http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/ucr_chass_ethstud_oapolicydeposits/rss Recent eScholarship items from Department of Ethnic Studies Open Access Policy Deposits Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:04:37 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9402b8sr “Latin Holidays: Mexican Americans, Latin Music, and Cultural Identity in Postwar Los Angeles” https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9402b8sr Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Macias, Anthony https://escholarship.org/uc/item/92w2g074 “Expressive Culture” https://escholarship.org/uc/item/92w2g074 Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Macias, Anthony https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8sd5703h Review https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8sd5703h Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Macias, Anthony https://escholarship.org/uc/item/86j4d1sg Black arts west: culture and struggle in postwar Los Angeles https://escholarship.org/uc/item/86j4d1sg Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Macias, Anthony https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7kt4c7j1 “To be a Mexican Woman in a Town Like This” https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7kt4c7j1 Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Macias, Anthony https://escholarship.org/uc/item/71025485 In Los Angeles during the early 1940s, the popular music and dance performances of a cross-cultural swing scene provoked reactionary regulation by white urban elites and law enforcement authorities. Reacting to multiracial musicians, dancers, and entrepreneurs, local politicians and municipal arts administrators created a Bureau of Music in order to encourage patriotic citizenship, prevent juvenile delinquency, and bring proper music to the people. This article argues that successive generations of Angelenos defied the city's rule of racial separation and white domination, creating a multicultural urban civility as they intermingled in dance halls, ballrooms, and auditoriums. Despite personal prejudice and internalized racism within and between different groups, dance music facilitated intercultural affinities that went beyond mere politeness or courtesy to include respect and tolerance. In diverse but distinct music scenes, Angelenos sustained egalitarian social relations in... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/71025485 Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Macias, Anthony F https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5nf9h8wp The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory (review) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5nf9h8wp Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Macías, Anthony https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5gv3j6q7 “La Bamba” https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5gv3j6q7 Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Macias, Anthony https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4tc610xf “DETROIT WAS HEAVY”: MODERN JAZZ, BEBOP, AND AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPRESSIVE CULTURE https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4tc610xf Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Macías, Anthony https://escholarship.org/uc/item/36w0j2tt “Viva Tirado” https://escholarship.org/uc/item/36w0j2tt Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Macias, Anthony https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0s42g84v Luis Alvarez, "The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance During World War II" (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0s42g84v Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Macias, Anthony https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0nw0h91f Abstract Indigenous language endangerment is a global crisis, and in response, a normative “endangered languages” narrative about the crisis has developed. Though seemingly beneficent and accurate in many of its points, this narrative can also cause harm to language communities by furthering colonial logics that repurpose Indigenous languages as objects for wider society's consumption, while deemphasizing or even outright omitting the extreme injustices that beget language endangerment. The objective of this essay is to promote social justice praxis first by detailing how language shift results from major injustices, and then by offering possible interventions that are accountable to the communities whose languages are endangered. Drawing from my experiences as a member of a Native American community whose language was wrongly labeled “extinct” within this narrative, I begin with an overview of how language endangerment is described to general audiences in the United States and... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0nw0h91f Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Leonard, Wesley Y https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8792-4414 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0pv1r18p Abstract This essay lays out the concept of global futurities, which I define as the discursive scales and plural epistemologies by which marginalized identities and groups articulate, construct, imagine, or locate their futures. While global future is usually based on what could happen to all people and the planet, my framework of global futurities maps the differential horizon of being and co-becoming for those who have been historically denied a future due to discriminatory processes such as Black communities, Indigenous peoples, formerly colonized populations, migrants, etc. Such futurities are not simply pluralistic in terms of cultural diversity, but they serve as counter-hegemonic forms of futuring and worlding, shaped by dissident interests and political actors dedicated to promoting (Other)worldly justice. These subaltern viewpoints challenge a singular framing of humanity, as they involve multiple nodes and networks of power/knowledge/desire. These ontological and temporal... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0pv1r18p Fri, 9 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Bui, Long T https://escholarship.org/uc/item/06n165qf The world is already in climate “crisis” mode. Fossil fuels are the largest driver of climate change, and eliminating their use is an important step toward addressing the future of climate change. Yet, I argue that eliminating fossil fuel use alone is insufficient to address the crises not only of climate change, but the uneven effects of climate change and fossil fuel racial capitalism as they play out across the world. Building on the work of W.E.B. Du Bois in thinking through the establishment of abolition democracy in the post-emancipation project of Black Reconstruction, this article offers a conceptual analysis of why and to what end such a framework is essential to building a radically democratic society rooted in liberation for all. The article looks toward an abolitionist energy democracy, where abolition democracy offers guiding principles for developing theory and organizing praxis. Using a case study of the People Power Solar Cooperative in Oakland, California, USA,... