Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast all about books. My name is Tracy Thomas and I am your host here.

Before we get started, I just wanted to say thank you to every single person who's

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subscribe or download or all of the above. I'm very excited this week our guest is

Sarah Fong she is a PhD candidate in American studies. Her work focuses on the United

States and their practices of social welfare, particularly as they relate to both the histories

of slavery and colonization. As you'll see this

week Sarah is very passionate about social justice, equality, and using reading as a

way to learn about others and in turn affect change in the world. I'm very excited to have

Sarah on this week and I hope you enjoy our conversation.

Hello and welcome to the Stax this is Tracy Thomas your host and I am

joined today by my good friend Sarah Fong who is a genius and also in addition to that she is also a PhD student at the

University of Southern California and she studies in the American Studies

Department that's the extent of my knowledge. So Sarah,

welcome. Hi, thanks for having me. Introduce yourself. Tell them about you.

Yeah, so my name is Sarah Fong.

Like you said, I am a, I was born and raised in Berkeley, California.

I am half Chinese.

And I, what's the other half? The other half half the other half is a mix of various European white things

white things my mom is a mix of German, English, and other things that I actually don't quite recall.

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