xenophobia

Content Warning: this episode contains references to discrimination, xenophobia, and Islamophobia. 

Nadia Butt grew up  in a predominantly white community. 

Born to Pakistani immigrants near Boston, growing up as someone often perceived as "different" shaped her perception of identity and community.  She's faced challenges like navigating Islamophobia after 9/11, which greatly influenced her mission as an adult.

Nadia co-hosts the Inclusive Collective Podcast, and is the principal consultant at Naz Consulting. Their work focuses on supporting marginalized communities, aiding companies in integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion (or DEI) into their organizations.

In this revealing conversation, Nadia shares personal stories of racial bias, gender, and race disparities she's encountered in the workplace, such as unequal pay. She guides us through the complexities of DEI work, highlighting the three core values which guide her work: learning, community, and identity. As you'll quickly realize, her work reflects one key learning: that acknowledging our differences doesn't have to divide us but can bring us closer together, fostering a more inclusive and equitable environment. 

Listen to the Inclusive Collective podcast. Learn more about Nadia and her consulting work. 

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In this episode, we cover:

• Nadia's childhood growing up in a predominantly white town, and how it shaped her identity.
• Nadia's early experiences recognizing the joy in diversity that led her to pursue advocacy work
• Experiencing racism towards the Muslim community post-9/11
• The importance of leading with humility
• The three pillars of successful DEI initiatives
• A terrible layoff experience, and why Nadia's happy that she went through it

Quote of the Week:

“We can call diversity, equity, [and] inclusion whatever we want to call it, but it really is just showing up and treating people with dignity and respect." - Nadia Butt 

Hosted by Katherin Vasilopoulos. Made by Cansulta and Ethan Lee.

Music by © Chris Zabriskie, published by You've Been a Wonderful Laugh Track (ASCAP). 

Songs used in this episode include: "Air Hockey Saloon," "Cylinder Nine," "It Will Make You Feel Better If You Put It In the Right Place" "Short Song 030223,"  "Short Song 022523," "Where Have All The Cybertrackers Gone?" "Short Song 030423," "And It Is There, In Those Depths," "Short Song 012623," "Cylinder Four," "Short Song 030723,"  

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In this episode, Latesha Elopre, MD, MSPH, discusses key considerations to barriers to PrEP uptake, including:

• Addressing disparities among racial and ethnic minority populations
• Understanding the concept of intersectionality 
• Tackling multiple levels of intersectionality
• Individual (eg, self-stigma, mental health)
• Network (eg, access to PrEP services)
• Community (eg, racism, stigma, poverty)
• Social and structural (eg, laws/policies)
• Epidemic (eg, population level of viremia)

Presenter: 

Latesha Elopre, MD, MSPH
Associate Professor
Division of Infectious Diseases
Assistant Dean of Diversity and Inclusion
General Medical Education
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama

Content based on an online CME program supported by an independent educational grant from ViiV Healthcare.

Link to full program:
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Music: Florence Price-Fantasie Negre

Production: Martin Steinbereithner

Recording: Fritz Loewe

Mastering: Harry Kelev

Factchecking: Piroshka Kacsa

Music Selection: Jakob Dubi Baer

Creative Director: Philip Wolff

We apologize to everyone with brothers - we hesitate to speculate what your relationship was like.

It's American Thanksgiving! Here is the link to the Quileute Move to Higher Ground project if you'd like to donate, and the other podcasts, etc. that Rebecca and Colleen mentioned.

Move to Higher Ground

Strict Scrutiny episode on the Indian Welfare Act

5-4 episode on the current Supreme Court term, including the Indian Welfare Act

A Tribe Called Geek - a great Native resource for fans of genre things, pop culture, etc

The Reductress article Rebecca and Colleen mention

"My country is great; sorry about yours."  First in a series of tongue-in-cheek critiques of other countries.  It seems that outlandish criticism of the US is always in style, so we begin with roasting France, our oldest ally to demonstrate how easy it is to make another look bad when you can make up the rules as you go along. 

Commentary on trending issues brought to you with a moderate perspective.

"A victory for white life." That's how Illinois Congresswoman Mary Miller described the Supreme Court decision overturning the constitutional right to an abortion at a rally with former President Donald Trump last June. Miller, who had quoted Hitler in a previous speech, later said that she had meant to say "right to life." 

