Asian American History 101

Welcome to Season 4, Episode 21! It’s time for the 2024 STAATUS Index published by The Asian American Foundation (TAAF) with partnership from Leading Asian Americans to Unite for Change (LAAUNCH), AAPI Data, and the Asian American Research Initiative.

This annual survey is a social tracking and national assessment of attitudes and stereotypes towards Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. In this episode, we review the report and provide an overview of it. We also dig into each of the sections and reflect on responses. As always, we highly recommend that you download the STAATUS Index and read it yourself. It’s very well written with easily accessible information, so don’t be afraid that it’s data-rich.

In our recurring segment we ask “What’s Going On?” as we reflect on the sheer number of Asian Pacific-led TV shows that have been canceled in the last year or so. It’s hard to wrap our heads around the fact that the last year has seen cancellations of The Afterparty, Kung Fu, Doogie Kamealoha M.D., NCIS: Hawaiʻi, Young Rock, Quantum Leap, American Born Chinese, The Brothers Sun, Warrior, and Our Flag Means Death. We look at ratings, viewership, and ultimately ask, “What’s Going On?”

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Segments

• 00:25 Current Events
• 05:24 Talking About the 2024 STAATUS Index
• 19:51 What’s Going On? API-Led TV Cancellations

Welcome to Season 4, Episode 20! There are plenty of things we love… and for sure one of them is the world of film and entertainment… especially when it’s Asian American cinema. But what happens when what you see represented in Hollywood becomes blurred with the actual experience in an ethnic enclave… or even drives it? Our conversation today dives a bit into that. We’re excited to share this conversation with Professor William Gow.

Dr. Gow is a California-based community historian, educator, and documentary filmmaker who is currently an Assistant Professor at California State University, Sacramento. His forthcoming book, Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community is scheduled for release by Stanford University Press on May 14, 2024… and if you order direct from the publisher and use discount code GOW20, you get 20% off! The book examines Los Angeles Chinatown and its relationship to Hollywood cinema in the 1930s and 1940s. We really enjoyed the book and the depth of the research Dr. Gow presents. In fact, this has been one of the most insightful books we’ve read in the last few years, pushing our thinking of how Chinese Americans survived and represented themselves to often judgmental onlookers.

Professor Gow also has worked on several other projects. Some of the ones that we appreciated are More to the Chinese Side (click to watch an excerpt), The Five Chinatowns: A Community History (along with Dr. Kelly Fong one of our future guests and ), and the great article A Night in Old Chinatown (we talk about this one in the podcast).

We highly recommend purchasing Performing Chinatown! Don’t forget… if you purchase from Stanford University Press and use the discount code GOW20 (all caps), you get 20% off.

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Welcome to Season 4, Episode 19! Back in S03E03, we talked about one of the first popular Asian American singing groups, the Kim Loo Sisters, but there was also another group a few years later that made a longer lasting impact… the Kim Sisters. Originally from South Korea, the trio of ladies that included Sook-ja, Ai-ja, and Min-ja, were a dynamic vocal group that could also play a multitude of instruments.

They recorded several songs in the U.S. and made a splash in Las Vegas and on television through several variety shows. Their early life wasn’t smooth, but they overcame those struggles to succeed. We talk about their early life, journey to America, TV appearances, and more! In our recurring segment, we bring back Obscure Asian Comic Book Characters and talk about the DC hero Kai-Ro.

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Segments

• 00:25 Intro Current Events
• 04:54 The History of the Kim Sisters
• 24:02 Obscure Asian Comic Book Characters Featuring Kai-Ro

Welcome to Season 4, Episode 18! Free Comic Book Day is coming soon… not to mention Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month, so as a lead-up to this confluence, we had a conversation with the Ringo Award-winning illustrator and comic artist, Christie Shinn of HoraTora Studios. If you’re in Southern California on May 4th and 5th, you can meet Christie, other API creators, and some non-API comic book creators at The Comic Bug in Manhattan Beach (May4th) and Culver City (May 5th).

Christie won the 2018 Ringo Award for Best Anthology for her work on Mine! a comics collection to benefit Planned Parenthood. She is the President of CAPS (Comic Arts Professional Society, founded by esteemed cartoonists Sergio Aragonès and Don Rico, and writer Mark Evanier). She wants to promote, nurture, and network artists and writers in the sequential and non-sequential art aspects of the comic arts. And she does that through a variety of means, including the Asian Invasion, a group she founded and organizes that brings AAPI comic creators together to celebrate their work with fans. They have a SoCal and NorCal edition of their mini con that they organize. Check the link for more details on their late summer/early fall events.

We met Christie at WonderCon and we really admired her willingness to delve into more edgy, darker themes in her work Demon Bitch! In this episode, we talk about her career, what motivates her, Asian Invasion, CAPS, and more! Her work is available on GlobalComix.com and she hosts a weekly Wednesday ‘Lunch Hour’ Drawstream at noon PST on her socials (like her Instagram and YouTube channel) and on the Indie Comics Network. You can also see more of her work through her Linktree at HoraToraStudios.

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Welcome to Season 4, Episode 17! This is the next installment in our series on ethnic enclaves that have disappeared. Today we’re here to talk about The History of the Hawaiian Settlement of Iosepa, Utah. It was predominantly Hawaiian, but there were others from the Pacific Islands as well. Established in 1889 in Skull Valley, Utah, it was a place where Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders were able to gather in a safer, more supportive place that still kept them relatively close to Salt Lake City, Utah and the center of the Church of Latter Day Saints.

It’s hard to imagine going from the weather in Hawaii to the much harsher conditions of Skull Valley (especially in the summers and winters), but they did it… and they even thrived there for a time, growing the community from 46 to quite a few more. In this episode we share the challenges and triumphs of a community, and what eventually happened to them. To learn more about the area, you can check out the Iosepa Historical Association which is made of supporters and descendants of the original community.

In our recurring segment, we share what we’re reading. For Ted it was the award-winning book Troublemaker by John Cho. For Gen it was the award-winning book Jade City, part of the Green Bone Saga by Fonda Lee. Hear our thoughts on these two novels!

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Segments

• 00:25 Reflecting on WonderCon and Ted in California
• 04:08 The History of the Hawaiian Settlement of Iosepa Utah
• 20:20 Reading Troublemaker and Jade City

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Welcome to Season 4, Episode 16! This episode is about The History of the Buddhist Churches of America. Buddhism is one of the religions often associated with Asian countries and the people who come from Asian Pacific nations. And it’s for good reason, because it’s a religion that originates from those countries. When it comes to understanding Buddhism in America, it would be difficult to talk about the history without mentioning the Buddhist Churches of America, an organization that has its roots in Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism that originated in the 13th century with the monk Shinran Shonin.

In this episode, we share a short background on Shin Buddhism, a general overview of Buddhism in America, and the long history of the Buddhist Churches of America and its impact in the Japanese American Community and beyond. Since World War II and the Japanese internment, the BCA has continued to adapt to the changing needs of different generations. To learn more, you can visit the BCA Website or visit one of their locations (they’re easy to find through the Temple Locator).

In our recurring segment, we share what we’ve been watching… The Brothers Sun on Netflix. This amazing show is an action-comedy-drama that is co-created by Byron Wu and Brad Falchuk. It stars Justin Chien, Sam Song Li, Michelle Yeoh, and a cast of so many other amazing Asian Pacific actors and actresses. Although it hasn’t been renewed for a 2nd season, it’s got great reviews and ratings, and it’s worth a watch.

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Segments

• 00:25 Catching Up and Remembering Akebono
• 05:29 The History of The Buddhist Churches of America
• 25:11 What Are We Watching? The Brothers Sun

Welcome to Season 4, Episode 15! Today’s guest is Kelisha Menon, the Public Relations and Partnerships Lead at Send Chinatown Love, the incredible organization that formed during the height of the pandemic when New York’s Chinatown businesses and the people who lived there were suffering the most. Already busy with a career in public relations, Kelisha is just one of many volunteers who have grown Send Chinatown Love to help more and more businesses in New York Chinatown.

This passionate group of engineers, designers, creators, and storytellers came together with a common goal to save their Chinatown. And they worked with many of the businesses to launch their very first cookbook Made Here: Recipes and Reflections from NYC’s Asian Communities. To call it a cookbook is a little bit of a misnomer. It’s book filled with recipes, history, and cultural connections so readers can better understand the impact of these small business across New York’s Chinatown.

You can help Send Chinatown Love and the Asian-owned New York City businesses too! Buy Made Here for yourself or friends and family, donate to Send Chinatown Love, or get involved as a volunteer (if you’re in New York City)… and listen to this conversation with Kelisha too (of course).

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Welcome to Season 4, Episode 14! Today’s special guest is the talented and engaging actor Chen Tang. Born in Japan and raised in Guangxi, China as well as Memphis, Tennessee, Chen is best known for playing Hong in Warrior and Yao in the live action Mulan. Much like the character of Hong, Chen is an upbeat individual who is generous and multi-talented, and that comes through clearly in our conversation.

Chen has been in several short films including Tumbler, The Wind Outside, The Company Man, When Mom Visits, and Finding Tomorrow. He has also had roles in Fresh Off the Boat, Grey’s Anatomy, and Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD. Outside of acting, he supports environmental conservation as well as the Cambodian Children’s Fund.

In our conversation, we had a chance to talk about his acting journey, what it’s like eating during scenes, his memories of the Deep South, what he learned through playing Hong, his hopes for storylines in Warrior Season 4, and so much more. We even had an expanded Rapid Fire segment with answers on what he misses from Memphis and Guangxi, who wins in a fight between Hong and Yao, his favorite action scene he’s filmed, and more. Check out Chen Tang on Instagram @chenlovesyall, keep watching Warrior, and ask Netflix to greenlight Season 4 of the show!

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Welcome to Season 4, Episode 13! Today’s guest is Dr. Sarah-SoonLing Blackburn, an author, educator, speaker, and professional learning facilitator. Born in Bangkok, Thailand into a mixed-race Malaysian Chinese and white American family, she’s a classic “third culture kid.” She’s had a very diverse upbringing, living in various East and Southeast Asian countries as well as the Washington DC area. Sarah moved to the Deep South in 2009, and she has now lived there longer than anywhere else.

We’re so excited about the release of her book Exclusion and the Chinese American Story that is launching on March 26th 2024 (so available now!). It’s intended for middle grade students aged 10 and up, but it’s great for everyone. Exclusion and the Chinese American Story is part of the Race to the Truth series of books and helps tell the Chinese American experience in an engaging, relatable way for kids and adults to connect with. We love how she selected the narrative of what topics to include in the book… not to mention her use of deep questioning. Her intentionality and thoughtfulness makes the book so powerful.

We talk about her thinking behind the questions, how she chose topics for the book, her hopes for the ways the book could be used, and a lot more. We also discuss her career, including reflections on her facilitation of workshops, common mistakes with Diversity and Inclusion, and even the session she does focused on Survivor (the TV Show). If you’re looking for a great book for kids (or the kid in you), pick up a copy of Exclusion and the Chinese American Story. You can also support and learn by visiting Dr. Sarah-SoonLing Blackburn’s site, following her on Instagram and LinkedIn, engaging her to help your workplace culture through diversity and inclusion, and listening to the conversation.

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Welcome to Season 4, Episode 12! It’s Another Conversation with Award-Winning Author and Illustrator Grace Lin. It’s not hyperbole to say that Grace Lin is one of our favorite authors of all time… maybe that’s why we love any opportunity to talk with her, and it’s a great time for her return. We’re still enjoying Chinese Menu: The History, Myths, and Legends Behind Your Favorite Foods, and her first picture book in four years, Once Upon a Book! (co-written with Kate Messner), was just released on February 7th of this year.

In our conversation, Grace shares a little about both books and also talks about how she moves forward with ideas, the audiobook for Chinese Menu (narrated by Lisa Ling!), future work to look forward to, advice for parents who want to encourage creativity in their kids, and a lot more. Chinese Menu was on our holiday gift guide, and Once Upon a Book! would be a great gift too. You can learn more about Grace and support her work by visiting her site, buying her books, following her on Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube, and listening to this episode!

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Welcome to Season 4, Episode 11. Today’s guest is Dr. Michael Soon Lee, a fifth-generation Chinese American. He overcame prejudice, systemic discrimination, and depression to become a TV and film producer, an actor, a top-producing real estate broker, and the Dean of a university business school. HeI was the first Asian to earn the "Certified Speaking Professional" (CSP) designation in the history of the National Speakers Association and has spoken over 1,000 times around the world to major companies that include Coca-Cola, Chevron, Boeing, General Motors, just to name a few.

Michael is the author of several marketing books with a multicultural focus including Cross-Cultural Selling for Dummies, Black Belt Negotiating, and Opening Doors: Selling to Multicultural Real Estate Clients. Additionally, he takes this knowledge of cultural awareness and speaks at special events, cruises, and more. His latest book is Beyond the Bamboo Curtain: Understanding America’s Invisible Minority. Part memoir, Asian American History book, and self-improvement guide, Michael puts the history of Asian Americans within the context of his life experiences.

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Welcome to Season 4, Episode 10! Today we’re talking about Bangladeshi Americans, a separate group of the South Asian diaspora (Desi community) that’s a growing presence in the U.S. We go back to Bangladesh and talk about the importance of the area to the rest of India and the British Empire. Knowing the history of Bangladesh is essential to understand some of the struggles the Bangladeshi community has had in America.

We also discuss the trauma of the Partition of India in 1947 as well as the Bangladesh War of Independence in 1971… but both events contributed to the formation of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. It’s a unique area in South Asia, and the resilience of the people has added to some of the most positive qualities found in Bangladeshi Americans. This episode just scratches the surface of the community. We highly recommend Bengali Harlem, created by filmmaker and scholar Vivek Bald, which now includes a book, a documentary, and a site with Family Stories.

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Segments

• 00:25 Quick Intro
• 01:38 The History of Bangladeshi Americans
• 33:22 Shameless Plug… We’re Consultants for Hire

Welcome to Season 4, Episode 9. We had a lot of fun talking to Dr. Xenia Deviatkina-Loh about her life, her career, and her work with the Asian Classical Music Initiative. Dr. Deviatkina-Loh performs on violin and viola, and she is also a pedagogue, sharing her knowledge in various settings across the world. She’s the president of the 2024 ACMI @ MSMU conference at Mount Saint Mary’s University on April 13-14, 2024. It’s open to the public and will feature performers, composers, and scholars.

Originally from Australia, Dr. Deviatkina-Loh received her Bachelor of Music in Performance at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music before furthering her studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London for her Master of Arts degree and then the University of California, Los Angeles for her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 2020. She has performed as a soloist and recitalist internationally in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, The US, and China. Her solo album Soliloquy as well as her collaborations can be found on pretty much any music platform out there.

As a pedagogue, she’s been a speaker and presented at conferences including the Alliance of Women in Media Arts and Technology and the Asian Classical Music Initiative, and also worked as a Teaching Assistant and Fellow at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, the Beckman YOLA Center, and for the International Grand Music Festival in Indonesia.

You can support ACMI by participating in the conference as an attendee or speaker/performer. To apply to be a part of the conference, you can go to this Google Form that they’ve set-up. To learn more, we encourage you to visit Xenia’s website or social media on YouTube or Instagram, ACMI@MSMU’s website, ACMI’s website or social media on Facebook or Instagram.

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Welcome to Season 4, Episode 8! Today’s conversation is with Amy Chu, a co-founder and former editor of A. Magazine, screenwriter, co-founder of Alpha Girl Comics, and well-known comic book author. Her latest title is Fighting to Belong! Volume 1 (out now, so go get it), which is a graphic novel focused on the history and contributions of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islanders in America. Published by Third State Books, Fighting to Belong! is co-written with Amy’s son, Alexander Chang, and illustrated by Louie Chin. It’s a collaborative project with The Asian American Foundation, The Asian American Education Project, and others. The importance of Fighting to Belong! cannot be overstated. Through an engaging story, readers will be entertained, engaged, educated, and empowered.

Amy has written a diverse collection of titles that include Poison Ivy, Kiss, Wonder Woman, Red Sonja, Dejah Thoris, and Ant-Man. Two of our favorite works by Amy are the Trot and Cap’n Bill series for teens and Carmilla: The First Vampire graphic novel. Amy is able to weave in diversity and depth to her stories in a way that makes typically underrepresented people (like API) feel seen and heard. In our conversation, we talk about all of these things as well as her journey to comics, the importance of diverse storytelling, the status of Fighting to Belong! Volume 2, what draws her to writing complex characters, and so much more.

Whether you like comics, good storytelling, history, or diversity, we highly recommend getting Fighting to Belong! or any of Amy’s other work, but especially the Trot and Cap’n Bill series, Carmilla: The First Vampire, and Poison Ivy. You can learn more about Amy through her website and her work with Alpha Girl Comics. She also has signed copies of her work available. You can follow her on Twitter or Instagram as well.

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Welcome to Season 4, Episode 7! It’s no secret that we love sumo. We even talk about AAPI in Professional Sumo back in S02E40. So it was really exciting to get a chance to have a conversation with Ter, the creator of the YouTube channel SumoStew. She’s one of our favorite content creators… definitely our favorite who covers sumo. It all comes down to her passion and creativity. Her videos mix authentic voice with thorough research and eye-catching graphics.

So in this conversation Ter takes time to talk about her love of sumo, her process of creating episodes, the challenges of being a YouTube content creator, her reflections on the recently completed January Basho (tournament), her hopes for the upcoming March Basho, and a lot more. If you want to learn what mawashi (the belt rikishi wear) trend Ter would love to see or the fighting style she’d adopt if she was a rikishi, then listen to the episode! We highly recommend finding SumoStew on YouTube... and if you’re a fan of her work, then consider supporting SumoStew on Patreon as well.

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Welcome to Season 4, Episode 6. Father Jun is one of our favorite characters on Warrior… so we were so unbelievably excited to have a conversation with Perry Yung! With about 30 acting credits to his name for TV and Film, Perry has also worked on stage and in music. We also love how he merges his activism and beliefs into his acting and music. In this conversation, we talk a little about his love of music, the shakuhachi flute, the SLANT Performance group that he co-founded, his journey as an actor, the special experience on Warrior, his directorial debut with the Stop Asian Hate! Love One Another short film, Grace Lee Boggs (we did an episode on her for S01E04), creative agency, and so much more.

Warrior was not renewed by Max (Boo!), but the first three seasons will be released on Netflix on February 16th (Yay!). To get a season 4, it’s essential for Netflix to understand what Warrior means to the Asian American community and the world of diverse stories. Supporting Warrior supports stories for all underrepresented groups. So if you have Netflix, please support them on February 16th and beyond! And If you don’t have Netflix… maybe you should get it just to watch Warrior.

We begin this episode by talking about the Asian Classical Music Initiative (ACMI), and the upcoming 2024 ACMI @ MSMU International Conference. It’s going to be held on April 13th and April 14th, 2024 at Mount Saint Mary’s University in Los Angeles, and it’s open to the public. Please check out ACMI and their upcoming conference. If you’re a performer, composer, or scholar, you can apply to present… or you could just attend and learn. For more info, go to www.kuacmi.com/2024-conference-call.

Again, please support Warrior when it releases on Netflix! And if you want to see more of Perry Yung, visit his acting site, his Yung Flutes site, follow him on Instagram @perryyungofficial, follow his band Judo Club, and look out for the short film Stop Asian Hate! Love One Another at the DisOrient Asian American Film Festival in Eugene, Oregon Live March 8-10 and Virtual March 11-17 (and hopefully many other places).

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Segments

• 00:25 Talking about ACMI and Intro to Perry Yung
• 02:03 A Conversation with Perry Yung

Welcome to Season 4, Episode 5! Our conversation this week is with the talented author, Jamie Jo Hoang. Her latest novel, My Father, the Panda Killer is a heartfelt story based on her life. We really enjoyed the book, even the moments that were tough to read… and that’s because Hoang’s novel focuses on a Vietnamese American family that is dealing with the intergenerational trauma that’s a result of the Vietnam War and the refugee experience. It’s also told from the dual perspectives of the Jane (the main character) in 1999 and Phúc (Jane’s father) throughout his traumatic refugee experience as a child.

