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Vaddey Ratner's novel, In the Shadow of the Banyan honors her lost family
- Added: Nov 22, 2016
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 3
Imagine this: deep in the Louisiana wetlands, a wooden platform the size of three football fields, covered in shrimp, drying in the sun… which are ...
Bought by KVLU
- Added: Sep 08, 2016
- Length: 25:44
- Purchases: 1
Most people who come to her restaurant and wash down golden fried prawn with cold beer have no inkling about her back story.
- Added: Mar 21, 2016
- Length: 06:00
In 1962 a group of Indians were shipped off to internment camps during a war with China.
- Added: Mar 15, 2016
- Length: 06:00
Over 25 years ago curators Alan Teller and Jerri Zbiral went to an estate sale in Illinois. Jerri says they stumbled upon a shoebox that would cha...
- Added: Mar 08, 2016
- Length: 06:00
This episode of TriPod tells the story of one man’s family business, part of the Chinese immigrant community, that helped build New Orleans.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Feb 29, 2016
- Length: 09:30
- Purchases: 1
The mystery of Subhas Chandra Bose has trumped the actual history of Subhas Bose.
- Added: Jan 26, 2016
- Length: 06:00
Author William Doyle reads the first of two passages from his book, PT 109: An American Epic of War, Survival, and the Destiny of John F. Kennedy.....
- Added: Oct 15, 2015
- Length: 01:40
A beloved Old Monk is dying in India. Not that kind of monk, it’s a rum. Not just A rum. The iconic Indian rum. A rite of passage for Indians for t...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Aug 04, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Belinda Cai knew only the outline of her father’s childhood in China's Cultural Revolution. Recently, when she asked her father for details, she wa...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 05:41
- Purchases: 1
Angela Robins, former intern at North House Folk School in Grand Marais, was back in town to speak at the Wooden Boat Show about Japanese boatbuild...
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 08:44
Imagine being packed off to an exotic foreign land to be immersed into a wholly different culture -- back in the 1870's! (Sorry, no Skype here.) Au...
- Added: Jun 05, 2015
- Length: 01:40
As part of Park University's Ethnic Voices Poetry Series at the Kansas City Public Library, Maija (May-jah) Rhee (ree) Devine recounts how her extr...
- Added: May 29, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
John Pirozzi talks baby steps, insatiable thirst, and the miracle of vinyl.
- Added: May 07, 2015
- Length: 25:37
The Partition of India uprooted 10 -15 million people, the largest mass displacement of the 20th century. 250,000 – two million died. Yet no museu...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Mar 03, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
In 2012, Barnali Ghosh began the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour with her husband, Anirvan Chatterjee.
- Added: Feb 03, 2015
- Length: 08:08
Rory Kennedy talks profound experiences, moral responsibilities, and reasonable Republicans.
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 20:21
It’s 1938 in San Francisco. War is brewing around the world, but America's entry into World War II is still several years away. Meanwhile in this ...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Jul 27, 2014
- Length: 09:59
- Purchases: 1
For Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month, we revisit best-selling memoirist and fiction writer, Anchee Min. 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: May 22, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
A three-part Peace Talks Radio program this time features a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bomb; also remarks from the woman who helped hide Anne...
- Added: Apr 28, 2014
- Length: 58:54
- Purchases: 2
Producer Laine Kaplan-Levenson speaks with author Shizue Seigel about her book In Good Conscience: Supporting Japanese Americans During the Internm...
- Added: Apr 11, 2014
- Length: 04:48
This Chinese-American novelist, perhaps best known for her book, "Joy Luck Club," takes readers to Shanghai and its International Settlement where ...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Dec 19, 2013
- Length: 10:04
- Purchases: 1
It turns out that a community best known for winning spelling bees also has some radical skeletons in its closet.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 19, 2013
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
25 years ago, university students in Burma sparked a countrywide uprising. They called for a nationwide strike on 8/8/88, a date they chose for its...
Bought by PRX Remix and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Aug 09, 2013
- Length: 13:13
- Purchases: 2
Shengqiao Chen (L) tells his friend Zehao Zhou (R) about being smuggled to the U.S. aboard the Golden Venture in 1993.
Bought by WEZU, Radio Newark, and KUOW
- Added: Jun 07, 2013
- Length: 02:11
- Purchases: 3
