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When Anti-Asian Hate Goes Viral

Last March, six Asian-American women were killed by a gunman in Atlanta. The murders focused the public, as never before, on violence against America’s Asian communities—but a lot of Asian Americans saw this spike in hate crimes coming. In this collaboration with the podcast Self Evident, we look at what happens when we ignore anti-Asian hate—and what happens when we mobilize against it instead. Self Evident co-founder James Boo takes us to New York City at the height of the pandemic and explains how he anticipated the latest wave in hate crimes. Then, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Renee Tajima-Pena takes us to 1980’s Detroit, where anti-Japanese rhetoric fueled another burst of shocking violence.see more
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When Anti-Asian Hate Goes Viral

Last March, six Asian-American women were killed by a gunman in Atlanta. The murders focused the public, as never before, on violence against America’s Asian communities—but a lot of Asian Americans saw this spike in hate crimes coming. In this collaboration with the podcast Self Evident, we look at what happens when we ignore anti-Asian hate—and what happens when we mobilize against it instead. Self Evident co-founder James Boo takes us to New York City at the height of the pandemic and explains how he anticipated the latest wave in hate crimes. Then, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Renee Tajima-Pena takes us to 1980’s Detroit, where anti-Japanese rhetoric fueled another burst of shocking violence.see more
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'Porgy and Bess' Runs at Golden Gate Theatre

Michael Krasny
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The opera "Porgy and Bess" premiered on stage in 1935 as one of the first productions to feature an all-African-American cast. George and Ira Gershwin wrote the music and lyrics to the story by DuBose Heyward, about the love between a crippled man and a drug-addicted woman in the poverty-stricken neighborhood of Catfish Row in South Carolina. The show was later criticized as racist, and has been readapted for modern audiences, most recently by director Diane Paulus. We discuss the history of "Porgy and Bess" and the current run of the Paulus version at the Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco through December 8.

Guests:

Harry Elam, vice provost of undergraduate education and Olive H. Palmer professor of the humanities at Stanford University

Ellen Noonan, historian and media producer at the American Social History Project / Center for Media Learning at The City University of New York (CUNY) and author of "The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess"

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