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Exclusion, resilience and the Chinese American experience on 'Mott Street'

Exclusion, resilience and the Chinese American experience on 'Mott Street'

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31 min
1 May
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This week on the podcast, we're revisiting a conversation we had with Ava Chin about her book, Mott Street. Through decades of painstaking research, the fifth-generation New Yorker discovered the stories of how her ancestors bore and resisted the weight of the Chinese Exclusion laws in the U.S. – and how the legacy of that history still affects her family today.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy