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Podcast: New Books in American Studies
Episode: Rebecca Jo Kinney, "Mapping AsiaTown Cleveland: Race and Redevelopment in the Rust Belt" (Temple UP, 2025)
Description: In this episode we challenge the ideas about invisibility of Asian Americans in the urban Midwest by discussing Rebecca Jo Kinneyâs Mapping AsiaTown Cleveland: Race and Redevelopment in the Rust Belt (Temple University Press, 2025).
Mapping AsiaTown Cleveland links the contemporary development of Clevelandâs âAsiaTownâ to the multiple and fragmented histories of Clevelandâs Asian American communities from the 1940s to present. Kinneyâs sharp insights include Japanese Americans who resettled from internment camps, Chinese Americans food purveyors, and Asian American community leaders who have had to fight for visibility and representation in city planningâeven as the Cleveland...