California & Western History

14

Sep

100 Years after Thind: An Ethnic Studies Review Special Issue

COURT RULES HINDU NOT A ‘WHITE PERSON’; Bars High Caste Native of India From Naturalization as an American Citizen.

22

Aug

Reckoning with Our Past: California State Parks and the Dark Side of the Conservation Movement

by David G. McIntosh with Rena M. Heinrich The Public Historian’s new special issue “Reckoning with Our Past: California State Parks and the Dark Side of the Conservation Movement,” examines a collaborative …

28

Mar

Asian Immigrants Chasing – and Defending – the Suburban American Dream

By James Zarsadiaz, author of Resisting Change in Suburbia: Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in L.A. Today, notions of an urban and liberal Asian America continue to prevail, even though Asian Americans …

16

Mar

In a Soggy Winter, Reflecting on the Historic Rains of 1918 in the Santa Clara Valley

By Anne Marie Todd, author of Valley of Heart’s Delight: Environment and Sense of Place in the Santa Clara Valley The winter of 2023 has been especially soggy in the Santa Clara …

13

Mar

What Yosaku Imada’s Failed Escape of 1893 Shows Us About U.S. Imperialism

By Christen T. Sasaki, author of Pacific Confluence: Fighting over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i Typically, the history of U.S. empire is told as a story of inevitable expansion. Within this narrative, …

03

Mar

California History Announces Winners of 2022 Richard J. Orsi Prize

California History is pleased to announce the winner of the Richard J. Orsi prize for the best article published in the journal in 2022. The committee unanimously selected Warren C. Wood’s “S. …

28

Feb

When Do You Stop Arriving?: African American Histories in Rural California

California History recently published its second special issue on the history of African Americans in California. This issue arrived in a moment of profound reckoning on racial injustice broadly, from police violence …

14

Feb

Celebrating 50 Years of Latinx Art and Collaborative Artmaking with Self Help Graphics

By Tatiana Reinoza, co-editor of Self Help Graphics at Fifty: A Cornerstone of Latinx Art and Collaborative Artmaking Throughout the last five decades, Self Help Graphics & Art has created an artist-centered …

11

Jan

Understanding the History of Japanese-Mexican Relations and Nurturing Empathy Toward Others

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 …

19

Dec

Why Airports Are Places We Should All be More Interested In

By Eric Porter, author of A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport For many people, airports may seem like alienating “nonplaces”—as anthropologist Marc Augé put …