Hoang brings up topics that are often glazed over in novels or told from an American (white) perspective, so the story comes across as a unique perspective that’s more personal. In our conversation, we discuss her career; My Father, the Panda Killer; the challenges with overcoming trauma; and so much more. You can learn more about Jamie from her website, social media posts on Instagram or Twitter/X, and from her blog. And don’t forget to get My Father, the Panda Killer or her first novel Blue Sun, Yellow Sky!

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Welcome to Season 4, Episode 4. If you’re new to our podcast then just know that we occasionally do a series called Most Forgotten Massacres, where we take time to talk about a moment (generally in U.S. history) where racism and discrimination turned to violence against the Asian Pacific American community. The Anti-Filipino Watsonville Riots were one of those moments.

Filipino workers were targeted in this five-day outburst of violence. There were several factors that contributed to the death and destruction, and the impact was felt for years. It’s important we acknowledge these moments in our history, learn from them, and improve. We highly recommend reading more about the Filipino experience through the excellent book Little Manila Is in the Heart: The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California by Professor Dawn Bohulano Mabalon.

In our additional segment, we take time to talk about the Emmy Awards, Golden Globes, and Critics’ Choice Awards. And in our intro, we cover a few notable current events in the APIDA world. If you like what we do, please share, follow, and like us in your podcast directory of choice or on Instagram @AAHistory101. For previous episodes and resources, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Current Events
• 04:58 The History of the Anti-Filipino Watsonville Riots
• 27:09 Celebrations! It’s Awards Season with Emmy, Golden Globe, and Critic’s Choice Awards

Welcome to Season 4, Episode 3. As many of you know, we love hockey! Recently, in November 2023, George Chin, a legend of Asian Canadian ice hockey, passed away. He was the star winger on the Chin brothers line along with his brothers Bill and Albert. The Chinese Canadian trio helped their hometown Lucknow team to be highly successful. In this episode, we talk about the life of George Chin and all the teams he made an impact on.

In our opening, we discuss our personal goals for the New Year. In our recurring segment, we bring back What Are We Watching and talk about Scott Pilgrim Takes Off on by Bryan Lee O’Malley and Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan. What do we think of these shows? What’s the API representation like? And most importantly, how have they adapted the stories?

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Segments

• 00:25 New Year’s Resolutions
• 02:03 The History of George Chin
• 19:32 What Are We Watching? Scott Pilgrim Takes Off and Percy Jackson

Welcome to Season 4, Episode 2! There’s a global fascination with the Old West cowboys in America. Did you know that the Hawaiian Paniolo pre-dates the Old West cowboys by several years? The Mexican Vaqueros have even more history. In this episode, we talk about the history of the Paniolo… AKA the Hawaiian Cowboy.

You’ll learn about the origin of longhorn cattle in Hawaii; how riding, roping, and herding cattle came to be a practice on the islands; and the names of several well-known Paniolo like Ikea Purdy and Eben Low, who became local and national heroes. Their impact at the 1908 Cheyenne, Wyoming Frontier Days was a moment of pride for the islands that had just been annexed by the U.S. Government. For deeper insight into the cowboys of this era and the Paniolo, check out the book Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World’s Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West by David Wolman and Julian Smith. It’s very well written. You can also check out the Paniolo Preservation Society.

We open the episode by talking about a lot of current events we needed to make time for… and we cover politics, sports, entertainment, and more! In our recurring segment we share one place to help… the Kāko‘o Maui Fund. Many people in Maui could still use our help. Recovery from the fires will take a lot longer, and the Kako’o Maui Housing Program is here to help. They often have matching donors.

If you like what we do, please share, follow, and like us in your podcast directory of choice or on Instagram @AAHistory101. For previous episodes and resources, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or our links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Lots of Current Events
• 07:40 The History of the Paniolo AKA the Hawaiian Cowboy
• 28:57 Places to Help… Kako’o Maui Housing Program

Welcome to Season 4, Episode 1. Happy New Year! We hope you had a wonderful holiday season and had fun on New Year’s Eve. To launch this new season, we’re going back to the thing that’s at our core… Asian American History. Our special guests for this conversation are Professor Yoon Pak and Dr. Sharon Lee, two of the key leaders helping with the implementation of the TEAACH Act. The Teaching Equitable Asian American Community History Act was a historic moment for Illinois and the country, because it made Illinois the first state to mandate the teaching of Asian American history in K-12 public schools.

Although it was an unfunded mandate, groups like The Asian American Foundation and Asian Americans Advancing Justice Chicago stepped in to help raise awareness and funds. None of this would have happened without the hard work of Yoon Pak and Sharon Lee from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who created the curriculum and resources organized in three modules. The professional development for K-12 educators is key in implementing the TEAACH Act well.

Yoon Pak is the Head of the Education Policy, Organization and Leadership department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Among other things, she specializes in the history of intercultural education from the 1930s-1950s. She was recently awarded the 2023 Campus Executive Officer Distinguished Leadership Award. Sharon Lee is a Teaching Assistant Professor in EPOL and program coordinator for Diversity and Equity in the department. Her research and teaching background is in diversity and equity in higher education; history of education; and Asian American student experiences. Her book An Unseen Unheard Minority: Asian American Students at the University of Illinois was published by Rutgers University Press. Check out the TEAACH Act Resources and enjoy the conversation!

If you like what we do, please share, follow, and like us in your podcast directory of choice or on Instagram @AAHistory101. For previous episodes and resources, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Lifelong Learning: These are topics we knew very little about before researching. Although we didn’t know much about them before, we really learned a lot during the research process and episode creation.

• The History of the Kim Loo Sisters S03E03
• The History of the USS Rizal S03E19
• The History of The Golden Age of Pinoy Hip Hop S03E45
• The History of Guamanian Cuisine S03E26

So Upsetting: These are topics that were upsetting or frustrating to us to create… maybe it was the mistreatment of Asian Pacific Islanders… or maybe it was a particularly painful moment in our history. And really, there are so many of episodes… even the ones on the Tong Wars or the Gold Rush, where we have moments of feeling anger and frustration… but these are the episodes where we feel that anger the entire time.

• The Cleveland School Massacre in Stockton Part of the Most Forgotten Massacres series S03E02
• The History of Bhagat Singh Thind S03E08
• Talking About Righting Wrongs Report and STAATUS Index 2023 S03E30
• The History of Destroying Chinatowns S03E40

Are We Having Fun?: These are episodes where the topic was just fun to do. Maybe it was a little lighter topic or the recording was just fun. These are the interesting but welcome breaks from the heavier topics.

• The History of Chop Suey Fonts S03E18
• The History of Indians and Chinese in Jamaican Music. S03E24
• History of Iconic Asian Candy S3E44

Thought-provoking: We’ve had a lot of conversations. They’re all fun in different ways, but some are particularly thought-provoking. Maybe they’re ones that pushed our thinking. Maybe they’re ones where the interviewee challenged us.

• A Conversation with Dr. Mitchell Maki S03E31
• The History of Redress and Reparations with Special Guest Dr. Mitchell Maki S03E43
• A Conversation with Curtis Chin. S03E39
• A Conversation with Wendy Chin-Tanner S03E48
• A Conversation with Professor Elise Wang S03E36
• Another Conversation with Brad Jenkins S03E09 (not mentioned in the episode, but should also be here)

Attention! Attention!: These are conversations with people who we hope get a lot more attention. Maybe the interviewees in these conversations aren’t national names, but they’re doing great work, and we hope they get more attention.

• A Conversation with Dr. Noel Ramirez of Mango Tree Counseling and Consulting S03E21
• A Conversation with Leslie Li S03E05
• A Conversation with Rev. Lien Shutt S03E32 (not mentioned in the episode, but should also be here)

Fun experiences in conversation… Again, we really enjoy the conversations we have… some of them are more fun than usual. It doesn’t make them better, but we found ourselves laughing a LOT and would love to spend more time talking to them.

• A Conversation with Tahlena Chikami of Bite Me Bambi S03E07
• A Conversation with the Creators of The Paper Tigers Bao Tran, Mike Velasquez, and Yuji Okumoto S03E10
• A Conversation with Professor Elise Wang S03E36
• A Conversation with Nidhi Chanani S03E41
• A Conversation with Illustrator AJ Dungo S03E29

Favorite episodes overall… These could be topical or conversational episodes… but looking back, what were our favorites?

Favorite Conversations… Ugh… so hard. There were a lot of good ones. Here are some favorites…

• A Conversation with Nidhi Chanani S03E41
• A Conversation with Tahlena Chikami of Bite Me Bambi S03E07
• A Conversation with Professor Elise Wang S03E36
• A Conversation with Wendy Chin-Tanner S03E48
• A Conversation with Illustrator AJ Dungo S03E29
• A Conversation with Dr. Mitchell Maki S03E31
• The History of Redress and Reparations with Special Guest Dr. Mitchell Maki S03E43

Favorite Topical episodes… These are topics that we especially liked how the episode turned out.

• The History of The Chinese During the California Gold Rush S03E46
• History of Iconic Asian Candy S3E44 White Rabbit and Kopiko Coffee Candy

What do you think? Did we name any of the ones you liked? What did we miss? Let us know via email or Instagram.

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 50. This is it… the final episode of the season… our Season 3 in Review! In this annual tradition, we discuss the episodes where we learned a LOT, ones that upset us to talk about, fun episodes, thought-provoking conversations, conversations that made us laugh, guests we hope people pay more attention to, and our overall favorites. Have a listen and let us know… Did we name any of your favorites? In our additional segment, we share our hopes for Season 4 that begins on January 1st! What are some of your hopes? What topics do you want to hear more of? Let us know! Thank you for listening. Be sure to subscribe to us in your podcast directory of choice, follow us on instagram @aahistory101, and share our podcast with your friends and teachers. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Intro
• 02:42 Season 3 in Review
• 41:59 Season 4 Hopes

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 49. Christmas is a holiday that can be celebrated in a religious or secular way. So how is it celebrated in Asia and the Pacific Islands? In this episode, we discuss some of the unique traditions and foods you might find in countries across Asia, Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia. Some of them are pretty interesting and fun.

We spend a little more time talking about the Philippines because they LOVE Christmas! In our recurring segment, we introduce a new one called The AAHistory101 Holiday Gift Guide. Looking for that gift for a special someone that is also supporting the API community? In addition to streaming services that have API content like Max, AppleTV+, Netflix, and Disney+, we talk about some specific gifts including:

• Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant, the new memoir by Curtis Chin
• The Chinese Menu, the new book of origin stories, myths, and memories by Grace Lin (we also love the audio book version narrated by Lisa Ling)
• King of the Armadillos, the new historical fiction novel by Wendy Chin-Tanner
• Vietnamese Vegetarian, the new cookbook by Uyen Luu
• Super Boba Café, the new graphic novel by Nidhi Chanani
• The Mask of Haliya by Kwento Comics
• Bewitched, the new album from Laufey
• Kung Fu, the complete box set of the CW show
• Warrior, Season 3 (or Season 1 or 2)
• Hurry Up and Wait, the not new but great album from Bite Me Bambi that features Tahlena Chikani on lead vocals.
• Bokksu, Japanese snack and candy subscriptions
• Sanzo, Asian-inspired sparkling water
• Nguyen Coffee Supply, Specialty Vietnamese Coffee

For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Do you celebrate Christmas?
• 02:43 Christmas Traditions in Asia and the Pacific Islands
• 30:28 The AAHistory101 Holiday Gift Guide

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 48. We loved reading King of the Armadillos, the new novel by poet, graphic novelist, and all-around amazing writer Wendy Chin-Tanner. King of the Armadillos thoughtfully levels-up the coming-of-age story with multi-generational Asian American experiences set in the 1950s… not to mention an authentic look at how Hansen’s Disease AKA leprosy impacts individuals, families, and communities.

The main character, Victor, struggles with recovery, feelings of belonging, and family responsibilities. We discuss all of those things as well as the importance of breaking out of Asian male stereotypes, the work it takes to create authentic historical fiction, her advice for aspiring API authors, how she selected specific songs for the novel, and so much more.

Enjoy the conversation and go out and buy King of the Armadillos... you won’t regret it. It’s even on sale at Amazon right now at over $10 off. We also recommend purchasing her poetry collection Turn or her graphic novel American Terrorist… and be sure to explore all the work on A Wave Blue World, the graphic novel publishing company that Wendy co-founded with her husband Tyler. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 47. We’re back with more Iconic Asian Candies! Candies from Asia can be an item of pride for Asian American kids, and more and more of these candies are available across the world. In this installment of The History of Iconic Asian Candies, we’re talking about Haw Flakes and HI-CHEW. Haw Flakes might not be as well known, but they’re an important candy for Chinese Americans and many Asian American kids. However, HI-CHEW are a global phenomena from Morinaga Company. In our recurring segment, we talk about another Obscure Asian Comic Book Character with the DC villain Cheshire. Find out her origin story, development, and what she’s best known for! For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Where we get our sweet fixes
• 04:22 The History of Iconic Asian Candy with Haw Flakes and HI-CHEW
• 20:52 Obscure Asian Comic Book Characters: Cheshire AKA Jade

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 46. Do you think you know the story of the Chinese during the California Gold Rush? Even if you think you do, we guarantee that there are some stories and pieces of the history that are lesser known. So today we talk about that era in a little more depth. Other than sharing the origin of the California Gold Rush, we talk about the timeline of Gold Rush events, the arrival of the Chinese, their mining practices, the discrimination they faced, and how they achieved some modicum of success. The arrival of Chinese during the Gold Rush helped develop the land and physical and service infrastructure in California. We begin the episode with some current events and celebrate Corbin Carroll, Brandon Sakbun, and Nina Ahmad. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Current Events… Corbin Carroll, Brandon Sakbun, and Nina Ahmad!
• 06:14 The History of Chinese During the California Gold Rush

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 45! The growth of Hip Hop and Rap was a worldwide phenomena back in the 1980s and 1990s, and the Philippines were one of the countries at the forefront. In fact, Pinoy Hip Hop with Filipinos and Filipino Americans has been an impact in the genre for decades now. In this episode, we talk about the growth of Hip Hop and who some of the most influential Pinoy Hip Hop and Rap stars were on the scene. From individuals like Francis M, Andrew E, Lady Diane, MC Lara, Michael V, and Markie D to groups like Rapi Boys, Bass Rhyme Posse, and Rapasia, Pinoy Hip Hop artists and rappers would use English, Tagalog, Chavacano, and other Filipino languages to perform.

These artists as well as DJs and Mixers like DJ Omar D’Animal, DJ Bongskie and DJ Ouch formed the early years of Pinoy Hip Hop that was also known as the Golden Age of Pinoy Hip Hop. Songs could be about silly things or focus on some of the challenges and triumphs found in their lives in the Philippines. In our recurring segment, we bring back Who Should I Root For? with the API Guide to the NHL. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com. Pictured are Francis M above, Lady Diane in the middle, and Andrew E below.

Segments

• 00:25 Intro and Talking About Hip Hop
• 05:12 The History of The Golden Age of Pinoy Hip Hop
• 22:22 Who Should I Root For? The API Guide to the NHL

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 44! A lot of people have a sweet tooth. That’s why candy is so popular across the world. Candies don’t just satisfy a sweet fix… they can be a childhood memory or a cultural symbol. In today’s episode we talk about the history of iconic Asian Candy. First we share information on sweeteners in food with honey and refined sugar, but then we focus on White Rabbit Candy and Kopiko Coffee Candy. What are they? How did they get popular? All this and more! In our recurring segment we talk about Our Flag Means Death, Season 2, and we share what we liked about it. Is there a candy you want us to talk about? Send us an email! For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Intro and Current Events
• 07:30 The History of Iconic Asian Candy Featuring White Rabbit and Kopiko
• 30:06 What Are We Watching? Our Flag Means Death Season 2

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 43! Whenever Veterans Day comes around, we think about the different veterans of Asian Pacific Islander descent. Naturally, we reflect on the Japanese Americans who fought for the freedom and ideals of our country during World War II despite the incarceration of so many Japanese Americans during that time. Veterans played a key role in attaining redress and reparations for the thousands of Japanese Americans impacted. This is a time that isn’t covered well (if at all) in school, so we’re glad that Dr. Mitchell Maki joins us for a very special conversation about the Redress and Reparations Movement that led to the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 signed by President Reagan.

Dr. Maki is the President and CEO of the Go For Broke National Education Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the legacy and lessons of the Nisei World War II veterans. As a leading scholar on the Japanese American redress movement, Dr. Maki speaks internationally on this topic and its relevance to contemporary socio-political issues.

He is also the lead author of the award-winning book, Achieving the Impossible Dream: How Japanese Americans Obtained Redress, which was a detailed case study of the 1988 Civil Liberties Act. The book documents the Redress Movement in detail from the seed of an idea during World War II to the formal introduction of the idea in the 1970s and all the way to the work with the legislative and executive branches of government in the 1980s and 1990s.

In our conversation, we discuss the events and people who helped convince legislators and President Reagan to provide redress to Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II, the importance of the Japanese American soldiers to the redress movement, the longer lasting impact of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, and so much more. Want to make an impact? Then please check out Go For Broke NEC, read Achieving the Dream, find out more about the Torchbearers, and donate to GFBNEC. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 42. Welcome to installation 7 of our series on the Tong Wars. In this episode, we talk about the end of the Fourth Tong War in New York and some of the lasting impact of the tongs to this day. How did the Fourth Tong War end? Do Tong’s still exist? These are questions we answer in this episode. If you’re interested in reading about the New York Tong Wars in detail, we recommend the book The Tong Wars by Scott Seligman. In our recurring segment, we bring back Organizations You Should Know and talk about the Chinese Historical Society of America which has a physical location as well as virtual and traveling exhibitions. They have plenty of great educational resources and collections to learn more about the experiences of Chinese Americans. You can visit, volunteer, or donate to help them. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Intro
• 01:14 The History of the Tong Wars Part 7
• 19:52 The Chinese Historical Society of America

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 41! Today we’re excited to share a conversation with Nidhi Chanani. She’s a freelance illustrator, cartoonist, and writer who was born in Calcutta, India and raised in Southern California. Her illustrations are beautiful and contain a certain level of whimsy that we love. In addition to working with various groups like Disney Parks, she has published several graphic novels and picture books. Her latest graphic novel, Super Boba Cafe, will be released on October 24, 2023.

We had a chance talk to her about how she honed her artistic style by drawing an illustration every day for three years on her site Everyday Love. We also discussed her other graphic novels Pashmina, Jukebox, and the Shark Princess series. It was a fun conversation that also included talking about the San Diego Comic Con, her published work, the importance of researching music and civil rights for Jukebox, some of the things she’s reading, and so much more.

Other than the graphic novels mentioned, we recommend seeking out her other work including the touching picture book she wrote and illustrated called What Will My Story Be? She has illustrated books for other writers including I Will Be Fierce (written by Bea Birdsong), Binny’s Diwali (written by Thrity Umrigar), Kong and Me (written by Kiki Thorpe), and Strong (written by Rob Kearney) which won the American Library Association Stonewall Honor. She has received several recognitions for her work including being selected as a Champion of Change by the Obama administration.

Check out her Instagram, go to her site, download some free creative activities, support her work, and buy Super Boba Cafe. Enjoy the conversation! For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 40! Chinatowns have been around in the U.S. since the middle 1800s, but not all of them survived the racism, xenophobia, and discrimination that was rampant throughout the 1800s and 1900s. In this episode, we discuss the environment that resulted in several Chinatowns being destroyed. We spend time sharing the events that happened in the Chinatowns in Antioch and Santa Ana, California as well as in Denver, Colorado. We take additional time to talk about the Chinatowns in San Jose, California… all five of them. Lives and livelihoods were lost with each violent act, and it’s the history that is being forgotten. There are some organizations trying to make sure that previously destroyed Chinatowns and the history of Chinese Americans are remembered:

• The Market Street Chinatown Archaeological Project
• Chinese Historical and Cultural Project
• No Place Project
• China Alley in Hanford, California

If you’re looking for background information, then we recommend listening to our following past episodes:

• Ethnic Enclaves
• The History of Stereotypical Chinatown Architecture
• A History of Anti-Asian Massacres and Lynchings.

