COURT RULES HINDU NOT A ‘WHITE PERSON’; Bars High Caste Native of India From Naturalization as an American Citizen.
–NY Times, February 20, 1923
Photograph of Bhagat Singh Thind in his U.S. Army Uniform, from 1918. Thind enlisted in the U.S. Army, and trained at Camp Lewis, Washington...
Global PerspectivesEditor-in-Chief: Helmut K. Anheier, Hertie School and Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLAonline.ucpress.edu/gp
Sociology of DevelopmentEditors: Andrew Jorgenson, Boston College and Jeffrey Kentor, Wayne State Universityonline.ucpress.edu/socdev
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By Yu Tokunaga, author of Transborder Los Angeles: An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations
“Lo voy a comprar 👏 Felicidades!!!” I recently received this comment from my Costa Rican friend after posting on Facebook about my new book, Transborder Los Angeles: An Unk...
Global PerspectivesEditor-in-Chief: Helmut K. Anheier, Hertie School and Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLAonline.ucpress.edu/gp
Sociology of DevelopmentEditors: Andrew Jorgenson, Boston College and Jeffrey Kentor, Wayne State Universityonline.ucpress.edu/socdev
Civic So...
Although the 2021 American Studies Association meeting is now virtual, it was originally set to take place in Puerto Rico with the theme “Creativity within Revolt.” According to ASA, “revolt expresses a will toward collective being that radically challenges, displaces, and potentially abo...
As part of our ongoing Editor Spotlight Series, we connected with UC Press Executive Editor Niels Hooper to talk about his History, American Studies, and Middle East Studies lists, and how our program has developed over the time he’s worked at the Press. Niels also shares his journey from...
Natchee Barnd is a comparative and critical ethnic studies scholar and Associate Professor in the Ethnic Studies program at Oregon State University, the author of Native Space: Indigenous Strategies to Unsettle Settler Colonialism, and new Editor of UC Press’s journal Ethnic Studies Revie...
Barbara Jean Wong leads the Mei Wah Drum Corps. Photo By Harry Quillen. Peter SooHoo Sr. Collection, Chinatown Remembered Project, Chinese Historical Society of Southern California.
William Gow was awarded the Western History Association’s 2019 Vicki L. Ruiz Award, which recognizes...