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<p><em>While We Were Burning</em> is a domestic thriller set in Memphis <strong>examining the intersection of race, class, and female friendship, and the devastating consequences of everyday actions. On today’s show I'm joined by Memphis native and author, Sara Koffi, to discuss her debut novel.</strong>
 
Sara Koffi is a writer and editor from Memphis, Tennessee, with a BA in English from Whittier College. As a writer, she strives to explore the nuances of “unlikable” female characters and humanize Black women by giving them space on the page to breathe. 
 
Other episodes mentioned:
 
Ep129 Special Feature: Black is America episode highlighting Tom Lee</p>
      

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&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;While We Were Burning&lt;/em&gt; is a domestic thriller set in Memphis &lt;strong&gt;examining the intersection of race, class, and female friendship, and the devastating consequences of everyday actions. On today’s show I'm joined by Memphis native and author, Sara Koffi, to discuss her debut novel.&lt;/strong&gt;
 
Sara Koffi is a writer and editor from Memphis, Tennessee, with a BA in English from Whittier College. As a writer, she strives to explore the nuances of “unlikable” female characters and humanize Black women by giving them space on the page to breathe. 
 
Other episodes mentioned:
 
Ep129 Special Feature: Black is America episode highlighting Tom Lee&lt;/p&gt;
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S1E141 - While We Were Burning with Sara Koffi


        Episode Notes

While We Were Burning is a domestic thriller set in Memphis examining the intersection of race, class, and female friendship, and the devastating consequences of everyday actions. On today’s show I'm joined by Memphis native and author, Sara Koffi, to discuss her debut novel.
 
Sara Koffi is a writer and editor from Memphis, Tennessee, with a BA in English from Whittier College. As a writer, she strives to explore the nuances of “unlikable” female characters and humanize Black women by giving them space on the page to breathe. 
 
Other episodes mentioned:
 
Ep129 Special Feature: Black is America episode highlighting Tom Lee
      


        <h1>Episode Notes</h1>
<p>When was the first time you saw yourself represented on screen? An actor or actress who looked like you? For better or worse, media shapes how we think about ourselves and others and often fills in the gap when we don’t have first-hand experience with certain situations, circumstances, or groups of people. For me, as an Asian American woman growing up in the 90s, Asian Americans weren’t completely invisible but we had limited and often stereotypical roles. I wonder what it would have been like to grow up with an Asian American actress to look up to. Today we’re delving into the life of our first Asian American movie star, the opportunities she seized, the challenges she faced, and the legacy she left. I’m joined by Katie Gee Salisbury, author of <em>Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong.</em>
 
In addition to writing <em>Not Your China Doll,</em> Katie’s work has appeared in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Believer, the Asian American Writers' Workshop, and elsewhere. She was a finalist for the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in 2021 and gave the TED Talk “As American as Chop Suey.” Katie also writes the newsletter Half-Caste Woman. A fifth-generation Chinese American who hails from Southern California, she now lives in Brooklyn.</p>
      

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&lt;p&gt;When was the first time you saw yourself represented on screen? An actor or actress who looked like you? For better or worse, media shapes how we think about ourselves and others and often fills in the gap when we don’t have first-hand experience with certain situations, circumstances, or groups of people. For me, as an Asian American woman growing up in the 90s, Asian Americans weren’t completely invisible but we had limited and often stereotypical roles. I wonder what it would have been like to grow up with an Asian American actress to look up to. Today we’re delving into the life of our first Asian American movie star, the opportunities she seized, the challenges she faced, and the legacy she left. I’m joined by Katie Gee Salisbury, author of &lt;em&gt;Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong.&lt;/em&gt;
 
In addition to writing &lt;em&gt;Not Your China Doll,&lt;/em&gt; Katie’s work has appeared in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Believer, the Asian American Writers' Workshop, and elsewhere. She was a finalist for the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in 2021 and gave the TED Talk “As American as Chop Suey.” Katie also writes the newsletter Half-Caste Woman. A fifth-generation Chinese American who hails from Southern California, she now lives in Brooklyn.&lt;/p&gt;
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S1E140 - Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong with Katie Gee Salisbury


        Episode Notes

When was the first time you saw yourself represented on screen? An actor or actress who looked like you? For better or worse, media shapes how we think about ourselves and others and often fills in the gap when we don’t have first-hand experience with certain situations, circumstances, or groups of people. For me, as an Asian American woman growing up in the 90s, Asian Americans weren’t completely invisible but we had limited and often stereotypical roles. I wonder what it would have been like to grow up with an Asian American actress to look up to. Today we’re delving into the life of our first Asian American movie star, the opportunities she seized, the challenges she faced, and the legacy she left. I’m joined by Katie Gee Salisbury, author of Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong.
 
In addition to writing Not Your China Doll, Katie’s work has appeared in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Believer, the Asian American Writers' Workshop, and elsewhere. She was a finalist for the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in 2021 and gave the TED Talk “As American as Chop Suey.” Katie also writes the newsletter Half-Caste Woman. A fifth-generation Chinese American who hails from Southern California, she now lives in Brooklyn.
      