To close this episode, we bring back our recurring segment called Obscure Asian Comic Book Characters and feature the Karate Kid… it’s not who you’re probably thinking of. For additional previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Intro and Talking Dodgers and Giants API Historic Moment
• 03:37 The History of Destroying Chinatowns
• 25:25 Obscure Asian Comic Book Characters, The Karate Kid

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 39! We were so excited to get a chance to have a conversation with Curtis Chin. Curtis is an award-winning Writer, Producer, Director, and Activist. His debut book Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant is published by Little, Brown and Company and will be available on October 17, 2023. The memoir is filled with humor and heart-warming moments centered on Curtis growing up Asian American in the Black and white city of Detroit and coming out in his working-class immigrant community. He also shares his experiences as a first-generation college student at the University of Michigan.

In our conversation, we talk about the journey to writing his memoir, feelings of identity and belonging, the family restaurant, his award-winning documentary filmmaking (Tested, Vincent Who?, and Dear Corky), the founding of the Asian American Writers Workshop, and so much more. Check out his website, follow him on Instagram or Twitter, order his book, watch his documentaries (Tested and Vincent Who? are available free on Kanopy), and meet him on his book tour. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 38. This is another ICYMI Encore Episode that we want to make sure people listen to. Today we’re re-posting The History of Nuclear Weapons Testing in the Pacific Islands. On June 30, 1946, about 77 years ago, the United States began nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific Islands. The approximately 20 years of testing was predominantly executed in the Marshall Islands around Bikini Atoll and Enewetak Atoll. U.S. researchers, military, and government contaminated the islands and many of its residents with dangerous levels of radiation. The islands still suffer from long-term impacts from radioactive contamination, and they have never been fully compensated for losses or illness. Not sure about long-term impacts of radiation? Then we recommend listening to our conversation with Professor Naoko Wake from S01E37, we discuss her book American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Travels in New Mexico
• 02:32 The History of Bomb Testing in the Pacific Islands

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 37. We’re taking a couple weeks off for vacation, so we’re posting a few ICYMI Encore Episodes. Today we’re re-posting The History of Stereotypical Chinatown Architecture from Season 2, Episode 58. Most Chinatowns across the world have similar structural elements: pagodas, specific colors, terra cotta tiles, and more. So how did this happen? It might surprise you that stereotypical Chinatown architecture was created by white people hired by Chinese Americans. Although San Francisco was the first place this happened, their success in creating a welcoming environment influenced the re-design of almost all Chinatowns across the world. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Intro on Chinatown Architecture
• 01:44 The History of Stereotypical Chinatown Architecture

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 36. Today’s conversation is with the amazing Professor Elise Wang. We’re fascinated by conspiracy theories and how people twist themselves into logical knots to believe them. This led us to Dr. Wang’s very informative and engaging TEDx Talk on Why Some Conspiracy Theories Just Won’t Die. She is an Assistant Professor at Cal State Fullerton with focus areas that include literatures of late medieval England; Piers Plowman; legal history; punishment theory; premodern race and critical race theory; conspiracy narratives; and early global literatures. Elise’s first book, The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature, explores the theorization of guilt through how the literature of that day wrote about felony law. She’s also working on her second book already, Evidence as Style, in which she traces the internal logic of conspiracy theories. In our conversation, we talk about her professional journey, the logic of conspiracy theorists, the impact of the internet on conspiracy theories, her upcoming books, what conspiracy theories the API community should worry about, awkward moments caused by her research, and more. We highly recommend watching her TEDx Talk and her interview about Pizzagate on Jordan Klepper Fingers the Conspiracy. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 35. Today we talk about The History of the Hmong in America. The Hmong are a people without a country. An ethnic, indigenous minority that are believed to have originated in southern China, the Hmong diaspora are international but are predominantly in China, Laos, Vietnam, the US, and Thailand. We share the origins of the Hmong as well as their migration to the US after the failed Secret War in Laos and end of the Vietnam War. Hmong are known for their beautiful textiles and silverwork, and we highly recommend you seek out more information from places like the Hmong American Center in Wausau, Wisconsin, the Hmong Cultural Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, or online at Hello Hmong. We bring back What Are We Watching for our recurring segment, and we share our thoughts about the Netflix shows Nimona and Cowboy Bebop. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Catching Up and Discussing Our Hmong Memories
• 05:31 The History of Hmong Americans
• 25:45 What Are We Watching? Nimona and Cowboy Bebop

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 34. Today we have a conversation with author, illustrator, and amazing artist, Sally Deng. She creates pieces on a variety of meaningful topics for The New Yorker, NPR, Hermés, and the Asia Society (just to name a few). Her award-winning work can be found in various publications, in gallery showings, and on her website. In our conversation, she shares a little about her artistic style, her journey, the two books she wrote and illustrated (Skyward: The Story of Female Pilots in WWII and Warrior Princess: The Story of Khutulun), tips for becoming a professional artist, and more. To learn more about Sally, we highly recommend visiting her site, following her on instagram, and getting her books. You can even buy her original work through Hey There or prints through 20x200 and Gallery Nucleus. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 33. If you assumed that white rice came from Asia, then you’d be right. But do you know the history of rice cultivation and domestication? It may have happened 8000 or more years ago. How did it spread across Asia and the rest of the world? When was rice introduced in America? In this episode we explore the History of Rice Cultivation and give you cool facts about how rice is grown. In our recurring segment we discuss how you can help the people in Maui. The fires, loss of life, destruction of historic and sacred lands, and challenges in recovery are just some of the issues the residents are facing. If you’d like to help, we give you some tips, but be sure you visit ‘Āina Momona, Maui Rapid Response, and the Maui Mutual Aid Fund for starters. There’s even a curated list of GoFundMe and Venmo accounts of residents. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Intro and Thoughts About Rice
• 06:05 The History of Rice Cultivation
• 24:05 Helping Out Maui

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 32. Some of the best conversations we have are the ones that make us think. It’s even better when we not only think, but feel we have learned additional strategies for healing and restoration. Today’s conversation is with Rev. Liên Shutt, an insightful and engaging Buddhist leader who strives to make Zen practice accessible to all. Her new book will release on August 22nd. Entitled Home is Here: Practicing Antiracism with the Engaged Eightfold Path, it introduces readers to mindful practices for integrating the Engaged Four Noble Truths and the Engaged Eightfold Path to progress on the path towards healing. Rev. Liên teaches at the Access to Zen Meditation Group, the East Bay Meditation Center, and other Bay Area Groups. In this conversation we talk about the Engaged Four Noble Truths, The Engaged Eightfold Path, the importance of words and reframing, how Home is Here can help with the healing process, intersectionality with the BIPOC and Queer communities, and so much more. We highly recommend going out and getting a copy of Home is Here and attending the upcoming book tour to meet Rev. Liên. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 31. We were so excited to connect with Dr. Mitchell T. Maki, the President and CEO of the Go For Broke National Education Center. Dr. Maki is lifetime educator, author, and a leading scholar on the Japanese American redress movement. The Go For Broke National Education Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the legacy and lessons of the Nisei World War II veterans. “Go For Broke” was the motto of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, an Army unit composed of Japanese Americans from Hawai’i and the mainland United States. We’ve talked about the 100th and 442nd previously on our podcast, but we’re always happy to continue to raise awareness around their bravery and dedication to this country despite the mass incarceration of over 120,000 Japanese Americans during the war. In our conversation, Dr. Maki shares some keys to making history relevant, why continuing to talk about this time is essential, the importance of intersectionality, and so much more. You can learn a lot and help the Go For Broke National Education Center by visiting their YouTube channel and website as well as making a donation. The funds help spread awareness and education through virtual and physical exhibits. We especially love the Hanashi Oral History Collection! For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 30. Stop AAPI Hate doesn’t just aggregate discrimination and racism. They are a consortium of organizations dedicated to doing research, surveys, and reports to collect data and share the Asian American Pacific Islander experience. In this episode, we talk about and discuss their latest report, Righting Wrongs: How Civil Rights Can Protect Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders Against Racism. They worked with NORC at the University of Chicago to do this work. We also discuss the latest annual Social Tracking of Asian Americans in the U.S. Index that is organized by The Asian American Foundation. Now in its third year, the STAATUS Index does a great job tracking trends and feelings of belonging, stereotyping, and discrimination of the AANHPI community. We highly recommended reading the full reports for both (don’t worry, they’re pretty short and easy to consume), but both have shorter executive summaries. We close the show by sharing what we’re watching and talk about Asian American representation in the Titans as well as Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Intro on Data
• 03:27 Righting Wrongs: How Civil Rights Can Protect Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders Against Racism
• 15:36 STAATUS Index
• 32:52 What Are We Watching? Titans and Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 29. We had a great conversation with illustrator, graphic novelist, and surfing and skateboarding enthusiast, AJ Dungo. His first graphic novel, In Waves, is a beautiful work that focuses on love, loss, and surfing. It tells the story of surfing, Duke Kahanomoku, Tom Blake, and the passing of AJ’s partner Kristen. In this conversation, we discuss AJ’s artistic style, the writing of In Waves, grief, surfing and skateboarding culture, and so much more. To see more of AJ Dungo’s work, be sure to go to his website, follow his instagram, and buy In Waves through the Nobrow or the Penguin links. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 28. This is part of an ongoing series where we talk about the New York Tong Wars. In this episode we talk about the events in Chinatown that led up to the fourth tong war in New York. The main combatants were still the On Leong Tong and the Hip Sing Tong, but this one was enough to get the federal government involved as well. Hear how growth of the tongs, decreased New York tong control, local corruption, and Federal government decisions all added to the approximately ten year conflict. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 27. It’s time for more food conversations! We had a chance to sit down with Uyen Luu. She’s a cookbook author, professional photographer, chef who runs a supper club, filmmaker, and inspiration for people looking to learn more about the breadth and depth of Vietnamese cuisine. Her latest book is Vietnamese Vegetarian, a look into how Vietnamese cuisine honors produce, grains, and legumes. It’s available on Amazon and other outlets. You can also visit her website to read her blog, get recipe ideas, book a reservation at her supper club in London, find her social media links like Instagram, and purchase her first two cookbooks. Enjoy the conversation! For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 26. If you’re interested in bold flavors and a fusion of various cultures, then you should try Guamanian AKA Chamorro cuisine! With a foundation from the indigenous Chamorro people of Guam, Guamanian Cuisine has adapted and adopted ingredients, techniques, and entire dishes from the Philippines, Japan, Spain, Mexico, and more. Much like the Philippines and Hawaii, colonialism and migration have changed Guamanian cuisine over time. In this episode, we review the history and cuisine of Guam. If you’re interested in trying some Guamanian cuisine, we recommend checking out Annie’s Chamorro Kitchen. It’s a site dedicated to sharing Chamorro cuisine. Cooking not your thing? If you’re in California, there are two restaurants we found that serve Guamanian Cuisine… SMACK’n Guamanian Grill in San Diego and Prubechu in San Francisco. Check them out if you’re local to those places! We also introduce a new recurring segment called Which Do You Hate More? Where we discuss two phrases: “Your English is So Good” and “Where are You Really From?” For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Intro and Current Events
• 07:44 The History of Guamanian Cuisine
• 27:25 Which Do You Hate More?

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 25. As huge fans of Top Chef, we were so over the moon excited to get a chance to interview Top Chef 19 winner Buddha Lo last season. This is an ICYMI Encore Episode of that conversation. As many people know, he was recently on Top Chef Season 20, World All-Stars. We won’t spoil it for you, but just know that Buddha brought his consistently beautiful, delicious, and refined creations to the new season… a fitting way to send off Padma Lakshmi, the amazing host of the show who is stepping away. In this previous conversation, we talked about his preparation for Top Chef, his dedication to family, how he and his wife Rebekah support each other, his hopes for the future of fine dining, and so much more. We even talked a little about how previous Top Chef contestants like Dale Talde are harder judges. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 24. We go back to the Caribbean to talk about Indo-Jamaican and Chinese Jamaican people who impacted the music scene. From performers to producers to distributors, Jamaicans of Indian and Chinese descent had a lasting influence in the creation and/or popularization of dancehall, ska, rocksteady, reggae, and Caribbean music in general. To learn more, we highly recommend reading Miss Pat: My Reggae Music Journey and watching the documentary Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records. We open the episode by talking the Vegas Golden Knights winning the Stanley Cup and the disappointing decision by the NHL to ban Pride Night jerseys for warm-ups. We close the episode with a new segment called What We Like where we discuss the animated features Over the Moon and Raya and the Last Dragon. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Talking about the Vegas Golden Knights and Pride Nights in the NHL
• 07:58 The History of Indians and Chinese in Jamaican Music
• 22:14 What We Like: Over the Moon and Raya and the Last Dragon

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 23. In this installment of The History of the Tong Wars, we talk a little about opium, colonialism, and the events of the third war. This tong war was notable for what instigated the violence as well as the escalation of the types of weapons used. We skip the recurring segment, but we do begin by talking about one of our favorite shows that just was made available on the iTunes Store… We Are Lady Parts. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 We Are Lady Parts! And an Intro
• 03:51 The History of the Tong Wars Part 5

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 22. June is National Caribbean American Heritage Month! This is a great reason to focus on The History of Asians in the Caribbean. We have colonialism to thank for much of that, but what were the economic conditions that led up to the mass migration of Asians, mostly from India and China, to the Caribbean nations? We also provide a quick hockey update in the beginning of the episode and end with a segment of Celebrations. This time we’re celebrating the HUGE wins for Asian Pacific Americans in the James Beard Awards. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Hockey Update and Intro
• 02:45 The History of Asians in the Caribbean
• 24:02 Celebrations: API James Beard Winners

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 21. With May just finishing and June just beginning, it’s a great time for a conversation with Dr. Noel Ramirez. He lives and works in the intersection of Mental Wellness, the AANHPI community, and the LGBTQ+ community. As the Director and Founder of Mango Tree Counseling and Consulting, he is making a difference everyday to help people, especially those of AAPI descent, in Pennsylvania get access to the help they need to feel a sense of Belonging and Community. We had a chance to sit down and talk to Dr. Ramirez and discuss Mango Tree, the concept of the formative narrative, tips for mental wellness, being honored as one of the 40 Under 40 by Al Día, and a lot more. Enjoy the conversation! For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 20. With the first Tong War over, the events in New York’s Chinatown were influenced by tong conflicts across the country. It didn’t help that New York tong members were often loaned out to the different local branches across the nation to act as “hatchet men” to assassinate various targets. The second Tong War began as a conflict over the death of a woman, but there was a new player. This was an issue between the Four Brothers Society and the On Leong Tong. We begin the episode by talking a little about Karma again as well as recent news in Florida. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:24 Talking about Karma and Florida
• 02:49 The History of the Tong Wars Part 4

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 19. Memorial Day is a U.S. holiday that is celebrated on the last Monday of May. It is focused on honoring the service members who have fallen in combat. So today we’re talking about the USS Rizal, the first U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name of a Filipino hero. Who was Jose Rizal and why was he selected for the ship name? We discuss the far reaching impact of Filipinos in the navy as well as why having a USS Telesforo Trinidad will be so exciting. We also take a moment to bring back our segment on Obscure Asian Comic Book Characters and talk about a more well-known one, the New Mutants leader Karma. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Memorial Day
• 01:33 The History of the USS Rizal
• 20:35 Obscure Asian Comic Book Characters, Karma

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 18. We’ve all seen them. Typefaces that signal an ethnic establishment. For businesses, especially restaurants that sell Asian food, it’s not unusual to see the use of a “Chop Suey Font”. These fonts have also been used for politics, advertising, media, and other businesses. Whether Chop Suey, Wonton, or any number of mimicry typefaces, using these fonts sends a message that it’s a place that’s exotic, foreign, yet somehow accessible. We discuss the history of these fonts and whether they’re racist. To begin the episode, we talk a little about the shooting in Allen, Texas. To end the episode, we begin a new segment on Supporting Athletes of Asian Descent, and we provide a non-hockey fan’s guide to the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Which NHL players of Asian descent are still playing? Find out here! For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Talking a Little about Allen, Texas Shooting
• 08:17 The History of Chop Suey Fonts
• 21:57 Supporting Athletes of Asian Descent, Stanley Cup Edition

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 17. In this episode we continue focusing on the Tong Wars in New York by discussing more of the people, events, and attitudes that escalated tension between the On Leong Tong and the Hip Sing Tong… and we finally talk about the First Tong War! Covering six bloody years, the first Tong War was fought over the control of gambling in Chinatown. We highly recommend the Scott Seligman book Tong Wars: The Untold Story of Vice, Money and Murder in New York's Chinatown. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Fastest. Intro. Ever.
• 00:35 The History of the Tong Wars Part 3

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 16. The New York Tong Wars were a series of four violent conflicts that happened in New York between the two most influential tongs there… the On Leong Tong and the Hip Sing Tong. In this episode, we talk about the events and environment that led to the Tong Wars, focusing on Tom Lee of the On Leong Tong and how the corruption of law enforcement through Tammany Hall contributed to conflict escalation. We also talk about a few other key Chinese community leaders like Wo Kee, Lee Toy, and Wong Get. For more detailed information on the NY Tong Wars, we highly recommend the Scott Seligman book Tong Wars: The Untold Story of Vice, Money and Murder in New York's Chinatown. In our second segment, we celebrate the recent gold medal for Madison Chock and Evan Bates in Ice Dancing at the recent World Figure Skating Championships, not to mention the 6 medals won by Japanese and Korean skaters. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Getting Caught Up
• 03:19 The History of the Tong Wars Part 2
• 20:54 Celebrating Madison Chock, Evan Bates, several Japanese and Korean skaters

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 15. In this ICYMI Encore Episode, we go back to Season 2, Episode 29. If you’re a fan of HBO’s show Warrior, like we are, then you’re familiar with the prevalence of tongs in Chinatowns in the late 1800s and early 1900s. In this episode, we talk about The Six Companies and the formation of tongs. These tongs didn’t originate as illegal or violent groups, but that changed as a result of several factors. We focus on the challenges and environment that led up to the Tong Wars in San Francisco. We close out with a new segment called “What’s Wrong With That?” where we talk about the term “Oriental”. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:26 Intro
• 00:55 The History of the Tong Wars Part I
• 17:12 What’s Wrong With “Oriental”?

