100 Objects #10: Nunchaku

99% Invisible
100 Objects #10: Nunchaku

100 Objects #10: Nunchaku

Jul 24, 202636m
0:0036:25

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In the early 1970s, Bruce Lee made nunchaku (nunchucks) cool — kids were building their own and buying them in record numbers. But the nunchucks craze coincided with something much bigger: the birth of a radical new Asian American identity. Roman Mars and historian Jeff Chang trace how nunchucks went from ancient weapon to symbol of resistance — not only uniting Asian Americans in the fight for their own rights, but connecting them to every other group pushing back from the margins. A History of

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