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The Asian American Conundrum

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 30, 2018

With a nod to the W.E.B. Dubois' classic The Souls of Black Folks, Wesley Yang, contributing editor at Esquire Magazine, columnist at Tablet and the author of The Souls of Yellow Folk (W.W. Norton & Company, 2018), talks about the Asian American experience.

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