Crossing Borders: Stories of Struggle, Survival, and Community

1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 Crossing Borders: Stories of Struggle, Survival, and Community This discussion will explore a wide range of immigrant stories and experiences, including Vietnamese refugee girlhood, community-building for Mexican immigrants in Los Angeles, and the role of Black migrant women’s labor in the construction of the Panama Canal. Lan Duong&nbsp;is associate professor in Cinema and Media Studies at USC.&nbsp;She is the author of&nbsp;Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism&nbsp;and co-writer of&nbsp;Departures: An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies. Her debut collection of poetry,&nbsp;Nothing Follows, is forthcoming (April 2023). Joan Flores-Villalobos&nbsp;is an assistant professor of History at USC and author of&nbsp;The Silver Women: How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal.&nbsp;Her work focuses on gender, empire, race, and migration in Latin America and the Caribbean&nbsp;and&nbsp;has received support from the Ford Foundation and the Institute for Citizens and Scholars. Natalia Molina&nbsp;is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at USC whose research explores the interconnected histories of race, place, gender, culture, and citizenship. She is the author of several books, including&nbsp;How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts&nbsp;and, most recently,&nbsp;Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community. Moderator:&nbsp;Viet Thanh Nguyen&nbsp;is the&nbsp;Pulitzer Prize–winning author of&nbsp;The Sympathizer,&nbsp;The Committed,&nbsp;The Refugees, and&nbsp;Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War. He is&nbsp;the&nbsp;Aerol&nbsp;Arnold Chair of English and a professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Comparative Literature at USC. He is also a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations. IDEAS IN ACTION | USC's Podcast Series http://uscedu.libsyn.com/website <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/28096574/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/content/161374946