[nyfoil-l] WBAI / APF Tuesday: Radio Program: The New Americans

[Aniruddha Das]

Tune in 7-9 pm EST
Tuesday May 11, 2004
ASIA PACIFIC FORUM on
WBAI 99.5 FM, New York City

Listen online at <http://www.wbai.org/>www.wbai.org
Or on OUR WEBSITE: (where we also archive old programs)
<http://www.asiapacificforum.org/>http://www.asiapacificforum.org/

NOTE: This is a 2-hour WBAI fundraiser starting at 7 pm
ALSO: Thursday, May 13, APF and the Asian American WritersWorkshop are 
co-sponsoring a talk and discussion with Amy Chua, author of World on Fire: 
How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global 
Instability (see below)

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THE NEW AMERICANS: A Book and 3-Video set
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Tune in to hear about THE NEW AMERICANS, a book and documentary series that 
recounts the dramatic journeys of five new immigrant families, from their 
home countries to their arrival and settling in the United States. The 
stories of their voyages are lovingly pieced together by the Emmy 
award-winning author, Ruben Martinez, to form a kaleidoscope of the 
immigrant experience and provide a startling new take on the continuing 
regeneration of a multicultural America. The six-part TV series that 
accompanies the book recently ran on PBS.

The New Americans follows two families of Nigerian refugees, including the 
sister of slain Ogoni activist Ken Saro Wiwa, who moves from running a 
cooking school in Africa to holding down three simultaneous jobs chopping 
vegetables in Chicago restaurants; a Palestinian American who travels to 
the Middle East both to bring back a new wife and to find a new identity 
for himself as a part of the Palestinian struggle; a South Asian couple who 
move from the computer industry of Bangalore, India to a small software 
start-up in Silicon Valley; a Mexican family who travels to work in the 
meatpacking plants of Garden City, Kansas before relocating again to a 
trailer park in the California badlands; and two LA Dodgers prospects who 
journey from the team's overseas training facility at Campo Las Palmas in 
the Dominican Republic to a minor league team in Great Falls, Montana.

  Alongside these elegiac stories are vignettes of artists who themselves 
work in the interstices of exile and relocation: forays, for example, into 
the poetry of Palestinian Mahmoud Darwish; music the Mexican corridos of 
Los Tigres del Norte, the playful and yet deeply culturally-rooted bachatas 
of Dominican Juan Luis Guerra or the rebel music of Manu Chao; and the 
films of Mira Nair. Throughout, Martinez combines his own immigrant 
family's moving story with keen political analyses of the sorts of American 
foreign policies - such as in Central America - which often force migrants 
to flee to the US to escape poverty or violence, as well as of policies 
towards these newcomers once they are inside the US.

  For the program we will feature an interview with the author Ruben 
Martinez as well as the music of Los Tigres del Norte, Manu Chao and Juan 
Luis Guerra. We will be offering copies of the book, and for a few generous 
supporters, copies of the TV series as a three-videotape set.

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RUBEN MARTINEZ is an Emmy award-winning journalist, poet and performer and 
an associate professor at the University of Houstons esteemed Creative 
Writing Program. He is the author of Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the 
Migrant Trail and The Other Side: Notes from the New L.A., Mexico City and 
Beyond. A longtime musician, he has been featured on albums by Concrete 
Blonde and The Roches, and is at work on a solo album.

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This program is brought to you by the APF Collective.
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PROGRAM THURSDAY:

Thursday, May 13, 7 p.m. at the Asian American Writers' Workshop
World on Fire, with Amy Chua

Amy Chua, author of New York Times-bestseller World on Fire: How Exporting 
Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability (Anchor 
Books), comes to The Workshop to discuss the failures of globalization and 
market-dominant minorities with Asia Pacific Forum / WBAI radio host Andy 
Hsiao.

Co-sponsored with Asia Pacific Forum Radio. $5 suggested donation.

Amy Chua is a professor at Yale Law School. Her writing has appeared in The 
New York Times, Prospect, Amnesty International, and The Wilson Quarterly. 
She frequently lectures on globalization, including most recently, lectures 
to the CIA and the United Nations. World on Fire was named a Best Book of 
2003 by The Economist.

The Asian American Writers' Workshop
16 West 32nd Street, Suite 10A
New York, NY 10001-3808
212.494.0061
212.494.0062 (fax)
<http://www.aaww.org/>http://www.aaww.org

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Asia Pacific Forum is New York's pan-Asian radio program, broadcast each 
Tuesday night at 8-9 p.m. on WBAI-FM, 99.5, New York City, and live on the 
Web at: <http://www.asiapacificforum.org/>http://www.asiapacificforum.org/

For more information on APF and to get more information about this 
evening's program, or other programs, please contact us via email: 
<mailto:info at asiapacificforum.org>info at asiapacificforum.org; website: 
<http://www.asiapacificforum.org/>http://www.asiapacificforum.org/

phone: (212) 209-2991; fax (WBAI): (212) 747-1698;
or mail: Asia Pacific   Forum, WBAI 99.5 FM, 120 Wall St., 10th Floor, NY, 
NY 10005.
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Asia Pacific Forum is produced in conjunction with SAMAR, a South Asian 
Left media resource. For more info, please contact: SAMAR, P.O. Box 1349, 
Ansonia Station, NY, NY 10023; phone: 212-877-0048; email: 
<mailto:SAMARCollective at yahoo.com>SAMARCollective at yahoo.com;
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