Narratives of Asian American and Asian Canadian Representation

Narrative for Social Justice

Host Angela Du and special guests Jennifer Ho and Joey S. Kim discuss narratives of race and racism affecting Asian North Americans, especially Asian Americans. They reflect on the history of various terms, solidarities with other minority groups, public-facing scholarship, hazing graduate students, and texts that they love — including Joey’s first book of poems, Body Facts (2021).

Podcast music created by Drew Morgan

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Episode Bibliography

Jennifer Ho and Jenny Heijun Wills, editors. Teaching Approaches to Asian North American Literature (forthcoming).

Cathy Park Hong. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning. Penguin Random House, 2020.

Joey S. Kim. Body Facts. Diode Editions, 2021.

Maxine Hong Kingson. The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts. Vintage, 1976.

Min Jin Lee. Panchinko. Grand Central Publishing, 2017.

Lisa Lowe. The Intimacies of Four Continents. Duke UP, 2010.

Viet Thanh Nguyen. The Committed. Grove P, 2021.

---. The Sympathizer. Grove P, 2015.

Michael Omi and Howard Winant. Racial Formation in the United States. 3rd edition. Routledge, 2014. [first published in 1986]

Craig Santos Perez. Habitat Threshold. Omnidawn, 2020.

Edward W. Said. Orientalism. Pantheon Books, 1078.

Amy Tan. The Joy Luck Club. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1989.

Beverley Daniel Tatum. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race. 3rd edition. Basic Books, 2017.

Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang. “Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society, vol. 1, no. 1, 2012, pp. 1-40.

Ocean Vuong. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. Penguin P, 2019.

Charles Yu. Interior Chinatown. Pantheon Books, 2020.

Jennifer Ho and Shawn O’Neal. Anti Racism I, Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/antiracism-1

Jennifer Ho and Shawn O’Neal. Anti Racism II, Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/antiracism-2

Canadian residential schools

If you’re looking for organizations to support, consider donating to these and visiting their websites for more information:

The Indian Residential School Survivors Society

Legacy of Hope

Reconciliation Canada

The National Residential School Crisis Line offers 24-hour support to former residential school students at the number 1 866 925 4419. So does the Hope for Wellness Help Line at the number 1 855 242 3310 and the chat line.