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BEN CARSON’S UNFORTUNATE CORNERSTONE Ben Carson’s Unfortunate Cornerstone. Dr. Ben Carson has a new gig as the head of something called the American Cornerstone Institute. It seems that the outfit exists primarily as a funding vehicle for the good doctor himself, but that should hardly raise an eyebrow in today’s Washington, D.C. MY PHD AT MARQUETTE: THE HUMAN COST OF ACADEMIA’S ABUSIVE The Human Cost of Academia’s Abusive Culture. Academia is entering an uncertain future and I’m experiencing very contradictory emotions about its fate. Since middle school I’ve dreamt of a vocation in the intellectual study of history, so sadness engulfs me. Alternately, as someone who saw that dream become a nightmare, due to the abusive

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Read all of the posts by myriamgurba on Tropics of Meta. A feminist magazine attempts to bury a critical review of an opportunistic, racist, brownface novel. CHICANO PARK: A COMMUNITY’S LEGACY OF RESISTANCE Chicano Park: A Community’s Legacy of Resistance. Chicano Park, Barrio Logan (San Diego) California. Location: Under the Coronado Bridge on the corner of Logan Ave. & César Chávez Blvd. Chicano Park Steering Community: (619) 563-4661. www.chicano-park.com. Chicano Park is a space south of San Diego’s iconic Gaslamp District, a place

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FINDING FAMILY WITH THE WILDERPEOPLE Similarly, in Wilderpeople, the main character, a wayward but ultimately sweet-hearted New Zealand foster kid, Ricky Baker (Julian Dennison), finds family through his adventures with his foster parents, Aunty Bella (Rima Te Wiata) and Uncle Hec (Sam Neill). Tragedy and the trials of months on the lam create a bond between characters that one can only describe as familial. A SCREAMING COMES ACROSS THE SKY: RE-READING THOMAS A Screaming Comes Across the Sky: Re-Reading Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. With no end in sight to my stay-at-home lifestyle, it seemed like as good a time as any to re-read Thomas Pynchon’s 760-page tome, Gravity’s Rainbow. Populated with over 300 characters and hundreds of historical and cultural references,

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WHITE POVERTY AND THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN THE US SOUTH While the moonlight-and-magnolias myth of the Old South continues to persist, the region’s history actually is much more sinister and grim – even for many white Southerners. Recently scholars have revealed the brutal, bloody realities of slavery in the late-antebellum Deep South. Yet to truly understand the gross inequalities endemic to slave societies, it is THE MOTOR CITY AT WAR: MOBILIZATION, WARTIME HOUSING, AND “New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie,” commented former Punk rock queen Patti Smith in recent weeks. “New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city." Today, Detroit usually receives attention for all the wrong THE STORY OF BOOGALOO SAM AS TOLD BY IZEL GAYE For Izel Gaye, a 58-year-old man who has lived most of his life on the west side of Fresno California, that special item is a pair of dancing shoes that were given to him by his friend, Poppin’ and Boogaloo icon Sam Solomon. “When he gave you something,” Mr. Gaye reflected in a recent oral history, “It was like oh boy you better hang on WHITE RACIAL INNOCENCE GOES TO WAR: FORREST GUMP AT 20 As the movie progresses, Gump’s own innocence allows him to triumph where others, soiled by the events of the 1960s, spiral into misery. A crippled and self-pitying Lt. Dan becomes a bitter alcoholic. Jenny goes from nude folk singer to coke-bedraggled ledge jumper. With his faith, sincerity, and limited understanding of the world, Gump BEN CARSON’S UNFORTUNATE CORNERSTONE Ben Carson’s Unfortunate Cornerstone. Dr. Ben Carson has a new gig as the head of something called the American Cornerstone Institute. It seems that the outfit exists primarily as a funding vehicle for the good doctor himself, but that should hardly raise an eyebrow in today’s Washington, D.C. MY PHD AT MARQUETTE: THE HUMAN COST OF ACADEMIA’S ABUSIVE The Human Cost of Academia’s Abusive Culture. Academia is entering an uncertain future and I’m experiencing very contradictory emotions about its fate. Since middle school I’ve dreamt of a vocation in the intellectual study of history, so sadness engulfs me. Alternately, as someone who saw that dream become a nightmare, due to the abusive

