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Exclusion, resilience and the Chinese American experience on 'Mott Street'

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Exclusion, resilience and the Chinese American experience on 'Mott Street'

May 1, 2024 • This week on the podcast, we're revisiting a conversation we had with Ava Chin about her book, Mott Street. Through decades of painstaking research, the fifth-generation New Yorker discovered the stories of how her ancestors bore and resisted the weight of the Chinese Exclusion laws in the U.S. – and how the legacy of that history still affects her family today.

Exclusion, resilience and the Chinese American experience on 'Mott Street'

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Finding generations of family — and history — on Chinatown's Mott Street

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Finding generations of family — and history — on Chinatown's Mott Street

May 31, 2023 • Ava Chin's family has been in the U.S. for generations — but Ava was disheartened to learn that so much of what they had experienced was totally absent from American history books. So she embarked on a journey to learn more about her ancestors, and in doing so, to work toward correcting the historical record for all Americans.

Finding generations of family — and history — on Chinatown's Mott Street

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American Girl's 1st Chinese American 'Girl of the Year' doll aims to fight AAPI hate

Corinne Tan is American Girl's 2022 Girl of the Year, and the first Chinese American doll to hold that title. The company says her story will teach kids about standing up to racism, among other lessons. Business Wire hide caption

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Asian American And Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2022

American Girl's 1st Chinese American 'Girl of the Year' doll aims to fight AAPI hate

January 5, 2022 • American Girl hopes Corinne Tan's story will teach kids about standing up to racism. It's also partnering with the nonprofit AAPI Youth Rising to "help amplify young voices like Corinne's."

Stephen Park On Playing A Code-Switching Character In Steinbeck's 'East Of Eden'

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Stephen Park On Playing A Code-Switching Character In Steinbeck's 'East Of Eden'

November 3, 2015 • Park plays Lee, a Chinese servant with an interesting approach to getting by in America, in a new theatrical adaptation of John Steinbeck's classic.