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The Right To The City: San Francisco's Chinatown Before And After The 1906 Earthquake, Alexandra Hsu Jan 2021

The Right To The City: San Francisco's Chinatown Before And After The 1906 Earthquake, Alexandra Hsu

Scripps Senior Theses

The development of San Francisco, much like many American cities, is deeply entwined with the spatial process of settler-colonialism. Fueled by White supremacist processes of appropriation, dispossession and exclusion, city officials and White San Franciscans legally, financially, and socially segregated Chinese immigrants who entered into the U.S. context to a dense and degraded ethnic enclave. Henri Lefebvre and David Harvey theorize on The Right to the City, the social production of space and the ways in which social processes can be concretized by space. This thesis applies these concepts to the racialized space of San Francisco’s Chinatown. An examination of …


The Intersection Of Culture And Activism In The Filipino Community In Soma, Ericka J. Martynovych May 2017

The Intersection Of Culture And Activism In The Filipino Community In Soma, Ericka J. Martynovych

Master's Theses

My research analyzes the intersection between culture and activism, through oral histories with participants and organizers of SoMa Pilipinas, the Filipino cultural heritage district in the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco. I analyzed the impact of the establishment of the Filipino cultural heritage district on the Filipino community in the South of Market neighborhood. I examined what motivates members of this community to be politically active by organizing and attending protests and rallies, speaking at Planning Commission hearings at City Hall, attending planning meetings for SoMa Pilipinas, building relationships across organizations and fields, and providing resources for community …


Cynthia Tom Interview, Lauren Swift May 2009

Cynthia Tom Interview, Lauren Swift

Asian American Art Oral History Project

2009 interview with painter and president of the Asian American Women Artists Association Cynthia Tom by Lauren Swift


Press Bulletin, Vol. Vii, No. 7, 1942, Unknown Unknown Nov 1942

Press Bulletin, Vol. Vii, No. 7, 1942, Unknown Unknown

Japanese American WWII Incarceration Camp newspapers

Poston Relocation Center newspaper covers weather report, new general store, Nisei sergeants, National Book week, birth notices, truck crops, new building, leadership training, sports score results, stolen items, "College Night", help wanted ads, clubs, letters to the editor, classes, pharmacy requests, population increase.


Press Bulletin, Vol. Vii, No. 6, 1942, Kaz Oka Nov 1942

Press Bulletin, Vol. Vii, No. 6, 1942, Kaz Oka

Japanese American WWII Incarceration Camp newspapers

Poston Relocation Center newspaper covers weather report, cash advances, cotton work, conferences, U.S Senator visit, community enterprise, meetings, Rec department, social welfare, deliveries, weekly classes, sports events,social parties, letters of the editor, Sunday school, feminine touch, Magazine section, and Sunday comics.


Press Bulletin, Vol. Vi, No. 29, 1942, Susumu Matsumoto Nov 1942

Press Bulletin, Vol. Vi, No. 29, 1942, Susumu Matsumoto

Japanese American WWII Incarceration Camp newspapers

Poston Relocation Center newspaper covers Industrial training, Red Cross chapter, birth notices, new classes, religious service notices and news, Sunday services, library donations, employment advertisement, meetings, school discussions, health education, Christmas community plans, sport score results, and a letter to the community.


Press Bulletin, Vol. Vi, No. 18, 1942, Kaz Oka Oct 1942

Press Bulletin, Vol. Vi, No. 18, 1942, Kaz Oka

Japanese American WWII Incarceration Camp newspapers

Poston newspaper covers W.R.A shipping out evacuees' personal property to respective owners, Public Health Department warning of contaminated steam, supervisory positions opened for residents, Congressional Campaign and the issues with Japanese Americans, voting rights, Food inefficiency, social events, housing supplies delivered, Poston County Fair, council meetings, electrical restrictions, safety courses, speeches, Cooperative Congress, news briefs, softball game results, magazine section, feminine touch and comics