Recent ucsd_libraries_ulrp_2025 items

Permeating Racial Boundaries: The Multiracial’s Deconstruction of Colonial Racialization

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Winner 2025 Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Category, nominated by Andrea Mendoza (Department of Literature).

In this thesis, I analyze the work of Nina Mingya Powles through a critical mixed race lens. Powles is a multiracial author and poet who writes about her experiences navigating multiracial girlhood as she travels to and lives in various locations tied to her heritages. Focusing on Powles’s use of water imagery, I examine how both her prose (Small Bodies of Water) and poetry (Magnolia) illustrate the multiracial body’s fluid nature. I argue that the multiracial body is a fluid entity that permeates racial boundaries via its occupation of peripheries, allowing it to exist beyond the rigid classification of colonial racial categories. Through this occupation, multiraciality exists in and moves through the contested in-between space, deconstructing socially constructed categories of identity that dictate power hierarchies within the colonial framework. Although...

Theft- An Artist's Book

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Honorable Mention 2025 Special Collections & Archives Category, nominated by Anna Joy Springer (Department of Literature)

The artist's visual directions for recreating the artwork includes textual content used in the book and images of the process and completed work.

Laying the Groundwork: A Historical Study of Place Attachment and Community Resilience of Groundwork Books

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Winner 2025 Special Collection & Archives Category, nominated by Adena Schachner (Department of Psychology)

At UC San Diego (UCSD), student-run cooperatives—Groundwork Books, Food Co-Op, General Store, and Che Café - function as hubs for cultural expression, activism, and community connection. Focusing on Groundwork Books, this study examines how place attachment, the emotional bond individuals form with meaningful space and community resilience, and the capacity to adapt and recover from adversity are displayed in the past fifty years since its conception as a student cooperative. Through a mixed-methods approach, this study explores the quantifiable levels of place attachment and community resilience within UCSD’s student cooperatives and specifically unearthing Groundwork Books legacy in being a functional space. Archival data and document analysis, surveys, and interviews with past and current Groundwork Books members are implemented in understanding the lived...

When Walls Can Talk: People Make Social Inferences from Town’s Protective Features

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Honorable Mention 2025 Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Category, nominated by Adena Schachner (Department of Psychology)

Human towns are shaped by intentional design. Here we ask whether people use societal features to make social inferences, specifically focusing on how the presence of protective architectural features influences people’s intuitions about towns’ residents. U.S. adults (N = 100) were presented with two novel societies – a 'protected' town with walls, locks, and gates, and an 'unprotected' town lacking such features. We manipulated whether residents had chosen or been randomly assigned where to live. Across both conditions, people judged that unprotected society residents felt safer, happier, and were nicer; and that protected society residents dressed more similarly, stayed inside more, and had more rules. Most people preferred to live in the unprotected society. Positive attributions and preference for the unprotected society were associated...