Set the Night on Fire

Set the Night on Fire
Author: Mike Davis
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 648
Release: 2020-04-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1784780243

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Histories of the US sixties invariably focus on New York City, but Los Angeles was an epicenter of that decade's political and social earthquake. L.A. was a launchpad for Black Power-where Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts uprising shook the nation-and home to the Chicano walkouts and Moratorium, as well as birthplace of 'Asian America' as a political identity, base of the antiwar movement, and of course, centre of California counterculture. Mike Davis and Jon Wiener provide the first comprehensive movement history of L.A. in the sixties, drawing on extensive archival research, scores of interviews with principal figures of the 1960s movements, and personal histories (both Davis and Wiener are native Los Angelenos). Following on from Davis's award-winning L.A. history, City of Quartz, Set the Night on Fire is a fascinating historical corrective, delivered in scintillating and fiercely elegant prose.

Community-based Research

Community-based Research
Author: Susan Guyette
Publisher: Los Angeles : American Indian Studies Center, University of California
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1983
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

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This book is intended as an introduction to basic aspects of community-based research. Bibliographies of advanced sources are presented at the end of each chapter.

Contemporary Asian America (second Edition)

Contemporary Asian America (second Edition)
Author: Min Zhou
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 598
Release: 2007-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0814797121

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When Contemporary Asian America was first published, it exposed its readers to developments within the discipline, from its inception as part of the ethnic consciousness movement of the 1960s to the more contemporary theoretical and practical issues facing Asian America at the century’s end. This new edition features a number of fresh entries and updated material. It covers such topics as Asian American activism, immigration, community formation, family relations, gender roles, sexuality, identity, struggle for social justice, interethnic conflict/coalition, and political participation. As in the first edition, Contemporary Asian America provides an expansive introduction to the central readings in Asian American Studies, presenting a grounded theoretical orientation to the discipline and framing key historical, cultural, economic, and social themes with a social science focus. This critical text offers a broad overview of Asian American studies and the current state of Asian America.

Tribal Implementation Toolkit

Tribal Implementation Toolkit
Author: Colorado Law
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-04-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9780979409974

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Better Red

Better Red
Author: Constance Coiner
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 313
Release: 1995
Genre: American literature
ISBN: 0195056957

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Better Red is an interdisciplinary study addressing the complicated intersection of American feminism and the political left as refracted in Tillie Olsen's and Meridel Le Sueur's lives and literary texts. The first book-length study to explore these feminist writers' ties to the American Communist Party, it contributes to a reenvisioning of 1930s U.S. Communism as well as to efforts to promote working-class writing as a legitimate category of literary analysis. At once loyal members of the male-dominated Communist party and emerging feminists, Olsen and Le Sueur exhibit in their writing tendencies both toward and away from Party tenets and attitudes--at points subverting formalist as well as orthodox Marxist literary categories. By producing working-class discourse, Olsen and Le Sueur challenge the bourgeois assumptions--often masked as classless and universal--of much canonical literature; and by creating working-class women's writing, they problematize the patriarchal nature of the Left and the masculinist assumptions of much proletarian literature, anticipating the concerns of "second wave" feminists a generation later.

Mountain Movers

Mountain Movers
Author: Russell Jeung
Publisher:
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2019-04-15
Genre: Asian American college students
ISBN: 9780934052542

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On the beginnings of Asian American Studies at UC Berkeley, San Francisco State University, and UCLA.

Knowledge for Justice

Knowledge for Justice
Author: David Yoo
Publisher: UCLA American Indian Studies Center Publications Asian American Studies Center Press Chicano Studies
Total Pages:
Release: 2020
Genre: Ethnology
ISBN: 9780935626704

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"Knowledge for Justice: An Ethnic Studies Reader is a joint publication of UCLA's four ethnic studies research centers (American Indian Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicana/o Studies, and African American Studies) and their administrative organization, the Institute of American Cultures. This book is premised on the assumption articulated by Johnnella Butler that ethnic studies is an essential and valuable course of study and follows an intersectional approach in organizing the articles. The book is divided into five sections-Legacies at Fifty, Formations and Ways of Being, Gender and Sexuality, Arts and Cultural Production, and Social Movements, Justice, and Politics-with each center contributing one or more articles or book chapters to each. In focusing on the intersectional intellectual, social, and political struggles that confront all of the groups represented in this anthology, the selections nonetheless articulate the specificity of each racial ethnic group's struggle, while simultaneously interrogating the ways in which such labels or categories are inadequate. The editors selected articles that not only address intersectional issues confronting various ethnic constituencies, but that also complicate the categories of representation undergirding such a project itself"--

Central Avenue Sounds

Central Avenue Sounds
Author: Clora Bryant
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 502
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780520220980

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Here too are recollections of Hollywood's effects on local culture, the precedent-setting merger of the black and white musicians' unions, and the repercussions from the racism in the Los Angeles Police Department in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Handbook of Federal Indian Law

Handbook of Federal Indian Law
Author: Felix S. Cohen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 662
Release: 1971
Genre: Indians of North America
ISBN:

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