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When we think of the history of French colonialism in Indochina, we tend to think of the French in Indochina. Yet during the colonial period about 200…
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Handcrafted Careers
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Rot and Revival
One of the great divides in American judicial scholarship is between legal scholars who take the justices at their word and assume that those words de…
September 6, 2024
Unorthodox Kin
Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging (U California Press, 2017) is a lively, readable exploration of "chosen" ident…
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Sin Padres, Ni Papeles
Each year, thousands of youth endure harrowing unaccompanied and undocumented migrations across Central America and Mexico to the United States in pur…
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For the first half of the twentieth century, no American industry boasted a more motley and prolific trade press than the movie business—a cutthroat l…
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Following Similar Paths
Two academics, one Jewish and one Muslim, come together to show how much their faiths have in common—particularly in America. This book provides a…
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Between 1919 and 1961, pioneering Chinese American actress Anna May Wong established an enduring legacy that encompassed cinema, theatre, radio, and A…
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Smoke But No Fire
Jessica Henry's Smoke But No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened (U California Press, 2021) explores a shocking but all-too-co…
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Asian Mobility History as Labor History
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Kate McDonald, Associate Professor of History at University of California, Santa Barbara, about her fascin…
July 27, 2024
Hollywood Remaking
From the inception of cinema to today’s franchise era, remaking has always been a motor of ongoing film production. Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remak…
July 21, 2024
Beyond Complicity
Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr. Francine Banner is a fascinating cultural …
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The Women Who Ruled China
In the late fifth century, a girl whose name has been forgotten by history was born at the edge of the Chinese empire. By the time of her death, she h…
July 7, 2024
Rated A
In the 1990s, India's mediascape saw the efflorescence of edgy soft-porn films in the Malayalam-speaking state of Kerala. In Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema…
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Appreciation Post
What does an art history of Instagram look like? Appreciation Post: Towards an Art History of Instagram (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr. …
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Becoming the Ex-Wife
Credited with popularizing the label "ex-wife" in 1929, Ursula Parrott wrote provocatively about divorcées, career women, single mothers, work-life ba…
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Plantation Pedagogy
Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, teachers, administrators, and policymakers fashioned a system of industrial education that attempte…
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Immortal Films
Casablanca is one of the most celebrated Hollywood films of all time, its iconic romance enshrined in collective memory across generations. Drawing fr…