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NBN Episodes hosted by Ian:
December 26, 2023
Herbs and Roots
The modern popularity of acupuncture and herbal medicine belies the long history of Chinese medicine in the U.S. In Herbs and Roots: A History of Chin…
December 25, 2023
The Gateway to the Pacific
In The Gateway to the Pacific: Japanese Americans and the Remaking of San Francisco (University of Chicago Press, 2019), Meredith Oda shows how city l…
August 21, 2020
Redefining the Immigrant South
In Redefining the Immigrant South: Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston During the Cold War (University of North Carolina Press), Uzma Quraishi…
May 14, 2020
One Mighty and Irresistible Tide
In One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924–1965 (W. W. Norton & Company, 2020), Jia Lynn Yang recounts…
December 30, 2019
American Exodus
Between 1901 and World War II, up to half of all U.S.-born Chinese Americans relocated to China in search of better lives due to the discrimination th…
June 5, 2019
Empire’s Tracks
What does anti-imperialism look like from the vantage point of North America? In Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transco…
December 13, 2018
Mandarin Brazil
In her new book, Mandarin Brazil: Race, Representation, and Memory (Stanford University Press, 2018), Ana Paulina Lee (Columbia University) analyzes r…
June 19, 2018
Two Faces of Exclusion
In Two Faces of Exclusion: The Untold History of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States (University of North Carolina Press, 2016), Lon Kurashige emph…
June 1, 2018
Discriminating Sex
In Discriminating Sex: White Leisure and the Making of the American 'Oriental' (University of Illinois Press, 2018), Amy Sueyoshi argues that American…
April 19, 2018
The Burden of White Supremacy
Recent historical scholarship stresses the transnational linkages between movements to restrict Asian migration in the Anglophone world. David Atkinso…
April 13, 2018
Children of Reunion
In Children of Reunion: Vietnamese Adoptions and the Politics of Family Migrations (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), Allison Varzally docume…
February 13, 2018
Flavors of Empire
In Flavors of Empire: Food and the Making of Thai America (University of California Press, 2017), Mark Padoongpatt weaves together histories of food, …
November 14, 2017
A Different Shade of Justice
In her recent book, A Different Shade of Justice: Asian American Civil Rights in the South (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), Stephanie Hinne…