
New Books in Asian American Studies
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin and Donna Doan Anderson and Miranda Melcher and unknown · Marshall Poe
4.7from 33 ratings
- 319
- Episodes
- 13
- Transcribed
- 33
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2013
- First episode
About New Books in Asian American Studies
This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/asian-american-studies
- Publisher
- Marshall Poe
- Category
- history · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 24 Oct 2013
- Latest episode
- 17 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
13 of 319 episodes have a transcript.

17 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Multiracial Mandarin: Asian Americans and Impossible Language with David Shuang Song (U of Minnesota Press, 2026)

3 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Racist by Design: Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration Control with Kelly Lytle Hernández (Norton, 2026)

14 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Christopher B. Patterson, "Domesticating Brown: Movements of Racial Imagination" (Duke UP, 2026)
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Multiracial Mandarin: Asian Americans and Impossible Language with David Shuang Song (U of Minnesota Press, 2026)
Published 17 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And so, for example, in the conventional world language for language education program, we have a model of education or language education, I should say, that envisions language education as a trajectory from zero to fluent. And there are some very basic assumptions that are made about what a normal student is, that they don't know the language going in. They don't have people that they can communicate outside the classroom in that same language that's target language and the L1 or the first language are completely separated from each other. We make all of these assumptions that are actually quite contrary to the experiences and to the repertoires of many people of color and immigrants in the US. […]
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- David Shuang Song
- Kelly Lytle Hernández
- Christopher B Patterson
- Bruce Rutledge
- Jinwon Kim
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