Self Evident: Asian America’s Stories
Society & Culture:Documentary
When New York City became the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, Brooklyn-based producer Beenish Ahmed struggled over whether to visit her parents in Ohio or stay put. Her parents — a landlord and hairdresser who immigrated from Pakistan in the ‘70s — begged her to come home. When Beenish finally decided to go in May, she recorded that journey, and the discoveries she made about her family’s relationship to America.
This story is an episode we're sharing from A Better Life?, a new podcast by our friends at Feet in 2 Worlds that explores how America’s failed response to COVID-19 has reshaped immigrants’ lives and their relationship to the United States.
Here's the team behind the story, and many other stories and conversations that you can hear on A Better Life? wherever you get podcasts:
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Self Evident Presents: A Conversation With Yuh-Line Niou (by Rock the Boat)
We Hear You (3/3)
Here Comes the Neighborhood (2/3)
Bonus: Mulan 1998 (A Reflection)
Hate Goes Viral (1/3)
Bonus: What Are We Showing Up For?
Bonus: Unpacking Pandemic Racism
Self Evident Presents: Sharing Asian America's Stories
So Where Are We Really From?
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Pull up the Roots
The Talk We Were Supposed to Have
Bonus: On Class, Kinship, and Being Bangladeshi in Asian America
Share With Us: How did you learn where you come from?
The Non-United States of Asian America
Whose Dream Is This, Anyway?
We Are Self Evident
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