<h4>Heidi Kim is an associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Follow her on Twitter at @HeidiKKim.</h4>

Heidi Kim

“Flower Drum Song,” Whitewashing, and Operation Wetback: A Message from 1961

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers

Film

"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds." — Dizzy Gillespie

Music

How Twelve Years a Slave was made, 150 years before "12 Years a Slave"

Heidi Kim is an associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Follow her on Twitter at @HeidiKKim.