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 14. In this ICYMI Encore Episode, we go back to Season 2, Episode 19. There are a lot of Filipino nurses. In fact, the Philippines is the leading exporter of registered nurses across the world. So how did that happen? Spoilers… American Colonialism was a factor. To celebrate National Nurses Day, we take a look into the History of Filipino Nurses and talk about some of the conditions they face with discrimination and racism. If this topic intrigues you, then we highly recommend reading the book Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History by Catherine Ceniza Choy, a professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley. To begin this episode, we start with a brief history of National Nurses Day. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:26 National Nurses Day
• 02:44 The History of Filipino Nurses

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 13. In this next ICYMI Encore Episode, we talk about The History of Ketchup. Is there a more American condiment than Ketchup? It’s as ubiquitous of a condiment as you’ll find, and it actually has Asian roots. No, Heinz wasn’t the first… so where did it originate, what was it made of, and how has it changed? This episode originally aired Season 2, Episode 5. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 12. This is an #ICYMI (In Case You Missed It) Encore Episode. Originally airing on Season 2, Episode 13, this episode is all about the U.S. vs. Wong Kim Ark. Do you know why people born in the United States get birthright citizenship? Most textbooks point to the 14th Amendment as the reason for this, but the U.S. vs. Wong Kim Ark ruling solidified this right. In this episode, we discuss the history of this landmark ruling. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 11! We definitely want to celebrate Everything Everywhere All At Once and their huge wins at the Academy Awards. Before that, we focus on the first Asian ever to be nominated for an Academy Award, Merle Oberon… not just the first Asian woman nominated for best actress. Her 1935 nomination for playing Kitty Vane in Dark Angel was the first Academy Awards nomination for any Asian Pacific Islander ever. Her life was a little wild, and not just because she was white passing and never admitted to being part South Asian and part Maori, a secret that she kept to her grave. We do take plenty of time to celebrate the Daniels, Ke Huy Quan, Michelle Yeoh, and the entire cast and crew of Everything Everywhere All At Once and their 7 Academy Award Wins! For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Intro
• 02:03 The History of Merle Oberon
• 18:25 Celebrating Everything Everywhere All At Once

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 10! The Paper Tigers is one of our favorite Asian American movies. It’s full of action, comedy, and a good dose of drama and deeper messaging. It’s an award winning film that should be talked about more. In this episode’s conversation, we get a chance to talk to Bao Tran, the writer and director of The Paper Tigers along with producers Mike Velasquez, of E3 Productions, and Yuji Okumoto, a veteran actor with over 100 credits to his name. Bao is also a successful editor, working on Cho Lon and Jackpot. Mike has worked as a writer, director, producer, and in visual effects. Yuji may be known for his role of Chozen Toguchi in Karate Kid II and Cobra Kai, but we loved him in Awesome Asian Bad Guys and True Believer. Bonus reason to like him. He owns the successful Seattle-based restaurant Kona Kitchen with his wife Angela. The chemistry, rapport, and respect Bao, Mike, and Yuji have for each other was apparent throughout the conversation. If you haven’t seen The Paper Tigers, we highly recommend adding it to your watchlist. The significance of such an original film with a diverse, predominantly Asian American cast should be celebrated more. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 9! We love bringing back guests and getting a chance to talk about more topics. Today’s return guest is Brad Jenkins, the President and CEO of the AAPI Victory Fund, the first Super PAC focused on mobilizing Asian American and Pacific Islander voters in the U.S. Brad Jenkins has a long decorated history that includes being an award-winning producer with Funny or Die and founding Enfranchisement Productions. In today’s conversation, we cover a LOT of things including a reflection on the November mid-term elections, the current congress, being a guest of Andy Kim and watching many failed votes for Speaker of the House, the importance of Ted Lieu’s role in the Democratic Party, how to battle disinformation and outright lies, and what the Victory Fund will be focusing on now. We encourage you to follow the work of the AAPI Victory Fund and donate to amplify their work. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 8! February 19, 2023 marks 100 years since the landmark U.S. vs. Bhagat Singh Thind ruling that further defined who were considered caucasian in this country and eligible for citizenship. Spoilers… it didn’t include people of Asian descent. Although Dr. Thind is best known for his part in this ruling, he spent his life here, providing lectures and also being an activist for a free and independent India without British rule. And he did all these while facing racism and a U.S. population that often viewed him as a perpetual foreigner. We take time to talk about his fascinating life, including his imprisonment in Omaha, Nebraska in 1942. Dr. Thind has a website created by his son where you can learn more about him. We also take time to talk about the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA.org). We recommend visiting their site, donating to their work, and buying their recent book Our Stories: An Introduction to South Asian America. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Welcoming Gen back
• 01:54 The History of Bhagat Singh Thind
• 21:18 Organizations to Know: South Asian American Digital Archive

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 7! Sometimes our conversations intersect with some of our other passions, including food and music. This was one of those conversations. It was such a blast talking to Tahlena Chikami! She’s the lead singer of the ska group, Bite Me Bambi, and we didn’t just focus on music! From the Japanese internment to vegan food to singing covers to her songwriting process, Tahlena shared all of that and so much more. A former actress, she’s an extremely talented singer who’s a self-proclaimed “ham,” and you can tell from the Bite Me Bambi videos and their twice-weekly Twitch stream. You can follow Bite Me Bambi on all their social media, including Instagram, Facebook, Twitch, and YouTube. You can also support them through their Patreon page. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 6! Do you think all Asian Pacific Islanders play classical music? There are a lot of APIs who play classical music, but not all of us fulfill that stereotype, especially in the professional sector. The truth is, according to the 2016 report The Racial/Ethnic and Gender Diversity in the Orchestra Field by the League of American Orchestras, the vast majority of professional classical musicians are white, and although Asian Pacific Islanders are the most represented classical musicians who are people of color, they are a small minority. The representation drops further for any position of power. So this week we talk about three Asian Pacific Islander composers you should know: Zhou Long, Kenji Bunch, and Cerise Lim Jacobs. To learn more and get involved, we recommend visiting Kenji Bunch’s Fear No Music and Cerise Lim Jacob’s White Snake Projects which both mix classical music, empowerment, and activism. To open this episode, we discuss the Grammy award wins for the API community. To close the episode we launch a new thematic series called “Not as Asian as You Might Think” where we talk about the Lazy Susan and whether it’s as Chinese as most people think. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Reflecting on the Grammy Awards
• 03:31 Asian Pacific Islanders in Classical Music
• 14:09 Not as Asian as You Think: The Lazy Susan

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 5! In episode 3 of this season, we talked about the amazing Kim Loo Sisters. Today’s episode we had a chance to talk with Leslie Li, the daughter of the third sister, Jeneé. Other than writing the book Just Us Girls: The Kim Loo Sisters, Leslie is working on the documentary of the group and she is an accomplished author as well. She wrote the books Bittersweet as well as Daughter of Heaven: A Memoir with Earthly Recipes. We really enjoyed our conversation with Leslie, and she shared stories of the Kimmies as well as information on her books, her thoughts on diverse storytelling, what she’s working on now, and so much more. To learn more about Leslie’s books, visit her book page on her site. We really hope the Kim Loo Sisters documentary gets made, because we need to celebrate Asian American History before it gets forgotten. So hopefully there’s a wealthy benefactor who’s listening to this podcast who can help out. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 4! We begin this episode with reflections on the recent shootings in Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay. We also talk about the White House celebrating Lunar New Year as well as the recent nominations of Asian Pacific Islanders for the Grammy Awards and Academy Awards… and there are a LOT, with the biggest news being the 11 Academy Award nominations for Everything Everywhere All at Once. The main story continues the Award theme as we explore the life of James Wong Howe, the first person of Asian descent to win an Academy Award. Have you heard of this amazing cinematographer who innovated filmmaking as a Director of Photography? He spanned some major changes in film like moving from silent films to “talkies” and going from black and white to color, but he never stopped innovating despite obstacles like racism. We close out the episode with another segment of Obscure Asian Comic Book Characters to talk about Sha Shan Nguyen. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Thoughts on Recent Shootings and the Grammy Award and Academy Award Nominees
• 12:40 The History of James Wong Howe
• 24:43 Obscure Asian Comic Book Characters: Sha Shan Nguyen

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 3! Happy Lunar New Year! We’re back with a new episode. Have you heard of the Kim Loo Sisters AKA the Kimmies AKA the Chinese Andrews Sisters? We wouldn’t be surprised if you hadn’t, but they were really famous as a vaudeville family act and grew bigger… even performing on Broadway and in Hollywood. It’s a shame that there are so few recordings of their work that have been saved over the years, but Leslie Li, the daughter of the third sister Jeneé, is working on a documentary and has written a companion book called Just Us Girls: The Kim Loo Sisters that’s available on the Amazon Kindle store. The documentary is in post-production, but you can see a trailer on the movie site. You can also see Leslie’s other books on her site. We begin the show by talking about Lunar New Year, including the tragic shooting in Monterey Park, CA. We close the show with Celebrations and talk about Miss Universe, The Golden Globes, and The Critic’s Choice Awards… Big wins for Everything Everywhere All at Once, Michelle Yeoh, and Ke Huy Quan! For previous episodes and resources, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 The California Government Recognizes Lunar New Year and Tragedy in Monterey Park, CA
• 03:00 The History of the Kim Loo Sisters
• 21:59 Celebrating R’Bonney Gabriel, Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once, the Daniels, Pachinko, and Naatu Naatu from RRR

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 2! It’s probably a good bet that you remember the school names and communities of Columbine, Parkland, and Sandy Hook… not to mention so many other recent school shootings. But before most of those happened was the Cleveland School Massacre in Stockton on January 17, 1989. As we approach 34 years since this incident, we don’t know why it’s generally ignored nowadays, but it shouldn’t be. When we talk about forgotten massacres, it’s understandable that events have been forgotten from a hundred years ago or more… but when something is only a few decades ago and was the worst school shooting in history at that time… it boggles our minds that it’s largely ignored or forgotten. In this episode we talk about the Cleveland Elementary Shooting as well as the shooter, a 24-year-old white supremacist named Patrick Purdy. Although we spend a good amount of time going into his background, that is not to develop excuses for his horrible actions… only to illustrate how many years and opportunities there were for someone… anyone… to realize his racist rants and questionable behavior should have been called out. Anti-Asian violence doesn’t happen randomly. We recommend reading the report on the event provided to Attorney General John Van De Kamp as well as supporting the group Cleveland School Remembers. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Intro to the Most Forgotten Massacres in AAPI History
• 01:53 The Cleveland School Massacre in Stockton
• 17:42 Organizations to Know: Cleveland School Remembers

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 1! Can you believe we’re in season 3? In this first episode of 2023, we focus on some of our favorite topics and conversations, including the following…

Episodes we want everyone to listen to:

• ICYMI Encore Episode of Celebrating Anna May Wong
• Chinese and the Transcontinental Railroad
• The United States vs Wong Kim Ark
• The History of Nuclear Weapons Testing in the Pacific Islands

Favorite non-interview episodes:

• The History of Ketchup
• The History of Cambodian Doughnut Shops
• The History of Hawaii Regional Cuisine
• The History of Climbing Mount Everest AKA Chomolungma

Favorite conversations:

• A Conversation with Oliver Chin (Get his latest, More Awesome Asian Americans)
• A Conversation with Grace Lin
• A Conversation with Buddha Lo
• A Conversation with Anthony Christian Ocampo (Get Brown and Gay in LA)
• A Conversation with the Creative Women of Kwento Comics (Get the Mask of Haliya!)
• Thanks to the MPR Firm for helping facilitate amazing conversations with Yvonne Chapman, Jacky Lai, Tony Jiu Hoong Giroux, Hiro Kanagawa, and Dorren Lee!

Favorite recurring segments:

• Obscure Asian Comic Book Characters like Collective Man and Tsunami
• Origin of Mongolian Spots

Thanks to everyone we interviewed and all who have tuned in to listen. Did we miss mentioning some of your favorites? Let us know! Happy New Year!!! For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Intro
• 00:46 A Few of Our Favorite Things

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 58! We’re back with our final episode of 2022, and it’s a fascinating piece of ethnic enclave history. Most Chinatowns across the world have similar structural elements: pagodas, specific colors, terra cotta tiles, and more. So how did this happen? It might surprise you that stereotypical Chinatown architecture was created by white people hired by Chinese Americans. Although San Francisco was the first place this happened, their success in creating a welcoming environment influenced the re-design of almost all Chinatowns across the world. We also take time to celebrate Ted Lieu and Michelle Yeoh in the second segment. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Thanks and an Intro on Chinatown Architecture
• 02:05 The History of Stereotypical Chinatown Architecture
• 14:15 Celebrating Ted Lieu and Michelle Yeoh

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 57! We’re back with a new episode! The move is done, we finally unpacked our audio gear, and we’re eager to create some new content. This episode is a conversation with Asian Canadian actress Dorren Lee. She’s probably best known for being in recurring roles on Diggstown and Kung Fu, but she also played the narcissistic boss, Ingrid Jordan, in the romantic comedy Lease on Love. She has several other credits to her name including the upcoming short film The Park, where Dorren not only acts in it but also writes, produces, and directs. We talk to her about that experience as well as several of her other roles, how classical piano has helped her acting, thoughts on more representational roles and stories, the importance of Diggstown and Kung Fu, learning American Sign Language, the power of making mistakes, and so much more. For previous episodes and resources, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 56! In today’s In Case You Missed It (ICYMI) Encore Episode, we revisit Season 1, Episode 62 where we discuss the history of Japanese food in America. So many Asian foods in America are expected to be cheap either in price or quality, but Japanese food is one of the few Asian cuisines that is viewed as more refined and deserving of higher prices. However, it wasn’t always that way. We took time to discuss that in this episode. One high end Japanese restaurant we mentioned was Shojin with locations in Downtown Los Angeles and Culver City. We also shared What Are We Watching and discussed the Netflix Rom-Com Love Hard starring Jimmy O. Yang. We gave our thoughts both good and bad on the Asian representation in this movie. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 0:26 How Asian Food is Viewed in America
• 08:29 The History of Japanese Food in America
• 23:18 What Are We Watching, Love Hard

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 55! In today’s In Case You Missed It (ICYMI) Encore Episode, we revisit Season 1, Episode 49 where we discuss Shih Yang, the most famous and accomplished pirate ever who just happened to be a Chinese woman. Her incredible life made her one of the most influential pirates in history not just in Asia. We also took time to celebrate Emma Raducanu and Leylah Fernandez, the amazing women of Asian descent at the U.S. Open who competed in the singles finals back in 2021. We closed this episode by talking about linguistics and the myth that all Asians mix-up the R and L sounds in English. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:26 Celebrating the All-Asian Ethnicity U.S. Open Final
• 03:04 Shih Yang, the Most Famous Asian Pirate
• 17:25 Say What? Rs and Ls

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 54! In today’s In Case You Missed It (ICYMI) Encore Episode, we revisit Season 1, Episode 43 where we discuss The Bamboo Ceiling and the Sticky Floor… terminology that refers to the limitations that are often in place keeping Asian American and Pacific Islanders outside of management and executive roles. This is especially true of API women. To learn more about the wage gap for API women. We also took time to discuss the Olympics and the problematic phrase “Open the Kimono.” For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 0:26 Checking in and Olympics Musings
• 04:00 The Bamboo Ceiling and the Sticky Floor
• 17:40 Say What? Open the Kimono

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 53! In today’s In Case You Missed It (ICYMI) Encore Episode, we revisit one of our favorite interviews that originally aired Season 1, Episode 37. Professor Naoko Wake is the author of American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki published by Cambridge University Press. She is a historian of gender, sexuality, and illness in the twentieth century United States and the Pacific Rim who works at Michigan State University. She joined us to have a conversation about her book and the interviews she conducted. It was a sad yet fascinating piece of our history that we rarely hear about. We urge everyone to go out and read this book. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 52! In today’s In Case You Missed It (ICYMI) Encore Episode, we dig back to Season 1, Episode 21 where we began our series of ‘Merica’s Forgotten Massacres (MFM) where we discuss the history of anti-Asian massacres and lynchings in the United States. In this first installment we talked about the Chinese Massacre of 1871 in Los Angeles as well as the San Francisco Riot of 1877. We’ve covered a lot more incidents than these first two, but this is where it all began. We also introduced a new segment called “Origins” where we focus on the strange, slightly racist origins of some common idioms or slang. This episode we confronted the phrase “Long time, no see.” Want to learn more? For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 2:20 History that led to the first massacres
• 8:56 Chinese Massacre of 1871
• 16:52 San Francisco Riot of 1877
• 23:57 Origins of “Long time, no see”

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 51! In today’s In Case You Missed It (ICYMI) Encore Episode, we dig back to Season 1, Episode 4 on the life of Larry Kwong, the first person to break the color barrier in the National Hockey League. Nicknamed The China Clipper and King Kwong, he hasn’t gotten nearly enough recognition for his many accomplishments. For example, we think he should be in the Hockey Hall of Fame, and there are others who believe it too. We began this episode with an apology to KoRoot for messing up their name last episode. And we closed the episode with a segment on the origin of describing Asians as “yellow.” To read more about Larry Kwong, check out King Kwong: Larry Kwong, The China Clipper Who Broke the NHL Colour Barrier by Paula Johanson. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 0:26 Reflecting on 40 Episodes and Apologies to KoRoot
• 3:34 The Life and Career of Larry Kwong
• 16:10 Say What? The Origin of Calling Asians Yellow

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 50! It’s another In Case You Missed It (ICYMI) Encore Episode. It's Diwali! So this time we’re featuring A History of Indian Food in America which originally aired Season 1, Episode 23. We provide a little history and then focus on the differences between Indian food here in the U.S. vs India. Interested in getting some Indian flavors at home? Try out Nummy Nibbles. We begin the episode by talking about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and his Hollywood Reporter article on the need for better media roles for Asian Americans. To close out this episode, we talk about What Are We Watching? We discuss the amazing series Warrior (for mature audiences). We can’t wait for Season 3 on HBO! For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:30 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
• 06:02 A History of Indian Food in America
• 18:14 What are We Watching? Warrior

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 49! This is an #ICYMI (In Case You Missed It) Encore Episode. Originally airing as Episode 16 in Season 1, we were celebrating International Women’s Day and did a profile on Anna May Wong, the first Asian American actress and style icon extraordinaire. With the recent announcement that she will be featured on a U.S. quarter, making her the first Asian American to be featured on U.S. currency, it’s a good time to revisit this episode. There’s also aa upcoming biopic of Anna May Wong starring Gemma Chan! In this episode, we also take time to bring attention to The Center for Asian Pacific American Women. Check them out when you have a chance. They do incredible work! For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:26 Talking about International Women’s Day
• 02:53 Celebrating Anna May Wong
• 22:48 Featuring The Center for Asian Pacific American Women

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 48! This is an #ICYMI (In Case You Missed It) Encore Episode. Originally airing as Episode 5, this has been one of our favorite episodes we ever researched, recorded, and published. We talk about the first Asians in America... Spoilers, it's not the Chinese. Since it’s Filipino American History Month, it seems like another good reason to post this again. In the secondary segment, we talk about the first really famous Asian American performers, Chang and Eng, the Siamese Twins. For the next 6-8 weeks, we will be posting other great #ICYMI Encore Episodes! If you’d like to find previous episodes and resources, please visit https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or our social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:27 Welcome and Catch-up
• 03:46 The First Asians in America
• 12:28 The First Asian American Performers Chang and Eng

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 47 with special guest host Dr. Trang Lai! We’re always excited to talk about food, so here we are to talk about Thai Food in America. We love Thai cuisine because it’s such a great balance of fresh herbs and punchy flavors. And we’re not alone. Thai cuisine is among the most popular in the U.S. and across the world. When we think about Thai food, we think about how so many dishes balance salty, sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, and umami. Do you know the various qualities of the five regions of Thai cuisine? How about the different reasons that Thai food accelerated in popularity in the last half century? You can learn all about that as well as the origin of Pad Thai in this episode. And if you want to learn more about Thai food after listening, then go out and read Flavors of Empire: Food and the Making of Thai America by Mark Padoongpatt. Also, we have an announcement in the second segment… we’re taking a break while we sell our house and move to our new one. So for the next month or so, we’ll be featuring some of our favorite season 1 episodes and sharing them as an encore release. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Talking About Our Favorite Thai Dishes
• 02:05 A History of Thai Food in America
• 18:05 Taking a Break While We Move

