Podcast about academia, culture, and social justice across the STEM/humanities divide. Dr. Liz Wayne and Dr. Christine "Xine" Yao are two women of color Ivy League PhDs navigating higher education. Biomedical engineer meets literary critic. Both fans of lipstick.
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S01E21 | When Bruce Lee meets Bruce Leroy
Black Power, Yellow Peril! What happens when Bruce Lee's inheritor is a young African American man from Harlem? Liz and Xine discuss the classic Motown martial arts film The Last Dragon in relation to Bruce Lee's iconic Enter the Dragon. We discuss cultural appropriation, alliance, and adaptation between Blacks and Asians with a focus on Black and Asian American masculinity. Mentions include the work of scholar Vijay Prashad, Jet Li in Romeo Must Die, John Cho in Selfie, Aziz Ansari and Kelvin Yu in Master of None.