PBS’s Pioneers of Television: Breaking Barriers – George Takei & Margaret Cho

Posted on May 9, 2014 by John

PBS has been doing this series called Pioneers of Television, and recently, the network aired an episode titled Breaking Barriers, talking about the racial barriers that have been broken over time in the history of American television, including Asian Americans, highlighting George Takei’s breakthrough role in Star Trek and puts his own personal context of being interned as a child with his family during World War II after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The segment also highlights Margaret Cho’s breakthrough television series about an Asian American family in All American Girl.

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I'm a Taiwanese-American and was born & raised in Western Massachusetts, went to college in upstate New York, worked in Connecticut, went to grad school in North Carolina and then moved out to the Bay Area in 1999 and have been living here ever since - love the weather and almost everything about the area (except the high cost of housing...)
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