Otherhood
A PRI podcast created and hosted by Rupa Shenoy about the people who came to the United States as children or are the children of immigrants. They're shaped by the same experiences and motivated by many of the same emotions. That's why, as they're getting older, they're having a huge impact on this country.
Latest Episodes
Otherhood
November 21, 2016
Thanksgiving could be an opportunity to confront the divide exposed by the election, but many families have banned talk about politics, and some have canceled the holiday meal altogether.
Otherhood
November 14, 2016
The US drew a line in the sand, and Americans chose where to stand. Now people are examining strangers out of the corner of their eye, wondering just how much they don't know about who lives around them.
Otherhood
October 28, 2016
Has Donald Trump helped fuel racism? Has he helped us confront it? Or is former MSNBC Host Melissa Harris Perry right — is Trump just the current scapegoat for a country that avoids confronting its past?
Otherhood
October 14, 2016
In the burning heat of Arizona's vast, mostly empty Wild West desert, young Mexican American teenagers decide between working for the border guard or for the cartels smuggling drugs and people north. The kids that choose to be border agents face anger within their own families, as migrants desperate to come to the US die nameless deaths.
Otherhood
September 29, 2016
TCKs — or third culture kids — often lie when asked when they're from.
About the show
A PRI podcast created and hosted by Rupa Shenoy about the people who came to the United States as children or are the children of immigrants. They're shaped by the same experiences and motivated by many of the same emotions. That's why, as they're getting older, they're having a huge impact on this country.
