White Out: Blanks in Public Education Lizzie Mealiea

Join Lizzie and her fellow classmates from William and Mary as the discusses the class that was reason behind this podcast

Join Lizzie and Anna as they dive into the history behind the term Asian American. Sources: https://www.pacificcouncil.org/newsroom/looking-enemy-political-identity-vietnam-war https://www.google.com/amp/s/time.com/5837805/asian-american-history/%3famp=true https://www.history.com/.amp/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-history

In today’s episode Anna and Lizzie look at the incredible resilience and history of the people and community in San Francisco’s Chinatown Source: https://www.history.com/topics/immigration/san-francisco-chinatown
https://www.pbs.org/kqed/chinatown/resourceguide/story.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/business/san-francisco-chinatown-gentrification.html

In in today’s episode Lizzie and Anna discussed the the history of the picture brides and how mail order brides continue today Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/11/magazine/the-mail-order-bride-business.html
http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Picture_brides/
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-05-11-cb-64865-story.html
https://www.kcet.org/shows/departures/japanese-picture-brides-building-a-family-through-photographs
https://www.thegardenisland.com/2017/07/17/hawaii-news/telling-the-picture-bride-story/

Lizzie and Anna cover the LA Riots, the murder of Vincent Chin and Latasha Harlin, as well as the movie Gook. Gook’s directors name was Justin Chon. Sources: https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/28/us/la-riots-korean-americans/index.html
https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-0318-latasha-harlins-20160318-story.html
https://www.history.com/news/vincent-chin-murder-asian-american-rights
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/riots-erupt-in-los-angeles
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/25-years-after-la-riots-koreatown-finds-strength-saigu-legacy-n749081
https://www.pbs.org/video/part-3-breaking-through-yi6lyb/