Viet Thanh Nguyen is a professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Beyond this, he is a cultural critic and author of many insightful books discussing Asian-American narratives including the Committed and The Sympathizer, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2016. Recorded in Spring of 2021 during the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes in the United States, this episode feature's Nguyen's insights on the history of Asian-American narratives in this country as well as how we can move forward in a world that remains prejudiced against the Asian diaspora.