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<p>Currently there are over 22 million Asians across the US representing a range of ethnic groups originating in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. Yet, oftentimes, the ways we think of Asian American history is tethered to the East and West Coasts. But Asians in America have a long history in the Deep South, a history that has garnered growing attention. Documentaries like “Far East, Deep South” and “Blurring the Color Line: Chinese in the Segregated South” follow the filmmakers as they explore their personal family histories. How does knowing these histories help us have a fuller and richer understanding not only of Asian Americans but also the South? And how might these histories be shaping our shared present and future? Today I sit down with Dr. Shaolu Yu, whose work examines these questions and more.
 
Dr. Shaolu Yu is an Associate Professor of Urban Studies and the Chair of Asian Studies at Rhodes College. Trained as an urban geographer in an interdisciplinary background and participating in projects in urban studies in China, the U.S., and Canada, she has developed a comparative and global perspective and a mixed method approach in her research on cities. Her papers have been published in the journals Annals of Association of American Geographers, The Professional Geographer, Urban Geography, Geographical Review, and The Journal of Transport Geography.</p>
      

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&lt;p&gt;Currently there are over 22 million Asians across the US representing a range of ethnic groups originating in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. Yet, oftentimes, the ways we think of Asian American history is tethered to the East and West Coasts. But Asians in America have a long history in the Deep South, a history that has garnered growing attention. Documentaries like “Far East, Deep South” and “Blurring the Color Line: Chinese in the Segregated South” follow the filmmakers as they explore their personal family histories. How does knowing these histories help us have a fuller and richer understanding not only of Asian Americans but also the South? And how might these histories be shaping our shared present and future? Today I sit down with Dr. Shaolu Yu, whose work examines these questions and more.
 
Dr. Shaolu Yu is an Associate Professor of Urban Studies and the Chair of Asian Studies at Rhodes College. Trained as an urban geographer in an interdisciplinary background and participating in projects in urban studies in China, the U.S., and Canada, she has developed a comparative and global perspective and a mixed method approach in her research on cities. Her papers have been published in the journals Annals of Association of American Geographers, The Professional Geographer, Urban Geography, Geographical Review, and The Journal of Transport Geography.&lt;/p&gt;
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S1E139 - Asian American History in the South: Chinese Owned Grocery Stores in the Delta with Shaolu Yu


        Episode Notes

Currently there are over 22 million Asians across the US representing a range of ethnic groups originating in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. Yet, oftentimes, the ways we think of Asian American history is tethered to the East and West Coasts. But Asians in America have a long history in the Deep South, a history that has garnered growing attention. Documentaries like “Far East, Deep South” and “Blurring the Color Line: Chinese in the Segregated South” follow the filmmakers as they explore their personal family histories. How does knowing these histories help us have a fuller and richer understanding not only of Asian Americans but also the South? And how might these histories be shaping our shared present and future? Today I sit down with Dr. Shaolu Yu, whose work examines these questions and more.
 
Dr. Shaolu Yu is an Associate Professor of Urban Studies and the Chair of Asian Studies at Rhodes College. Trained as an urban geographer in an interdisciplinary background and participating in projects in urban studies in China, the U.S., and Canada, she has developed a comparative and global perspective and a mixed method approach in her research on cities. Her papers have been published in the journals Annals of Association of American Geographers, The Professional Geographer, Urban Geography, Geographical Review, and The Journal of Transport Geography.
      


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<p>A key part of Memphis history is its role in the Civil Rights Movement, particularly with the Sanitation Workers Strike that brought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr to Memphis and his untimely death. Like the city itself, the story of Civil Rights activism is often presented through a Black-White lens. Yet, Asians and Asian Americans have been in the South since at least the late 1700s and in Memphis since the late 1800s. How then do Asian Americans fit into the history of civil rights? And how does knowing that history then change how we think about race, rights, Asian Americans, and the South? To answer these questions and more, today I’m joined by Dr. Stephanie Hinnershitz, author of <em>A Different Shade of Justice: Asian American Civil Rights in the South.</em> She shares some of the complexities of Asian American legal cases during the 1880s to late twentieth century and reflects on some of the cases that didn’t make it into the book but still offer important insights into civil rights.
 
 
Dr. Stephanie Hinnershitz is an Assistant Professor of Security and Military Studies at the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. She is the author of <em>Race, Religion, and Civil Rights: Asian Students on the West Coast, 1900-1968</em> (Rutgers University Press), <em>A Different Shade of Justice: Asian American Civil Rights in the South</em> (UNC Press), which won the Silver Nautilus Award for Journalism and Investigative Reporting, and <em>Japanese American Incarceration: The Camps and Coerced Labor in World War II</em> (University of Pennsylvania Press), which won the Philip Taft Labor History Award from the Labor and Working Class History Association and Cornell University Labor Relations School.</p>
      

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&lt;p&gt;A key part of Memphis history is its role in the Civil Rights Movement, particularly with the Sanitation Workers Strike that brought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr to Memphis and his untimely death. Like the city itself, the story of Civil Rights activism is often presented through a Black-White lens. Yet, Asians and Asian Americans have been in the South since at least the late 1700s and in Memphis since the late 1800s. How then do Asian Americans fit into the history of civil rights? And how does knowing that history then change how we think about race, rights, Asian Americans, and the South? To answer these questions and more, today I’m joined by Dr. Stephanie Hinnershitz, author of &lt;em&gt;A Different Shade of Justice: Asian American Civil Rights in the South.&lt;/em&gt; She shares some of the complexities of Asian American legal cases during the 1880s to late twentieth century and reflects on some of the cases that didn’t make it into the book but still offer important insights into civil rights.
 
