“What is Asian American cinema?” asks Glen M. Mimura in Ghostlife of Third Cinema. As other scholars in […]
Category Archive: theory
Edward Said, Orientalism, 1978 Edward Said’s seminal Orientalism is without a doubt a massively influential work that grad […]
Ahhh summer. If you are not melting on the East Coast or Southeast then hopefully you are relaxing […]
Assumptions about human nature have long shaped the way people think about politics, economics, and even their own […]
Teaching historical methods is a bit like studying American history – outsiders are prone to be skeptical. America […]
The United States likes to think of itself not just as “the land of the free and the […]
Three or four times only did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, […]
In 1974 an autoworker from Michigan named Dewey Burton remarked disconsolately to a reporter, “I wanted to be […]