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A SCREAMING COMES ACROSS THE SKY: RE-READING THOMAS A Screaming Comes Across the Sky: Re-Reading Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. With no end in sight to my stay-at-home lifestyle, it seemed like as good a time as any to re-read Thomas Pynchon’s 760-page tome, Gravity’s Rainbow. Populated with over 300 characters and hundreds of historical and cultural references,

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FINDING FAMILY WITH THE WILDERPEOPLE Similarly, in Wilderpeople, the main character, a wayward but ultimately sweet-hearted New Zealand foster kid, Ricky Baker (Julian Dennison), finds family through his adventures with his foster parents, Aunty Bella (Rima Te Wiata) and Uncle Hec (Sam Neill). Tragedy and the trials of months on the lam create a bond between characters that one can only describe as familial. READING COLONIALISM IN “PARASITE” Reading Colonialism in “Parasite”. Parasite has made history, which is a euphemism for achieving Western recognition — history’s qualifier. Recognition itself hinges on the gaze, and the imperial variety suffuses Parasite ’s critical reception. In an early and emblematic review, Manohla Dargis notes in The New York Times:

“The

‘PARASITE’ IS THE FIRST SEXUAL CRITIQUE OF CAPITALISM For Parasite is the very first sexual critique of capitalism and sexuality under capitalism. While we have seen (1) sexual critiques of capitalism (most art-house cinema, some blockbusters, socially conscious music, etc.) and (2) critiques of sexuality under capitalism (Lacan, Deleuze, Guattari & co.), Parasite is the first to accomplish

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APOCALYPTO NOW: HOW EVERYONE’S FAVORITE BIGOT MADE AN When I heard that Mel Gibson was making a movie about pre-Columbian, Mesoamerican culture, my reaction was probably not different from most: a deep, existential groan. The right-wing, anti-Semitic actor and filmmaker hardly seemed like the best candidate to create a thoughtful historical depiction of Mayan life on the eve of European

colonization.

THE STORY OF BOOGALOO SAM AS TOLD BY IZEL GAYE For Izel Gaye, a 58-year-old man who has lived most of his life on the west side of Fresno California, that special item is a pair of dancing shoes that were given to him by his friend, Poppin’ and Boogaloo icon Sam Solomon. “When he gave you something,” Mr. Gaye reflected in a recent oral history, “It was like oh boy you better hang on BRINGING ASIAN AMERICANS INTO THE HISTORY OF SEGREGATION The discourse around housing segregation traditionally focuses on the interplay and conflict between black and white communities. Arnold Hirsch’s Making the Second Ghetto, Thomas Sugrue’s The Origins of the Urban Crisis, Robert Self’s American Babylon, Kevin Kruse’s White Flight and Becky Nicolaides's My Blue Heaven all illustrate the tensions arising from mid twentieth century housing “ALL THE HIPPIES ARE EXECUTIVES NOW, AND EVERYBODY’S SOLD Network (1976) Newsweek declared 1984 the “year of the yuppie,” writing that a bourgeoning professional class was “making lots of money, spending it conspicuously, and switching political candidates like they test cuisines.” The yuppie represented a sea change in the Boomer mentality: a move towards conservative bourgeois values and away from the leftist values of their DEMONIZING DON HENLEY: UNWRAPPING THE BYZANTINE POLITICS Demonizing Don Henley: Unwrapping the Byzantine Politics of a Boomer Icon. As Barack Obama looks to the 2012 election, no matter the outcome, one can assume that the Baby Boomers are slowly exiting state right from the nation’s political theater. Writing in his book The Audacity of Hope, Obama lamented the drift of the boomer generation BEN CARSON’S UNFORTUNATE CORNERSTONE Ben Carson’s Unfortunate Cornerstone. Dr. Ben Carson has a new gig as the head of something called the American Cornerstone Institute. It seems that the outfit exists primarily as a funding vehicle for the good doctor himself, but that should hardly raise an eyebrow in today’s Washington, D.C. MY PHD AT MARQUETTE: THE HUMAN COST OF ACADEMIA’S ABUSIVE The Human Cost of Academia’s Abusive Culture. Academia is entering an uncertain future and I’m experiencing very contradictory emotions about its fate. Since middle school I’ve dreamt of a vocation in the intellectual study of history, so sadness engulfs me. Alternately, as someone who saw that dream become a nightmare, due to the abusive