Jamie Marsella, a Harvard PhD candidate in the history of science, says that in historical terms, Miller's distinction doesn't make much difference. Looking back over a century to the Progressive Era, she finds that maternal and reproductive health policies were driven by racial imperatives. President Theodore Roosevelt, for instance, saw declining birth rates among white people as the country's greatest problem and spoke publicly about, quote, "race suicide.” This month on Colloquy, Marsella discusses the American ideal of motherhood, its racial overtones, and its echoes in the renewed wrangling over reproductive freedom epitomized by the recent Supreme Court decision on abortion. 

As artists and creatives from all walks of life, we often fear the unknown more than we like to admit. Fear of the unknown may be keeping you from making the kind of art you really want to make.

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Jesse Prinz, author of Beyond Human Nature, joins us to discuss the role of both nature and nurture in teens’ development. He explains why we shouldn’t attribute teens’ abilities to biology, and shares the significance of both parental and peer influence on teens.

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Full show notes

For centuries, parents have been locked in a nature vs. nurture debate, trying to uncover the forces behind our teens’ development. Some parents believe nature has majority control over who teens become, and that things like personality, mental health issues and risk of addiction are passed down through the gene pool. Others think that these factors are mainly influenced by socialization, parental behavior and cultural influence–meaning the way we treat our kids shapes who they become. 

When teens are exhibiting behavior we’re not exactly proud of, it can be tempting to blame biological factors. We let ourselves off the hook, claiming that there’s nothing we could have done to stop their substance use or aggression anyway. But constantly attributing kids’ behavior to nature can be inaccurate and even harmful! It stops us from critically examining the way we've influenced our teens, and even perpetuates certain sexist or racist agendas by declaring “natural” differences as the foundation for discrimination.

To understand the nuances of this ongoing nature vs. nurture debate, we’re talking to Jesse Prinz, author of Beyond Human Nature: How Culture and Experience can Shape the Human Mind. Jesse is a Distinguished Professor of philosophy and Director of the Committee for Interdisciplinary Science Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He’s been conducting research on the mind for over twenty years, and has authored multiple books and over a hundred articles on topics like consciousness and emotion.

In our interview, Jesse and I are discussing how using nature as the default explanation for kids’ development can lead to harmful discrimination. We’re also discussing how affluence plays a role in who teens become, and debating whether parents or peers have a biggest influence on teen behavior.

Why We Shouldn’t Blame Genetics 

With so much revolutionary tech and research in the field of genetics in recent years, Jesse notes that humans seem to be trending towards biological explanations for a variety of human conditions. However, as we discuss in the episode, he finds that we’ve been categorizing too many things as innate and out of our control–and it’s been holding us back.

In the episode, Jesse and I discuss a concerning conclusion drawn a few years back, when this idea of natural, biological differences was incorrectly used to explain discrepancy. When Harvard president Larry Summers was examining levels of enrollment in STEM fields at his university, he found that there were significantly less women in math and science majors. To explain this gap, he remarked that there must be an innate difference between men and women that endows certain natural talents to males–and males only.

As Jesse and I discuss in the episode, this explanation fails to take into account the real reason why women shy away from STEM professions. Young women are constantly socialized to believe they aren’t as capable as men when it comes to crunching numbers or solving equations! In our interview, Jesse dives into a wealth of research that indicates parents and administrators are much more likely to encourage male students to challenge themselves on math or science homework, while simply giving female students the answers. Most shockingly, Jesse explains that we usually do this subconsciously, even if we believe that male and female students are equal in their capabilities.

In fact, students face a lot of unequal treatment, and not just on the basis of gender. Jesse and I are also discussing how lower socioeconomic status can hold students back, even on tests that are simply supposed to measure innate intelligence.

How Affluence Affects Teens’ Abilities

Relying on nature to explain the differences in our teens’ aptitude can often fail to account for differences in socioeconomic status, Jesse explains. Our education system hands our kids a lot of standardized tests, assuring us that if our kids are naturally smart, they’ll perform well. But as Jesse and I discuss in the episode, wealthier students who can afford private tutoring or advanced classes for the test typically score 20% higher than those who can’t…meaning that being gifted sometimes isn’t enough.

