Imagine Otherwise by Ideas on Fire - Eric Tang on the Cold War Origins of Refugee Policy

Eric Tang on the Cold War Origins of Refugee Policy

03/23/16 • 33 min

What can we learn about structural oppression through the analysis of one person's story? How can collaboration transform the way we make decisions about our work? How can empowering others to imagine otherwise liberate us all?

In episode 6 of the Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews activist-scholar Eric Tang about why the US state resettled Cambodian refugees in historically Black neighborhoods in the 1980s and 1990s, how urban spaces are shaped by slavery’s aftermath, and why scholars should join the vital movement for welfare rights.

Show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/6-eric-tang

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