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FINDING FAMILY WITH THE WILDERPEOPLE Similarly, in Wilderpeople, the main character, a wayward but ultimately sweet-hearted New Zealand foster kid, Ricky Baker (Julian Dennison), finds family through his adventures with his foster parents, Aunty Bella (Rima Te Wiata) and Uncle Hec (Sam Neill). Tragedy and the trials of months on the lam create a bond between characters that one can only describe as familial. READING COLONIALISM IN “PARASITE” Reading Colonialism in “Parasite”. Parasite has made history, which is a euphemism for achieving Western recognition — history’s qualifier. Recognition itself hinges on the gaze, and the imperial variety suffuses Parasite ’s critical reception. In an early and emblematic review, Manohla Dargis notes in The New York Times:

“The

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colonization.

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NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE, EXCEPT FOR DINOSAURS (AND SMART Nothing Is Impossible, Except for Dinosaurs. (and Smart Television) 30 Rock is kind of like a microbrew. Ten or fifteen years ago, most Americans didn’t know there was an option beyond Budweiser or, if you were feeling really adventurous, Heineken. Due to restrictive local regulations and the apathy of the American beer industry, we

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“ALL THE HIPPIES ARE EXECUTIVES NOW, AND EVERYBODY’S SOLD River’s Edge (1986) Parental tensions would become an essential aspect of Gen X identity. Weak or abusive father figures, as in movies like River’s Edge or Blue Velvet, echoed the uneasy father-son relationships portrayed in films from the 1950s, such as Rebel Without a Cause or Bigger Than Life. (This throwback to the 1950s is visually evident in Blue Velvet as many scenes are ambiguous WHITE RACIAL INNOCENCE GOES TO WAR: FORREST GUMP AT 20 As the movie progresses, Gump’s own innocence allows him to triumph where others, soiled by the events of the 1960s, spiral into misery. A crippled and self-pitying Lt. Dan becomes a bitter alcoholic. Jenny goes from nude folk singer to coke-bedraggled ledge jumper. With his faith, sincerity, and limited understanding of the world, Gump BEN CARSON’S UNFORTUNATE CORNERSTONE Ben Carson’s Unfortunate Cornerstone. Dr. Ben Carson has a new gig as the head of something called the American Cornerstone Institute. It seems that the outfit exists primarily as a funding vehicle for the good doctor himself, but that should hardly raise an eyebrow in today’s Washington, D.C. MY PHD AT MARQUETTE: THE HUMAN COST OF ACADEMIA’S ABUSIVE The Human Cost of Academia’s Abusive Culture. Academia is entering an uncertain future and I’m experiencing very contradictory emotions about its fate. Since middle school I’ve dreamt of a vocation in the intellectual study of history, so sadness engulfs me. Alternately, as someone who saw that dream become a nightmare, due to the abusive

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colonization.

“ALL THE HIPPIES ARE EXECUTIVES NOW, AND EVERYBODY’S SOLD River’s Edge (1986) Parental tensions would become an essential aspect of Gen X identity. Weak or abusive father figures, as in movies like River’s Edge or Blue Velvet, echoed the uneasy father-son relationships portrayed in films from the 1950s, such as Rebel Without a Cause or Bigger Than Life. (This throwback to the 1950s is visually evident in Blue Velvet as many scenes are ambiguous WHITE RACIAL INNOCENCE GOES TO WAR: FORREST GUMP AT 20 As the movie progresses, Gump’s own innocence allows him to triumph where others, soiled by the events of the 1960s, spiral into misery. A crippled and self-pitying Lt. Dan becomes a bitter alcoholic. Jenny goes from nude folk singer to coke-bedraggled ledge jumper. With his faith, sincerity, and limited understanding of the world, Gump WHITE POVERTY AND THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN THE US SOUTH While the moonlight-and-magnolias myth of the Old South continues to persist, the region’s history actually is much more sinister and grim – even for many white Southerners. Recently scholars have revealed the brutal, bloody realities of slavery in the late-antebellum Deep South. Yet to truly understand the gross inequalities endemic to slave societies, it is FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS IN HISTORY With ongoing budget cuts at public universities and a still-disastrous job market, funding for graduate and postdoctoral research is more important than ever. Many grad students know that finding dissertation fellowships and postdocs can be a catch-as-catch-can experience, with no place where knowledge about different funding sources is really

centralized.

