An Asian Pacific Islander history-themed program featuring Jean Pfaelzer on anti-Chinese pogroms; Karen Ishizuka on API organizing; Craig Santos Perez on Guam’s indigenous Chamorro population; and Julie Otsuka about her novel about Japanese American incarceration.

Jean Pfaelzer, Driven Out: The Forgotten War against Chinese Americans UC Press

Karen Ishizuka, Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties Verso

Craig Santos Perez, from unincorporated territory [guma’] Omnidawn

Julie Otsuka, When the Emperor Was Divine Anchor Books

(Image on main page by Andrew Ratto.)

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