New America Now: Making Changes for Future Generations
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Sep 24, 2010
How women are helping women; why you should think more about pygmy's and the J-word you'd never considered.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Asian, Audio, Education, Ethnicities, European, Immigration, Indigenous, Law & Justice, Middle Eastern, Multimedia, New America Now, News, Sections, Top Stories
Tags: dream act, eden hunter, human trafficking, japanese, pakistan, Skip horack, vietnamese, women
A Migration That Doesn't Cross Borders
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Sep 24, 2010
Documentary filmmaker Lixin Fan discusses his new film about a Chinese family's migration from factory towns to their inland village in "Last Train Home."
Categories: Asian, Audio, Chinese, Ethnicities, Front Page, Multimedia, New America Now, Original NAM Content, Sections
Tags: china, documentary, last train home, migrants, migration
Summer of '64: Path to Freedom
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Sep 11, 2010
Author Bruce Watson discusses his book on the summer of 1964 in Mississippi when more than 700 young people stood up against racism.
Categories: African American, Audio, Ethnicities, Multimedia, New America Now, News, Original NAM Content, Sections, Top Stories
Tags: bruce watson, freedom summer, kkk, mississippi, Race, race relations
New America Now: When East and West Collide Over the Kitchen Table
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Sep 10, 2010
NAM editor Andrew Lam talks about how food culture has gone come a blended smoothie of tastes and locations.
Categories: Asian, Audio, Ethnicities, Gender & Sexuality, Intersections, Multimedia, New America Now, News, Original NAM Content, Sections, South Asian, Top Stories
Tags: Andrew Lam, East Eats West, food, food culture, food fusion
New America Now: "Freedom" Summer Is Over, Back to School
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Sep 03, 2010
The extraordinary people that gave 1964 the name Freedom Summer and a mass migration of Chinese from inland villages to factories on the coast
Categories: African American, Arts & Entertainment, Asian, Audio, Chinese, Education, Middle Eastern, Multimedia, New America Now, News, Original NAM Content, Sections, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: 1964, arab countries, Bruce Watson, china, education, Freedom summer, last train home, migration, Pakistan floods
Quietly Mad With Island Fever
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Sep 02, 2010
Race relations explored in a fiction novel set in Japan.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Asian, Audio, Ethnicities, European, Multimedia, New America Now, News, Original NAM Content, Sections, Top Stories
Tags: David Mitchell, dutch, japanese, nagasaki, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet