The global coronavirus pandemic has brought with it an ugly wave of anti-Asian racism and discrimination. Today on the show, journalist Helen Zia and Bo Thao-Urabe from the Coalition of Asian American Leaders discuss the long history of anti-Asian racism in this country, the renewed xenophobia stoked by the Trump administration, the surge in hate […]
Migrants and Asylum Seekers in 1940s China and Today
For today’s episode, guest host Bert Zipperer spends the hour talking to Helen Zia about her new book, Last Boat Out of Shanghai, and connecting the history of the mass exodus out of Shanghai in the 1940s to events happening today at our own southern border. Helen Zia is a Chinese-American journalist and activist for Asian […]
Chinese Exclusion Act and Vincent Chin to Black Lives Matter and Islam...
Guest host Bert Zipperer is joined by award-winning author, journalist, activist, and Fullbright Scholar Helen Zia. Helen Zia has been instrumental in all sorts of important work around the country. She is the author of Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People, about the contemporary struggles of Asian American communities to be full participants […]
