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What does it mean to be an American? There’s no one way. At NPR, we think of the American identity as a story - one that's always being rewritten by the people who live it. The American Storytelling collection gathers...
About this Podcast:
Inheriting is a show about Asian American and Pacific Islander families, which explores how one event in history can ripple through generations. In doing so, the show seeks to break apart the AAPI monolith and tell a fuller story of these communities.In each episode, NPR's Emily Kwong sits down with one family and facilitates deeply emotional conversations between their loved ones, exploring how their most personal, private moments are an integral part of history. Through these stories, we show how the past is personal and how to live with the legacies we're constantly inheriting.Learn more at LAist.com/Inheriting
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What is Inheriting about?
Inheriting is a show about Asian American and Pacific Islander families, which explores how one event in history can ripple through generations. In doing so, the show seeks to break apart the AAPI monolith and tell a fuller story of these communities.
Who hosts Inheriting?
Inheriting is hosted by NPR. The show has published 15 episodes to date.
What has Inheriting covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Introducing the American Storytelling collection" (10 February 2026, 2 minutes), "Inheriting Presents: "Willie, Shig, and a Bird Named Maggie" by StoryCorps" (17 December 2024, 15 minutes), and "Inheriting Presents: 'Settlement' by Ten Thousand Things with Shin Yu Pai" (25 July 2024, 28 minutes).
How often does Inheriting publish?
Inheriting publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 35 minutes across 15 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Inheriting?
Booking probability for Inheriting is 29%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Inheriting requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Inheriting's contact route on record: verified email.
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NPR hosts Inheriting, a society podcast with 15 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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Dec 17, 202415 minS1This week, we bring you a special bonus episode from our friends at the podcast StoryCorps. Willie Ito and Shigeru "Shig" Yabu, childhood best friends, remember being sent to separate Japanese Internment camps as kids...
Jul 25, 202428 minS1This week, we bring you a special bonus episode from our friends at the podcast Ten Thousand Things with Shin Yu Pai. Janet Lee, a freshman at Bryn Mawr, was heading home for Christmas break when she was detained by the...
Jul 18, 202439 minS1This week, we bring you a special bonus episode from our friends at the podcast Self Evident: Asian America's Stories. For so many Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Spam is a beloved classic food, showing up in...
Jul 11, 20241h 2mS1Our final episode of Season 1 is a special "Inheriting" event recorded in front of a live audience. Host Emily Kwong is joined on stage by Bảo Trương (Episode 4), Shakeel Syed and Saira Sayeed (Episode 6), and Leialani...
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- Jul 4, 202446 minS1
Nicole Salaver's uncle, Patrick Salaver, was one of the leaders of the Third World Liberation Front at San Francisco State University in the late 1960s. This movement not only led to the recognition of the term "Asian...
Episode #8
What does AAPI really stand for?
Jun 27, 202430 minS1Should the acronym "AAPI" even exist? In this special episode, we deconstruct it – tracing the 50-year history of the terms "Asian American" and "Pacific Islander" and interrogating how they are used today. Emily talks...
Episode #7
Leialani & The Occupation of Guam
Jun 27, 202436 minS1Leialani Wihongi-Santos is CHamoru and was raised on the island of Guam with a distorted view of history. She was taught that the United States "saved" her island from occupation by Imperial Japan. As she's gotten...
Episode #6
Saira, Shakeel & 9/11's Impact
Jun 20, 202444 minS1Shakeel Syed has been a longtime activist within his South Asian community, fighting for the civil liberties of Muslims who were targeted by the FBI and the Los Angeles Police Department following the terrorist attacks...
Episode #5
Leah & Japanese American Incarceration
Jun 13, 202449 minS1Leah Bash is an avid runner, a dog mom, a wife – and there's a part of her family's history she can't stop thinking about. The fact that both sides of her family were incarcerated alongside 125,000 other Japanese...
Episode #4
Bảo & the Vietnam War
Jun 6, 202446 minS1Bảo Trương's parents both fled Vietnam in 1975 following the war. His father Thuận was a pilot for the South Vietnamese Air Force and left the day before the Fall of Saigon, evacuating almost 100 people to Thailand on a...
Episode #3
Victoria & the Cambodian Genocide
May 30, 202442 minS1Growing up in Long Beach, California, Victoria Uce was surrounded by a loving and supportive family, while her dad, Bo, lost his parents at a young age in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. Victoria only ever knew the...
Episode #2
Carol & the Los Angeles Uprising: Part 2
May 23, 202438 minS1In part two of Carol Kwang Park's story, we follow Carol's journey to connect more deeply with her family – and introduce the family-led conversations that are central to "Inheriting." Decades after the 1992 L.A...
Episode #1
Carol & the Los Angeles Uprising: Part 1
May 23, 202443 minS1Carol Kwang Park was 12 years old, working as a cashier at her family's gas station in Compton, California, when the 1992 L.A. Uprising forever changed her life. Her mom was at the gas station that day and Carol was...
Inheriting
Introducing 'Inheriting'
May 8, 20244 minJapanese American Incarceration. The Third World Liberation Front. The 1992 Los Angeles Uprising. What you think you know isn't always the full story. "Inheriting" is a show about Asian American and Pacific Islander...
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