March 25, 2003 | Becoming American – The Chinese Experience
Fleeing civil war, flooding, and famine, thousands of young men leave the villages of southern China to seek their fortunes in the California Gold Rush.
Alice Walker on her opposition to the war in Iraq. Also: Is protecting chemical plants from terrorist attacks the responsibility of the government or the private sector?
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Jessica Tuchman Mathews' 2003 warning against the Iraq War and the disturbing increase in pharmaceutical advertising.
Libertarian conservative Lew Rockwell on war's long-term economic effects, and New York Times foreign correspondent Chris Hedges on the human toll of war.
March 5, 2003 | Becoming American – The Chinese Experience
For author and activist Helen Zia and many other Chinese Americans, the last three decades have been a time of political awakening inspired by the Civil Rights movement.
March 1, 2003 | Becoming American — Personal Journeys
Bill Moyers talks with Shirley Young, an inspiring woman who survived the Japanese occupation of the Philippines to become a pioneer of market research.
March 1, 2003 | Becoming American – The Chinese Experience
Part Two tells the story of these hostile years when Chinese Americans existed in a kind of limbo, denied rights in their new country and no longer at home in their former one.