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A MODEST PROPOSAL FOR THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE A Modest Proposal for the Electoral College. It has often been pointed out that in the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote (65.85mil to 62.98 mil votes), even though Donald Trump won the presidency through the vote of the electoral college (304 to 227). This wasn’t the first time that a president has been elected APOCALYPTO NOW: HOW EVERYONE’S FAVORITE BIGOT MADE AN When I heard that Mel Gibson was making a movie about pre-Columbian, Mesoamerican culture, my reaction was probably not different from most: a deep, existential groan. The right-wing, anti-Semitic actor and filmmaker hardly seemed like the best candidate to create a thoughtful historical depiction of Mayan life on the eve of European

colonization.

me.

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Read all of the posts by myriamgurba on Tropics of Meta. A feminist magazine attempts to bury a critical review of an opportunistic, racist, brownface novel. WHITE POVERTY AND THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN THE US SOUTH While the moonlight-and-magnolias myth of the Old South continues to persist, the region’s history actually is much more sinister and grim – even for many white Southerners. Recently scholars have revealed the brutal, bloody realities of slavery in the late-antebellum Deep South. Yet to truly understand the gross inequalities endemic to slave societies, it is READING COLONIALISM IN “PARASITE” Reading Colonialism in “Parasite”. Parasite has made history, which is a euphemism for achieving Western recognition — history’s qualifier. Recognition itself hinges on the gaze, and the imperial variety suffuses Parasite ’s critical reception. In an early and emblematic review, Manohla Dargis notes in The New York Times:

“The

THE MOTOR CITY AT WAR: MOBILIZATION, WARTIME HOUSING, AND “New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie,” commented former Punk rock queen Patti Smith in recent weeks. “New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city." Today, Detroit usually receives attention for all the wrong THE STORY OF BOOGALOO SAM AS TOLD BY IZEL GAYE For Izel Gaye, a 58-year-old man who has lived most of his life on the west side of Fresno California, that special item is a pair of dancing shoes that were given to him by his friend, Poppin’ and Boogaloo icon Sam Solomon. “When he gave you something,” Mr. Gaye reflected in a recent oral history, “It was like oh boy you better hang on BRINGING ASIAN AMERICANS INTO THE HISTORY OF SEGREGATION The discourse around housing segregation traditionally focuses on the interplay and conflict between black and white communities. Arnold Hirsch’s Making the Second Ghetto, Thomas Sugrue’s The Origins of the Urban Crisis, Robert Self’s American Babylon, Kevin Kruse’s White Flight and Becky Nicolaides's My Blue Heaven all illustrate the tensions arising from mid twentieth century housing KATHERINE DUNHAM: THE ARTIST AS ACTIVIST DURING WORLD WAR Katherine Dunham (1909-2006) was a world-renowned choreographer who broke many barriers of race and gender, most notably as an African American woman whose dance company toured the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Australia for several decades. In Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora (Oxford, 2017), author Joanna Dee Das argues Dunham was “ALL THE HIPPIES ARE EXECUTIVES NOW, AND EVERYBODY’S SOLD River’s Edge (1986) Parental tensions would become an essential aspect of Gen X identity. Weak or abusive father figures, as in movies like River’s Edge or Blue Velvet, echoed the uneasy father-son relationships portrayed in films from the 1950s, such as Rebel Without a Cause or Bigger Than Life. (This throwback to the 1950s is visually evident in Blue Velvet as many scenes are ambiguous BEN CARSON’S UNFORTUNATE CORNERSTONE Ben Carson’s Unfortunate Cornerstone. Dr. Ben Carson has a new gig as the head of something called the American Cornerstone Institute. It seems that the outfit exists primarily as a funding vehicle for the good doctor himself, but that should hardly raise an eyebrow in today’s Washington, D.C. MY PHD AT MARQUETTE: THE HUMAN COST OF ACADEMIA’S ABUSIVE The Human Cost of Academia’s Abusive Culture. Academia is entering an uncertain future and I’m experiencing very contradictory emotions about its fate. Since middle school I’ve dreamt of a vocation in the intellectual study of history, so sadness engulfs me. Alternately, as someone who saw that dream become a nightmare, due to the abusive

