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 are the most suburbanized people of color and have been among the most vocal critics of
By Matthew Frye Jacobson, author of Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era: A Cultural HistoryIt has been supremely challenging, in the face of the constant emergencies and the grotesque uncertainties of the twenty-first century, to address questions of race a
By Jim Walvin, author of A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global PowerLike most apprentice historians, I learned my trade on a specific, narrow area of study: the history of a single Jamaican slave plantation. At that time, in the late 60’s, slavery was not a commo
By Eric Porter, author of A People's History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an AirportFor many people, airports may seem like alienating “nonplaces”—as anthropologist Marc Augé put it—where we rush to make connections and spend long, monotonous hours waiting for delayed flights. But I’ve
By Ahmed White, author of Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical WorkersIn the late 1910s and early 1920s, the Industrial Workers of the World was the target of the most intensive campaign of state-sponsored repression in American history. A story of violence, law,