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 46! Every now and then, something comes along that opens up doors and captures your imagination. We really feel that Kwento Comics and their first comic book, The Mask of Haliya could serve to impact the world of comic books and media in that way. An all women-run, all Asian led team, Kwento Comics is out to open up minds regarding stories with Filipino and Asian Mythology. We had the pleasure of sitting down and having a conversation with Founder and CEO Cecilia Lim, Producer and COO Waverley Lim, Head Writer Kaitlyn Fajilan, and Editor and Art Liaison Jenapher Zheng. They shared their origin stories, what it’s like diving into pre-colonial mythology from the Philippines, the importance of creating realistic characters, how they develop cinematic artwork, the importance of normalizing food and language to discourage making Filipino/a characters feel exotic, the response to The Mask of Haliya so far, and so much more. With two issues out, this is an amazing story with universal themes that will speak to everyone whether you’re Asian, Asian American, or not. We highly recommend buying the first two issues that have come out, following them on your favorite social media platform whether it’s Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and/or TikTok, and signing up for their newsletter. We can’t wait to see what they do next! For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 45! More diverse stories have been on the rise in the last decade or so… especially in books. One of the most accomplished authors who has led the charge is Grace Lin, the award-winning writer of picture books, early readers, and novels including Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Ling & Ting, and A Big Mooncake for Little Star. She’s one of the few authors who has won both the Caldecott and Newbery honors… not to mention a 2016 Champion of Change honor and the 2022 Children’s Literature Legacy Award from the American Library Association. We had such a wonderful time in our conversation with Grace Lin, and we were fan-girling and fan-boying pretty hard. She was so amazingly articulate and gracious with her time and stories. We had a chance to talk about her start in writing and illustrating, the honors she’s received, her activism, how she developed a mindset of reckless bravery, and what’s next in her career. Be sure to check-out her talks on PBS NewsHour “Your favorite book from childhood might be racist” and TEDx Natick "The Windows and Mirrors of Your Child's Bookshelf.” She’s also an active podcaster with Kids Ask Authors, Book Friends Forever, and kidlitwomen*. For previous episodes and resources, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 44! Anthony Christian Ocampo is a professor, sociologist, and author. His latest book is Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons published by NYU Press. It’s a book full of powerful interviews with second generation gay men of Filipino and Latinx descent. Raised in Northeast Los Angeles, Ocampo earned his BA in comparative studies in race and ethnicity. He then earned his MA in modern thought and literature from Stanford University and his MA and PhD in sociology from UCLA. He is now a professor of Sociology at Cal Poly Pomona. Prior to his latest book, he also wrote The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race, and he edited Contemporary Asian America: A Multi-Disciplinary Reader. In our conversation we talk about Brown and Gay in LA as well the impact of media, intersectionality, and so much more! His book comes out on September 21, 2022, and we highly recommend buying it! You can even get a discount if you go to the NYU Press site and enter “OCAMPO30-FM”. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 43! The second (and hopefully last episode with only Ted as the host)… Today’s guest is Manjusha P. Kulkarni. Manju is one of the three co-founders of Stop AAPI Hate, the nation’s leading aggregator of hate incidents against AAPIs. In addition to founding and working with Stop AAPI Hate, she is also Executive Director of the AAPI Equity Alliance (formerly A3PCON), a coalition of over forty community-based organizations that serves and represents the 1.5 million Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Los Angeles County. In this conversation, we talk about their most recent national report Two Years and Thousands of Voices, the importance of intersectionality and allyship, how AAPI can support the most vulnerable in our community, future research by Stop AAPI Hate, and so much more. You can follow Stop AAPI Hate via their email newsletter or on social media like Instagram or Twitter. And of course, you can Report an Incident or Donate to support their work! For previous episodes and resources, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 42! Born and raised in France till his teens before moving to Vancouver, British Columbia, Tony Giroux has been a professional dancer, actor, and filmmaker. He is known for his work as the male lead, Billy Martin in Lifetime’s A Sugar and Spice Holiday, the first Lifetime holiday movie centered on an Asian American story. Most recently, he has played Adil, an important recurring character in the show Motherland: Fort Salem. For three seasons of Motherland, he has played Adil with humor, nuance, and depth. He’s also the director of the award-winning documentary My Name Is that focuses on the power and challenges when you’re a person of color with a non-European name. In our conversation, we cover a LOT of ground, discussing his experiences, how he views change, being cast in A Sugar and Spice Holiday, chemistry with Jacky Lai and his co-stars in Motherland, his thoughts on Masculinity, the impact of My Name Is, and so much more. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 41! As huge fans of Top Chef, we were so over the moon excited to get a chance to interview Top Chef 19 winner Buddha Lo. He is the sixth Top Chef winner of Asian Pacific Islander descent, but Buddha did it in a unique way. Originally hailing from Australia, Buddha went to Houston having prepared for the competition like no other contestant before him, and it showed. His creations were consistently beautiful, delicious, and refined. In our conversation, we talk about his preparation for Top Chef, his dedication to family, how he and his wife Rebekah support each other, his hopes for the future of fine dining, and so much more. We even talk a little about how previous Top Chef contestants like Dale Talde are harder judges. Skilled, confident, and yet still so down-to-earth, Buddha’s work can be found at Marky’s Caviar on Madison Ave and Huso. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 40! We’re fans of professional sumo in Japan. It’s fun to watch and takes a great amount of skill. There’s actually a relatively rich history of Asian American and Pacific Islanders in professional sumo. Although there aren’t any impactful AAPI in the sport now, there have been some amazing wrestlers in the past including Konishiki, Akebono, and Mushashimaru, but they aren’t the only ones. Those three peers may not have achieved the levels they did without Takamiyama. We provide a quick overview of professional sumo, but if you’re interested in learning more, we recommend the new Sumo Primetime and Sumostew channels on YouTube, the NHK Sumo and Sumopedia webpages, and the Sumo Wrestling Fandom Wiki. We begin this episode by celebrating Janet Yang for her recent election to President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Michelle Yeoh for her recent honorary doctorate from the American Film Institute. We close out this episode with a segment on the Origin of the term “Mongolian Spots.” For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Celebrating Janet Yang and Michelle Yeoh
• 02:29 AAPI in Professional Sumo
• 25:35 The Origin of Mongolian Spots

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 39! We love reading… and finding an author who creates more diverse representational stories is always a treat. In this episode’s conversation, we welcome Oliver Chin who is not only an author of over 20 titles, but he’s also the founder of the publishing house Immedium which really does a great job in promoting diverse stories. His latest work, More Awesome Asian Americans is available for everyone to support via Kickstarter. Done in a graphic novel style, it’s the follow-up to one of our favorites, Awesome Asian Americans. There’s only about a week left to support More Awesome Asian Americans, so we highly recommend not waiting till the August 17, 2022, 9:00AM PDT end of the project. Oliver is a thoughtful person who has created fun stories to promote Asian and Asian American culture, and we need more of that. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 38! We love reading and learning, so it was a treat to get a chance to have a conversation with Daryl Joji Maeda, the Dean and Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education at the University of Colorado Boulder. His latest book is Like Water: A Cultural History of Bruce Lee. It was a fascinating, well-researched book that takes a deeper look into Bruce Lee, his life, and the social conditions he faced on his way to becoming a global superstar. In our conversation, Daryl shares the importance of Asian Pacific Islander representation in leadership positions, why Bruce Lee continues to be a popular icon, how colonialist mindsets create challenges for acceptance of Asian Pacific Americans in media, and so much more. We highly recommend getting a copy of his latest book or either of his two previous books! For prior episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 37! History books and curriculum are missing a lot of information. There are a plethora of moments that are ignored or not talked about in true depth. Even worse are the times throughout our history that the majority has worked to erase the history, culture, and very existence of groups like Asian Pacific Islanders. Today we begin a series of looks at those moments in U.S. history. First up, we talk about the erasing of Historic Wintersburg in Huntington Beach, California. This 4.5 acre parcel of land is a slice of Japanese American history that spans three generations from the early 1900s through the early 2000s. However, the current owners of the land, Republic Services, are trying to ignore the historical significance and turn the land into a public storage facility. There are groups working hard to preserve history, but it’s an uphill battle. To support, you can always learn more about Historic Wintersburg and donate to their efforts or write directly to Republic Services with some of the linked suggested talking points. We close out the episode with the segment What Are We Watching? This week we discuss the animated feature Abominable starring the voices of Chloe Bennet, Tenzing Norgay Trainor, and Albert Tsai. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:26 Erasing History
• 01:46 The Erasing of Historic Wintersburg
• 23:00 What Are We Watching? Abominable

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 36! Kiyoka “Kex” Rhodes is an award-winning filmmaker who expresses her storytelling through writing, producing, and directing. She leverages her creativity by trying to increase more representative stories and opportunities. She is the Founder and Creative Director of Kex Studios, a full-service production company that specializes in film and video, branded content, and graphic design. We’re so excited for her latest project, Desolate Dreams, a story set in 1942 about an African American journalist who advocates for justice alongside a Japanese American family forced into prison camps. In our conversation, she shares a little about how she was inspired to be a filmmaker, the challenges for women of color in the industry, and her latest project Desolate Dreams. We close out this episode with a short segment on the origin of the California roll. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Introduction
• 01:41 A Conversation with Kiyoka Rhodes
• 17:49 The Origin of the California Roll

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 35! About 49 years ago, Bruce Lee passed away at the age of 32. Even to this day, Lee is an icon and role model for martial arts, activism, and the Asian Pacific Islander community. With the anniversary of his passing coming up on July 20, we take time to share a little about his life and career. His memory and ideas are still honored by his daughter Shannon Lee and the Bruce Lee Foundation. The foundation is supported through sales of books, shirts, and more at the Bruce Lee Store. We begin this episode by discussing some current events and end it with a new segment called Spectacular API Sidekicks where we decide to embrace the fact that API characters have often been the sidekick in stories. We select one and talk about what makes them amazing. This installment we reflect on Ned Leeds, the spectacular sidekick and “man in the chair” for the Marvel Cinematic Universe version of Spider-Man. This role is played by Jacob Battalon, a Filipino American actor born in Hawaii. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Reviewing Current Events
• 06:15 The Life and Career of Bruce Lee
• 29:20 Spectacular API Sidekicks: Ned Leeds

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 34! This week we talk to Varun Nikore, the executive director of the AAPI Victory Alliance. Founded in 2017 as AAPI Progressive Action, the AAPI Victory Alliance works to build Asian American and Pacific Islander political power across the country by providing education on progressive issues; creating and advocating for policies that affect our communities; and building alliances with organizations to help AAPIs exert their power and be the margin of victory at the local, state, and national levels. We discuss his background, some of the key work the Victory Alliance is doing, and why Texas is such a focus to benefit the AAPI community and our country. Part of our conversation centered on intersectionality and why the AAPI community needs to reach out and work with other marginalized groups. We should all care about voting rights, women’s rights, gun control, immigration rights, and LGBTQ+ rights… just to name a few things. After all, these are just a few of the civil rights that have been challenged or attacked in recent months. Varun also shared some information on the AAPI Victory Alliance Think Tank, the first of its kind. Listen to this episode for some additional important issues and discover how you can get involved. You can also support their work by donating to the AAPI Victory Alliance. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 33! On June 30, 1946, about 76 years ago, the United States began nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific Islands. The approximately 20 years of testing was predominantly executed in the Marshall Islands around Bikini Atoll and Enewetak Atoll. U.S. researchers, military, and government contaminated the islands and many of its residents with dangerous levels of radiation. The islands still suffer from long-term impacts from radioactive contamination, and they have never been fully compensated for losses or illness. Not sure about long-term impacts of radiation? Then we recommend listening to our conversation with Professor Naoko Wake from S01E37, we discuss her book American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. To begin the episode, we talk about some of the recent noteworthy conversations we’ve been having with guests. To be clear, we feel that all our interviews are noteworthy in different ways. We’re just happy to be able to share these conversations with listeners! These amazing guests are impacting politics, media, food, education, small businesses, and more. Some of the ones we reflect on are conversations with Yvonne Chapman, Wendy Mink & Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Sheldon Simeon, and Dale Talde. We close out the episode with a segment of What Are We Listening To? This episode we talk about new work by The Bruce Lee Band, Rina Sawayama, and Sarah Kinsley. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Reflecting on Recent Interviews
• 05:38 The History of Bomb Testing in the Pacific Islands
• 33:51 What Are We Listening To? The Bruce Lee Band, Rina Sawayama, Sarah Kinsley

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 32! We’ve admired Chef Dale Talde and his work for years. He’s a proud Filipino American who is the chef/owner of the restaurant Goosefeather and Food Crush Hospitality with his wife Agnes. He’s also a deep thinker who believes in more representation and mainstream normalization of Asian Pacific Islanders and our cuisine. He’s the author of the cookbook Asian-American: Proudly Inauthentic Recipes From The Philippines To Brooklyn which is an amazing blend of great food, Asian American history, and personal stories. At Goosefeather, he pays homage to Hong Kong style Chinese food and other Asian cuisines with his own multicultural twist that can only come from an Asian American raised in the U.S. Most recently he was nominated for the 2022 James Beard award for best chef in New York. We had a chance to sit down with Dale and talk about his career, his honest opinion about the Eurocentric focus of the culinary world, his struggles in life and with Asian American identity, his hopes for the future, and more. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 31! June 13th marks another anniversary for the landmark Miranda ruling that established rights that are read out when you’re arrested. However, there were rulings that influenced the Miranda decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. One such decision was Ziang Sung Wan vs The United States, a chilling case that included a triple murder and some police interrogation tactics that were questionable at best. It’s a fascinating case that was instrumental in better defining what a coerced confession looks like. We open this episode by talking about the history of Miranda vs Arizona, and we close it with highlighting The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund. Check out The AALDEF. You can volunteer, donate, or just learn more! And if you want to read more about the Ziang Sung Wan case, then we recommend the book The Third Degree by Scott Seligman. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:25 A Short History of Miranda Rights
• 04:45 The History of Ziang Sung Wan vs The United States
• 28:25 The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 30! Jacky Lai is a Canadian actress of Vietnamese descent who starred in A Sugar and Spice Holiday, the first Asian-led Lifetime holiday movie ever. She has also been a part of sci-fi fantasy shows like V Wars and The Shadowhunters. Her latest role is as Rina Kimura, one of the main characters in Eraser: Reborn a reboot of the 1996 movie Eraser. In this episode’s conversation, we had the pleasure of talking with Jacky and hearing about her process for getting into roles, her thoughts on API representation in media, what it meant to be in the first Asian-led Lifetime holiday movie, her latest role in Eraser: Reborn, and so much more. For all the ways to buy and rent Eraser: Reborn, visit the Warner Brothers site. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 29! If you’re a fan of HBO’s show Warrior, like we are, then you’re familiar with the prevalence of tongs in Chinatowns in the late 1800s and early 1900s. In this episode, we talk about The Six Companies and the formation of tongs. These tongs didn’t originate as illegal or violent groups, but that changed as a result of several factors. We focus on the challenges and environment that led up to the Tong Wars in San Francisco. We open the episode by talking about some recent current events that include Zachary Noah Piser in Dear Evan Hansen, Nathan Chen Day in Utah, Nguyen Coffee Supply in Whole Foods. We close out with a new segment called “What’s Wrong With That?” where we talk about the term “Oriental”. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Segments

• 00:26 Current Events
• 02:23 The History of the Tong Wars Part I
• 18:40 What’s Wrong With “Oriental”?

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 27! National Doughnut Day is coming soon! It’s safe to say that without the Cambodian American community, the world of independent doughnut shops in the U.S. would be very different. How did Cambodian refugees and immigrants end up with over 80% of the doughnut shops in California and Houston? In this episode, we talk about Ted Ngoy, some of the secret to success for Cambodian doughnut shops, and the lasting impact of the community. We also talk about the history of National Doughnut Day and do another installment of Obscure Asian Comic Book Characters. This time we feature someone more contemporary… Pearl Pangan AKA Wave, a Filipina superhero by Marvel Comics. To learn more about Ted Ngoy and Cambodian doughnut shops, we recommend the movie The Donut King by Alice Gu and the book of food essays Eating Asian America with an essay on Cambodian doughnuts and American culture by Erin Curtis. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

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00:25 Talking about Doughnuts and National Doughnut Day

05:07 The History of Cambodian Doughnut Shops

20:04 Obscure Asian Comic Book Characters: Pearl Pangan

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 26! Patsy Mink was an Asian Pacific American hero of so many causes. Although she is best known for her work and championing of Title IX, she also supported environmental issues, women’s rights, immigrant rights, and more. In today’s mid-week interview, we had the pleasure of talking to Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Wendy Mink, the co-authors of the amazing biography Fierce and Fearless: Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress. It was enlightening to be able to hear some first-hand stories from Wendy who is Patsy Mink’s daughter. To find copies of this incredible biography, you can go to any online book seller or get it from the publisher NYU Press. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com.

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 25! Most people know Mount Everest is the highest summit above sea level in the world. Did you know that its original name is Chomolungma? In this episode, we talk about the history of climbing Mount Chomolungma and the role of the Sherpa. We also talk about Tenzing Norgay, the Sherpa who was instrumental in summiting Mount Chomolungma with Edmund Hillary. We begin the episode by reflecting on the recent horrible shootings in Buffalo and Laguna Woods. We also reflect on our interview series and some of the conversations we’ve had with Brad Jenkins, Hiro Kanagawa, Yvonne Chapman, and Sheldon Simeon. If you haven’t heard them yet, we think you should because they’re great! We close out this episode with an installment of Origins by talking about the term “hapa.” We mention Professor Kip Fulbeck’s books part asian 100% hapa and hapa.me - 15 years of the hapa project. We highly recommend both! For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

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• 00:26 Recent shootings and talking about Interview Series
• 04:25 The History of Climbing Mount Chomolungma
• 24:12 Origins of the term “hapa”

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 24! There’s no secret to why Chef Sheldon Simeon was selected as “Fan Favorite” both times he was competing on Top Chef. He’s an amazingly down-to-earth person who puts family and community first. He’s also an incredible chef who has won multiple awards personally and for the food in his different restaurants like Tin Roof. In this conversation, we talk about his amazing cookbook Cook Real Hawai’i, his focus on family, the importance of taking control of the narrative on Hawai’i, Asian Pacific Islander representation in the culinary world, his love of the Ka’au Crater Boys, and so much more. You can get a copy of Cook Real Hawai’i almost anywhere, but we recommend that you buy a signed copy through Tin Roof because they donate 100% of the proceeds to the Maui Food Bank. That’s where we got our second copy! We apologize for the computer dings during the conversation! For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 23! Hawai’i Regional Cuisine is the culmination of over a century of the merging of tradition, fresh ingredients, colonialism, Asian immigrants, and more. It’s developed into what we think is the most unique and diverse regional cuisine in America. We talk about the various impacts on Hawaiian cuisine that influenced HRC over time as well as the current chefs leading the way. We begin the episode with some current events including James Hong receiving a well-deserved star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame! We close out the episode with another segment of What Are We Reading? This episode we talk about the comic book The Mask of Haliya by an amazing new group Kwento Comics and a graphic novel of short comics called The Outside which was led by The Kao. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at http://castpie.com/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 00:26 Current Events: More Anti-Asian Violence and James Hong!
• 02:57 The History of Hawai’i Regional Cuisine
• 25:56 What are We Reading? The Mask of Haliya and The Outside

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 22! We’ve had so many wonderful recent conversations with guests, and we don’t want it to stop! So here’s another installment in our mid-week interview series. This episode is a conversation with Yvonne Chapman, an actress best known recently as Zhilan, the main antagonist in the CW remake of Kung Fu. Her career also includes recurring roles in the TV shows Family Law and Street Legal. She generously shared her time and stories with us on her life in finance, struggles in auditioning, supporting diverse Asian Pacific roles, and more. Whether as Kyoshi on the upcoming adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender or on a future project she writes herself, we’re excited to see what Yvonne does next. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 21! We’re back to talk about one of our favorite things… food! This week we focus on The History of Korean Food in America. Which is inspiring for us because we love the flavors of Korean cuisine. One reason we’re talking about Korean food is because May 11th marks the anniversary of the name SPAM getting registered. And although Korean food is amazingly diverse and flavorful, there is some historical use of SPAM in Korea after the Korean War… notably the dish budae jjigae, or army base stew. We’re not fans of SPAM, so we’ll stick to eating kimchi, bibimbap, tteokbokki, ramyeon, and banchan! We begin this episode with some quick current events and shoutouts including our promo on the Vulgar History Podcast and being featured by Apple Podcasts. We close the show with another installment of Say What? This time we talk about the origin and use of the two phrases “no can do” and “Chinese whispers.” For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

