Asian American women

  • Puerto Rican protest theater / Cafe Teatro de Protesta

    Music, poetry and performance from the Puerto Rican Independent Movement’s new nightclub, Cafe Teatro de Protesta. Includes performances by Suni Paz, Estrella Artau and Asian American singers Joanne and Cris (Joanne Nobuko Miyamoto and Chris Iijima, later known as “A Grain of Sand”). Also includes an interview with Ana Marta Morales, the Teatro’s coordinator. Produced…

  • Cooking with author Li Ling-Ai

    Nina Mende interviews Chinese-Hawaiian writer, lecturer and actor Li Ling-Ai (1908 – ?), author of the memoir “Life Is for a Long Time,” as she gives a Chinese cooking lesson.

  • Racism in the Women’s movement (Part 1 only)

    In this program, guests talk about the racism forum “Racism in the Women’s movement: how to fight it,” sponsored by the Women Writers Union and Radical Women, and held at the Women’s Building in San Francisco. They are: Suki Durham, member of both organizations, Max Regal, member of the Seattle Radical Women; Ann Finger, organizer…

  • The effects of racism on the economic rights of women (Part 2 of 2)

    This is the second tape of a symposium sponsored by Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). In this symposium, women from diverse ethnic backgrounds discuss racism: why it exists, who is racist, who benefits, its effects both nationally and globally, and what Affirmative Action may mean to most women. Spring 1981. Produced by…

  • Women and the world in the 1980s – August 8, 1983: Interview with Kitty Tsui

    Blanche Wiesen Cook interviews Chinese-American lesbian poet Kitty Tsui (b. 1952), who was born in Hong Kong, moved to the U.K. at the age of 5, and later came to the United States. Recorded on August 8, 1983. Broadcast on August 8, 1983. Previously cataloged as IZ0478.

  • Asian American women vs. the women’s movement

    Panel discussion between Asian-American women on how racism, ageism, and classism have corrupted the women’s movement. The panelists are Rina Hirai, former member of NOW’s National Task Force on Women in Poverty; Siew-Hwa Beh, co-founder of the periodical Women & Film; Chris Kobayashi and Giselle Dohan (the latter two unidentified in the program). Produced by…