Some students also face a phenomenon known as the stereotype threat, a sensation experienced by minorities who fear that stereotypes about their race or gender might apply to them personally, explains Jesse. This often occurs during high pressure situations, and is especially common for those from poorer backgrounds. Many women and people of color have been socialized to believe they aren't going to perform as well as their counterparts on these standardized tests–and studies show that when they have to write down details like their race or gender before taking these exams, they usually score lower. 

The same is often true within the world of sports, Jesse explains. Although certain aspects like height and build are a result of biology and give some kids an upper hand, they don’t always promise athletic success. Affluence plays a huge role in which athletes get a leg up. Having access to better coaches or expensive lessons, a healthy and individualized diet, and certain digital assets are all indicators of probable athletic success–and also cost an arm and a leg! So if kids are struggling to make the basketball team, it might have less to do with their innate abilities and more to do with the fact that you don’t have thousands of dollars to spend on their dunking skills.

Affluence and socialization clearly have a significant impact over who a teen becomes… but how much responsibility lies on parents? Jesse and I are tackling the “nurture” side of the debate and explaining how much of an effect parents really have on their teens’ development.

The Influence of Parents and Peers

In our discussion, Jesse brings up a commonly believed theory, originating from those who tend to lean more towards the nurture side of the debate–that peers actually have more influence over kids than parents do. Those who subscribe to this theory typically believe that parents don’t have a remarkably deep impact on their kids, given that the parents are decent enough caretakers. Instead, kids are mainly influenced by the peers they hang out with regularly. This can lead parents to become a bit nervous about who their teen is spending time with, and maybe even cause them to micromanage their teen’s friends.

However, Jesse explains that peer groups can actually be a safe haven for teens. The validation that fellow kids provide while your teen still evolving can do wonders for confidence and identity formation. Sometimes, this group of friends might be a bit more rebellious than you’d like, but the rebellious crowds can actually help your teen break free from convention and feel more comfortable stepping out...

In this episode of Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast, Nancy Wang Yuen, sociologist and expert on race and racism in Hollywood, joins Momentum Co-host Chevon for a conversation about the turmoils the Asian-American community experienced during and after the pandemic, the xenophobia she faces as a woman of color in academia, and the challenges she encounters while embracing her faith and being an activist.  

Nancy shares insights and analysis into the importance of Asian representation in media and the sudden shift we are seeing in that representation at this moment. She dissects the intersectionality of racism and sexism that women of color endure, specifically the stereotypes that are placed on Asian-American women. Nancy goes into the history of the onslaught brought onto the Asian community throughout the years and how the aftermath of these events still affects the community today. 

Hear more about the challenges Asian-Americans are facing during this time by tuning in to Episode 4 of Race Forward’s new podcast Reflections: Immigrant Rights Movement –  a limited podcast series. 

And don’t forget to plan to attend Facing Race: the largest multiracial, inter-generational gathering for organizers, educators, creatives, and other leaders. 

Resources (by order of mention)

Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism

https://bit.ly/3rXmhCL

Power Women: Stories of Motherhood, Faith, and the Academy

https://bit.ly/3rVlDWv

8 Dead in Atlanta Spa Shootings, With Fears of Anti-Asian Bias 

https://nyti.ms/33sE6QG

The Page Act – This law prohibited the importation of unfree laborers and women brought for “immoral purposes” but was enforced primarily against the Chinese.

https://bit.ly/3rYhLEg

The Chinese Exclusion Act - The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. Many Americans on the West Coast attributed declining wages and economic ills to Chinese workers.

https://bit.ly/3HTnSz7

Asian Americans | Full Film | PBS LearningMedia - Asian Americans is a five-hour film series that delivers a bold, fresh perspective on a history that matters today, more than ever. As America becomes more diverse, and more divided while facing unimaginable challenges, how do we move forward together? Told through intimate personal stories, the series will cast a new lens on U.S. history and the ongoing role that Asian Americans have played. 

https://bit.ly/3555EMH

How the 1982 Murder of Vincent Chin Ignited a Push for Asian American Rights

https://bit.ly/3LKCgMg

Kerry Ann Rockquemore –  is an author and speaker in the field of faculty development and leadership and founder of the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity.

https://bit.ly/33uPWtN

National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity - Our mission is to change the face of power in the Academy. By developing, connecting, and empowering the next wave of academic leaders, we can strengthen the higher education system and improve the academic experience for all.

