ABOUT THE 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.
New episodes premiere every Thursday. Subscribe to “Inheriting” on your app of choice here.
Also, we want to stay connected! Email us at inheriting@laiststudios.com with questions, feedback, or to share your own story.
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For those who want to begin interviewing their own relatives, we've created a digital resource guide with oral history tips. The guide also includes books, films, additional reporting and more to help process the historical moments covered on the show. Plus, K-12 lesson plans from The Asian American Education Project.
Episode 10
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Episode 10 of “Inheriting” is an immersive look at the story behind-the-show, recorded in front of a live audience. Plus, takeaways for interviewing your own family members.
Episode 9
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Episode 9 of “Inheriting” highlights Filipino activist Patrick Salaver, one of the student leaders behind the Third World Liberation Front, and his niece’s quest to honor his legacy.
Episode 8
Episodes 7
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Leialani Wihongi-Santos tells the truth about her family’s history on Guam — and fights to protect her CHamoru heritage with her grandpa on Episode 7 of “Inheriting.”
Episode 6
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Saira Sayeed and Shakeel Syed open up about how the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 affected their marriage and Muslim American family on Episode 6 of Inheriting.
Episode 5
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Episode 5 of "Inheriting" follows Leah Bash’s journey to understand how Japanese American incarceration during WWII impacted her family’s mental health.
Episode 4
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Episode 4 of “Inheriting” explores Bảo Trương’s homesickness for a country he wasn’t born in: Vietnam.
Episode 3
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Episode 3 of "Inheriting" focuses on the Cambodian community in Long Beach, and Victoria Uce's questions for her father about his childhood under the Khmer Rogue.
Episode 2
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Episode 2 of “Inheriting” follows Carol Kwang Park’s mission to truly understand the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising and how it impacted her family.
Episode 1
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The "Inheriting" podcast begins with Carol Kwang Park, a child cashier in Compton who lived through the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising. -
Host Emily Kwong shares her family history that inspired the show from LAist Studios and NPR.
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Season 1 of "Inheriting" explores how one event in history can ripple through generations
Trailer
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The new podcast will be about Asian American and Pacific Islanders, and how one event in history can ripple through generations of a family.
Credits
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Thanks & Support
Inheriting is entirely funded by supporters. A special thanks to Jihee and Peter Huh, Winnie Kho, Bryant Garth, Ying Cai and Wann Lee, Fred and Diana Kong, Joanna Kong, Denise and Joseph Lumarda, and Cathay Bank, as well as all the donors who gave specifically to Inheriting.