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• 00:26 Current Events and talking about SPAM
• 06:10 The History of Korean Food in America
• 26:50 Say What? No Can Do and Chinese Whispers

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 20! Here comes another installment in our mid-week interview series. This week, our conversation is with Hiro Kanagawa, a veteran actor and voice over artist you’ve probably seen or heard over the past 30 years. He’s also a writer, so we take time to talk about acting, writing, the changes he’s seen over his career, and what he still hopes for. Additionally, we discuss some of his future work including Forgiveness, a story that touches on the Japanese Canadian internment during WWII. Some of his latest acting roles include Star Trek: Discovery and Altered Carbon. His award winning writing includes the play Indian Arm. Visit Hiro Kanagawa to learn more about him and is projects. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 19! There are a lot of Filipino nurses. In fact, the Philippines is the leading exporter of registered nurses across the world. So how did that happen? Spoilers… American Colonialism was a factor. To celebrate National Nurses Day, we take a look into the History of Filipino Nurses and talk about some of the conditions they face with discrimination and racism. If this topic intrigues you, then we highly recommend reading the book Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History by Catherine Ceniza Choy, a professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley. To begin this episode, we start with a brief history of National Nurses Day, and we close out the episode with another installment of What Are We Watching? This week we talk about going to see The King’s Jester, a live show by the incredible Hasan Minhaj. It was amazing for a lot of reasons! For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 00:26 National Nurses Day
• 02:44 The History of Filipino Nurses
• 23:03 What Are We Watching? The King’s Jester by Hasan Minhaj

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 18! This is another installment in our special interview series. In this episode, we talk to Brad Jenkins, the President and CEO of the AAPI Victory Fund, the first Super PAC focused on mobilizing Asian American and Pacific Islander voters in the U.S. We’ve talked about how representation in media, the boardroom, and athletics are all important. AAPI representation in the legislature, the executive office, and the judicial branch is essential because they can help accelerate education, understanding, and ultimately equity. This is at the core of the AAPI Victory Fund. Brad Jenkins was also an award-winning producer with Funny or Die and founded Enfranchisement Productions. If you want change and more AAPI representation, we encourage you to follow the work of the AAPI Victory Fund and donate to amplify their work. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 17! April 17th marked the anniversary of the fall of Phnom Peng, the capitol of Cambodia. So in our main segment, we talk about the history of Cambodia that led to the vast number of Cambodian refugees who came here in the 1970s and 80s. We also briefly reflect on Good Housekeeping online selecting us as as one of the 15 Best Podcasts From AAPI Creators to Add to Your List. A huge honor! And finally, we bring back the segment “Obscure Asian Comic Book Characters” and feature Tsunami, a DC Comics character. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

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• 00:26 Getting Noticed by Good Housekeeping Online
• 01:50 History of Cambodia Leading to Immigration to the U.S.
• 26:00 Obscure Asian Comic Book Characters Featuring Tsunami

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 16! Noodles and rice are two of the most ubiquitous food staples across Asian and Pacific Islander communities. The origin of noodles is debated, but we take a crack to explain a few of the different theories. We also discuss the spread of noodles across Asia and some notable dishes. Before talking about noodles, we begin with a few additional celebrations in the AAPI community. We close out this episode with a new segment called What Are We Eating, where we take a moment to share some great food items created by AAPI food companies. This week we talk about Nummy Nibbles and MingsBings. Not only are both delicious, but they also donate a percentage of the proceeds to non-profits! For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

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• 00:26 Continuing Celebrations
• 03:57 The History of Noodles
• 24:33 What Are We Eating: Nummy Nibbles and Ming’s Bings

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• 00:26 Some Good News
• 01:58 The Tacoma Riot of 1885 and the Seattle Riot of 1886
• 18:33 Celebrations in Sports, Grammy Awards, and Academy Awards

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 14! Most people like a good joke, but when it is harmful or demeaning, or there is a pattern of a specific target being laughed at instead of laughed with, then it can lead to reinforcing stereotypes and power dynamics. This is what has happened to Asian Pacific people in the U.S., and being the target of jokes desensitizing the impact with audiences and normalizes mocking of AAPI individuals. Today we take time to talk about some key moments when AAPI people were made to be the joke in movies or by comedians, celebrities, and athletes. There’s some great work done by the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. One of their studies was done with Gold House and the Coalition for Asian Pacifics in Entertainment called I Am Not a Fetish or Model Minority: Redefining What it Means to Be API in the Entertainment Industry. We also mention a great piece from The Daily Show where Ronny Chieng mocks Jesse Watters. In the rest of the episode, we talk about a history of April Fool’s Day and share our thoughts on Everything Everywhere All at Once. Spoilers… we LOVED it! For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Brief History of April Fool’s Day
• 05:07 Asian Pacific Islanders as the Joke
• 25:53 What Are We Watching? Everything Everywhere All at Once

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 13! Do you know why people born in the United States get birthright citizenship? Most textbooks point to the 14th Amendment as the reason for this, but the U.S. vs. Wong Kim Ark ruling solidified this right. In this episode, we discuss the history of this landmark ruling and also share some positive current events. In our second segment, we bring back What Are We Listening To? We talk about the podcast They Call Us Bruce as well as new music from Raveena and SASAMI. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or social media links at https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

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• 00:26 News and Thoughts on Citizenship
• 04:55 The U.S. vs Wong Kim Ark
• 19:08 What Are We Listening To: They Call Us Bruce, Raveena, and SASAMI

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 12! Do you know who the Chinese Marie Curie was? Chien-Shiung Wu was one of the greatest physicists ever and faced racism and sexism here in the U.S. in her professional journey. She overcame it to become a key physicist with research that helped the Manhattan Project goals as well as two other physicists who would win the Nobel Peace Prize. We also take time to do an update on Anti-Asian violence and hate acts. It’s amazing that even a year after Atlanta, the U.S. hasn’t gotten significantly safer for Asian Pacific Americans. Our closing segment is on the new Pixar animated feature Turning Red, written and directed by Domee Shi. This is the first U.S. created feature film that focuses on a main character of Asian descent. We talk a little about the controversial/racist review of the film by CinemaBlend and then discuss what we loved about it. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 00:25 An Update on Anti-Asian Violence
• 03:24 The Life and Career of Chien-Shiung Wu
• 19:49 What Are We Watching? Turning Red by Domee Shi

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 11! Did you know that the first professional basketball player who broke the color barrier was of Asian descent? That’s right, it was Wataru “Wat” Misaka. He battled racism and discrimination to become a winner at the high school and college levels before getting a chance to play professional basketball. We start this episode by celebrating some accomplishments of NHL players of Asian descent. And we end the episode with a new segment… Obscure Asian Comic Book Characters. This time we talk about Collective Man, a character created by Marvel. If you want to learn more about Wat Misaka, then we recommend a great documentary by Bruce Alan Johnson and Christine Toy Johnson called Transcending: The Wat Misaka Story. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

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• 00:25 Our Process and Recent Achievements of Asian American and Canadian NHL Player
• 03:49 The Life and Career of Wataru “Wat” Misaka
• 12:33 Obscure Asian Comic Book Characters, Collective Man

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 10! It’s time for another episode on food! This time we’re going to focus on one of our favorites… Vietnamese food. It’s interesting to examine the influences to Vietnamese food over the years that were a result of colonialism. Throughout all the occupiers, Vietnamese food has still had key flavors and ingredients used. We start this episode with some current events and end with a segment called Did You Know? In this one, we ask Did You Know that Dr. Seuss was a racist? Many have talked about this before, but the article The Cat is Out of the Bag by Katie Ishizuka and Ramon Stephens is a great resource for understanding how widespread Seuss’s white supremacist views were. If you’re looking for other children’s books with a variety of positive messages and better representation, then we recommend the linked blog post at Teach for the Change which features a great list at the end of it. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 00:26 Current Events
• 03:28 History of Vietnamese Food
• 19:23 Did You Know? Dr. Seuss was Kind of Racist

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 9! We begin with a few words on the Ukraine situation and our memories of trains. The main story is on something that will seem familiar to many U.S. taught students… The Chinese and the first Transcontinental Railroad. Chinese laborers were key in the building of the transcontinental railroad, all while facing discrimination and danger. We close out the episode with a Winter Olympics wrap-up. To learn more about the Chinese and the railroad, visit Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project or the Chinese Railroad Workers Descendants Association. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 00:25 Train Memories
• 05:24 History of the Chinese and the First Transcontinental Railroad
• 21:47 Olympics Wrap-up

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 8! February 19, 2022 marked 80 years since the signing of Executive Order 9066 that wrongly imprisoned over 120,000 Japanese Americans during WWII. Of the ten concentration camps that the U.S. government created (and referred to as relocation centers), Tule Lake was the most brutal. For our main segment, we talk about the history of the Tule Lake Segregation Center. We also take time to remember Christina Yuna Lee, another Asian American woman who was murdered in New York. We close out the episode with a segment of What Are You Reading? We talk about Journey of Heroes by Stacey Hayashi and illustrated by Damon Wong as well as They Called Us Enemy written by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, and Steven Scott and illustrated by Harmony Becker. Both are comic books that we highly recommend. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

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• 00:25 Christina Yuna Lee
• 02:58 Tule Lake Concentration Camp
• 20:01 What Are We Reading? Journey of Heroes and They Called Us Enemy

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• 00:26 Our Crazy Research and Writing Process
• 04:20 A History of Anti-Miscegenation Laws
• 21:41 Celebration of Asian Pacific Americans at the Beijing Olympics

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 6! It’s another installation of the Most Forgotten Massacres. This week we talk about the Hells Canyon Massacre and the Pacific Coast Race Riots. As always, it’s important to learn about and never forget some of the less savory parts of U.S. history. On the more positive side, we’re excited to support the athletes in the Olympics, so we also take time to highlight the Asian Pacific Americans in the Olympics. Think of it as a viewer’s guide to support Asian Pacific American Olympians. We begin this episode by talking about the pronunciation of ‘kecap’ and give kudos to the city of San Francisco. For previous episodes and information, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 00:26 Kecap and San Francisco Apologies for Anti-Chinese Racism
• 04:35 Hells Canyon Massacre and Pacific Coast Race Riots
• 26:36 Asian Pacific American Viewers Guide to the Olympics

Segments

• 00:26 Anna May Wong Quarters and Celebrating Lunar New Year
• 06:57 The History of Ketchup
• 20:01 Highlight Organizations: ACRS Food Bank and the Tzu Chi Foundation

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 4! We start by talking about Michelle Alyssa Go, the Asian American woman recently killed by being pushed on the subway tracks near Times Square in New York. It’s another tragic death of someone in the Asian Pacific American community. Our main segment is on the impact of Asian Americans in the Fishing and Shrimping Industries. From the Chinese in Monterey to the Vietnamese around the Gulf of Mexico, Asian Americans have had an impact in both fishing and shrimping despite discrimination and hate. We close out with a short segment on the meaning and origin of the phrase, “Chop Chop.” Is it racist? We give our take on it. Have you been the victim of Anti-Asian Hate? We encourage you to report to a group like Stop AAPI Hate. To learn more, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 00:26 Talking About Michelle Go and Hate Crimes
• 07:50 Asian Americans in the Fishing and Shrimping Industry
• 23:40 Origin of the Phrase Chop Chop

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 3! We begin this episode with some current events, but we take time to talk about chocolate as well! The main segment is in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as we focus on two more Asian Pacific American Civil Rights Leaders, Kiyoshi Kuromiya and Haunani-Kay Trask. Both were inspirational leaders with an impact in the U.S. and across the world. We close out the show by highlighting the organization SEARAC that helps promote equity for everyone but focuses on Southeast Asians. To learn more about our the Haunani-Kay Trask, we recommend that you visit this collection of video clips and writing by Haunani-Kay Trask. To learn more, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 00:26 Talking Chocolate and a Few Current Events
• 10:03 Remembering Kiyoshi Kuromiya and Haunani-Kay Trask
• 23:52 Highlight Organizations: SEARAC

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 2! It’s time to talk about music again, and we focus on the Asian Americans making an impact in R&B. Pretty much anyone who follows R&B knows H.E.R. and Bruno Mars, but the start for Asian Americans in R&B actually can be traced back to Hiroshima in the 70s and 80s. We also mention some other great new Asian Pacific R&B musicians like Keshi and Raveena. There are so many more amazing Asian Pacific artists, and several are getting opportunities through 88Rising and the 88NightMarket group as well as the JoyRuckusClub. We begin this episode by catching up on some current events that impacted the Asian Pacific American community including the #VeryAsian movement begun by award winning news anchor, Michelle Li. We also bring back our segment What Are We Watching, to talk about Snake Eyes and The Protege. To learn more, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 00:26 Catching Up with Good and Bad News for Asian Pacific Americans
• 14:58 Asian Americans in R&B
• 27:41 What Are We Watching: Snake Eyes and The Protege

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 1! We know that we have a lot of newer listeners, so this episode is a little bit of a refresher on our show and how our segments are set-up. We also take time to discuss some of our Resolutions and Hopes personally and for the podcast. What stories will you hear during Season 2? What interviews do we hope to do? To learn more, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 00:26 Ringing in Season 2 and Talking Personal Resolutions
• 04:53 Introduction to Asian American History 101 and What to Expect
• 13:00 Recurring Short Segments

Welcome to Episode 64! This is it… the end of Season 1. Whether you’ve been listening to us since the very beginning or just joined recently or anywhere in-between, we appreciate your support. What were some of your favorite episode topics and interviews? We share some of ours as well as some of the Asian American positive media we enjoyed reading and watching in 2021. Celebrate with us as you hear the things that made an impact to us. We also take a moment to talk about the water contamination crisis in Hawai’i. If you have been impacted, there’s been a Facebook page created to learn more and request help at the Armed Forces Housing Advocates. Also, in this episode, we mention one book a few times because of the subject matter as well as the amazing interview we had with it’s author, Professor Naoko Wake. We can’t say enough how much we learned when reading American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. To learn more, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 00:26 Water Contamination Crisis in Hawai’i
• 03:47 Reflecting on Our Favorite Episodes, Interviews, and More

Welcome to Episode 63! It’s still a few months away, but we’re so excited about the Winter Olympics, so we take time to talk about the history of Asian Americans in figure skating. Michelle Kwan and Kristi Yamaguchi are so well known, but we also take time to talk about Tiffany Chin. To open the episode, we take time to catch up and talk about the news on disaggregating Asian Pacific data. We also take time to talk about a great organization called Gold House that has a wonderful program called Gold House Futures. To learn more, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 00:26 Catching Up, Talking About Disaggregating the Asian Pacific Data, and Winter Olympic Excitement
• 07:32 Asian Americans in Figure Skating
• 21:19 Highlighting Organizations: Gold House

Welcome to Episode 62! It’s time to bring back another episode on the history of an Asian Pacific American food. In this episode, we talk about the history of Japanese food in America. From sukiyaki to teppanyaki to sushi, Japanese food is one of the few Asian cuisines that is viewed as more refined and deserving of higher prices, but it wasn’t always that way. We also bring back another segment of What Are We Watching and discuss the new Netflix Rom-Com Love Hard starring Jimmy O. Yang. We give our thoughts both good and bad on the Asian representation in this movie. One restaurant we mention is Shojin in Downtown Los Angeles and Culver City. To learn more, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 00:26 How Asian Food is Viewed in America
• 08:29 The History of Japanese Food in America
• 23:18 What Are We Watching, Love Hard

Welcome to Episode 61! Every December 7th we remember the attack on Pearl Harbor for good reason. Did you know that the Japanese military also executed coordinated attacks on three other U.S. Territories? For some reason, our K-12 history books don’t mention these much, but the Imperial Japanese forces also attacked Wake Island, Guam, and the Philippines. All three were U.S. territories with military bases. Our main story focuses on these three locations that were attacked within hours of the bombing at Pearl Harbor. We also take time to talk about the origin of the Mai Tai, a cocktail that evokes visions of Hawaii and other Polynesian islands. What’s the origin of the Mai Tai, and what are some issues with Tiki Bar aesthetics? We share that in our additional segment. If you want to read about the Filipino resistance fighters in World War II, there’s a great book called Philippines' Resistance: The Last Allied Stronghold in the Pacific by Stacey Anne Baterina Salinas and Klytie Xu. To learn more, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 00:26 Short Opening
• 01:23 The Attacks on Wake Island, Guam, and The Philippines
• 22:42 The Origin of the Mai Tai and

Welcome to Episode 60! Sessue Hayakawa was one of the first Hollywood heartthrobs, but he was also a villain. The exotic way he was cast was indicative of the Yellow Peril driven Asian villain trope. From Fu Manchu to Ming the Merciless to so many others, Asians are often the villain in Hollywood created TV and films. In this episode, we talk about the history of those two key villains as well as the characteristics of the exotic, evil Asian mastermind. We also take time to share our Thanksgiving highlights and celebrate the Grammy Nominees of Asian Pacific Islander descent. We love hearing from all of you. Which APIDA musician do you want to win a Grammy? Are there any Asian villains you’d like to learn the history of? Let us know! To learn more, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 00:26 Thanksgiving Highlights
• 07:18 History of Asian Villains in Hollywood
• 22:42 Celebrating the Grammy Nominees

Welcome to Episode 59! The Chinese Exclusion Act is one for the most restrictive laws that limited immigration. Although the majority of Chinese were barred from entering the country or becoming naturalized citizens, there was one loophole that allowed many Chinese Americans to claim citizenship and bring in additional Chinese. These were known as paper sons and daughters. We also talk about one particularly famous paper son, Tyrus Wong. There’s a great documentary about him called Tyrus by director Pamela Tom. Additionally, we bring back our segment What Are We Listening To? We talk about the music of Sanjana, Monsune, EASHA, Shreea Kaul, Silk Sonic, Deb Never. Do you have a favorite Asian Pacific American musician? Let us know! To learn more, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 00:26 Chinese Exclusion Act Comment
• 04:39 History of Paper Sons and Remembering Tyrus Wong
• 13:55 What Are We Listening To?