https://www.facultydiversity.org/

National Center for Institutional Diversity - To create a more equitable and inclusive society, we produce, catalyze, and elevate diversity research and scholarship.

https://lsa.umich.edu/ncid

Scholars Strategy Network - The Scholars Strategy Network is an organization of university-based scholars who are committed to using research to improve policy and strengthen democracy.

https://scholars.org/  

The Disrupters Podcast

https://bit.ly/3rYLvkr

Nancy Wang Yuen 

Official Website 

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Twitter

@nancywyuen

Instagram 

@nancywyuen

About Race Forward: 

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Executive Producers: 

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As the UN independent expert on contemporary racism and intolerance, Tendayi Achiume leads a worldwide effort to combat related human rights violations and tackle systemic racism, through fact-finding missions on the ground, investigating alleged violations, and submitting her findings to the UN Human Rights Council and General Assembly in New York.

The Zambian-born law professor tells UN News that it was as an undergraduate that she became fascinated with the potential and power that international law has to ease human suffering, and help transform societies.

In this special edition of our Lid is On podcast - part of our multimedia coverage surrounding the 20th anniversary of the historic Durban Declaration to counter racism – Mita Hosali speaks to Ms. Achiume about where we stand now, two decades on.

Music credit: 'Told You So', by Ketsa

The French King and his family attempt to flee France but are quickly discovered and returned to Paris.  Concern for their safety led to the Declaration of Pillnitz in 1791.  It urged European powers to intervene in France on behalf of the beleaguered King and Royal Family.  The French took it as a declaration of war.  The summer of 1791, saw the Massacre of Champ de Mars in Paris.  In the fall of 1791, the National Assembly finally adopted and push out the first French Constitution. During this period of time political factions appear in the National Assembly.  Most notably, the Jacobins, a radical left group, begin their rise to power.

 By the end of 1968, China was at war with itself and the foreigners that inhabited China, and anyone associated with foreigners. Revolutionary Committees had replaced the Red Guards and the Culture Revolution Group.  More fear, mayhem, and death. Chairman Mao changes tact and orders that students and Red Guards be sent to the countryside for indoctrination and to gain control over the chaos.  The countryside movement did not get off to an auspicious start.  Before the countryside movement was over, tens of millions of students and their families would be permanently affected.

Why do foreigners in Japan speak in Katakana? Well, Bobby does it because the TV director told him it's funnier that way. But Dr. Wes Robertson has actual NON-anecdotal research into writing system/pronoun choices and how calling yourself ORE isn't conveying what you think it is.

Ollie reminds us that loose lips sink ships.

Bobby comes to terms.

Topics discussed on this episode range from:

• Brian getting himself into some hot water.
• Scholars of the sakoku-jidai
• The New Entry Ban and the online twitter reactions
• How the Entry Ban is going to affect TV
• Explaining jokes
• The Japanese trendy words of the year and what we think should win (in which we totally overlook the eventual winner because we don't care about Shohei Ohtani)
• Ollie getting confused between the News and the Extras
• How a McDonald's Spokesperson launched both Wes and Bobby's Careers
• Why is Foreigner Japanese represented in Katakana?
• Wes research into using variations in script and what it's intended to convey
• Other reasons for using katakana 
• Reasons for varying scripting choices outside of the general conventions (katakana for loan words, etc)
• The affective associations with different writing systems
• The writing traps that non-native Japanese learners often fall into
• Our word choices as Japanese learners and how we might be adding social nuance that we don't intend to add
• Using excessive/unnecessary Kanji
• Choices and turtles all the way down
• Pronoun choices and how much of these choices are conscious or subconscious forJapanese people/Japanese authors
• The extensive inferences that Japanese people can make about a writer based on their scripting choices
• How technology has changed scripting choices, and what that can reveal about people who make those choices
• Young Japanese women pretending to be lecherous old men online because why not?
• The phenomenon of trying to represent another demographics language trends and getting it wrong

