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“I write this hoping more will evolve from these 5 episodes. In today's America the intersection of race, culture, and Americanness are as important as the were in post-colonial America--post American Revolution. Yet, like Treaty of Paris 1783--Indigenous People's & culture are once again omitted and neglected. These first episodes seemed focused on largely mixed Asian-American experiences--which too is often missing in prominent discourse about race in America.
Yet, that is also the glaring error of these first episodes of otherness...there no voices from the Americas--as in indigenous peoples, be they Native American, Caribbean, Central or South American, or Native Hawaiian. Surely we can all agree this otherness is witness-able in all the groups mentioned above.
I mean how does one explore and lament the impact of Internment camps in the 20th century, while completely omitting, negating the real and continuing repercussions of US Federally Run Indian Boarding schools system that by design was "kill the Indian, but save the man," while deliberately, maliciously stripping Indigenous culture & identity out of children in residential schools that began in 1877, and continued into the 1920s-30s on those seismic shifts and traumas witnessed in modern Indigenous and Native identities, identity politics, languages, and peoples? In Canada, these schools continued until the 1980s--nope, not a typo.
While I understand the aims of this podcast, and applaud its attempts & efforts--omitting Native peoples and I would argue Latin/Hispanic peoples and cultures is a rather large, naive, and troubling omission--albeit a well intentioned attempt.
Imagine being a mixed fair-skinned Native man who is challenged by both white & Native societies-yet is mixed race-who found commonality among your many guests but still felt stifled and silenced by your omission-yet, even in your podcast episodes Nativeness was not even mentioned; as so often the case in dialogues & discourses on race in American culture.”Read full review »
Doc Bodhi via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
05/05/17
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“As a biracial man (African-American/Caucasian) I have always found myself in the middle of everything. And I love it but a lot of times no one knows the burden I carry and this podcast has shown me that I am not alone and we all belong on the country equally & together. I want more.”
Robert A. Williams via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
05/12/17
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“I come from two mixed parents making me feel sometimes "super mixed". This pod cast really spoke to a lot of feelings I've had growing up half-white/half-Mexican American. Thank you.”Read full review »
Danie2347 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
08/06/21
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“I'm a mixed race, half black half white woman and the first episode about dating while mixed is SO REAL. Thanks so much for highlighting issues mixed folks face.”Read full review »
Nikkster627 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
05/02/17
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