tik…
5 years, 10 months ago
Food and Gender on Asian American TikTok, Portland’s White Protests, and Good Identity Politics
你好 from cyberspace!
This week, Jay scuba dived the depths of Asian American TikTok to engage Andy and Tammy in a critique of gendered home-cooking vi…
5 years, 10 months ago
Lilith Fair, MOMTIFA, Ross Douthat on white fragility, and Tammy's "Transnationally Asian" article
Hello from 1997!
This week, we start by crate-digging our souls, with a discussion of Lilith Fair-era feminist (and feminine?) music. We then ponder …
5 years, 10 months ago
Darren Byler on the Uyghur people of Xinjiang, China
Credit: Carolyn Drake
Hello from the greater Sea-Tac area!
Andy and Tammy here with a bonus episode, interviewing Darren Byler, a postdoctoral research…
5 years, 10 months ago