Immigrants Wake America
Supported by grants from Humanities New York
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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.
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
This season, Hidden Heroes in a Small Town, features personal stories and experiences of the caseworkers working to resettle refugees and immigrants in Broome County. The season includes a digital pedagogy guide for school and community use.
This historical case of Chinese indenture constitutes an early experiment and forerunner of new contract slavery. Taken to its extreme, the contract was wielded as a most potent form of enslavement and complicity in colonial Cuba. Yun also considers the communal biography of a next-generation Afro-Chinese Cuban author and raises timely theoretical questions regarding race, diaspora, transnationalism, and globalization.
Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Book
Book chapters, articles, and creative writing:
"Dethroning the Epics of Empire"
"Chinese Freedom Fighters in Cuba: 1847-1898"
"El Chino"
"Linking African and Asian in Passing and Passage"
"An AfroChinese Author and the Next Generation"
"Signifying 'Asian' and Afro-Cultural Poetics"
"El Coolie habla: obreros contratados chinos y esclavos africanos en Cuba"
Traducido por Sebastián Reyes Gil
"Under the Hatches: American Coolie Ships and Nineteenth-Century Narratives of the Pacific Passage"
"Archives of Biography and History in The God of Luck"
"An Afro-Chinese Caribbean: Cultural Cartography of Contrariness of Antonio Chuffat Latour, Margaret Cezair-Thompson, Patricia Powell"
"Domestic Terrorism: The Ideology of Division and the Power of Naming" [on anti-Asian hate crime]
"Saturday in Chinatown"
"Sewing by the Piece"
"Choice in Colored Rain"
"Julio's Story"
"girl back"
"Spoken Word, Hip Hop, and Poetic Consciousness in the 21st Century"
"Evanescence: Toshiko Akiyoshi and the Art of Jazz
Cultural Crossings: "Asians and Africans Breaking Boundaries"
"My Sixth Year Under a Blind Moon"
"Politics of Language in The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass"
"The Importance of Photographs"
"Saturday in Chinatown"
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And poetry in Illya's Honey, LIPS Poetry Magazine, Pennsylvania English, and others.
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Thanks to support from:
The Transdisciplinary Area of Excellence for Citizenship, Rights, and Cultural Belonging (BU)
Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (BU)
New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship (NYFA)
University of Pittsburgh East Asian Library Travel Grant
Columbia University Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race