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Immigrants Wake America

Supported by grants from Humanities New York

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Season 2, Episodes 1-6 (2023-24)

Co-producers: Lisa Yun, Shruti Jain, Le Li, Mamen Rodriguez

Executive Producers: Lisa Yun, Kathryn Lloyd

Partner: American Civic Association & Tenement Museum

This season, Hidden Heroes, features personal stories and experiences of the caseworkers working to resettle refugees and immigrants in Broome County. The season also includes a pedagogy guide for school and community use.

Season 1, Episodes 1-8 (2022-23)

Co-creators and co-producers: Lisa Yun, Shruti Jain, Le Li

Executive Producers: Lisa Yun, Kathryn Lloyd

Partner: Tenement Museum

Periodically in history, immigrant women have been the target of dehumanizing anti-immigrant rhetoric and violence. In response, we created this podcast in partnership with the Tenement Museum in New York. We feature storytellers who share their or their family's stories of migration, with attention to the role of immigrant women in their lives.

The Coolie Speaks provides the first critical analysis of a large body of testimonies written by 19th century Chinese coolies in colonial Cuba. Deeply moving and startling for their insights, these testimonies trace the human struggle and toll under new contract slavery, wherein the contract, taken to its extreme, was wielded as the most potent form of enslavement and exploitation. This book lays out methods for reading these testimonies as a literary and historical form - the "coolie narrative." The Coolie Speaks also examines a communal biography written by a next-generation Afro-Chinese Cuban author and raises theoretical questions regarding race, resistance, and unfree labor.