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THE MOTOR CITY AT WAR: MOBILIZATION, WARTIME HOUSING, AND “New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie,” commented former Punk rock queen Patti Smith in recent weeks. “New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city." Today, Detroit usually receives attention for all the wrong THE STORY OF BOOGALOO SAM AS TOLD BY IZEL GAYE For Izel Gaye, a 58-year-old man who has lived most of his life on the west side of Fresno California, that special item is a pair of dancing shoes that were given to him by his friend, Poppin’ and Boogaloo icon Sam Solomon. “When he gave you something,” Mr. Gaye reflected in a recent oral history, “It was like oh boy you better hang on BRINGING ASIAN AMERICANS INTO THE HISTORY OF SEGREGATION The discourse around housing segregation traditionally focuses on the interplay and conflict between black and white communities. Arnold Hirsch’s Making the Second Ghetto, Thomas Sugrue’s The Origins of the Urban Crisis, Robert Self’s American Babylon, Kevin Kruse’s White Flight and Becky Nicolaides's My Blue Heaven all illustrate the tensions arising from mid twentieth century housing KATHERINE DUNHAM: THE ARTIST AS ACTIVIST DURING WORLD WAR Katherine Dunham (1909-2006) was a world-renowned choreographer who broke many barriers of race and gender, most notably as an African American woman whose dance company toured the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Australia for several decades. In Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora (Oxford, 2017), author Joanna Dee Das argues Dunham was “ALL THE HIPPIES ARE EXECUTIVES NOW, AND EVERYBODY’S SOLD River’s Edge (1986) Parental tensions would become an essential aspect of Gen X identity. Weak or abusive father figures, as in movies like River’s Edge or Blue Velvet, echoed the uneasy father-son relationships portrayed in films from the 1950s, such as Rebel Without a Cause or Bigger Than Life. (This throwback to the 1950s is visually evident in Blue Velvet as many scenes are ambiguous A SCREAMING COMES ACROSS THE SKY: RE-READING THOMAS A Screaming Comes Across the Sky: Re-Reading Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. With no end in sight to my stay-at-home lifestyle, it seemed like as good a time as any to re-read Thomas Pynchon’s 760-page tome, Gravity’s Rainbow. Populated with over 300 characters and hundreds of historical and cultural references,

from classical

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS IN HISTORY With ongoing budget cuts at public universities and a still-disastrous job market, funding for graduate and postdoctoral research is more important than ever. Many grad students know that finding dissertation fellowships and postdocs can be a catch-as-catch-can experience, with no place where knowledge about different funding sources is really

centralized.

WHEN IS ASIAN AMERICAN LIFE GRIEVABLE? The race of the murderer occluded the moral and political clarity of a dominant white-liberal-defined racial optics that, even for some Asian American experts on these topics, has made nonwhite life grievable only when the offender is white. The response, over and over again, from the Asian American intelligentsia at that time was to declare READING COLONIALISM IN “PARASITE” Reading Colonialism in “Parasite”. Parasite has made history, which is a euphemism for achieving Western recognition — history’s qualifier. Recognition itself hinges on the gaze, and the imperial variety suffuses Parasite ’s critical reception. In an early and emblematic review, Manohla Dargis notes in The New York Times:

“The

both

colonization.

