Inheriting: Leah & Japanese American Incarceration

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🗓️ 15 June 2024

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Summary

Hey, Short Wavers! Today, we're sharing a portion of Inheriting, an 8-part limited series hosted by Emily Kwong about Asian American and Pacific Islander family history. In this excerpt, we follow the story of Leah Bash.

Leah is an avid runner, a dog mom, a wife – and there's a part of her family's history she can't stop thinking about. Both sides of her family were incarcerated during WWII, alongside 125,000 other Japanese Americans. After Leah learns about her father's struggles with panic attacks and is herself diagnosed with bipolar disorder, she starts to wonder: Could those experiences at camp have far-reaching consequences decades later?

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0:17.0	You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
0:22.0	Hey there Shortwaivers, Regina Barbara here,
0:25.0	and I'm sliding into your feed with a special episode
0:28.0	from my co-host Emily Kwong
0:29.0	from her new show Inheriting.
0:31.0	What's up, M?
0:32.0	Hey Gina, yeah, I'm really excited to share inheriting with you all.
0:35.0	Yes, I mean I've been listening to inheriting like non-stop ever since it came out.
0:39.0	And this is an Asian American and Pacific Islander history podcast you hosted and reported for the
0:44.1	NPR Network and I'm really proud of you because I'm Asian and I know you wanted to have a
0:49.4	show that focused on history from the point of view of our families.
0:52.4	Yeah I wanted a show for descent. on history from the point of view of our families.
0:53.0	Yeah, I wanted a show for descendants like us, Gina, you know?
0:57.0	Yeah.
0:58.0	Who have questions about their family history.
1:01.0	So each episode of inheriting focuses on how one moment in the past
1:05.4	rippled through the generations of a family and how it shaped their
1:09.0	relationships their life decisions their health their mental, all kinds of things like that.
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