On October 3, 1965, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed what became, in retrospect, one of the most influential […]
Category Archive: Asian American history
In addition to taking over America’s public imagination – isn’t everyone a “foodie” these days? – Food Studies […]
Naomi Hirahara never “got” Raymond Chandler. The dark, mistrustful view of Los Angeles that Chandler’s work so embodied […]
The following is an excerpt from the forthcoming book Desi Hoop Dreams: Pickup Basketball and the Making of Asian […]
(This post is part of our ongoing attempt to “live-blog” our participation in community-based history in South El […]
Hello there. You are now witnesses to a kind of confrontation between me and these three men. And […]
The covert actions of the US government abroad, and their domestic ramifications, have drawn an increasing amount of […]
With Barack Obama’s second term inauguration in January and the multiracial coalition assembled for his 2012 victory, observers […]