Welcome to Episode 58! Yes, we’re geeks who like fantasy, science fiction, superheroes, comic books, music, food and more. You can also add musical theatre to that list of things we love. In this episode, we take time to talk about the history of Asian Americans in musical theatre. Although there aren’t a plethora of Asian American stories being told on Broadway, there have been some notable individual performers in both Asian-specific and non-Asian-specific roles. We also bring back our segment on media called Accidentally Asian Pacific Positive. This time we highlight Eternals by the amazing storyteller and director Chloé Zhao. If you’re interested in statistics regarding representation on Broadway, we recommend the Visibility Report by the Asian American Performers Action Coalition. Be sure to check-out the East West Players as well. For fun, email us if you catch our atrocious mis-pronunciation of a Chinese instrument. Tell us what it was. To learn more, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 00:26 Reminiscing on Our Love of Musical Theatre
• 05:53 Asian Americans in Musical Theatre
• 19:27 Accidentally Asian Pacific Positive… Eternals

Welcome to Episode 57! Do you know the difference between the Congressional Gold Medal and the Medal of Honor? We take time to explain it in this episode to honor Veterans Day. Our main segment recognizes three groups of Asian Americans to win the Congressional Gold Medal: The Filipino veterans of WWII, the 100th Infantry Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team who were all Japanese American Soldiers, and the Chinese American Veterans of WWII. These three groups faced discrimination in life and in service, but still fought for this country because they believed in it. We also bring back our segment on Celebrations to talk about recent APIDA political wins in the recent elections. Here are a few places to learn more about the veterans of Filipino, Japanese, and Chinese descent. 100th Infantry Battalion Education Center, 442nd Regimental Combat Team Site, The Filipino Veterans Recognition and Education Project, Chinese American WWII Veterans Recognition Project. To learn more, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 00:26 History of Veterans Day
• 03:28 The Congressional Gold Medal
• 07:43 Filipino American Veterans of WWII
• 13:24 The 100th Infantry Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team
• 20:12 Chinese American Veterans of WWII
• 24:01 Celebrations! APIDA Political Wins

Welcome to Episode 56! There are Asian Pacific Islander Americans everywhere in the United States of America. But did you know there was a thriving Chinese community in the Mississippi Delta? In this episode we take time to talk about the history of the Chinese Americans in that area of the South. We also introduce a new recurring segment called Accidentally Asian Pacific Positive where we discuss TV and feature films that may not have focused on an Asian Pacific storyline but have positive Asian Pacific portrayals. This week we discuss the TV show The Good Place and the movie Yesterday. If you would like to learn more about the Chinese Americans in the Mississippi Delta, then we suggest this AJ+ episode The Untold Story of America’s Southern Chinese, a website called The Mississippi Delta Chinese: An Audiovisual Narrative, and also the documentary Far East Deep South. To learn more, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 00:26 Woah… Talking about 56 Episodes and Where Asian Pacific Islanders Live in America
• 05:23 Chinese Americans in the Mississippi Delta
• 17:24 Accidentally Asian Pacific Positive… The Good Place and Yesterday

Welcome to Episode 55! Ready for another episode on one of our favorite subjects? That’s right, it’s food time again! Today we talk about the history of Filipino food, one of the most unique foods around for its embrace of a variety of cultural cuisines that have influenced the ingredients and flavors over the centuries in the Philippines. From traders to colonialism, there are many influences to what’s considered traditional Filipino cuisine. We close the episode with another segment of Say What? This time we take on the term “Shanghai’d” or “Shanghaing.” Where did this weird and racist term come from? How is it still used today? If you want to follow some amazing Filipino chefs, check out Melissa Miranda, Dale Talde, and Jordan Andino just as a start. To learn more, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 00:26 Reminiscing on Filipino Food
• 06:37 The History of Filipino Food
• 21:57 Say What? To Shanghai

Welcome to Episode 54! This is another episode in our ongoing series we call MFM, Most Forgotten Massacres. Today we’re going to talk about the Rock Springs Massacre and the Attack on Squak Valley. These were horrible moments in the history of the United States of America where large groups of Chinese laborers were targeted with violence and discrimination. A lot of things happened that led to these events, and we provide some of those details. In this episode, we also take time to recognize National Coming Out Day and highlight a few organizations doing great work for the Asian Pacific Islander LGBTQ community: the Visibility Project, the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA), and the Asian Pride Project. To learn more, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

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• 00:26 Opening with Asian Stereotypes
• 05:30 Rock Springs Massacre
• 16:36 Attack on Squak Valley
• 21:35 Three LGBTQ+ focused AAPI organizations

Welcome to Episode 53! There’s a lot going on in October. It’s Filipino American History Month, so we begin by talking about this important honor as that was started by the Filipino American National History Society. October 11th, is also Indigenous People’s Day here in the U.S., so we focus our main story on the Indigenous Pacific Islanders in U.S. Territories: the CHamoru, Carolinians, and Samoans. We also mention two great organizations that are trying to help Pacific Islanders: EPIC (Empowering Pacific Islander Communities) and the Sue Taei Ocean Fellowship. We close the episode with another segment of What Are We Watching? by talking about Finding ‘Ohana and Taste the Nation. To learn more, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 00:26 Other Hunky Asian American Men
• 01:12 Filipino American History Month and Indigenous Peoples’ Day
• 04:19 Indigenous Pacific Islanders
• 20:45 What Are We Watching? Finding ‘Ohana and Taste the Nation

Welcome to Episode 52 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! There is a long history of Ethnic Enclaves across America. However, even though European immigrants formed their own Ethnic Enclaves, they often moved out faster or were accepted more quickly into the mainstream U.S. society. But Asian Ethnic Enclaves are notable because they stand out as more “exotic” or different, and because they have been centers of support to more recent Asian immigrants. We also take time to reminisce on our memories of visiting different Ethnic Enclaves. We close the episode with another episode of Giving the Karate Chop to Stereotypes where we dispute the idea that Asian men are asexual wimps. To learn more, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 00:26 Our Memories of Chinatown, Little Tokyo, Little Saigon, Little India, and More
• 06:00 Cities Apologizing for Burning Down Their Chinatown
• 08:40 Ethnic Enclaves
• 20:49 Karate Chop to Stereotypes: Asian Men are Asexual Wimps

Welcome to Episode 51 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! Concerned about Afghanistan? We had a chance to talk to Jeff Le again in this special mid-week interview. He talks about his work in Afghanistan, the repercussions for the U.S. international policy, and how U.S. citizens can help. There are lots of places that you can go to learn more and help out.

• Red Cross
• International Rescue Committee
• UN Human Rights Committee
• Media Support
• Miles4Migrants
• Human Rights First
• Refugees International
• LIRS
• No One Left Behind
• Save Our Allies

To learn more, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Welcome to Episode 50 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! It’s time for Part 3 in a series on the History of Hawai’i. Today we’re talking about the road to statehood for Hawai’i… a path that many native Hawai’ians probably did not approve of. How do territories become states? What was it like for Hawai’i. We also talk about the rise in Anti-Asian hate incidents here in Orange County as well as the confirmation of Florence Pan, the first Asian American woman to serve as Federal District Court Judge in Washington D.C. To close, we take time to talk about Blue Bayou by Justin Chon, a film we loved, and share an organization seeking justice for Asian American adoptees who were never granted citizenship, Adoptees for Justice. To learn more, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 00:40 OC Hate Crimes Report and Florence Pan
• 07:23 Road to Hawai’i Statehood
• 19:52 Blue Bayou by Justin Chon

Welcome to Episode 49 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! Did you celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day? We recognize it so that we can talk about the most famous Asian Pirate ever, Shih Yang. Her incredible life made her one of the most influential pirates in history. We also take time to celebrate Emma Raducanu and Leylah Fernandez, the amazing women of Asian descent at the U.S. Open who competed in the singles finals. We close the show by talking about linguistics and the myth that all Asians mix-up the R and L sounds in English. To learn more, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 00:26 Celebrating the All-Asian Ethnicity U.S. Open Final
• 03:04 Shih Yang, the Most Famous Asian Pirate
• 17:25 Say What? Rs and Ls

Welcome to Episode 48 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! As part of our series on Asian American food, we want to take a moment to talk about the history of Asian American Celebrity Chefs. We also take time to talk about some superheroes again… We begin the episode by remembering 9/11 and talking about Betty Ann Ong, the flight attendant and real life superhero who first alerted authorities about the hijacking. We close the episode by talking about our thoughts after watching Shang-Chi and the Legend of Ten Rings. You can learn more about Betty Ann Ong through the Betty Ann Ong Foundation or the Rec Center in SF named after her. During the episode, we also mention Vivek Bald’s great book Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America. To learn more, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 00:26 Remembering 9/11 and Betty Ann Ong
• 02:26 Celebrity Chefs
• 04:36 Asian American Celebrity Chefs
• 19:49 Reflecting on Shang-Chi

Welcome to Episode 47 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! For U.S. and Canadian listeners, Happy Labor or Labour Day! To honor Labor Day, we’re going to talk about Larry Itliong, a prominent Filipino American who was a leader in the farm workers movement. His influence and vision helped lead to the Delano Grape Strike as well as the formation of the United Farmworkers Organizing Committee along with Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. We begin with our reflections on the Joy Ruckus Club 4 Festival experience and end with a shout out of the Little Manila Rising organizing. Along with Filipino American National Historical Society, Little Manila Rising seeks to honor and remember Filipino Americans and their impact across the country. To learn more, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 0:28 Reflecting on the Joy Ruckus Club 4 Festival Asian American Stage
• 03:14 History of Labor Day
• 05:02 Larry Itliong and the Filipino Farm Workers Movement
• 18:57 Little Manila Rising

Welcome to Episode 46 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! Here it is, the special episode we recorded for the Joy Ruckus Club 4 Festival’s podcast stage. We begin with giving a quick history of our podcast including our favorite episode, but we also talk about some well-known popular music bands that had Asian American Leads. Our main segment is a very special interview of Tara Hahn, the lead singer of the ska band, Half Past Two. She takes time to talk to us about music, Half Past Two, and Spinal Muscular Atrophy. SMA Awareness month is in August, and HP2’s song Shine is a beautiful tribute to Tara’s daughter Neely who has SMA. She also shares a few people that inspire her, including Laughing at My Nightmare by Shane Burcaw and Disability Visibility Project by Alice Wong. We close the episode by talking about some Asian and Asian American indie musicians that we really enjoy. To learn more, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 0:26 Opening and Talking About Our Own Podcast
• 10:51 Well Known Bands with Asian American Leads
• 12:22 Talking Ska and Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness with Tara Hahn
• 49:48 Asian and Asian American Indie Musicians We Listen To

Welcome to Episode 45 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! It’s finally happening. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings… The first superhero of Asian descent to lead a feature in the Marvel Cinematic Universe! Our main segment is all about the comic book history of Shang-Chi, but we also talk about the very first Asian superhero and Asian American superhero in U.S. comic books. We also talk about being part of the Joy Ruckus Club 4 Festival. We’ll be broadcasting on Monday, August 30th at 7pm PST. Get your tickets here to see us on video and listen to some great Asian music at the festival! And finally, we celebrate the work of Phil Yeh and Cartoonists Across America. To learn more, please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 0:26 Joy Rucks Festival Announcement and Thoughts on Shang-Chi
• 07:22 The History of Shang-Chi
• 17:55 The First Asian and Asian American Superhero
• 21:33 Phil Yeh, The Godfather of the Modern Graphic Novel

Welcome to Episode 44 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! As part of our ongoing series on Asian Americans Making an Impact, we are joined by special guest Elisha-Rio Apilado to talk about mental health, art therapy, and her experiences with corporate America. Her learning and collaboration with the Asian Mental Health Collective began with a Waves event, and she continues to bring her art therapy and volunteerism to groups and projects like The Lincoln Park Community Shelter and The Answer, Inc. You can learn more about her latest through her website, Twitter, and Instagram. We also highly recommend you visit the Asian American Psychology Association. You can also visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Welcome to Episode 43 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! We’ve previously talked about how invisible Asian American and Pacific Islanders are in management and executive level roles, but why does that happen? Today we talk about two possible factors, the Bamboo Ceiling and the Sticky Floor. We also take time to talk about the Olympics a little more and then challenge the phrase “Open the Kimono”. Continue to learn more about the wage gap for API women and please visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 0:26 Checking in and Olympics Musings
• 04:00 The Bamboo Ceiling and the Sticky Floor
• 17:40 Say What? Open the Kimono

Welcome to Episode 42 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! It’s time to re-visit Japanese Internment again to talk a little more about how the “camps” were set-up and what life was like in them. Did you know the camps published newspapers that have been archived by the Library of Congress? We also explore some of the ways that Japanese Americans were de-humanized in the incarceration experience during WWII. We also take time to talk about John Okada’s book No-No Boy and its history. We close with an Olympics wrap-up to celebrate a few more Asian and Asian American athletes. In this episode, we reference the book Eating Asian America which is full of great papers on food and its impact in Asian American communities and culture, Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki, as well as the documentary Resistance at Tule Lake. Continue to learn more and visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 0:26 Meaning of Life
• 02:23 Life in Internment
• 16:02 No-No Boys and John Okada
• 21:15 More Celebrations of Asian American and Pacific Islander Olympic Athletes

Welcome to Episode 41 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! With August 3rd and 5th approaching, it marks forty-two years since the incident in Seadrift, Texas and nine years since the Sikh temple shooting in Wisconsin. So we take time to remember the victims of both events. With anti-Asian violence on the rise in the last year and half, it’s important to remember that there have been shocking instances of this throughout the United States’ history… from our beginning to more recent times. We also take time to celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander victories in the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Interested in learning more? Check out the Seadrift documentary by Tim Tsai, the Sikh Coalition, Harpreet Singh Saini’s Speech, and information on Margaret Mac Neil and the One Child Policy. Continue to learn more and visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 0:26 Opening
• 01:20 The Stories of Seadrift, Texas and the Shooting at the Wisconsin Sikh Temple
• 18:09 Celebrations of Asian American and Pacific Islander Olympic Winners

Welcome to Episode 40 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! Our main story is on the life of Larry Kwong, the first person to break the color barrier in the National Hockey League. Nicknamed The China Clipper and King Kwong, he hasn’t gotten nearly enough recognition for his many accomplishments. We begin this episode with an apology to KoRoot for messing up their name last episode. And we close the episode with a segment on the origin of describing Asians as “yellow.” To read more about Larry Kwong, check out King Kwong: Larry Kwong, The China Clipper Who Broke the NHL Colour Barrier by Paula Johanson. Continue to learn more and visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 0:26 Reflecting on 40 Episodes and Apologies to KoRoot
• 3:34 The Life and Career of Larry Kwong
• 16:10 Say What? The Origin of Calling Asians Yellow

Welcome to Episode 39 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! In this mid-week episode, we are continuing our series on Asian Americans Making an Impact. This episode features an interview of Rosita González. Known as the Korean Hillbilly, Rosita is a Korean American adoptee who was raised in Tennessee. She’s a content creator and promoter of the Asian American adoptees’ lived stories. We were so fortunate that she took time out of her busy day to share her story and provide more depth to the topic of Asian American adoptees to non-asian families. To learn more about Rosita and the organizations she talks about, you can go to her mothermade blog, the Korean Unwed Mothers Families Association, Global Overseas Adoptees’ Link, and KoRoot. Continue to learn more and visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Welcome to Episode 38 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! Have you ever noticed that there are quite a few Asian American adoptees? The vast majority have been adopted into white families. Why is this a common occurrence and when did it start? We share a brief history of Asian American adoptees. We also weigh in on what was said about Shohei Ohtani and celebrate some Emmy nominations for people of Asian descent! Continue to learn more and visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 0:26 Talking About Shohei Ohtani
• 6:23 The History of Asian American Adoptees
• 16:10 Celebration of Emmy Nominees

Welcome to Episode 37 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! We have a great interview with Professor Naoko Wake from Michigan State University. In a few weeks will be the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Professor Wake joins us to have a conversation about the Japanese American and Korean American survivors of the nuclear attack on these two cities. Listen to the podcast to learn more about this fascinating history we rarely hear about. You can buy Professor Wake’s latest book, American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at Cambridge University Press. Continue to learn more and visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 0:26 Background on Professor Naoko Wake
• 1:32 Interview with Professor Wake to Talk about American Survivors

Welcome to Episode 36 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! It’s time for another food episode, but instead of focusing on a specific cuisine or culture, we’re talking about Spam! Created 84 years ago, Spam is one of the truly American products that has had far reaching impact in Asian Pacific Islander cuisine. Hear about the history of Spam and how it came to be popular in places like Hawai’i, Korea, the Philippines, and Guam. We also take time to talk about a great organization, Heart of Dinner, that is working towards helping reduce food insecurity in elderly Asian Americans in NYC. You can learn more about their fantastic work or donate to them in the link above. Continue to learn more and visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 0:26 Personal Memories of Spam
• 4:55 History of Spam and its Impact on Asian and Pacific Islander Cuisine
• 15:22 Great Organizations, Heart of Dinner

Welcome to Episode 35 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! Back in Episode 25, we began to discuss the history of Hawai’i, the most famous of the Pacific Islands. It’s time for Part 2! In this episode, we talk about the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawai’i and the events that led up to it. However, to open the show, we celebrate the recent announcement of the four Asian Pacific Americans who will be on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2022, with special celebration of James Hong, an acting icon and early founder of the East West Players. We close the episode with information on the acceptance of gender fluidity in Hawai’i and Samoa, and highlight some notable activists. To learn more, you can watch this Ted Talk of Kumu Hina (Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu), learn The Meaning of Māhū, or read Samoan Queer Lives by Dan Taulapapa Mc Mullin and Yuki Kihara. Continue to learn more and visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 0:26 API on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
• 2:49 History of Hawai’i Part 2
• 18:24 Gender identity in Hawai’i and the Pacific Islands

Welcome to Episode 34 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! Sometimes our episodes cover history that isn’t well known, but this episode is on the Murder of Vincent Chin. It happened 39 years ago, and learning from this tragic event is even more important given the continued anti-Asian violence across the U.S. and the lack of universal willingness to stop it on the part of our lawmakers. We also share a quick history of the Detroit auto industry to provide context. Our closing segment is a return of “Say What?” Where we explore the origin and meaning of strange idioms and phrases that focus on the Asian American community. Thinking about using an ethnic slur? Check Eric Liu’s guide to see if you might be racist. Want to learn more? Visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 0:26 Intro
• 1:47 History of the Detroit Auto Industry
• 6:01 The Murder of Vincent Chin
• 18:55 Say What? Not a Chinaman’s Chance

Welcome to Episode 33 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! Here’s another installment of the midweek Interview Series. In this episode of Asian Pacific Americans Making a Difference, our guest is Jeff Le, Vice President for Public Policy and External Affairs at Rhino. He was also the Deputy Director of external and international affairs and Deputy Cabinet Secretary to former California Governor Jerry Brown from 2014 to 2019. Jeff shares some of his experiences as an Asian American supporting public policy and working to impact the world. Additionally, we discuss workplace discrimination, the bamboo ceiling, anti-Asian violence, and his ideas to solve these problems. To learn more about Jeff, you can check out an article he wrote for Politico, this interview in Forbes, and this Washingtonian feature that highlights his work. Want to learn more? Visit our homepage at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media and other links. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Welcome to Episode 32 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! Our main story is a history of the Legislation, mostly at the Federal level, that actually benefitted Asian Americans. Sometimes Asians and Asian Americans were the focus, but other times, our communities received positive benefits just out of happenstance. There were also moments in time when Supreme Court rulings helped Asian Pacific Americans, so we mention a few of those as well. And finally, we bring back the feature of “What Are We Reading” in Asian American literature and share Last Night at the Telegraph Club and We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration. Want to learn more? Visit our homepage at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media and other links. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments:

• 00:26, Checking in with the USC Annenberg Study
• 04:15, Legislation Benefitting Asian Americans
• 20:04, What are We Reading?

Welcome to Episode 31 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! It’s PRIDE Month here in the U.S… so Gen and Ted discuss the history of PRIDE Month and celebrate a few notable Asian American and Pacific Islander LGBTQ+ activists. There are so many influential API activists in the LGBTQ+ community… from Kyoshi Kuromiya to Kitty Tsui to Gil Mangaoang... and that’s just a few of them! We also take time to talk about the work fo the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance, The Visibility Project, and the Asian Pride Project. If you’re API and looking for resources to help you come out, then check out the Coming Out resource for API. Want to learn more? Visit our homepage at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media and other links. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 00:27, History of PRIDE Month
• 04:50, Asian Americans in the LGBTQ+ Community
• 17:37, Profiles of Asian American Organizations

Welcome to Episode 30 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! Happy Memorial Day! As we honor the military personnel who died in various wars and conflicts, Gen and Ted discuss the history of Asian Americans in the military from the beginning through WWII. We also take time to provide a definition for “gaslighting” in a new segment called Terms You Should Know. We reference Jennifer Li’s article on being racially gaslit. Want to learn more? Visit our homepage at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media and other links. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 00:26, History of Memorial Day
• 02:06, Asian Americans and Military Service
• 17:01, Terms You Should Know: Gaslighting

Welcome to Episode 29 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! It's Mental Health Awareness Month! There are a number of reasons that Asian Americans face difficulties with mental health. So Gen & Ted dive into the history and reasons that Asian Americans don’t always reach out for mental health help. If you are looking to support organizations focused on Asian Mental Health or need support, look up the Asian Mental Health Collective or the National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association. We also talk about the new Face Value album, the signing of the Anti-Asian Hate Crimes Law, and Jeremy Lin. We close with another segment of Giving the Karate Chop to Stereotypes where we take on the stereotype that Asians aren’t athletic. Want to learn more? Visit our homepage at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media and other links. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 00:26, Face Value Album, Anti-Asian Hate Crime Legislation, Jeremy Lin
• 07:36, Asian Americans and Mental Health
• 20:32, Karate Chop to Stereotypes

Welcome to Episode 28! Korean Americans are more than K-pop, Korean BBQ, and K-dramas. The Korean diaspora has been gaining notice because of many of the things happening both in South Korea and here in the U.S. But when did Koreans begin coming to the U.S.? What caused them to immigrate? In this episode, Gen and Ted talk over the different waves of immigration that make up the Korean American population. We also take time to discuss and react to a few recent surveys and reports from StopAAPIHate.org, The Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism, and the STAATUS Index Report by Leading Asian Americans to Unite for Change (LAAUNCH). Want to learn more? Visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Welcome to Episode 27! Okay… these aren’t really mini minisodes, so we’ll just call it the Interview Series. This episode we have Dr. Trang Lai, the Director of Child Development Services at Fullerton School District. She’s an amazing educator, mom, and spouse… and she also came here as a refugee in 1975. We’re so excited to share her refugee story. Want to learn more? Visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

We were so excited to be recognized and called out by Apple Podcasts for Asian American Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Month. We were in the Complex Journeys section of their Never Voiceless curation. Here are the other 11 amazing podcasts that were also mentioned. Although we focus on history with a little society & culture (and humor) thrown in, there are a vast amount of Asian American podcasts out there that focus on stories, commentary, philosophy, and more. So if you’re looking for more information and entertainment in the Asian American world, give them a listen!