Content Links:
The Sociolinguists of Japanese Script

Topics on this week's extras include:
This week's extras are 40 plus minutes of intense Japanese linguistic analysis applied to joke writing and punnery, and also to Bobby's 6-year-old daughter's first heartbreak. Yes, really. And we talk more about the trending words, including "Ussee-wa."
We get into some of the cultural reasons why trying to tell Japanese people you're just joking doesn't work and discover who Wes's least favorite comedian is.
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• We record remotely using Squadcast and the podcast is hosted on Transistor. 
• Bobby uses the Samson Go Mic and Ollie uses the AT2005USB mic

France confiscates church property in an effort to help pay for the nation's expenses and debt.  The National Assembly forces the clergy to sign loyalty oaths, and imposes additional church reforms.  These cause a schism in the church and with the the nation.   The National Assembly continues to assiduously work toward a National Constitution.  Meanwhile, the nation's fiscal affairs continue to deteriorate.  The period of 1790 thru 1791, sees the rise of political clubs and factions within the National Assembly on the future direction of the revolution and the nation. 

The presence of armed red guards throughout China creates a tidal wave of fear, death, and destruction.    The revolution takes a xenophobic turn, and there is open hostility to all foreigners.   The revolution spins out of control forcing Chairman Mao, with the help of the military, to disarm the rebels.  By 1969, China resembles a military dictatorship.  Despite these events the Cult of Mao rises. 

What can the faith of the migrant teach us about a living theology? The resilience and communal outlook of immigrants offers a way of seeing human relationships—political, social, religious—as porous and permeable, meant to encounter God in the other, welcoming each other in love and hospitality. Francisco Lozada (Brite Divinity School) joins Evan Rosa to reflect on his experiences at U.S.-Mexico borderlands, leading travel seminars and teaching about immigration and justice from a theological framework—they discuss the influence of liberation theology's guiding principle of the preferential option for the poor, the centrality of history in understanding immigration, the problem of American xenophobia, and the racialization of U.S. immigration policy.

This episode was made possible in part by the generous support of the Tyndale House Foundation. For more information, visit tyndale.foundation.

"Building bridges, not walls."

"God doesn't see borders. In my theological thinking, I don't imagine a God or theologize a God asking, "show me your papers." God's asking different questions: Did you feed me, did you give me something to drink, did you clothe me?

During this trip to Nogales, we came across a group of students and they were celebrating mass. We were walking right by them. We were on the U.S. side, they were on the Mexican side, and they asked, do we want to celebrate mass there? And what I see that moment is, that mass, that prayer was a form or expression of resistance, of pushing back there. There are no borders between us.

Prayer doesn't see borders. Faith doesn't see borders. That's the power religion. I think the power of theology, the power of prayer, is that it works—not always, but in its true sense—it works to build bridges, not walls." (Francisco Lozada, from the interview)

Introduction (Evan Rosa)

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

"The New Colossus" Emma Lazarus, 1883

The generous spirit, the welcome for the wandering, taking in the homeless stranger, the refugee—these words that inscribe the Statue of Liberty offer a hopeful image of an America with open arms, a beacon of hospitality and safety in a dangerous world. How do we square this symbol of welcoming freedom with the reality of immigration policy today? Detention centers crowded with young children separated from their families, exploitation of undocumented migrants for agricultural labor, billions of dollars spent on "the wall," the false nativism of fair-skinned European-American immigrants.

Alongside the ideals of The New Colossus embracing the "tired, poor, huddled masses," a history of racial purity, exclusion, xenophobia, and fear can be seen in immigration policy, from the Chinese Exclusion Act just four years before the dedication of Lady Liberty, to the discriminatory immigration quotas of the Johnson-Reed Act in 1924, all the way up to the Muslim Travel Ban of 2017.

In the spring of 2018, approximately 5,500 children were separated from their families by Trump's zero tolerance policy. 1,700 children still live in detention centers, 3 years later.

But how does this balance with the rights of a nation to enforce and manage its political borders? How should those borders be enforced justly? How should we prioritize national security and cultural integrity with the call to welcome the tempest-tost stranger through our "golden doors"?

Well, beyond the dizzying political and moral questions that we have with us always, Francisco Lozada is thinking theologically about immigration and the migrant experience. He is the Charles Fischer Catholic Professor of New Testament and Latinx Studies at Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas.

