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100 Objects #10: Nunchaku

99% Invisible by SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Jul 24, 202600:36:25Arts

In the early 1970s, Bruce Lee made nunchaku (nunchucks) cool, but the nunchucks craze coincided with something much bigger: the birth of a radical new Asian American identity.

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100 Objects #10: Nunchaku is an episode from 99% Invisible by SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars. In the early 1970s, Bruce Lee made nunchaku (nunchucks) cool, but the nunchucks craze coincided with something much bigger: the birth of a radic...

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