The Year of the Indian-American Candidate

New America Media, News Report, Sandip Roy, Posted: Oct 31, 2010

With six Indian-Americans running for Congress and another for South Carolina governor, the macaca moment of 2006 seems like a long time ago—or does it?


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CA Ethnic Voters: Anti-Pot, Pro-Environment, Pro-Budget Reform

New America Media, News Report, Sandip Roy, Posted: Oct 31, 2010

Ethnic voters' preferences on three key measures on the November 2 ballot could prove decisive, a new Field Poll finds.


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New America Now: Controversies and Elections

New America Media, Audio, Sandip Roy, Posted: Oct 29, 2010

Why do so many immigrants join the US Armed Forces? What is it like to grow up in a country that is at war with itself and a family that fights each other?


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Poetry From San Quentin

New America Media, Audio, Sandip Roy, Posted: Oct 23, 2010

A compilation of poetry from an inmate and how his teacher encouraged him along the way.


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New America Now: The Arab Show

New America Now, Audio, Sandip Roy, Posted: Oct 22, 2010

New America Now focuses on Arab culture through a memoir, a book about Arabs in America, a novel and a charter school in the East Bay.


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Where Did All the Pastrami Go?

New America Media, Audio, Sandip Roy, Posted: Oct 21, 2010

In the vast new world of ethnic restaurants, the Jewish deli is becoming harder and harder to find.


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Two Moms and an Atomic Bomb

New America Media, Audio, Sandip Roy, Posted: Oct 20, 2010

Documentary filmmaker MT Silvia reflects on two mothers affected by the atomic bomb in very different ways.


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How to Index a City's Distress

New America Media, Audio, Sandip Roy, Posted: Oct 19, 2010

Aaron Glantz explains NAM's latest index which looks at the indicators of distress in a city.


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New America Now: Prison Poet, Distress Index and the Atomic Bomb

New America Media, Audio, Sandip Roy, Posted: Oct 15, 2010

A documentary about two mothers on opposite sides of an atomic bomb; where have all the deli's gone; and how distressed are you in this recession?


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Latino Immigration From a Different Direction

New America Media, Audio, Sandip Roy, Posted: Oct 14, 2010

Mary Odem, a history professor at Emory University, discusses her recent book on Latino immigration in the South.


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The Flip Side of Globalization

New America Media, Audio, Sandip Roy, Posted: Oct 13, 2010

The new play "Dancing on Glass" looks at how working for a call center in India affects the lives of the people who answer the phone.


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The Food Stamp Budget

New America Media, Audio, Sandip Roy, Posted: Oct 12, 2010

We've seen what eating McDonald's for 30 days will do to your health, but what about living on food stamps for one week?


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New America Now: Food Stamps and Outsourcing

New America Media, Audio, Sandip Roy, Posted: Oct 08, 2010

This week on New America Now, a closer look at whether it's possible to be healthy on food stamps and a play about outsourced call centers.


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Nazi Propaganda, Using Jews as Actors

New America Media, Audio, Sandip Roy, Posted: Oct 07, 2010

"A Film Unfinished" is created from Nazi propaganda filmed inside the Jewish ghettos in the 1940s.


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Universal Stories with a Chinese Twist

New America Media, Audio, Sandip Roy, Posted: Oct 06, 2010

Looking at the fragile relationships of our lives through the words of a MacArthur fellow.


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Clementi Tragedy: Tech Teens' Lust to Expose Isn't Same as Gay-Bashing

New America Media, Op-ed, Sandip Roy, Posted: Oct 01, 2010

After 20 years, I still feel a thrill when I see a South Asian name in the media. But this story was different— "Dharun Ravi: The Reason for Tyler Clementi’s Suicide.”


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New America Now: The Human Condition

New America Media, Audio, Sandip Roy, Posted: Oct 01, 2010

2010 Macarthur genius Yiyun Li on her new book. Nazi propaganda films shot in the Warsaw ghetto. A Muslim American on the timing of Ramadan this year.


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