Why are Asian-Americans seen as a model minority, and why is it problematic to be associated with a so-called “positive” stereotype? How does the type of racial discrimination and prejudice faced by Asian-Americans compare or contrast with that of other people of color? What are the real-world impacts of racism on Asian-Americans, ranging from mental [...]

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Tami Winfrey Harris and Carmen Van Kerckhove discuss Obama’s connection (or lack thereof?) to the Rod Blagojevich scandal. Unfortunately the rest of this episode’s recording got lost and we didn’t have time to re-do it, so this is a super-short episode. Apologies to our listeners.
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What’s the forgotten story of ethnic cleansing of the first Chinese Americans in California and the Pacific Northwest? How did the Chinese fight back against these racist acts of violence? And what lessons can we learn that apply to today’s debates on immigration? Jean Pfaelzer is author of Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese [...]

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How have our ideas about black masculinity been shaped by hip hop? Will Barack Obama bring forth a new archetype of black masculinity? How do these ideas of masculinity help or harm black women? I’ll be interviewing Natalie Hopkinson, co-author of Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation, about [...]

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