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Asian Americans - Season 1

Series: Asian Americans
4.4
(66)
Episodes
5
Rating
TV14
Year
2020
Language
English

About

This series traces the story of Asian Americans, spanning 150 years of immigration, racial politics, and cultural innovation. It is a timely look at the role that Asian Americans have played in defining who we are as a nation.

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Episodes

1 to 3 of 5

1. Breaking Ground

1h

In an era of U.S. expansion, new immigrants arrive from China, India, Japan, the Philippines and beyond. Eventually barred by anti-Asian laws, they become America's first "undocumented immigrants."

2. A Question of Loyalty

1h

An American-born generation straddles their birth country and their familial homelands in Asia. Family loyalties are tested during WWII, when Japanese Americans are held in detention camps and brothers are on opposite sides of the battle.

3. Good Americans

1h

During the Cold War years, Asian Americans are simultaneously heralded as a Model Minority, and suspected as the perpetual foreigner. It is also a time of ambition, as Asian Americans aspire for the first time to national political office.

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