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Ep.17 Emil's Father's Day Essay; Karthick Ramakrishnan on Asian Americans and South Asians

Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media

Release Date: 06/17/2017

Ep. 105: Little Manila Rising For All; Exec. Dir.Dillon Delvo with Emil Guillermo

Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media

Dillon Delvo, executive director of Little Manila Rising, talks to Emil Guillermo about how the Stockton non-profit has expanded its mission to do more and to help more people in South Stockton. From preserving Filipino American history and historic buildings, the LMR's mission now includes public health initiatives and environmental efforts in community air monitoring. Beyond that, the non-profit has its eyes on owning and developing land and projects to benefit the broader South Stockton community. Delvo said Little Manila Rising just wants to do what other groups are doing around the state,...

Ep. 104: Asian American Filipinos' Continuing Trauma Over the U.S. Colonization of the Philippines

Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media

Emil Guillermo talks with Eleanor Wikstrom, an editor/writer with the Harvard Crimson, about her article on the open secret of the U.S. colonization of the Philippines and the role Harvard and higher ed elites played in educating the people on their own history from a white perspective. Wikstrom describes the impact of learning that history has had on her as a young American Filipina. Guillermo shares his story of Harvard (1970s) to show the generational impact of colonial history. More at www.amok.com

Ep. 103: Environmental Justice Warriors: Little Manila Rising's Matt Holmes

Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media

Little Manila Rising is a non-profit based in Stockton, Calif. focused on environmental justice. LMR fights for the people of their community to abate the pollution from the area's freeways and ports. It has begun to work with UC Merced on air monitoring. Matt Holmes, along with Dillon Delvo heads up the environmental effort. He talks to Emil Guillermo.

Ep. 102: "Try Harder" Director Debbie Lum

Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media

"Try Harder" director Debbie Lum talks to Emil Guillermo about Lowell High School and the college admissions process captured in the film's profile of five students. What are AAPI going through to get to the elite colleges of their choice? Emil, a Lowell alum, compares his experiences with those of the students in the film.

Ep.101: Little Manila Rising Goes Door-to-Door to Get Out the Vaccine; Protects the Community by Fighting Misinformation.

Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media

Amy Portello Nelson talks with Emil Guillermo about Little Manila Risings' "Get Out the Vaccine" drive. Modeled after the "Get Out the Vote" idea, the program goes door to door to give people good information about the virus and vaccines. And it's working, vaccine rates went from the low 30 percent range to more than 50 percent in the zipcodes canvassed. Now the plan is to keep going through the end of November. But it's not easy. Some are hesitant, and one resident even pulled a gun.

Ep. 91: Little Manila Rising's Youth: From Stockton to Stanford And Back On a Mission

Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media

Little Manila Rising is an non-profit organization in Stockton, Calif. servicing primarily the South Stockton community. After a recent youth conference, Emil Guillermo talked with Celine Lopez, a recent Stanford graduate, who hopes to use her senior thesis in Urban Studies as a foundation for policy-making in her hometown. Celine talks about how she rediscovered her pride and self-worth as a Stocktonian at Stanford and why she wants to return to the Central Valley.

Ep.81: How Little Manila Rising, An Environmental Justice Advocate in Stockton, CA, Makes A Difference

Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media

A Filipino American group called Little Manila Rising is part of a "people-powered" Green Revolution that's changing how the community gets involved in environmental justice. Recently, community members, empowered by state money through AB617, rejected a $5 million proposal from the Port of Stockton. The community stood up to the polluters. LMR's Dillon Delvo tells how and why it happened, and about how LMR transformed its mission to fight for environmental justice.

Ep. 71: Do You Know Angelo Quinto? He's the Asian American/Filipino American George Floyd

Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media

Angelo Quinto died after a policeman had a knee to the back of his neck for 5 minutes. Emil Amok is Emil Guillermo, journalist, commentary, performing artist reads from the column he wrote on www.aaldef.org/blog about Quinto, the need for re-thinking policing, and what this means for Asian Americans. Prof. Dan Gonzales of SF State Univ joins in to comment on this, the recent rash of anti-Asian hate incidents in the U.S., and other news. For more go to www.amok.com #angeloquinto

Ep.70: Phil Tajitsu Nash on E.O. 9066 and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans

Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media

Japanese Latin Americans were left out of the redress settlement, but now they have standing to go forward to seek justice. Emil Amok Guillermo talks to Phil Tajitsu Nash, professor, lawyer, and activist about why FDR signed E.O. 9066 that incarcerated Japanese Americans in the first place. And about the case of the Japanese Latin Americans (JLAcampaignforjustice.org). Also discussed: how society allowed internment, and the solidarity movement for justice. Go to amok.com

Ep.67: Farewell to Corky Lee-- My goodbye and my 2017 interview with Corky

Emil Amok's Takeout from Emil Guillermo Media

Corky Lee died on Jan.27 of Covid. He was 73. Journalist and commentator Emil Amok Guillermo gives his farewell to Corky, a photojournalist who documented the Asian American experience and dedicated his life to what he called "photographic justice."

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00: Open, intros, Emil comments on news, including the week's gun violence and the NBA champion Golden State Warriors.

14:35 Karthick Ramakrishnan, UC Riverside, School of Public Policy; AAPI Data

15:52 Interview begins

1:01:20 On bias against South Asians

1:02:49 On Vincent Chin Anniversary

1:07:10 Emil reads his Father's Day Essay

Emil Guillermo: Who is Asian American? On AMEMSA, Vincent Chin, and my Amok Monologues for Father's Day. PODCAST EXTRA: Karthick Ramakrishnan
June 16, 2017 11:57 AM

Say Asian or Asian American, and people think "Chinese."

Most people know that's not the case, but that tends to be the prevailing stereotype. And not just among whites, blacks, and Latinos.

It's harder when even Asian Americans believe in the stereotype.

"East Asians need to recognize that Southeast Asians and South Asians are Asians too, " Karthick Ramakrishnan told me on Emil Amok's Takeout. "If you combine the Southeast Asian and South Asian categories, all these nationalities together, they're the overwhelming majority. East Asians are now a minority within the Asian American category."

Ramakrishnan is Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean of the School of Public Policy at the University of California, Riverside. He directs the National Asian American Survey, which recently revealed the jaw-dropping finding that some Asian Americans don't consider South Asians as Asian American.

Previously, I spoke with his NAAS cohort Jennifer Lee about this survey question here.

In my interview with Ramakrishnan, we discuss who has the power to define who is Asian, and how the "Asian American" umbrella is being threatened. Is an AMEMSA--Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, South Asian--category inevitable?

"If you're brown and someone thinks you're Muslim, you get a different racial experience," Ramakrishnan told me on Emil Amok's Takeout. "That's what "AMEMSA" captures.

But what happens then to the broad Asian American category of 21 million and growing when 5 million South Asians can't identify and adopt a new category?

Ramakrishnan also talks about how the NAAS findings may explain why there wasn't a massive mobilization from Asian Americans to protest the murder of Srinivas Kuchibhotla earlier this year.

While Vincent Chin's murder inspired the activism of Asian Americans 35 years ago, the ire over the Kuchibhotla hate crime has not had a similar impact on the community. Ramakrishnan said it should have, and the fact that it didn't reveals Asian America's implicit and explicit biases.

"It's kind of a game of whack-a-mole," Ramakrishnan told me. "Unfortunately, when particular parts of our community are getting whacked, other parts of our community don't stand up nearly as much and are not nearly as vocal as we should be."

Uh-oh. We're reverting back to the other prevailing stereotype. Non-boat rockers. Just get on the boat. Don't miss it. Get off the boat. Just don't rock it.

But maybe we should. The upcoming 35th anniversary of Vincent Chin is the time for some reflection.

In 2014, I wrote about how the entire community should use the days Chin was in a coma from June 19 to June 23 to think about what it's like to be Asian American.

We are coming up to that time.

It's a wide ranging Emil Amok's Takeout, including a special treat: I read my annual Father's Day essay, part of a story in my "Amok Monologues: A short history of the American Filipino--NPR, Harvard, Death on Mission St.," which I'm premiering at the San Diego International Fringe Festival, June 23 to 29.

Buy your tickets here:

https://sdfringe.ticketleap.com/amok-monologues/

If you're in San Diego, come on by! It's another part of my exploration of the solo performance form. It's funny. It's tragic. It's amok!

contact:

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