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Welcome to the Mother’s Day Edition of Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio! Hearabouts is produced by WFHB and Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions.
On today’s episode, Kimber Garland and Tara Kim share their experiences growing up as Asian Americans.
Later in the program, Host Keiko McCullough speaks with her mother about expectations, creativity, and their joint composition, “Blowtorch.” This interview is, then, followed with a performance of “Blowtorch.”
Babita Upadhyay and her daughter, Shay, discuss raising a daughter as an immigrant and growing up as a first-generation Asian American, respectively.
Nora Zeng interviews IU Associate Professor of History Ellen Wu about the ‘Tiger Mom Phenomenon.’
Credits:
Hearabouts is produced by ACC Director Melanie Castillo-Cullather, with help from WFHB News Director Wes Martin.
Our Engineer is Joyce Lam.
Our Host for this episode is Keiko McCullough.
Babita and Shay Upadhyay contributed to this episode, along with Kimber Garland and Tara Kim.
Our Featured Song is “Blowtorch,” our theme music is “Eternal Youth” by Rude.
Nora Zeng conducted our interview for this episode.
