{"id":52896,"date":"2026-05-16T22:35:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T14:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=52896"},"modified":"2026-05-16T22:35:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T14:35:36","slug":"hbos-the-a-list-explores-aapi-stories-with-names-like-sandra-oh-kumail-nanjiani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=52896","title":{"rendered":"HBO\u2019s The A List explores AAPI stories with names like Sandra Oh, Kumail Nanjiani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/05\/15\/0e97507a-7c94-4daa-aca7-0e8687ee10ba_7d4e5f1c.jpg?itok=D_EWrl8s&amp;v=1778818844\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Korean-American film director Eugene Yi has always been interested in the term AAPI \u2013 Asian-American and Pacific Islander \u2013 and which ethnicities it includes.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWhen we\u2019re talking about Asian-Americans or Asian people in the US, oftentimes it\u2019s people who might look like you and me, and maybe not people who look like Zohran Mamdani,\u201d he says, referring to New York City\u2019s mayor, who was born in Uganda to a family of immigrants from India.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWhy is that when this term is supposed to be so capacious and so inclusive?\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">So Yi was beyond excited when approached to helm a new HBO documentary dedicated to AAPI identity and community.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Timed for release during <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">AAPI Heritage Month<\/span> this month, <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">The A List: 15 Stories from Asian and Pacific Diasporas<\/em> is now streaming on HBO Max. It is the latest in \u201cThe List Series\u201d created by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, a franchise that has previously produced documentaries on prominent black, Latino and LGBTQ Americans.<\/div>\n<h3 type=\"h3\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"eh0yk8h0 css-17x7qa9 e1pqa4re1\">Deep-diving into AAPI stories<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/article\/3353630\/hbos-list-explores-aapi-stories-names-sandra-oh-kumail-nanjiani?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Korean-American film director Eugene Yi has always been interested in the term AAPI \u2013 Asian-American and Pacific Islander \u2013 and which ethnicities it includes. \u201cWhen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[22841,9566,8739,22842,1377,1597,22843,12367,1726],"class_list":["post-52896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-aapi","tag-explores","tag-hbos","tag-kumail","tag-list","tag-names","tag-nanjiani","tag-sandra","tag-stories","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}