Category Archive: California

Shifting Lanes: The Demise of the Southern California Autotopia

To understand the City of Angels, Joan Didion once wrote, one needed to immerse oneself in the freeway […]

Seventy Years Later: The Zoot Suit Riots and the Complexity of Youth Culture

[Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared under the Intersections column at KCET Departures, May 30, 2013.] In the […]

From Better Luck Tomorrow to K-Town: Asian Americans and Los Angeles in 21st Century Media

[Editor’s Note: This piece closes out our  Asian Pacific American Heritage Month coverage.  Be sure to check out […]

Noiring L.A.: The Crimson Kimono and Asian American Sexuality in the Age of the Cold War

“Crimson Kimono is really just a reversal of the old GI concept: ‘Let’s change our luck,’” Director Sam […]

Filing the Lane, Here and Abroad: Filipino American Identity and Basketball

[Editor’s Note: Happy Asian Pacific American Heritage Month! ToM will be bringing forth several articles on Asian American […]

Masculinity, Femininity, and Asian American Basketball in 20th Century California

[Editor’s Note: Happy Asian Pacific American Heritage Month! ToM will be bringing forth several articles on Asian American […]

Compton as the Bellwether for Urban America

When Ice Cube took his star turn as Compton roughneck Doughboy in John Singleton’s “Boyz N’ the Hood,” […]

Fast Times with Valley Girls: 30 Years Later, What Do Two SoCal Classics Tell Us About America?

[Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared on the KCET Departures website under its Intersections column on February 15, […]