Welcome to the Citizenship/Identity Episode 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, Eric Langowski discusses the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War II, his grandmother’s internment, and IU’s racist enrollment policy during the period. We then …
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Introducing Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio
Welcome to 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, Hibah Butt interviews National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum Policy Director, Vimala Phongsavanh. A daughter of Laotian refugees who grew up in Rhode Island, Phongsavanh advocates for opportunities …
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