Celebrating 10 years and 500 episodes
Linda Villarosa
In this episode we connect with Linda Villarosa, journalist and author of the book Under the Skin, exploring how racism effects the health and the quality of care of Black Americans in the US. Whether it is outdated medical myths about the...
Nori Uyematsu
In this episode we connect with Nori Uyematsu to discuss his childhood on a farm in California in the 1930s and how everything changed for him and his family after Executive Order 9066. His family lost everything they had worked...
Janice Munemitsu
In this episode we connect with Janice Munemitsu, author of the book The Kindness of Color. Janice shares the story of her families first arrival in California and how her father became an 8 year old land owner, and how...
Gordon H. Chang
In this episode we connect with Gordon H. Chang Professor of History at Stanford University. We discuss his discover of a comic strip from 1943 that ran for eight weeks, depicting Superman in a Japanese Incarceration Camp and discovering subversive...
Sylvia Chong
In this episode we connect with Sylvia Chong, Professor of American Studies and Asian Pacific American Studies at the University of Virginia. We discuss the concept of Yellow Peril, or the fear and mistrust of Asian Americans from when they...
Greg Robinson
In this episode we connect with Greg Robinson, author of the book Miné Okubo: Following Her Own Road. As a professor of history at University of Quebec in Montreal, Greg shares about Canada's decision to incarcerate their Japanese citizens following...
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