“ALL THE HIPPIES ARE EXECUTIVES NOW, AND EVERYBODY’S SOLD Network (1976) Newsweek declared 1984 the “year of the yuppie,” writing that a bourgeoning professional class was “making lots of money, spending it conspicuously, and switching political candidates like they test cuisines.” The yuppie represented a sea change in the Boomer mentality: a move towards conservative bourgeois values and away from the leftist values of their KATHERINE DUNHAM: THE ARTIST AS ACTIVIST DURING WORLD WAR Katherine Dunham (1909-2006) was a world-renowned choreographer who broke many barriers of race and gender, most notably as an African American woman whose dance company toured the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Australia for several decades. In Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora (Oxford, 2017), author Joanna Dee Das argues Dunham was INTO THE SPACESHIP: A VISIT TO THE OLD BURROUGHS WELLCOME A Visit to the Old Burroughs Wellcome Building. When the pharmaceutical firm Burroughs Wellcome chose to move its headquarters from suburban New York to North Carolina in 1969, it was a major turning point for the state’s growing Research Triangle Park (RTP). The park was founded in the late 1950s in a bid to attract higher-paying and more THE EL MONTE BERRY STRIKE OF 1933 The El Monte Berry Strike of 1933. In May 1933, Hicks camp was nearing full capacity. More than 1,500 migrant workers were settling down to take part in the berry harvest, which would begin in May and last through August. Hick’s camp was, like the surrounding neighborhoods of Medina Court and Hays Camp, a migrant labor camp set up to house BEN CARSON’S UNFORTUNATE CORNERSTONE Ben Carson’s Unfortunate Cornerstone. Dr. Ben Carson has a new gig as the head of something called the American Cornerstone Institute. It seems that the outfit exists primarily as a funding vehicle for the good doctor himself, but that should hardly raise an eyebrow in today’s Washington, D.C. MY PHD AT MARQUETTE: THE HUMAN COST OF ACADEMIA’S ABUSIVE The Human Cost of Academia’s Abusive Culture. Academia is entering an uncertain future and I’m experiencing very contradictory emotions about its fate. Since middle school I’ve dreamt of a vocation in the intellectual study of history, so sadness engulfs me. Alternately, as someone who saw that dream become a nightmare, due to the abusive

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THE STORY OF BOOGALOO SAM AS TOLD BY IZEL GAYE For Izel Gaye, a 58-year-old man who has lived most of his life on the west side of Fresno California, that special item is a pair of dancing shoes that were given to him by his friend, Poppin’ and Boogaloo icon Sam Solomon. “When he gave you something,” Mr. Gaye reflected in a recent oral history, “It was like oh boy you better hang on DEFYING GRAVITY, BREAKIN’ BOUNDARIES: THE RISE OF FRESNO’S Defying Gravity, Breakin’ Boundaries: The Rise of Fresno’s Climax Crew. In the early 1990s a ten-year-old boy sat on the roof of his grandmother’s home in Southeast Fresno, surveying the landscape of the Butler Park neighborhood below; his eyes were drawn to the sight of a boy his age three houses down puncturing the sky with successive “ALL THE HIPPIES ARE EXECUTIVES NOW, AND EVERYBODY’S SOLD Network (1976) Newsweek declared 1984 the “year of the yuppie,” writing that a bourgeoning professional class was “making lots of money, spending it conspicuously, and switching political candidates like they test cuisines.” The yuppie represented a sea change in the Boomer mentality: a move towards conservative bourgeois values and away from the leftist values of their WHITE RACIAL INNOCENCE GOES TO WAR: FORREST GUMP AT 20 As the movie progresses, Gump’s own innocence allows him to triumph where others, soiled by the events of the 1960s, spiral into misery. A crippled and self-pitying Lt. Dan becomes a bitter alcoholic. Jenny goes from nude folk singer to coke-bedraggled ledge jumper. With his faith, sincerity, and limited understanding of the world, Gump BEN CARSON’S UNFORTUNATE CORNERSTONE Ben Carson’s Unfortunate Cornerstone. Dr. Ben Carson has a new gig as the head of something called the American Cornerstone Institute. It seems that the outfit exists primarily as a funding vehicle for the good doctor himself, but that should hardly raise an eyebrow in today’s Washington, D.C. MY PHD AT MARQUETTE: THE HUMAN COST OF ACADEMIA’S ABUSIVE The Human Cost of Academia’s Abusive Culture. Academia is entering an uncertain future and I’m experiencing very contradictory emotions about its fate. Since middle school I’ve dreamt of a vocation in the intellectual study of history, so sadness engulfs me. Alternately, as someone who saw that dream become a nightmare, due to the abusive

