Episode #9: Hamburgers and Hot Dogs Are German...You Know That, Right? Vol 2: US Immigrant Mythology

The IDE Impolite Conversation Podcast

In the second episode exploring “Ethnic As A Descriptive + Other Coded Language”, Lezli is joined by Dr. Niambi Carter, Associate Professor of Political Science at Howard University and author of American While Black: African Americans, Immigration, and the Limits of Citizenship as well as Dr. Lok Siu, a cultural anthropologist and Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies at UC Berkeley. The three discuss the evolution of the US racial construct circa The Hart-Celler Immigration + Nationality Act of 1965 and as a counter to the Civil Rights Movement.

Relevant and Recommended Reads:

• American While Black: African Americans, Immigration, and the Limits of Citizenship by Niambi Carter
• How the Model Minority Myth of Asian Americans Hurts Us All | Time
• The 1965 Law That Gave the Republican Party Its Race Problem
• Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (Hart-Celler Act)

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