In each episode, our favorite historians and their friends give their take on a piece of pop culture to add context and perspective to our favorite media. We’ll unpack an iconic moment or phenomenon in movies, music, television, and more, from show business’s love of Blaccent to deep cuts from our favorite childhood cartoons.
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About the Host
Danielle Bainbridge is a writer, researcher and host. She holds a degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. from Yale University. Outside of work as an Assistant Professor of Theatre, African American Studies, and Performance Studies at Northwestern University, she is also a writer of creative nonfiction, fiction, and drama. Her first play "Curio" premiered at UPenn and was featured in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2018.
Dolly Li an award-winning journalist and director/producer. Her short documentaries about Asian diaspora in America, from the Mississippi Delta to Texas to Seoul, have garnered over 10 million views collectively and earned a regional Emmy in California. She explores the themes of food, globalization, and identity through the perspective of a Cantonese American New Yorker. She established her production company, Plum Studios, which is producing Historian’s Take, a history and pop culture series for PBS.
Adrian is a historian, poet, and essayist at the University of Southern California. He is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, with affiliations at the Center for Transpacific Studies, the East Asian Studies Center, and the Equity Research Institute. His research was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and the Governor General’s Gold Medal. His poem, Barangay: an offshore poem (2021), was recognized as one of the Best Canadian Poetry Collections of 2021 by the CBC. His first academic book, Reduced to Race, is an Indigenous history of Filipino migration to the U.S..