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THE STORY OF BOOGALOO SAM AS TOLD BY IZEL GAYE For Izel Gaye, a 58-year-old man who has lived most of his life on the west side of Fresno California, that special item is a pair of dancing shoes that were given to him by his friend, Poppin’ and Boogaloo icon Sam Solomon. “When he gave you something,” Mr. Gaye reflected in a recent oral history, “It was like oh boy you better hang on DEFYING GRAVITY, BREAKIN’ BOUNDARIES: THE RISE OF FRESNO’S Defying Gravity, Breakin’ Boundaries: The Rise of Fresno’s Climax Crew. In the early 1990s a ten-year-old boy sat on the roof of his grandmother’s home in Southeast Fresno, surveying the landscape of the Butler Park neighborhood below; his eyes were drawn to the sight of a boy his age three houses down puncturing the sky with successive “ALL THE HIPPIES ARE EXECUTIVES NOW, AND EVERYBODY’S SOLD Network (1976) Newsweek declared 1984 the “year of the yuppie,” writing that a bourgeoning professional class was “making lots of money, spending it conspicuously, and switching political candidates like they test cuisines.” The yuppie represented a sea change in the Boomer mentality: a move towards conservative bourgeois values and away from the leftist values of their WHITE RACIAL INNOCENCE GOES TO WAR: FORREST GUMP AT 20 As the movie progresses, Gump’s own innocence allows him to triumph where others, soiled by the events of the 1960s, spiral into misery. A crippled and self-pitying Lt. Dan becomes a bitter alcoholic. Jenny goes from nude folk singer to coke-bedraggled ledge jumper. With his faith, sincerity, and limited understanding of the world, Gump WE HAVE BEEN MAKING SHIT UP FOR SOME TIME “Viral narratives need some personality and story,” Shiller continues. “One such narrative involved movie star Ronald Reagan, who became a household name as the witty and charming character of the highly popular US television show General Electric Theater from 1953 to 1962Reagan used his celebrity to launch a massive free-markets revolution whose effectsare still with us today.” WHITE POVERTY AND THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN THE US SOUTH While the moonlight-and-magnolias myth of the Old South continues to persist, the region’s history actually is much more sinister and grim – even for many white Southerners. Recently scholars have revealed the brutal, bloody realities of slavery in the late-antebellum Deep South. Yet to truly understand the gross inequalities endemic to slave societies, it is A SCREAMING COMES ACROSS THE SKY: RE-READING THOMAS A Screaming Comes Across the Sky: Re-Reading Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. With no end in sight to my stay-at-home lifestyle, it seemed like as good a time as any to re-read Thomas Pynchon’s 760-page tome, Gravity’s Rainbow. Populated with over 300 characters and hundreds of historical and cultural references,

from classical

A DAM IN SLABTOWN: THE UNTOLD HISTORY OF ENVIRONMENTAL A Dam in Slabtown: The Untold History of Environmental Struggles in the New South. The following is an excerpt from Will Bryan’s excellent new book from University of Georgia Press. In the middle of the night on February 22, 1873, a flour mill and a sawmill owned by George Washington Rankin in Anderson County, South Carolina, were A MODEST PROPOSAL FOR THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE A Modest Proposal for the Electoral College. It has often been pointed out that in the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote (65.85mil to 62.98 mil votes), even though Donald Trump won the presidency through the vote of the electoral college (304 to 227). This wasn’t the first time that a president has been elected CORNPONE CULTURAL POLITICS IN THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES Cornpone Cultural Politics in The Beverly Hillbillies. In this excerpt from his book The South of the Mind: American Imaginings of White Southernness, 1960-1980 (University of Georgia Press, 2018), Zachary J. Lechner discusses The Beverly Hillbillies, a long-running, fish-out-of-water sitcom (CBS, 1962-1971) that followed the antics of

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THE MUNICIPAL MILITARY: THE IMPACT OF THE ARMED SERVICES The Municipal Military: The Impact of the Armed Services on Urban America. The Municipal Military: The Impact of the Armed Services on Urban America. I gave my heart to the Army/. The only sentimental thing I could think of/. With cousins and colors and somewhere overseas/. But it’ll take a better war to kill a college man like

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