Lozada draws on his experiences at U.S.-Mexico borderlands, leading travel seminars and teaching about immigration and justice from a theological framework. In this episode we discuss the influence of liberation theology's guiding principle of the preferential option for the poor, the centrality of history in understanding immigration, the problem of American xenophobia, the racialization of U.S. immigration policy, and the ways Jesus, himself a migrant and refugee, crosses borders and boundaries throughout the Gospel narrative.

Thanks for listening.

About

Francisco Lozada, Jr. is the Charles Fischer Catholic Professor of New Testament and Latinx Studies at Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas. He holds a doctorate in New Testament and Early Christianity from Vanderbilt University. He is a past co-chair of the Johannine Literature Section (SBL), past chair of the Program Committee of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), and a past member of SBL Council. He is a past president of the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States, a past steering committee member of the Bible, Indigenous Group of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), and past co-chair of the Latino/a and Latin American Biblical Interpretation Consultation (SBL). He also serves on the board of directors for the Hispanic Summer Program, and mentored several doctoral students with the Hispanic Theological Initiative (HTI). Dr. Lozada’s most recent publications concern cultural and ideological interpretation while exploring how the Bible is employed and deployed in ethnic/racial communities. As a teacher, he co-led immersion travel seminars to Guatemala to explore colonial/postcolonial issues and, most recently, to El Paso, TX, and Nogales, AZ, to study life and society in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Click here to check out his personal website.

Show Notes

• Introduction (Evan Rosa)
• "The New Colossus," Emma Lazarus, 1883 (see above)
• Relationality, borderlands, and solidarity
• Life shared together
• What does solidarity mean in the context of immigration?
• Paolo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
• Jon Sobrino, SJ
• "How do you bring us churches in solidarity with the plight of the poor in Latin America?"
• The guiding principles of liberation theology and their influence on immigration theology
• Preferential option for the poor
• Jesus as someone with us
• Resilience and the migrant's journey
• Reframing the narrative of why migration occurs.
• Common misconceptions (narratives) about why people migrate
• "How you understand migration will influence how you respond to immigration."
• Nationalism, nativism, and scarce resources
• Responsibility comes from our relatedness and living off the benefits of oppressive history
• "Immigration is historical. You can't construct an immigration response that's ahistorical."
• Oscar Martinez, Troublesome Border
• "The border is not fixed."
• Jesus crossing borders in the Gospel of John
• Relationships that break through borders
• Samaritan woman
• Centurion
• Are borders meant to be crossed?
• Why migrants cross, how migrants cross, and how borders are maintained.
• The narrative is the encounter itself.
• Xenophobia
• A reckoning with our complicity with the construction of whiteness
• Nationality Act of 1790
• Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
• Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 
• Hart-Celler Immigration Act of 1965
• Whiteness and the history of U.S. Immigration Policy
• "The New Colossus" (Inscription  on the Statue of Liberty): "Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. / Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, / I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
• How do we interpret human mobility?
• How do we understand our past?
• "It can't begin out of an abstract reality, it has to begin with a lived reality. That's liberation."
• The faith of the migrant
• Resilience 

Production Notes

• This podcast featured biblical scholar Francisco Lozada
• Edited and Produced by Evan Rosa
• Hosted by Evan Rosa
• Production Assistance by Martin Chan, Nathan Jowers, Natalie Lam, and Logan Ledman
• A Production of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture at Yale Divinity School https://faith.yale.edu/about
• Support For the Life of the World podcast by giving to the Yale Center for Faith & Culture: https://faith.yale.edu/give

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 Patrons have access to the video versions of many podcasts, as well as various blogs and writings I share. To visit, go to patreon.com/carpo719.

I do all of my own research, writing, editing and producing, so it takes a bit of time. But I try to upload a new episode each week. I appreciate all of your conributions to my efforts, both financially as well as the wonderful comments people leave.

 For more information, or to join the discussion, please visit my Discord server page at carpo719 where I have several categories about different subjects. I share thoughts and pictures there, as well as links to my videos and podcasts. We have a nice little community going there.

 I don't have facebook, or instagram, as I find it takes up my time with little return. In the modern day of communicating online, it is hard not to get sucked in. But I am eternally grateful for not only the platform to share my thoughts, but for you, the listener, who makes it all worthwhile. Because let's be honest, it is always better to share with someone else.

  So thank you for coming along, and I hope you will join me for future podcasts, whoever you are, wherever you are, so have yourself a wonderful day.