Filipino nurses and "Better Luck Tomorrow"
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Hello from Neera Tanden\\u2019s shoe closet!
0:00 \\u2013 The gang\\u2019s back together, with geographic and pandemic updates.
10:00 \\u2013 Data recently compiled by National Nurses United tell us that nearly a quarter of registered nurses in the US who\\u2019ve died from the coronavirus are Filipino. Why this outsized fraction? Can histories of colonization and migration, as well as labor economics, help us make sense of the numbers?
49:07 \\u2013 In the first of what we hope will become a recurring a segment, we talk about a classic Asian American film: Justin Lin\\u2019s \\u201cBetter Luck Tomorrow.\\u201d Does it hold up? Why did Roger Ebert once defend it so vigorously? And how does it compare to Lin\\u2019s more famous franchise (\\u201cFast and Furious\\u201d)? To \\u201ccorny\\u201d immigrant literature?
Our next movie talk, a few weeks from now, will be on \\u201cChan is Missing.\\u201d Watch along with us!
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