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Program One: First Contacts
7/9/06
International trade brought early Asian travelers to the Americas. Crossing East brings you the previously untold stories of quests for gold and adventures as well as hardships in the new land.
Program Two: Frontier Asians
7/16/06
The legacy of the frontier is the towns, farms and ranches settled by Asian Americans. Crossing East features the early West with miners, buckaroos, farmers and doctors.
Program Three: Raising Cane
7/23/06
Hawaii was a self-contained society when Captain Cook made first contact. Then settlers and missionaries turned Hawaiians into workers and the islands into plantations. Crossing East weaves a unique cross-cultural American tale through music, descendant histories and sounds of Hawaii.
Program Four: Exclusion and Resistance
7/30/06
Keep Asians Out – that has been the consistent message toward Asian immigrants beginning with the Exclusion Act of 1882. Crossing East gives detailed accounts of immigration laws designed specifically to restrict Asian Americans.
Program Five: Brides and Children
8/6/06
Wars create poverty conditions and a surplus of dispossessed women and children. Many women married American service men. Many children were adopted and sent to the U.S. Crossing East explores the little told accounts of military brides and Asian American adoptees.
Program Six: Post '65 Generation
8/13/06
The Immigration Act of 1965, allowed Asian family members, entrepreneurs and skilled workers to immigrate to the U.S. Crossing East shows how each Asian group found a special field of work and offered their expertise and skills to a burgeoning economy.
Program Seven: Refuge from War
8/20/06
America has been home to refugees since the Potato Famine and the rise of Communism. The U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War caused devastation throughout Southeast Asia and brought families who had no choice but to seek a new life in America. Crossing East highlights a tumultuous time of war and resettlement and examines differences in culture, education and socio-economic backgrounds of Southeast Asian refugees.
Program Eight: New Waves, New Storms
8/27/06
With economic downturns and tragic events comes violence – particularly toward Asian Americans – who fight back with grassroots organization. Crossing East sheds light on current discriminatory treatment against Asian Americans from the last two decades and what we can learn from past mistakes.
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