Refugee Landlords with Trung Nguyen
Fri Feb 06 2026
Trung Nguyen teaches Asian American and ethnic studies at San Jose State. His presentation at the last American Studies Association conference covered how the interests of US empire, Airbnb.org, and refugee landlords market property ownership as a humanitarian act.
Trung's site
https://tpqn.org/
Iyko Day: The Yellow Plague and Romantic Anticapitalism (Monthly Review)
https://monthlyreview.org/articles/the-yellow-plague-and-romantic-anticapitalism/
Eric Tang: Unsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the New York City Hyperghetto
https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S93C3280280
BDS Movement's BDS Guide
https://bdsmovement.net/Guide-to-BDS-Boycott
Toshio's 2-minute explainer on Balaji Srinivasan's Network State
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8fRrpxF/
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https://www.patreon.com/posts/urban-alchemys-f-109662919
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Trung Nguyen teaches Asian American and ethnic studies at San Jose State. His presentation at the last American Studies Association conference covered how the interests of US empire, Airbnb.org, and refugee landlords market property ownership as a humanitarian act. Trung's site https://tpqn.org/ Iyko Day: The Yellow Plague and Romantic Anticapitalism (Monthly Review) https://monthlyreview.org/articles/the-yellow-plague-and-romantic-anticapitalism/ Eric Tang: Unsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the New York City Hyperghetto https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S93C3280280 BDS Movement's BDS Guide https://bdsmovement.net/Guide-to-BDS-Boycott Toshio's 2-minute explainer on Balaji Srinivasan's Network State https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8fRrpxF/ Related episodes: Urban Alchemy with Brooke Lober and Norma Azucar https://www.patreon.com/posts/urban-alchemys-f-109662919 Silicon Valley Imperialism with Erin McElroy https://www.patreon.com/posts/silicon-valley-f-103189183