Asian American Life and Death (with Viet Thanh Nguyen and Janelle Wong)

Stay Tuned with Preet

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Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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On this week’s episode of Stay Tuned, “Asian American Life and Death,” Preet answers listener questions about prosecutorial conduct in the Derek Chauvin murder trial and the allegations against Congressman Matt Gaetz. Then, Preet interviews Viet Thanh Nguyen and Janelle Wong. Nguyen is the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of The Sympathizer and its new sequel, The Committed. He is also the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and an English Professor at the University of Southern California. Wong is a political scientist and a Professor of American and Asian American studies at the University of Maryland. She’s also a Senior Researcher at AAPI Data, where she collects demographic data and policy research on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. After the March 16th killing of six Asian American women in Atlanta, Nguyen and Wong penned a joint op-ed for the Washington Post that outlined how bipartisan rhetoric about geopolitical events has historically led to spikes in violence against Asians and Asian Americans. In the Stay Tuned bonus, Nguyen and Wong discuss the importance of Asian American representation in popular culture, including in the cult 2004 comedy Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle. To listen, try the CAFE Insider membership free for two weeks and get access to the full archive of exclusive content, including the CAFE Insider podcast co-hosted by Preet and Anne Milgram. For show notes and a transcript of the episode, head to: cafe.com/stay-tuned/asian-american-life-and-death-with-viet-thanh-nguyen-and-janelle-wong/ Listen to the entirety of Doing Justice, Preet’s new free six-part podcast based on his bestselling book of the same name. You can hear Preet’s stories from his time as U.S. Attorney on Apple Podcasts (apple.co/doingjustice), Spotify (spoti.fi/3p9Xwja) or wherever you get your podcasts. To listen to Stay Tuned bonus content, become a member of CAFE Insider at: CAFE.com/Insider Sign up to receive the CAFE Brief, a weekly newsletter featuring analysis by Elie Honig, a weekly roundup of politically charged legal news, and historical lookbacks that help inform our current political challenges: CAFE.com/Brief. As always, tweet your questions to @PreetBharara with hashtag #askpreet, email us at staytuned@cafe.com, or call 669-247-7338 to leave a voicemail. Stay Tuned with Preet is produced by CAFE Studios. Executive Producer: Tamara Sepper; Senior Editorial Producer: Adam Waller; Technical Director: David Tatasciore; Audio Producer: Matthew Billy; Editorial Producers: David Kurlander, Noa Azulai, Sam Ozer-Staton. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:55.9	From Cafe, welcome to Stay Tuned. I'm Pete Barara. Another American driven out of
1:02.6	business by Phil and the Blank has been a part of American history for a very long time.
1:06.5	History has shown us that foreign policy is deeply tied to racial politics in the United States.
1:15.9	My guests this week are Viet Thanh Wynne and Janelle Wong. Wynne is the Pulitzer Prize-winning
1:26.5	novelist of The Sympathizer and its new sequel, The Committed, which traced the story of
1:31.8	North Vietnamese spy at the end of the Vietnam War. He is also the aerial Arnold Chair of
1:36.5	English and an English professor at the University of Southern California. Wong is a political
1:41.3	scientist and a professor of American and Asian American studies at the University of Maryland.
1:46.7	She's also a senior researcher at AAPI Data, where she collects demographic data and policy
1:52.2	research on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Her most recent book, Immigrants, Evangelicals
1:58.0	and Politics in an Era of Demographic Change, is an analysis of the relationship between
2:02.6	demographic change and political alignment. As violence against Asian Americans continues
2:08.1	to rise, my guests join me this week to discuss childhood recollections of racism, the
2:12.9	danger of the model minority myth, and why anti-Asian violence is cyclical. That's coming
2:18.7	up. Stay tuned.
2:23.9	It's time for some listener questions.
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