New Books Network Podcast

Food December 8, 2023

Chinese Menu

The History, Myths, and Legends Behind Your Favorite Foods

Grace Lin

Hosted by Laura Goldberg

Newbery and Caldecott honoree and New York Times bestselling author Grace Lin joins New Books Network to talk about her new, groundbreaking, lushly illustrated, book that explores the whimsical myths …

Asian American Studies December 3, 2023

Adoption Fantasies

The Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood

Kimberly D. McKee

Hosted by Julia Lee

In Adoption Fantasies: The Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood (Ohio State UP, 2023), Kimberly D. McKee explores the ways adopted Asian women and girls are situated at …

Asian American Studies November 25, 2023

Nisei Radicals

The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake

Diane Carol Fujino

Hosted by Donna Anderson

This episode, which is co-hosted with Michael Nishimura, features a conversation with Dr. Diane C. Fujino, the author of Nisei Radicals: The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada …

Asian American Studies November 21, 2023

Kawika Guillermo on "Nimrods" and Y-Dang Troeung's "Landbridge"

A Discussion with Christopher Patterson

Kawika Guillermo and Y-Dang Troeung

Hosted by Julia Lee

Today I talked to Christopher Patterson about two books: the late Y-Dang Troeung's Landbridge [life in fragments] (Knopf Canada, 2023) and Christopher's own Nimrods: A Fake-Punk Self-Hurt Anti-Memoir (Duke UP, 2023), which was …

Asian American Studies November 16, 2023

Chinese Americans in the Heartland

Migration, Work, and Community

Huping Ling

Hosted by Donna Anderson

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This episode features a conversation with Dr. Huping Ling on her two latest books, Chinese Americans in the Heartland: Migration, Work, and Community and Asian American History, both published by …

World Christianity November 15, 2023

Cambodian Evangelicalism

Cosmological Hope and Diasporic Resilience

Briana L. Wong

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi

The Cambodian Civil War and genocide of the late 1960s and ’70s left the country and its diaspora with long-lasting trauma that continues to reverberate through the community. In Cambodian …

Buddhist Studies November 11, 2023

A Chinese-American Buddhist Healer

A Discussion with Kin Cheung

Kin Cheung

Hosted by Pierce Salguero

Dr. Pierce Salguero sits down with Kin Cheung, a scholar of contemporary Buddhism at Moravian University. We talk about his research on a Chinese-American community healer who happens to be …

Political Science October 30, 2023

Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World

Claire Jean Kim

Hosted by Susan Liebell

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Where do Asian Americans fit into the U.S. racial order? How do we understand anti-Asian racism in relation to structural anti-Blackness? Are Asian Americans subordinated comparably to Black people or …

Asian American Studies October 8, 2023

New Women of Empire

Gendered Politics and Racial Uplift in Interwar Japanese America

Chrissy Yee Lau

Hosted by Donna Anderson

This episode, which is co-hosted with Mika Thornburg, features a conversation with Dr. Chrissy Yee Lau, the author of the newly published New Women of Empire: Gendered Politics and Racial …

Asian American Studies October 4, 2023

Warring Genealogies

Race, Kinship, and the Korean War

Joo Ok Kim

Hosted by Ann Choi

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“[W]hat is our relationship to the Korean War and to the affinities” of different institutions that produce knowledge about the Korean War? (130) In her book, Warring Genealogies: Race, Kinship …

General History October 3, 2023

A Man of Two Faces

A Memoir, a History, a Memorial

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Hosted by Michael Vann

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With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023), Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his …

Canadian Studies September 28, 2023

Gifts from Amin

Ugandan Asian Refugees in Canada

Shezan Muhammedi

Hosted by Ari Barbalat

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In August 1972, military leader and despot Idi Amin expelled Asian Ugandans from the country, professing to return control of the economy to "Ugandan citizens." Within ninety days, 50,000 Ugandans …

Asian American Studies September 19, 2023

Model Minority Masochism

Performing the Cultural Politics of Asian American Masculinity

Takeo Rivera

Hosted by Julia Lee

There are few grand narratives that loom over Asian Americans more than the “model minority.” While many Asian Americanist scholars and activists aim to disprove the model minority as “myth,” …

Music September 14, 2023

Dreams in Double Time

On Race, Freedom, and Bebop

Jonathan Leal

Hosted by Nathan Smith

In Dreams in Double Time: On Race, Freedom, and Bebop (Duke UP, 2023), Jonathan Leal examines how the musical revolution of bebop opened up new futures for racialized and minoritized …

American West September 11, 2023

Oriental, Black, and White

The Formation of Racial Habits in American Theater

Josephine Lee

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann

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The history of race in American theater is more complicated than you might think, writes Dr. Josephine Lee in Oriental, Black, and White: The Formation of Racial Habits in American Theater (UNC …

Latino Studies September 8, 2023

The Strikers of Coachella

A Rank-And-File History of the UFW Movement

Christian O. Paiz

Hosted by David-James Gonzales

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The past decades have borne witness to the United Farm Workers' (UFW) tenacious hold on the country's imagination. Since 2008, the UFW has lent its rallying cry to a presidential …

Mobilities and Methods September 3, 2023

Filipino Time

Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor

Allan Punzalan Isaac

Hosted by Alize Arıcan

From spectacular deaths in a drag musical to competing futures in a call center, Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor (Fordham UP, 2021) examines how contracted service labor performed …

Political Science August 31, 2023

The Walls Within

The Politics of Immigration in Modern America

Sarah R. Coleman

Hosted by Lilly Goren

Sarah Coleman, an historian at Texas State University, is the author of an important and topical book about immigration policy in the United States. The Walls Within: The Politics of …

Asian Review of Books August 31, 2023

The Best Possible Experience

Stories

Nishanth Injam

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon

The characters in Nishanth Injam’s The Best Possible Experience (Pantheon, 2023), his debut short story collection, are like many in India or in Indian communities in the United States: Working …

Education August 25, 2023

Suddenly Diverse

How School Districts Manage Race and Inequality

Erica O. Turner

Hosted by Joao Souto-Maior

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For the past five years, American public schools have enrolled more students identified as Black, Latinx, American Indian, and Asian than white. At the same time, more than half of …