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Episode: Beyond Whiteness: Conservatism and Fascism in Asian American Evangelical and Catholic Communities
Description: Many are wondering how and why religious minorities in the USA adopt conservative - and even fascist - political identities when it seems that the American Right is anti-immigrant and in many cases explicitly racist. Scholars Dr. Jane Hong (Occidental) and Dr. Adrian de Leon (USC/NYU) argue that Asian American (religious) conservatism should be understood not just as an imported phenomenon from outside these communities, but as something structural within the formation of Asian America itself, within white supremacy and other political contexts in the United States.Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free...