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Inheriting
ABOUT THE PODCAST
"Inheriting" is a show about Asian American and Pacific Islander families, which explores how one event in history can ripple through generations. In doing so, the show seeks to break apart the AAPI monolith and tell a fuller story of these communities. In each episode, NPR’s Emily Kwong sits down with one family and facilitates deeply emotional conversations between their loved ones, exploring how their most personal, private moments are an integral part of history. Through these stories, we show how the past is personal and how to live with the legacies we’re constantly inheriting.
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Check out our digital resource guide with tips for interviewing your own family members, books, films and K-12 lesson plans from The Asian American Education Project to help process the historical moments covered on the show.
Also, we want to stay connected! Email us at inheriting@laiststudios.com with questions, feedback, or to share your own story.
Inheriting Resource Guide
For those who want to begin interviewing their own relatives, we've created a digital resource guide with oral history tips. The guide also includes books, films, additional reporting and more to help process the historical moments covered on the show. Plus, K-12 lesson plans from The Asian American Education Project.
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Listen 5:00The new podcast will be about Asian American and Pacific Islanders, and how one event in history can ripple through generations of a family.
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Listen 47:09Episode 1: Carol & the Los Angeles Uprising: Part 1Carol Kwang Park was 12 years old, working as a cashier at her family's gas station in Compton, California, when the 1992 L.A. Uprising forever changed her life. Her mom was at the gas station that day and Carol was unsure if she'd even make it home. At the time, she didn't understand why tensions came to a head in Los Angeles, following the acquittal of the officers who beat Rodney King. She also never understood why her mother insisted on keeping the business going, especially after the Uprising. As an adult, a personal crisis prompts Carol to finally start processing that event and her place in history. Content Warning: This episode contains racial slurs and discusses police brutality.
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Listen 42:35Episode 2 of “Inheriting” follows Carol Kwang Park’s mission to truly understand the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising and how it impacted her family.
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Listen 41:33Episode 3 of "Inheriting" focuses on the Cambodian community in Long Beach, and Victoria Uce's questions for her father about his childhood under the Khmer Rogue.
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Listen 46:00A son and father reconcile their homesickness for Vietnam 50 years after the war ended.
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Listen 48:39Episode 5 of "Inheriting" follows Leah Bash’s journey to understand how Japanese American incarceration during WWII impacted her family’s mental health.
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Listen 43:41Saira Sayeed and Shakeel Syed open up about how the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 affected their marriage and Muslim American family on Episode 6 of Inheriting.
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Listen 36:29Leialani Wihongi-Santos tells the truth about her family’s history on Guam — and fights to protect her CHamoru heritage with her grandpa on Episode 7 of “Inheriting.”
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Listen 30:27Episode 8: What does AAPI really stand for?Should the acronym "AAPI" even exist? In this special episode, we deconstruct it – tracing the 50-year history of the terms "Asian American" and "Pacific Islander" and interrogating how they are used today. Emily talks with Sefa Aina, associate dean and director of the Draper Center for Community Partnerships at Pomona College. He is also a longtime community organizer who served on President Barack Obama's White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Emily and Sefa also discuss how Pacific Islander experiences are often marginalized in so-called AAPI spaces, leading to misleading data sets, funding inequities, and erasure of history.
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Listen 1:57Episode 9 of “Inheriting” highlights Filipino activist Patrick Salaver, one of the student leaders behind the Third World Liberation Front, and his niece’s quest to honor his legacy.
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Listen 1:01:39Episode 10 of “Inheriting” is an immersive look at the story behind-the-show, recorded in front of a live audience. Plus, takeaways for interviewing your own family members.
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Thanks & Support
Inheriting is entirely funded by supporters. A special thanks to Jihee and Peter Huh, Winnie Kho, Stewart and Pat Kwoh, Bryant Garth, Ying Cai and Wann Lee, Fred and Diana Kong, Joanna Kong, Denise and Joseph Lumarda, and Cathay Bank, as well as all the donors who gave specifically to Inheriting.
