75: Playwright Philip Kan Gotanda on growing up in California after World War II

Philip Kan Gotanda is a professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies and one of the most prolific playwrights of Asian American-themed work in the United States. In the first episode of a three-part series, Gotanda talks about growing up in Stockton, California, after World War II and the anti-Japanese racism that he couldn’t name as a child, but that he’d go on to write about as an adult.Listen to the episode, read the transcript and see photos on UC Berkeley News: https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/05/07/podcast-philip-kan-gotanda-part-one Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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