 
Dr. Stephanie Hinnershitz is an Assistant Professor of Security and Military Studies at the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. She is the author of &lt;em&gt;Race, Religion, and Civil Rights: Asian Students on the West Coast, 1900-1968&lt;/em&gt; (Rutgers University Press), &lt;em&gt;A Different Shade of Justice: Asian American Civil Rights in the South&lt;/em&gt; (UNC Press), which won the Silver Nautilus Award for Journalism and Investigative Reporting, and &lt;em&gt;Japanese American Incarceration: The Camps and Coerced Labor in World War II&lt;/em&gt; (University of Pennsylvania Press), which won the Philip Taft Labor History Award from the Labor and Working Class History Association and Cornell University Labor Relations School.&lt;/p&gt;
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S1E138 - A Different Shade of Justice: Asian American Civil Rights in the South with Stephanie Hinnershitz


        Episode Notes

A key part of Memphis history is its role in the Civil Rights Movement, particularly with the Sanitation Workers Strike that brought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr to Memphis and his untimely death. Like the city itself, the story of Civil Rights activism is often presented through a Black-White lens. Yet, Asians and Asian Americans have been in the South since at least the late 1700s and in Memphis since the late 1800s. How then do Asian Americans fit into the history of civil rights? And how does knowing that history then change how we think about race, rights, Asian Americans, and the South? To answer these questions and more, today I’m joined by Dr. Stephanie Hinnershitz, author of A Different Shade of Justice: Asian American Civil Rights in the South. She shares some of the complexities of Asian American legal cases during the 1880s to late twentieth century and reflects on some of the cases that didn’t make it into the book but still offer important insights into civil rights.
 
 
Dr. Stephanie Hinnershitz is an Assistant Professor of Security and Military Studies at the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. She is the author of Race, Religion, and Civil Rights: Asian Students on the West Coast, 1900-1968 (Rutgers University Press), A Different Shade of Justice: Asian American Civil Rights in the South (UNC Press), which won the Silver Nautilus Award for Journalism and Investigative Reporting, and Japanese American Incarceration: The Camps and Coerced Labor in World War II (University of Pennsylvania Press), which won the Philip Taft Labor History Award from the Labor and Working Class History Association and Cornell University Labor Relations School.
      


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<p>We spend a lot of our time on the road, commuting to work, running errands, meeting up with friends and family. In fact, maybe you’ll listen to this episode while you’re on the road. For all the possibilities that roads open up for us, it’s not without a cost. To talk more about how roads impact our lives – and the lives around us – for better and for worse, today I’m joined by Ben Goldfarb, author of Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping The Future of Our Planet. </p>
<p>Ben Goldfarb is an independent conservation journalist. He’s the author of Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping The Future of Our Planet, which the New York Times named one of the best books of 2023. His previous book Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, was the winner of the 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. Ben’s writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Science, The Washington Post, National Geographic, and The New York Times, among others.</p>
      

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&lt;p&gt;We spend a lot of our time on the road, commuting to work, running errands, meeting up with friends and family. In fact, maybe you’ll listen to this episode while you’re on the road. For all the possibilities that roads open up for us, it’s not without a cost. To talk more about how roads impact our lives – and the lives around us – for better and for worse, today I’m joined by Ben Goldfarb, author of Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping The Future of Our Planet. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ben Goldfarb is an independent conservation journalist. He’s the author of Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping The Future of Our Planet, which the New York Times named one of the best books of 2023. His previous book Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, was the winner of the 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. Ben’s writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Science, The Washington Post, National Geographic, and The New York Times, among others.&lt;/p&gt;
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S1E137 - Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping The Future of Our Planet with Ben Goldfarb


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Episode Notes

We spend a lot of our time on the road, commuting to work, running errands, meeting up with friends and family. In fact, maybe you’ll listen to this episode while you’re on the road. For all the possibilities that roads open up for us, it’s not without a cost. To talk more about how roads impact our lives – and the lives around us – for better and for worse, today I’m joined by Ben Goldfarb, author of Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping The Future of Our Planet.

Ben Goldfarb is an independent conservation journalist. He’s the author of Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping The Future of Our Planet, which the New York Times named one of the best books of 2023. His previous book Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, was the winner of the 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. Ben’s writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Science, The Washington Post, National Geographic, and The New York Times, among others.
      


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