• Dear Asian Americans
• Asian Americana
• The Margaret Cho podcast
• Self Evident: Asian America’s Stories
• Deep Pacific Podcast
• The Vietnamese Boat People
• This Filipino American Life podcast
• South Asian Stories
• Bruce Lee Podcast
• But Where are you Really From?: An Asian American Struggle
• The Asian American Dream

Welcome to Episode 26 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! Gen & Ted dive into the history of refugees in the U.S. This, of course, leads to discussions of Southeast Asians, who were among some of the largest groups of refugees to come here. We talk about all of this and more. We also take time to reflect on Apple Podcasts highlighting our podcast this month along with many other amazing Asian American and Pacific Islander focused podcasts. And finally we share some great organizations where you can learn more about anti-Asian hate and report incidents… Asian Americans Advancing Justice created the Stand Against Hatred site and of course the Stop AAPI Hate site. Want to learn more? Visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 00:32, Getting Honored by Apple Podcasts
• 02:54, History of Refugees in the U.S. and Southeast Asian Arrivals
• 20:57, Highlighting Great Organizations

Welcome to Episode 25 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! Gen & Ted are about to transport you to Hawai’i… or at least the history of the islands! As we begin to celebrate Asian Pacific Heritage Month, we start with the best known Pacific Islander group… the Hawaiians. It’s not all pineapples and hula… so what was Hawai’i like way before it became a state? We also talk a little about the origin of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month as well as a reflection on the Oscar wins for Asian Americans. Want to learn more? Visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Episode Segments

• 00:32, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
• 07:20, Early History of Hawaii
• 22:02, Oscar Celebration

Welcome to Episode 24 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! Gen & Ted share the history of Angel Island… the “Ellis Island of the West”. But was it really as welcoming? Why was it built? Before that, we begin the episode by addressing the history of hate in Orange County, CA and specifically Huntington Beach. We also talk a little about some of the happenings across the country in Minnesota and Illinois. This episode closes with just a word on appropriation by Asian Americans… a tricky topic to say the least. Want to learn more? Take a virtual tour of the Angel Island Immigration Station. You can also read Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America by Erika Lee and Judy Yung. Visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Welcome to Episode 23 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! Gen & Ted begin by talking about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and his recent Hollywood Reporter article on the need for better media roles for Asian Americans. This is also the next episode focused on Asian food in America. This week, we’re talking about Indian food. We provide a little history and then focus on the differences between Indian food here in the U.S. vs India. Interested in getting some Indian flavors at home? Try out Nummy Nibbles. And to close out this episode, we talk about What are We Watching. More fore mature audience, we talk about how much we love, Warrior… and it just got renewed for Season 3 on HBO! Want to learn more? Visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Contents of Episode 23

• 0:30, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
• 6:02, Indian Food in America
• 18:14, What are We Watching? Warrior!

Welcome to Episode 22 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! Surprise! Gen & Ted bring you another minisode. Today’s topic is Islam and Ramadan. Did you know that Ramadan began on April 13th? We’ve learned a lot about Islam and some of the traditions of Ramadan for people of Asian descent who are Muslim. Now we’re sharing it with all of you. Want to learn more? Visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Welcome to Episode 21 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! Gen & Ted begin to cover the daunting task of discussing the history of anti-Asian massacres and lynchings in the United States in part 1 of an ongoing series called ‘Merica’s Forgotten Massacres. Yeah, MFM… one of our favorite true crime podcasts… We also introduce a new segment called “Origins” where we talk about the strange, slightly racist origins of some common idioms or slang. This week we talk about the phrase “Long time, no see.” Want to learn more? Visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 2:20, History that led to the first massacres
• 8:56, Chinese Massacre of 1871
• 16:52, San Francisco Riot of 1877
• 23:57, Origins of “Long time, no see”

Welcome to Episode 20 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! This is part 2 of our work on the history and repercussions of the Model Minority Myth! In this episode, Gen & Ted talk about some of the current information that shows how the Model Minority Myth is untrue and problematic. Additionally we discuss ways to change mindsets. In the second segment, we bring back what we call Things Never to Say to an Asian American. This time we talk about the phrase, “Where are you from?” Want to learn more? Visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Segments

• 1:50, Continuing Issues with the Model Minority Myth
• 20:07, Things Never to Say to Asian Americans

Welcome to Episode 19 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! In this week’s episode, hosts Gen & Ted Lai talk about Holi, the Hindu celebration. We also discuss the fine line between Appreciation and Appropriation. It’s not easy because it’s easy to be inspired by other cultures, but what happens when you take credit for it or totally misunderstand it? In our final segment, we talk a little about what we’ve been watching… and we saw the same thing! Raya and the Last Dragon. Want to learn more? Visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

• 1:15, Finding History Podcast
• 2:40, What is Holi?
• 7:14, Appreciation vs Appropriation
• 20:56, What are We Watching

Welcome to Episode 18 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! In this week’s episode, hosts Gen & Ted Lai discuss the history of the model minority myth as well as some of the modern effects of the model minority myth. This is part 1 of the 2 part special. We also take some time to talk about the continued violence against Asians in the U.S., and we celebrate the achievements made recently in awards shows, including the Grammy Awards, the Golden Globes, the People’s Choice Awards, and the recent Oscar nominations. Take a moment to watch Alan Kim’s acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actor in Minari. Want to learn more? Visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

• 0:45, Re-visiting Anti-Asian Violence, Atlanta
• 5:50, History of the Model Minority Myth and Some Data
• 17:40, Celebrating Asian Americans at Awards Shows

Welcome to Episode 17! Do you know the history of South Asians in the U.S.? It’s okay if you don’t because Gen & Ted are about to tell you. It’s incredible how long South Asians have been here and the impact they’ve made to the U.S. Hear about the majority Sikh immigrants and how they’ve succeeded in our country. We’ll also take time to talk about Didar Singh Bains, the “Peach King.” Finally we discuss what we’ve been reading recently in Asian-forward books. For more information and show notes, visit our Libsyn homepage at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or check out our Linktree at https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for our other links. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Welcome to Episode 16! Happy International Women’s Day! To honor, International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, Gen and Ted are doing a profile on Anna May Wong, the first Asian American actress and style icon extraordinaire. Although her career was never as successful as she wanted, she always pushed the boundaries and challenged the norms. We also take time to talk bring attention to The Center for Asian Pacific American Women. Check them out when you have a chance. They do incredible work! For more information and show notes, visit our Libsyn homepage at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or check out our Linktree at https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for our other links. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Who are some of your favorite Blasian musicians? There are a LOT. Here are some of our favorites...

• Jhené Aiko
• Ne-Yo
• Anderson .Paak
• Amerie
• apl.de.ap

Welcome to Episode 15! Who loves food? We do! According to statistics, one of the most popular foods in America is Chinese food. But are you eating authentic Chinese food or an Americanized version? Gen & Ted provide a history of Chinese Food in America… how it has changed, the public opinion of it, and how the treatment of Chinese in this country has also influenced the sentiment about the food. We also take some time to celebrate a few Blasian musicians in America. For more information and show notes, visit our Libsyn homepage at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or check out our Linktree at https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for our other links. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

• 3:04, A History of Chinese food in America
• 17:00, Celebrating a Few Blasian Musicians

Welcome to Episode 14! There’s been a definite increase in Asian American filmmakers in the last few years, but it didn’t just happen overnight. There have been some notable films and TV shows that led up to the progress in the last few years. Gen & Ted Lai provide a brief history of Asian American filmmakers and notable movies in the first segment. The second segment is a special interview with our guest Diane Paragas, the writer, director, producer of the award winning film Yellow Rose. Diane was gracious enough to come and talk to us about Yellow Rose and the progress in Hollywood for more diverse stories of the Asian American experience. If you haven’t seen Yellow Rose yet, then you’ll want to after hearing this interview! It's available on multiple streaming platforms. For more information and show notes, visit our Libsyn homepage at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or check out our Linktree at https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for our other links. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Welcome to Episode 13! Co-hosts Gen & Ted Lai introduce the minisode format. It’s a bonus short episode between the weekly episodes… hence a minisode. Like many other people, we have been concerned about the increase in anti-Asian hatred and violence that has been impacting Asian Americans across the U.S. In this episode we provide a quick history of anti-Asian violence and discuss the possible causes of the recent upsurge. We also suggest a few things you can do about it. If you’ve been a victim of anti-Asian violence or hate, then report it. One place to do so is through Stop AAPI Hate. You can also get help through Asian Americans Advancing Justice and mental health resources through the Asian Mental Health Collective. For more information and show notes, visit our Libsyn homepage at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or check out our Linktree at https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for our other links. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Virtual Lunar New Year Celebrations! Fair warning, some of these festivities might have ended or happened already, but they might have recordings, so we've linked them anyway.

• Joy Ruckus Club
• Asia Society
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Smithsonian American Art Museum // SAAM Family Zone
• Museum of Chinese America (MOCA)
• Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company

Welcome to Episode 12! Co-hosts Gen & Ted Lai talk about the history of Lunar New Year. They discuss the traditions associated with Lunar New Year and the festivities that surround the holiday. In the last segment, Gen & Ted start a new segment called "what not to say to Asian Americans," and this first version is focused on things not to do around Lunar New Year. For more information and show notes, visit our Libsyn homepage at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or check out our Linktree at https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for our social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Welcome to Episode 11 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! Today co-hosts Gen & Ted Lai discuss the key events leading up to Japanese Internment and the reactions right after the attack on Pearl Harbor. They also cover what it was like in Hawaii under martial law. The segment, What are We Listening To returns and Gen & Ted talk about new music they’ve discovered as well as a conference called TransformAsian. It was all about Asian American mental health. Want to learn more? You can visit our podcast homepage for info between episodes at https://asianamericanhistory10.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com

Welcome to Episode 10 of the Asian American History 101 podcast! Today’s topic, in honor of Black History month is: The Black Panthers and Yellow Peril. Co-hosts Gen & Ted Lai cover a brief history of the Black Panthers, and some key Asian American figures that supported the Black Panthers. They also discuss Yellow Peril and the push for an Asian American Rights movement. In the last segment, Giving the Karate Chop to Stereotypes returns with the breakdown of the stereotype “all asian women are demure and submissive.” For more information and show notes, visit our Libsyn homepage at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or check out our Linktree at https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for our social media. Questions, comments, or suggestions? Email us at info@1882media.com.

Want to listen to some ska music and support the Asian American artists in the bands? You can find a few of them here…

• Mike Park of Skankin’ Pickle, The Chinkees, The Bruce Lee Band, solo work, and of course Asian Man Records
• DJ Chuck Wren from Jump Up Records
• Vince Walker of Suburban Legends
• Steve Choi of Rx Bandits, The Chinkees, and The Bruce Lee Band
• Bill Uechi of Starpool and formerly of Save Ferris
• Tara Hahn of Half Past Two
• Tony Kanal of No Doubt
• Vi An Tu Le of the Anti Non-Conformists and The Housebound Ska Collective
• Tami Demaree of The Goodwin Club
• Kebin Smith, aka Skrince of Skapeche Mode
• Matt Wong formerly of Reel Big Fish

Special bonus episode! This is the full interview of Mike Park, founder of Asian Man Records and musician extraordinaire. Gen and Ted talk to Mike about ska, all the bands he's been in, his writing process, whether ska really is the most inclusive musical genre for Asian Americans, how he got to tour with Yo Gabba Gabba, the Ska Against Racism work, and more. You'll just have to listen to it all to find out what else. To learn more about Mike Park and his work, visit http://www.mikeparkmusic.com or https://asianmanrecords.com. To keep up to date with our work, visit https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com.

Welcome to Episode 9! Are you ready to skank? This is like a double-length LP because we have a full episode and an interview. In this episode of the Asian American History 101 Podcast, co-hosts Gen & Ted Lai dive into the history of Ska music. They discuss the Asian American representation and diversity found in Ska. They also have the honor of interviewing Mike Park a musician known for Skankin’ Pickle, Bruce Lee Band, The Chinkees, and founder of Asian Man Records. For this episode, you’ll get a short excerpt of the interview. The full interview will post on Thursday. Want to learn more between episodes? Visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory10.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media links. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

• 7:18, A brief history of Ska
• 21:58, Asian American representation in Ska
• 27:13, An excerpt of our interview with Mike Park

Were you inspired by what you heard on the Podcast? You can learn more about Grace Lee Boggs or the Asians Advancing Justice Center to continue learning between the episodes. One of her books, Women and the Movement to Build a New America, is out out of print, but you may be able to find it in a used bookstore. Here is a list of Grace Lee Boggs' books that are still available.

George Herbert Mead: Philosopher of the Social Individual, on Amazon

Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century, co-written with James Boggs, on Apple Books or Amazon

Living for Change: An Autobiography, on Amazon

The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century, co-written with professor Scott Kurashige, on Apple Books or Amazon

To learn more about AAJC or to donate to them, visit https://www.advancingjustice-aajc.org

Welcome to Episode 8 of the Asian American History 101 Podcast! Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day here in the U.S.! In recognition of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, co-hosts Gen & Ted Lai discuss the incredible life of activist Grace Lee Boggs. They talk about her life, how she was influenced by Dr. King, her impact on the civil rights movement, and her lasting legacy as an Asian American activist. The final segment of this episode provides information on the Asian American organization, Asian Americans Advancing Justice. Want to learn more? Visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. Questions, comments, or suggestions? Email us at info@1882media.com.

As you heard in our podcast, we loved the independent film, The Yellow Rose. It's rare that you get such a wonderful depiction of the Asian American struggle in such a real and beautiful way. The country music is on point as well. If you're interested in learning more about The Yellow Rose... You can check out their website at http://www.yellowrosefilm.com. There you can read about the cast and the creators. It’s also available for purchase or On Demand viewing now... and you can even purchase the soundtrack.

By supporting through watching or purchasing, you're choosing to support independent filmmakers and more diverse stories of the Asian diaspora.

Welcome to Episode 7. In this episode, co-hosts Gen & Ted Lai dive deeper into the American Territories. This is part 2 of 2, covering the histories of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. They also discuss the Jones Act and its impact on the economies of the U.S. territories. In the last segment, Gen & Ted bring back the What Are We Watching segment and discuss two movies: The Yellow Rose and The Personal History of David Copperfield. For more information and show notes, visit our Libsyn homepage at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or check out our Linktree at https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for our social media. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@1882media.com.

Welcome to Episode 6 of the Asian American History 101 Podcast. Co-hosts Gen & Ted Lai discuss the United States Territories. This is part 1 of 2 on the topic of the American Territories in the Pacific Islands. In this episode, they briefly go over a background on the US territories through history and explain the different kinds classifications for territories. The majority of the main topic focuses on the history of American Samoa. For the final segment, they introduce a new recurring segment where they pick a stereotype, discuss it, and do their best to dispel it! To learn more visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. Questions, comments, or suggestions? Email us at info@1882media.com.

Welcome to Episode 5 of the Asian American History 101 Podcast. Co-hosts Gen & Ted Lai provide a history on the first Asians in America... Spoilers, it's not the Chinese like we're often taught in school. We also talk about the lives of the first famous Asian American performers, Chang and Eng. 3:45, First Asians in America. 12:28, Let's learn about Chang and Eng, the first Asian American performers! Want to learn more? Visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. Questions, comments, or suggestions? Email us at info@1882media.com.

Welcome to Episode 3. In this episode, co-hosts Gen & Ted Lai take continue the topic of whitewashing in Hollywood. This is part 2 of 2. They review some recent examples of whitewashing, yellowface, and brownface, talk a little more about the impact of these practices, and discuss why there's hope for improvement. In the final segment, reminisces on the dearth of Asian centric role models in media when he was growing up. Want to learn more? Visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. Questions, comments, or suggestions? Email us at info@1882media.com.

Thuy Nguyen, a former educator in San Francisco Unified, recently passed away. She was the co-founder of the SF Skate Club and a true hero. The Golden State Warriors honored her previously. Video

David Chang became the first celebrity to win Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. His money went to the Southern Smoke Foundation. Watch the moment he does it. Video

The Time Kid of the Year was Gitanjali Rao. She's an amazing person who has done a few TED Talks and wants to be part of the solution, creating inventions that could help solve a lot of the problems in our world. See a video interview of her. Video

To see our links on social media, go to AA History 101 linktr.ee. Questions, comments, or suggestions? Email us at info@1882media.com.

Welcome to Episode 3 of the Asian American History 101 Podcast.

In this episode, co-hosts Gen & Ted Lai take on the topic of whitewashing in Hollywood. This is part 1 of 2 on the topic of whitewashing. In this episode, they talk about some reasons for whitewashing, yellowface, and brownface, go over a brief history of the practice through the 1970s, and talk a little about the impact of these practices. In the final segment, we remember Tony Hsieh and Thuy Nguyen and celebrate accomplishments by Chef David Chang, Mike Magpayo, Kim Ng, and Gitanjali Rao. Want to learn more? Visit our site at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101 for social media. Questions, comments, or suggestions? Email us at info@1882media.com.

Welcome to Episode 2 of the Asian American History 101 Podcast. In this episode, co-hosts Gen & Ted Lai talking about the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the first American policy that ended immigration from one specific ethnic group. What was it? Why did it happen? How did we finally end it? To close the episode, we talk a little about the 1882foundation and the great work they do to help acknowledge the contributions of Chinese Americans. More info can be found at 1882foundation.org. To get further links from things we talked about, visit our Libsyn homepage at https://asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or check out our Linktree at https://linktr.ee/AAHistory101

Welcome to Episode 1 of the Asian American History 101 Podcast. In this episode, co-hosts Gen & Ted Lai introduce ourselves before diving into the main segment on Who are Asian Americans? We end with a segment about what we're reading and watching from Asian American creatives and artists.

A few of the things we mentioned we're reading:

• Ornamentalism by Anne Anlin Cheng. Find it on Apple Books or Amazon.
• The Third Degree by Scott Seligman. Find it on Apple Books or Amazon.

A few of the things we mentioned we're watching:

• Over the Moon by Glen Keane, starring Cathy Ang, Phillipa Soo, and Ken Jeong
• Never Have I Ever by Mindy Kaling, starring Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Poorna Jagannathan, and Richa Moorjani
• The Broken Hearts Gallery by Natalie Krinsky, starring Geraldine Viswanathan, Dacre Montgomery, and Utkarsh Ambudkar