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/06n165qf Fri, 8 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Miyake, Keith K https://escholarship.org/uc/item/18m7n0t4 The art of reimagining borders in Patricia Vázquez Gómez’s BorderXer https://escholarship.org/uc/item/18m7n0t4 Thu, 9 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Miyake, Keith K https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9pm3w36g This article discusses the institutional challenges and opportunities of implementing Asian American Studies (AAS) and Ethnic Studies (ES) college curriculum in the University of California and beyond. These personal observations are built on my involvement in the national, community, and student-led movement for Ethnic Studies in the state and across the nation. While scholars and educational practitioners have already documented the difficult history of implementing these programs—building them into full-fledged departments with faculty lines with a strong number of majors—there is still room to consider other pertinent social issues. Connecting scholar-activism in the UC system with AAS-mobilizing efforts in CSU and in elite private liberal arts schools, I discuss the following issues related to the implementation of ES as a state requirement: (1) academic senate faculty participation in governance, (2) engaging student activism and apathetic faculty, (3) forging inter-institutional... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9pm3w36g Sun, 28 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Bui, Long https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5915-4993 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9n88n2mq Rethinking, Returning, Repossessing https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9n88n2mq Wed, 6 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Bui, Long T https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5915-4993 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5wt5d1zr Refugee Worlding: M.I.A. and the Jumping of Global Borders https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5wt5d1zr Wed, 6 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Bui, Long T https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5915-4993 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3h23q100 Review: The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam, by Paisley Rekdal https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3h23q100 Wed, 6 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Bui, Long T https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5915-4993 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/79t1p1wm This article introduces the “racial environmental state” as an analytical framework for examining race and environment as mutually constituting modes of state power. Under racial capitalism, the state relies on the constant articulation of racial and environmental difference and domination to sustain the uneven geographies necessary for capitalism. The racial environmental state offers a way to examine hegemonic state power operating through the convergences of race and environment, as a site for resistance, and the proliferation of abolition geographies. Using this framework, the author analyzes the abolitionist struggle to transform the carceral geographies of California’s Central Valley through a campaign to stop the construction of a prison in Delano, California. This case study shows the importance of recognizing race and environment as interconnected systems of domination and resistance. It also highlights the possibilities and limitations of engaging the state in the abolitionist... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/79t1p1wm Thu, 8 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Miyake, Keith https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4wx246jr Carceral jaguar geographies along the US/México border and the case for border abolition https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4wx246jr Thu, 8 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Miyake, Keith K https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8dg8m8kg Diasporic Im/mobilities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8dg8m8kg Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Bui, Long T https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5915-4993 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1zj3v5d9 Through case studies involving countries like China, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan, this chapter uses a comparative transnational frame and my concept of sub-empire of memory to elucidate East Asia nations’ role in the Vietnam-American War. Scholars have previously exposed their involvement in what is also known as the Second Indochina War. Less explored are the various forms of what I trauma returns, like massacres or rape or famines, that are commemorated/contested. While Western nations have barely begun addressing their role in Vietnam, East Asian countries have not. This silence or denial has resulted in a great eruption of memory and a struggle over historical meaning. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1zj3v5d9 Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Bui, Long T https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5915-4993 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9kz90072 Review of Dolores Inés Casillas, Sounds of Belonging: U.S. Spanish-Language Radio and Public Advocacy (New York: New York University Press, 2014) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9kz90072 Wed, 5 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Macias, Anthony https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7rx5w17q California’s Composer Laureate: Gerald Wilson, Jazz Music, and Black-Mexican Cultural Connections https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7rx5w17q Wed, 5 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Macias, Anthony https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7975p5q7 Becoming Mexican American: An Empowering Exemplar of Social and Cultural History https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7975p5q7 Wed, 5 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Macias, Anthony https://escholarship.org/uc/item/49d4x3dw Cultura Panamericana: Toward a Hemispheric Imaginary