Do You Think We're Seeing Progress in Telling These Histories?

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Fragile comes from this theme of the erasure of our histories and our experiences not being viewed as part of the american experience, always sort of at the outside looking in. Do you feel that we are starting to see progress in telling these histories? I do think we're seeing some progress in the sense that the anti-asian violence in recent years has been so harrowing and so egregious," she says.

Asian Americans are an essential part of the history of this country, but the true story is all too little told, especially in a time of rising anti-Asian sentiment and violence. Historian and author of “Asian American Histories of the United States” Catherine Choy joins Adam to discuss the origin of racist ideas such as the “model minority myth,” and dive into the history. You can purchase Catherine’s book at http://factuallypod.com/books Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.