For this episode I interviewed Dr. Thao Ha, who is a Vietnamese refugee and professor of Sociology at MiraCosta College. She earned a doctorate in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin. She's published in the areas of race, immigration, and Vietnamese American in the South. She is an advisor and associate producer of "Seadrift", a 2019 documentary about Vietnamese fishermen in Texas and the KKK. Her current project is focused on Vietnamese American incarceration.

We discussed the weaponization of the model minority myth, Black and Asian-American relations, the flawed incarceration system and the Black Lives Matter movement. It was a powerful conversation.

Here are some amazing resources that Dr. Thao Ha shared with us:

Model Minority Myth https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/what-is-the-model-minority-myth
Mass Incarceration - documentary film "13th" https://www.netflix.com/title/80091741Mass Incarceration - book "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" by Michelle Alexander https://newjimcrow.com/
Resource for Colleges that serve currently and formerly incarcerated students Corrections to College California: https://correctionstocollegeca.org/

Donate to organizations that focus on Incarceration and Criminal Justice Reform:

• Equal Justice Intitiative https://support.eji.org/give/153413/#!/donation/checkout
• Innocence Project https://www.innocenceproject.org/donate/
• The Marshall Project https://www.themarshallproject.org/donate?via=7010d000000xq2

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