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SOURCE: NBC News
6/1/2022
Reparations Report Details 150 Years of State-Sanctioned Harm to Black Californians
"It finds that the damage to Black communities is extensive and that a variety of intentionally crafted policy, judicial decisions and racism by private actors has created a widespread exclusion of Black people that has not been sufficiently addressed at any level of government."
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
5/18/2022
John Mack Faragher on California History as American History
John Mack Faragher's new book examines the rise of America's diversity and prosperity – and the conflicts attendant on both – in California.
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5/22/2022
California Isn't a Liberal Sanctuary where Asian Americans are Concerned
by Hao Huang
Anti-Chinese racism and violence has always been part of the nightmare underside of the California dream.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
3/17/2022
Two Artists Unearth Hidden Histories of LA
Devon Tsuno and Alan Nakagawa discuss the histories and daily life of the Japanese American community in Midtown Los Angeles, an area that has largely been erased from Angelenos' maps of their city.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/6/2021
Black Family's Success in Recovering California Land Could Spark National Land Return Movement
"Activists and scholars say there are other similar cases nationwide, but proving them — and getting the current property owners to cooperate — will be a different matter."
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
11/25/2021
What Slavery Looked Like in the West
by Kevin Waite
"Historians typically study Black and Native slavery as discrete systems. But America’s wealthiest slaveholders didn’t draw a fixed line."
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SOURCE: Vice
11/11/2021
America's Only LGBTQ Historic District Is Falling Apart
"Because of centuries of general anti-gay sentiment and laws punishing queerness, little queer history has been preserved, and much of it has been erased."
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
11/7/2021
Pioneering Chicano Movement TV Show Reemerges after 50 Years in Garage
On a recent August day, Frank Cruz, now 82, thought to himself as he had dozens of times before: “Pendejo, you better do something about those films. It might be too late.”
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SOURCE: Orange County Register
11/8/2021
Cal State Fullerton Students Develop Public History Archive of Confederate Monuments
The recent movement to reconsider Confederate monuments represents a kind of synthesis of public and academic histories with a moral component, which Benjamin Cawthra encourages his public history students to investigate.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
10/24/2021
150 Years Ago, a Mob Attacked Los Angeles's Chinese Community
by Reece Jones
It's essential to understand white supremacy as a national phenomenon that defended the color line against multiple groups and linked white identity to the nation's borders.
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10/17/2021
The Fantasy of Hispanic Heritage Month
by Frank P. Barajas
Conceived by a Congressman to honor the contributions of ethnic Mexicans to American society, Hispanic Heritage Month is based in a mythical Spanish past that obscures the indigenous history of the west and legitimates the succession of power from Iberian to Anglo elites.
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SOURCE: NPR
10/10/2021
How a Black Family Got Their Beach Back
The historic Bruce's Beach case is inspiring social justice leaders and reparations activists to fight for other Black families whose ancestors were also victims of land theft in the United States.
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SOURCE: San Diego Union-Tribune
9/19/2021
Local Professor Building History of San Diego's Japanese Americans
San Diego City College professor Susan Hasegawa describes a public history project detailing the story of San Diego's Japanese Americans before and after internment, and a librarian who supported interned children with books and messages of support.
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SOURCE: New York Times
9/15/2021
Looking for the Gold Rush Town of Chinese Camp
"Sucheng Chan, a retired historian and the author of more than 15 books on Asian American history, notes that this region, called the Southern Mines, was home to almost half of the Chinese in California in 1860," but that history is poorly preserved for visitors today.
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SOURCE: NPR
9/14/2021
California Ski Resort to Change Racist, Sexist Name
"In modern usage, the word "squaw" is considered to be "offensive, derogatory, racist, and misogynistic," the resort, formerly known as Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows, said as it explained its reasoning."
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
9/5/2021
The Recall is a Test: Has California's Direct Democracy Experiment Failed?
It's difficult to swallow the idea that Progressive era governor Hiram Johnson would have countenanced the idea that the recall system he championed could allow a minority of voters to throw out a governor who recently was elected with 62 percent of the votes cast.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
8/27/2021
New History of Chicanos in Ventura County
Historian Frank Barajas discusses his new book on Chicano activism in California's Ventura County with columnist Gustavo Arellano.
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8/29/2021
Bigler's Gambit: How the California Gold Fields Gave Rise to Global Anti-Chinese Politics
by Mae Ngai
The Chinese Question and Chinese exclusion policies that circumnavigated the Anglo-American world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries grew in local soils, and shifted and evolved as it crossed the Pacific world and supported the consolidation of British and American power over global emigration and trade."
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8/22/2021
In California Recall, a Tiny Minority of Voters Could Choose the Governor
by James Thornton Harris
The particularities of California's recall process create a dangerous situation where a minority of voters can choose the state's chief executive.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
8/4/2021
East LA Bid for Independence Could Achieve a Key Victory
by Eric Avila
"The campaign for special district status would allow East L.A. to inch closer to the right of self-determination afforded to so many other Southland communities."
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