The Mash-Up Americans
The Mash-Up Americans
The Mash-Up Americans
The Mash-Up Americans is your guide to the hyphen-America world we all live in. Amy S. Choi and Rebecca Lehrer talk culture, identity, race and what makes us who we are. Get to know yourself, America.At The Mash-Up Americans we are celebrating and challenging the raucous, colorful, complicated country we live in by asking all the important, awkward questions: What does it mean to be an immigrant in America? What cultural baggage do we bring to sex and relationships? Why is Korean skincare so popular? When does something get upgraded from the ethnic aisle?Get more at mashupamericans.com
It’s Time for Extreme Hospitality with Pierre Thiam
We wrap with reminder of how to take care of each other IRL.
Dec 12, 2023
35 min
Liza Treyger On Always Speaking Your Mind
Will people get offended? Sure. Will that stop us? No.
Dec 5, 2023
32 min
Min Jin Lee Teaches Us How To Be Pleasant And Difficult
We go inside the mind of the magnificent Min Jin Lee.
Nov 28, 2023
32 min
Bonus: The Best Advice Show Featuring Rebecca and Amy
It's time to live your achievable dreams and do some starfishing!
Nov 24, 2023
14 min
Replay: Celebrating San Giving With Francis Lam
Kimchi and Tortillas with Turkey, and cosplaying American! Throwback conversation!
Nov 21, 2023
19 min
Jeff Chang Can’t Stop and He Won’t Stop
Millennials will never know a world without hip hop, and frankly, we’re all better for it. Author, journalist, scholar, and all-around visionary Jeff Chang joins Amy and Rebecca to share about his first introduction to hip hop, how it serves as a guide to liberation and how it’s just a part of who we all are now. He also weighs in on which album is better: The Low End Theory or Midnight Marauders?  Jeff Chang is a writer, thinker, and cultural organizer. His Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation was named one of the best U.S. nonfiction books of the last quarter century. His other books include Who We Be: A Cultural History of Race in Post Civil Rights America and We Gon' Be Alright: Notes On Race and Resegregation. He is a Lucas Artist Fellow and has received the American Book Award, the Asian American Literary Award, and the USA Ford Fellowship in Literature. He is the host of the podcast, Edge of Reason. He is finishing Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Nov 14, 2023
56 min
Love Hard and Set Boundaries with Dr. Pooja Lakshmin
Boundaries are self love and self care. The real kind.
Nov 7, 2023
56 min
Jonathan Menjivar Rewrites His Story On Class
Jonathan Menjivar rewrites his story of class, and what it means to be classy.
Oct 31, 2023
45 min
Rainn Wilson Helps Us Find Our Spiritual Path
Rainn Wilson is starting a Spiritual Revolution
Oct 24, 2023
52 min
Lisa Ling Lives With Her In Laws (And It’s Great)
Lisa Ling has found the beauty and joy in the chaos of her multigenerational home.
Oct 17, 2023
54 min
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