About this podcast
Inheriting is a show about Asian American and Pacific Islander families, which explores how one event in history can ripple through generations. In doing so, the show seeks to break apart the AAPI monolith and tell a fuller story of these communities.
In each episode, NPR's Emily Kwong sits down with one family and facilitates deeply emotional conversations between their loved ones, exploring how their most personal, private moments are an integral part of history. Through these stories, we show how the past is personal and how to live with the legacies we're constantly inheriting.
Learn more at LAist.com/Inheriting
Episodes
- Introducing the American Storytelling collection · 2 min · Season 1 Episode 14What does it mean to be an American? There’s no one way. At NPR, we think of the American identity as a story - one that's always being rewritten by the people who live it. The…
- Inheriting Presents: "Willie, Shig, and a Bird Named Maggie" by StoryCorps · 15 min · Season 1 Episode 13This week, we bring you a special bonus episode from our friends at the podcast StoryCorps. Willie Ito and Shigeru "Shig" Yabu, childhood best friends, remember being sent to…
- Inheriting Presents: 'Settlement' by Ten Thousand Things with Shin Yu Pai · 28 min · Season 1 Episode 12This week, we bring you a special bonus episode from our friends at the podcast Ten Thousand Things with Shin Yu Pai. Janet Lee, a freshman at Bryn Mawr, was heading home for…
- Inheriting Presents: "Specially Processed" by Self Evident · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 11This week, we bring you a special bonus episode from our friends at the podcast Self Evident: Asian America's Stories. For so many Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Spam is…
- Inheriting Live: How do we talk about our family histories? · 1 h 1 min · Season 1 Episode 10Our final episode of Season 1 is a special "Inheriting" event recorded in front of a live audience. Host Emily Kwong is joined on stage by Bảo Trương (Episode 4), Shakeel Syed…
- Nicole & the Third World Liberation Front · 46 min · Season 1 Episode 9Nicole Salaver's uncle, Patrick Salaver, was one of the leaders of the Third World Liberation Front at San Francisco State University in the late 1960s. This movement not only…
- What does AAPI really stand for? · 30 min · Season 1 Episode 8Should the acronym "AAPI" even exist? In this special episode, we deconstruct it – tracing the 50-year history of the terms "Asian American" and "Pacific Islander" and…
- Leialani & The Occupation of Guam · 36 min · Season 1 Episode 7Leialani Wihongi-Santos is CHamoru and was raised on the island of Guam with a distorted view of history. She was taught that the United States "saved" her island from occupation…
- Saira, Shakeel & 9/11's Impact · 44 min · Season 1 Episode 6Shakeel Syed has been a longtime activist within his South Asian community, fighting for the civil liberties of Muslims who were targeted by the FBI and the Los Angeles Police…
- Leah & Japanese American Incarceration · 49 min · Season 1 Episode 5Leah Bash is an avid runner, a dog mom, a wife – and there's a part of her family's history she can't stop thinking about. The fact that both sides of her family were…
- Bảo & the Vietnam War · 46 min · Season 1 Episode 4Bảo Trương's parents both fled Vietnam in 1975 following the war. His father Thuận was a pilot for the South Vietnamese Air Force and left the day before the Fall of Saigon…
- Victoria & the Cambodian Genocide · 42 min · Season 1 Episode 3Growing up in Long Beach, California, Victoria Uce was surrounded by a loving and supportive family, while her dad, Bo, lost his parents at a young age in Cambodia under the…
- Carol & the Los Angeles Uprising: Part 2 · 38 min · Season 1 Episode 2In part two of Carol Kwang Park's story, we follow Carol's journey to connect more deeply with her family – and introduce the family-led conversations that are central to…
- Carol & the Los Angeles Uprising: Part 1 · 43 min · Season 1 Episode 1Carol Kwang Park was 12 years old, working as a cashier at her family's gas station in Compton, California, when the 1992 L.A. Uprising forever changed her life. Her mom was at…
- Introducing 'Inheriting' · 4 minJapanese American Incarceration. The Third World Liberation Front. The 1992 Los Angeles Uprising. What you think you know isn't always the full story. "Inheriting" is a show…
