Episodes

  • How one event in history can ripple through generations of a family

    How one event in history can ripple through generations of a family
    Jul 3 2024
    This week we're bringing you the first episode in a new series called Inheriting, created in collaboration with our friends at LAist Studios. In each episode, NPR's Emily Kwong sits down with Asian American and Pacific Islander families and explores how one event in history can ripple through generations.

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    45 mins
  • The truth and lies behind one of the most banned books in America

    The truth and lies behind one of the most banned books in America
    Jun 26 2024
    Author Mike Curato wrote Flamer as a way to help young queer kids, like he once was, better understand and accept themselves. It was met with immediate praise and accolades — until it wasn't. When the book got caught up in a wave of Texas-based book bans, suddenly the narrative changed. And like so many books that address queer identity, Flamer quickly became a flashpoint in a long, messy culture war that tried to distort the nature of the book.

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    31 mins
  • Some freed people actually received '40 acres and a mule.' Then it got taken away.

    Some freed people actually received '40 acres and a mule.' Then it got taken away.
    Jun 24 2024
    The promise of "40 acres and a mule", is often thought of as a broken one. But it turns out, some freed people actually received land as reparations after the Civil War. And what happened to that land and the families it was given to is the subject of a new series, 40 Acres and a Lie, by our colleagues at Reveal and the Center for Public Integrity.

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    50 mins
  • The history of trans misogyny is the history of segregation

    The history of trans misogyny is the history of segregation
    Jun 19 2024
    As anti-trans legislation has ramped up, historian Jules Gill-Peterson turns the lens to the past in her book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny. This week, we talk about how panics around trans femininity are shaped by wider forces of colonialism, segregation and class interests.

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    36 mins
  • Should we stop using the word "felon"?

    Should we stop using the word "felon"?
    Jun 12 2024
    This week, we're turning our sights on the word "felon", and looking into what it tells us (and can't tell us) about the 19 million people in the U.S. — like Donald Trump and Hunter Biden — carrying that designation around.

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    34 mins
  • 100 years of immigration policies working to keep out immigrants

    100 years of immigration policies working to keep out immigrants
    Jun 5 2024
    President Biden just issued an executive order that can temporarily shut down the U.S.-Mexico border to asylum seekers once a daily threshold of crossings is exceeded. On this episode, we dig into how the political panic surrounding what many are calling an immigration "crisis" at the border, isn't new. And in fact...it's a problem of our own creation.

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    43 mins
  • White evangelical Christians are some of Israel's biggest supporters. Why?

    White evangelical Christians are some of Israel's biggest supporters. Why?
    May 29 2024
    As war continues to rage in the Middle East, attention has been turned to how American Jews, Muslims, and Palestinians relate to the state of Israel. But when we talk about the region, American Christians, particularly evangelical Christians, are often not part of that story. But their political support for Israel is a major driver for U.S. policy — in part because Evangelicals make up an organized, dedicated constituency with the numbers to exert major influence on U.S. politics.

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    38 mins
  • Falling in love in a time of colonization

    Falling in love in a time of colonization
    May 22 2024
    This week Code Switch digs into The Ministry of Time, a new book that author Kailene Bradley describes as a "romance about imperialism." It focuses on real-life Victorian explorer Graham Gore, who died on a doomed Arctic expedition in 1847. But in this novel, time travel is possible and Gore is brought to the 21st century where he's confronted with the fact that everyone he's ever known is dead, that the British Empire has collapsed, and that perhaps he was a colonizer.

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    31 mins