http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/ucsb_journalhist_vol4issue2/rss Recent eScholarship items from Volume 4, Issue 2 (Fall 2024) Sat, 12 Sep 2026 20:09:19 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1xn43799 Through the early 1970s, Ventura County, California, witnessed an unprecedented rise in Ku Klux Klan activity. While earlier incarnations of the Klan predominantly targeted Mexican, male farmworkers, this latest iteration expanded their scope to target a growing population of people of color in the area. As their attacks and local presence increased, their actions became widely publicized with local newspapers rushing to print their stories. Reporters regularly worked with local Klan leaders in their publications, from including short statements to publishing entire interviews. Through the work of local and national newspapers, the group’s intentions and ideologies became well-documented and integrated into social discourse, leading to a distinct naturalization from the mainstream media. The Klan simultaneously received routine empowerment through the actions of local and federal institutions. Despite the Klan’s notorious reputation, the government legitimized them as an organization... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1xn43799 Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Huynh, Jaden https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4jp8580z My research aims to better understand the federal government’s role in addressing educational disparities by studying the impact of two of LBJ’s Great Society policy programs, The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, on the desegregation of public schools in Rural Mississippi. It examines the state's resistance to integration from <em>Brown v. Board of Education</em> to the mid-1960s to analyze the structural factors that delayed integration and then moves into studying both the motives behind the policies and their implementation in Rural Mississippi. Ultimately, I found that the desegregation plans the federal government prescribed, many of which only called for “Freedom of Choice” or only desegregated two grades, were ineffective. Reasons for this include historical structural barriers, a lack of manpower in Washington, D.C. actually to enforce integration, and too much delegation of authority to the Mississippi State Office of Education.... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4jp8580z Fri, 22 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Landis, Audrey https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9wq7c7g2 Historians have extensively documented the defections of communists and other members of the Japanese political left to imperialist and nationalist causes from the mid-1930s through the Second World War. Previous scholarship has focused on the role of the <em>Kōza-ha</em> and <em>Nōro-ha</em> factions of Japanese communists at the turn of the 1930s within the overarching intellectual history of modern Japan, or on aspects of leftist thought at the time with clear connections to later turns to imperialism. Research has highlighted fringe theories and aspects of mainline leftist politics that appear to foreshadow the rightward turn. However, emphasis on the flaws in the Japanese left constructs a “slippery slope” narrative of inevitable defection and obscures other aspects of their ideology. This paper addresses the extent to which this ideological and political turn can be explained within the two factions of Japanese communists through analyzing their approaches to imperialism... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9wq7c7g2 Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Delphia, Michael Kosei https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9t84h3nv This paper comprises two parts: in the first, I analyze how the state utilizes reparations to perpetuate their antiblack and imperialist violence. I closely read Japanese American reparation testimonies, testimony guidelines, and other documents to argue for Japanese American reparations as a site for not representing truth but producing it. Drawing primarily on the works of The Honorable Sylvia Wynter, I show that the state imposes a temporal structure on Japanese Americans' experiences to engulf them within the surrounding antiblack and neoliberal model minority myth. My paper then turns to the praxis and speeches of Yuri Kochiyama to understand modes of experiencing that contest the state’s imposition. I argue that reparations and experiencing the past are not temporally stable, and by reading her diary entries to her biography, I demonstrate that her experience of the past shifts throughout her growing interaction with revolutionary politics. I trace Kochiyama’s subjectivity... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9t84h3nv Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Das, Pritish https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7203k21d During the turn of the century, the island of Zanzibar experienced profound changes. Previously ruled by the sultanate of Oman, the territory was now a protectorate of the British Empire. Although the sultan remained, Arab elites were now scrambling to hold onto authority and influence. In accordance with their increasing power, the British slowly trudged toward abolition on the island. However, not all experienced liberation, specifically concubines. Various discourses emerged about free and forced relationships. Such discourses were rigidly marked along gender and ethnic lines. Correspondence between British colonial officials and the memoirs of Salamah bint Saïd, daughter of a sultan, contain insight into perceptions of concubines and consensual relationships. Scrutinizing these texts illustrates the agendas behind each narrative, and why they were promulgated. However, the voices of those subjected to such discourse are silent in the historical record. Zanzibari women, and... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7203k21d Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Saville, Leigh https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6kp6v7q3 The Severan Dynasty of Ancient Rome (AD 193-235) is in part known for the increased involvement of its females, the Julias Domna, Maesa, and Mamaea, in the politics of the empire as compared to previous imperial dynasties. By examining the involvement of the Julias Maesa and Mamaea in Alexander Severus’ reign, I seek through this paper to examine what this involvement looked like, why it took certain forms, and what those forms can tell us about Roman society of the time more broadly. I used Herodian’s early 3rd century <em>History of the Roman Empire</em> and the early 4th century collection of biographies termed the <em>Historia Augusta</em> in doing so, and large sections of this paper discuss the issues with these sources and how they need to be read into in order to gather accurate information about the events they discuss. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6kp6v7q3 Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Grissom, Cole https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5rp168fj The Second Italo-Ethiopian War sparked a wide-spanning and enthusiastic source of support for Ethiopia amongst African Americans.&nbsp; Black Americans held a deep-rooted political and spiritual connection with the African country, embracing Ethiopianism and perceiving the country as a symbol of Black nationalism while also using the war in Ethiopia to exemplify anti-colonialism rhetoric.&nbsp; Many believed that in supporting Ethiopia, African Americans were also protecting a crucial part of their identities.&nbsp; Support efforts were characterized by the foundation of aid organizations, charity drives, public speaking events, and protests; black periodicals' role in generating this support has been relatively obscure.&nbsp; This research essay attempts to analyze the impact black periodicals played in the African American protest of fascist Italy’s aggressions in Ethiopia.&nbsp; By examining the writings of famed black authors from Marcus Garvey to Joel Augustus Rogers, the... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5rp168fj Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Carson, Wesley https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5pc3d5xv Alliances between members of the transgender community and the feminist community were slow to form, as the groups clashed over definitions of womanhood and experiences of gender oppression. Although trans people saw the value in forming alliances with feminists to fight gender oppression, feminists did not recognize the parallels between the groups. The very ideas that could have provided a base for coalition-building, including gender-based discrimination, access to employment, and gender violence, instead divided the groups. Sexual orientation further complicated coalition-building, as many cis lesbians questioned the gender identities of trans lesbians, while some trans lesbians believed cis lesbians were their natural allies. Through illuminating the shared struggles that feminists and trans people faced and the prejudices that inhibited coalition-building from the 1970s through the 1990s, this essay suggests the value and limits of transgender and feminist partnerships. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5pc3d5xv Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Grafstein, Julia https://escholarship.org/uc/item/02g3h7n7 Evolution And Revolution:Anarchist Imaginaries Between Biology And Politics In The Early Twentieth Century https://escholarship.org/uc/item/02g3h7n7 Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Aden, Cecilia