https://escholarship.org/uc/item/49d4x3dw Wed, 5 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Macias, Anthony https://escholarship.org/uc/item/48p30545 A Promising Problem: The New Chicana/o History https://escholarship.org/uc/item/48p30545 Wed, 5 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Macías, Anthony https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1sq2f42q Gay Rights and the Reception of Dog Day Afternoon (1975) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1sq2f42q Wed, 5 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Macias, Anthony https://escholarship.org/uc/item/10w3p92z Elizabeth R. Escobedo. From Coveralls to Zoot Suits: The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/10w3p92z Wed, 5 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Macías, Anthony https://escholarship.org/uc/item/87n7r1xn Talking Indian: Identity and Language Revitalization in the Chickasaw Renaissance https://escholarship.org/uc/item/87n7r1xn Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Leonard, Wesley Y https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1b35q0dj Toward an Anti‐Racist Linguistic Anthropology: An Indigenous Response to White Supremacy https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1b35q0dj Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Leonard, Wesley Y https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8792-4414 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/48w0m4rb Prior research has established that undocumented immigrant experiences are dynamic, reflecting the complex web of immigration-related policies that create legal vulnerability. As such, undocumented college students’ experiences must be situated in their current policy context. Drawing on descriptive analyses of a survey of 1,277 undocumented 4-year college students in California, we examine how undocumented students are faring in a relatively inclusive policy context. Results demonstrate the heterogeneity of undocumented student experiences and unpack the challenges they confront while also demonstrating the ways they thrive. We document how respondents are performing across a variety of academic, well-being, and civic and political engagement outcomes. We also show that undocumented students’ perceptions of legal vulnerability are complex and varied, taking into account family-level legal vulnerability and individual protections. Further, students perceive campuses as fairly... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/48w0m4rb Thu, 2 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Enriquez, Laura E https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6580-3109 Chavarria, Karina Rodriguez, Victoria E https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5645-1378 Ayón, Cecilia Ellis, Basia D Hagan, Melissa J Jefferies, Julián Lara, Jannet Hernandez, Martha Morales Murillo, Enrique G Nájera, Jennifer R Offidani-Bertrand, Carly Fujimoto, Maria Oropeza Ro, Annie https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9684-5566 Rosales, William E Sarabia, Heidy López, Ana K Soltero Valadez, Mercedes Valdez, Zulema Pierce, Sharon Velarde https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2ms8b0wk Prior research suggests that hostile immigration policies can motivate undocumented immigrants’ political engagement, but may also create unique risks that limit their willingness to participate. We examine how perceptions of the immigration policy context may help or hinder undocumented college students’ political engagement. Using data from an online survey of 1,277 undocumented college students attending California 4-year public universities, we conducted regression analyses to examine the extent to which perceived discrimination, social exclusion, and threat to the family due to current immigration policy affects three forms of political engagement: political voice, collective action, and individual action. We then examined potential factors that may facilitate engagement, including participation in campus and community-based organizations and legal protections. Results show that perceived discrimination and threat to family due to the immigration policy context are positively... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2ms8b0wk Thu, 2 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Rosales, William E Enriquez, Laura E https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6580-3109 Nájera, Jennifer R https://escholarship.org/uc/item/45r672xq Drawing from Native American Studies, I explore how the LSA Statement on Race (2019) applies to Native Americans, who are unique among racial groups in the United States since ‘Native American’ is also a political status and tribes are nations. Focusing on the fundamental tenet of tribal critical race theory that colonization is endemic to society (Brayboy 2005), I argue that the ways in which Native American languages are represented in linguistic scholarship reflects colonial norms, which also guide the severe underrepresentation of Native Americans in the discipline. Integrating these ideas into antiracist frameworks facilitates social justice in linguistic science. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/45r672xq Tue, 10 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Leonard, Wesley https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1k1230xh Learning by Observing and Pitching In in the Context of Sleeping Language Reclamation https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1k1230xh Sun, 26 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Leonard, Wesley Y https://escholarship.org/uc/item/39q6z505 Abstract: This article reconsiders the present-day automation of work and its transformation of who we are as humans. What has been missing from this important conversation are the social meanings surrounding Asian roboticism or how Asians have already been rendered as “robotic” subjects and labor. Through this racial gendered trope, I assess whether industrial automation will lessen, complicate, or exacerbate this modern archetype. By looking at corporate organizational practices and public media discourse, I believe that Asian roboticism will not simply vanish, but potentially continue to affect the ways such subjects are rendered as exploitable alienated robots without human rights or status. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/39q6z505 Sat, 18 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Bui, Long https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5915-4993 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5xj333kr This article considers state-funded films in contemporary Vietnam and the legacy of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), which fell to communist forces in 1975. From a close reading of films produced on the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the war, the article deciphers complicated meanings about national identity, history, and gender. In this new political economic context, the possibilities for remembering the southern regime—including its people and veterans—remains open and closed. Through the framework of heteroglossia of history, the co-presence of competing viewpoints within cinematic texts points to the complexity of an ever-changing Vietnam. