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Asian American Studies May 16, 2022

Our Laundry, Our Town

My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond

Alvin Eng

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond (Fordham UP, 2022) is a memoir that decodes and processes the fractured urban oracle …

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Interviews with scholars of Asian America about about their new books.

African American Studies May 13, 2022

Black Dragon

Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination

Zachary F. Price

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
In Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination (Ohio State UP, 2022), Zachary F. Price illuminates martial arts as a site of knowledge exchange between Black, Asian …
Politics & Polemics May 10, 2022

An Inconvenient Minority

The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocracy

Kenny Xu

Hosted by Shu Cao Mo
Even in the midst of a nationwide surge of bias and incidents against them, Asians from coast to coast have quietly assumed mastery of the nation's technical and intellectual machinery …
Political Science May 2, 2022

Nowhere to Run

Race, Gender, and Immigration in American Elections

Christian Dyogi Phillips

Hosted by Susan Liebell
Why has the underrepresentation of women and racial minorities in elected office proved so persistent in American politics? In Nowhere to Run: Race, Gender, and Immigration in American Elections (Oxford UP …
The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones April 26, 2022

The Future of Race

A Discussion with John McWhorter

John McWhorter

Hosted by Owen Bennett-Jones
Race is the subject of passionate and increasingly angry debate. But amidst all the talk of unconscious bias it’s an area into which many fear to tread. In this podcast …
East Asian Studies March 24, 2022

Time and Migration

How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life

Ken Chih-Yan Sun

Hosted by Li-Ping Chen
Based on longitudinal ethnographic work on migration between the United States and Taiwan, Time and Migration: How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life (Cornell UP, 2021) interrogates how long-term immigrants …
Literature March 23, 2022

Disorientation

A Novel

Elaine Hsieh Chou

Hosted by Jennifer Lee
In Disorientation: A Novel by Elaine Hsieh Chou (Penguin Press, 2022), we meet Ingrid Yang: an eighth-year PhD student in East Asian studies struggling to write a dissertation on (fictional) …
Literary Studies March 22, 2022

The Intimacies of Conflict

Cultural Memory and the Korean War

Daniel Y. Kim

Hosted by Adhy Kim
In this episode I talk with Daniel Y. Kim, Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Brown University, about his 2020 book Intimacies of Conflict: Cultural Memory and the Korean War …
Novel Dialogue March 17, 2022

The Work of Inhabiting a Role

Charles Yu speaks to Chris Fan (JP)

Charles Yu and Chris Fan

Hosted by Aarthi Vadde and John Plotz
Charles Yu won the 2020 National Book Award for Interior Chinatown but some of us became fans a decade earlier, with How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe …
Novel Dialogue March 3, 2022

In the Editing Room with Ruth Ozeki and Rebecca Evans (EH)

Ruth Ozeki and Rebecca Evans

Hosted by Aarthi Vadde and John Plotz
Ruth Ozeki, whose most recent novel is The Book of Form and Emptiness, speaks with critic Rebecca Evans and guest host Emily Hyde. This is a conversation about talking books …
Intellectual History February 22, 2022

Arise Africa, Roar China

Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century

Yunxiang Gao

Hosted by Hettie V. Williams
Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 2021) explores the close relationships between three of the most famous …
Asian American Studies February 11, 2022

Minor Transpacific

Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions

David S. Roh

Hosted by Jennifer Lee
In Minor Transpacific: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions (Stanford University Press, 2021), David S. Roh brings Asian Americanist study of Korean American literature in conversation with Asian studies scholars’ …
Music February 9, 2022

This Is America

Race, Gender, and Politics in America's Musical Landscape

Katie Rios

Hosted by Kristen Turner
“This is America”: Race Gender and Politics in America’s Musical Landscape by Katie Rios (Lexington Books, 2021) examines an eclectic mix of different artists and cultural products, from Laurie Anderson …
Novel Dialogue February 3, 2022

On Being Unmoored

Chang-rae Lee Charts Fiction with Anne Anlin Cheng

Chang-rae Lee and Anne Anlin Cheng

Hosted by Aarthi Vadde and John Plotz
Season three of Novel Dialogue launches in partnership with Public Books and introduces some fresh new voices into the mix. John and Aarthi welcome Chris Holmes, Emily Hyde, Tara Menon …
Asian American Studies January 31, 2022

Tonal Intelligence

The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War

Sunny Xiang

Hosted by Jennifer Lee
In Tonal Intelligence: The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War (Columbia University Press, 2020), Sunny Xiang reads the archives of US intelligence agencies alongside Asian American literature to …
Japanese Studies January 28, 2022

Yayoi Kusama

Inventing the Singular

Midori Yamamura

Hosted by Amanda Kennell
Midori Yamamura’s Yayoi Kusama: Inventing the Singular (MIT Press, 2015) is an in-depth examination of the famed artist’s early years in Japan and the United States. Based on extensive research …
Literature January 28, 2022

Slow Hot

Andy Choi

Hosted by Adhy Kim
Today I talked to Andy Choi about his novel Slow Hot (Schism Press, 2021).  "The principal narratives of Slow Hot (Schism Press, 2021) intersect, contrast, and complement one another like the panels in …
Scholarly Communication January 27, 2022

Language Bias

The Last Back Door of Discrimination in America?

Rosina Lippi-Green

Hosted by Avi Staiman
Hear Dr. Rosina Lippi-Green talk about some of her shocking findings on language discrimination and bias on campus. Lippi-Green and Avi discuss her book English with an Accent: Language, Ideology …
Islamic Studies December 24, 2021

Intersectionality in the Muslim South Asian-American Middle Class

Lifestyle Consumption Beyond Halal and Hijab

Farha Bano Ternikar

Hosted by Shehnaz Haqqani
In Intersectionality in the Muslim South Asian-American Middle Class: Lifestyle Consumption beyond Halal and Hijab (Lexington Books, 2021), wherein Ternikar theorizes the everyday consumption of South Asian Muslim American women …
Asian Review of Books December 23, 2021

Concepcion

An Immigrant Family's Fortunes

Albert Samaha

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
One of the first members of Albert Samaha’s family introduced in his memoir Concepcion: An Immigrant Family’s Fortunes (Riverhead Books, 2021) is his uncle Spanky: a baggage handler in San Francisco’s …