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5xj333kr Tue, 10 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Bui, Long https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5915-4993 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8r53x977 Monetary Orientalism: Currency Wars and the Framing of China as Global Cheater https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8r53x977 Sun, 18 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Bui, Long T https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5915-4993 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8p88m8mw Ahn Chang Ho (also known by his pen name, Dosan) moved to Riverside, California, in March 1904 and soon established the first Koreatown on the U.S. mainland, known as Dosan's Republic or Pachappa Camp. Dosan helped found a local employment agency and negotiated relations with citrus farmers to find work for Koreans who lived in the community. With steady work available, Riverside became a popular destination for Korean immigrants and was thus an ideal location for the Gongnip Hyeophoe, or Cooperative Association, which Dosan created to foster a sense of community. The Gongnip Hyeophoe later expanded to Korean settlements throughout California and eventually developed into the Korean National Association, which proved especially significant in organizing immigrants to fight for Korea's independence in the wake of Japanese colonization in 1910. Pachappa Camp helped anchor its residents’ identity and supported Koreans’ struggles to support themselves and to fight for Korean sovereignty.... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8p88m8mw Tue, 14 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Chang, Edward T Brown, Hannah https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9br1q59w The Refugee Repertoire: Performing and Staging the Postmemories of Violence https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9br1q59w Sat, 23 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Bui, Long https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5915-4993 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8g0875n6 The Debts of Memory: Historical Amnesia and Refugee Knowledge in The Reeducation of Cherry Truong https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8g0875n6 Sat, 23 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Bui, Long T https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5915-4993 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7rg5b3h3 This article calls on ethnic studies scholars to question how the public university remains intact as an unproblematized social model of advancement by interrogating the necropolitics of the public university—the collateral damage that the academic industrial complex incurs in securing advantages for some. Bui reads Asian American studies and its scholars against neoliberal claims by the University of California to provide a “better life,” in so doing challenging the precarious privilege of Asian Americans and constructions of the “model minority.” https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7rg5b3h3 Sat, 23 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Bui, Long https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5915-4993 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4j07c2v7 Abstract This article uses the 2006 experimental documentary Maquilapolis to shed light on the struggles of women workers in export-oriented industrial zones operating under the shadow of Asian global capitalism. My focus complicates the typical reading of the maquiladora factory system as simply a US–Mexico border issue by situating the burgeoning influence of East Asian nations and corporations in this economically profitable region of the world. Through the concept of glorientalization, I elucidate the connections between the all-encompassing gestures of globalization and the binaristic reframing of Orientalism found within the maquiladora system, where low-wage, brown, female factory workers in Tijuana must deal with an invasive foreign imperial presence that seeks to colonize, objectify, and exoticize them as docile, mechanized cyborgs similar to Asian women. As nonpermanent entities able to come and go at will, Asian companies are able to adopt a virtual character,... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4j07c2v7 Sat, 23 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Bui, Long Thanh https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5915-4993 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/24f1z6fj “She Is Not Acting, She Is” https://escholarship.org/uc/item/24f1z6fj Sat, 23 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Strings, Sabrina Bui, Long T https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5915-4993 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1j12b9tr This article concerns Asian American queer masculinity and how the “coming out” process for gay Chinese men and their non-White immigrant families does not fit neatly within neat Western gender distinctions of public/private space. Using the film Ethan Mao as a primary text and case study, I argue for an intersectional approach to the coming out process for racialized sexual minorities. Ethan Mao is a film that tells the story of a Chinese American boy expunged from the home upon his family’s discovery of his homosexuality who returns to hold his family members hostage. The fictional story thematizes the indistinct spatial and symbolic boundaries of queer Asian American identity, masculinity, and domesticity. The film observes how gay men of color do not simply come out of the closet but break into it. Through an intersectional queer of color critique, I reconceptualize “the closet” as a synecdoche of the private home space, refiguring it as a contested site of belonging/exclusion... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1j12b9tr Sat, 23 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Bui, Long https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5915-4993 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0db1s7p7 The Global War City: Traces of the Militarized Past in Saigon's Urbanized Future https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0db1s7p7 Sat, 23 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Long T. Bui