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Petit Apartheid And The ''Tb" Syndrome: Police Racial Profiling Of Chicana/O Youths In San Jose, California, Robert Koehler
Petit Apartheid And The ''Tb" Syndrome: Police Racial Profiling Of Chicana/O Youths In San Jose, California, Robert Koehler
Ethnic Studies Review
I like to go out on Friday nights and Saturday nights and join up with my homies and walk around the hot spots and get some food. I like to check out the girls and see if I can get something going with them. But every weekend the cops stop me. What the fuck for? I go to school everyday and get treated like a criminal and then, when I want to step out of my house...I get treated like a criminal again! I have never been arrested for nothing! But I always get stopped for walkin' down the street. …
"Their Sleep Is To Be Desecrated": California's Central Valley Project And The Wintu People Of Northern California, 1938- 1943, April Farnham
"Their Sleep Is To Be Desecrated": California's Central Valley Project And The Wintu People Of Northern California, 1938- 1943, April Farnham
Ethnic Studies Review
The morning of July 14, 1944, was intended to be a moment of celebration for the City of Redding, California. Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes had been scheduled to arrive in the booming city to dedicate Shasta Dam, a national reclamation project of great pride to local citizens and construction workers. Just days prior, however, the dedication ceremony had been canceled due to the inability of Ickes to leave Washington D.C.. Instead, a small group of U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) officials, Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) officials, and local city officials quietly gathered within the dam's $19,400,000 …
Politics Of Language: The California Bilingual Education Initiative, Amara Holstein
Politics Of Language: The California Bilingual Education Initiative, Amara Holstein
Ethnic Studies Review
This essay examines issues of power and multiculturalism in relation to the education of children through debate over monolingual versus bilingual education and how language is a source of power.
[Review Of] Henry (Yoshitaka) Kiyama. The Four Immigrants Manga: A Japanese Experience In San Francisco, 1904-1924, Translated By Frederik L. Schadt, Nobuko Adachi
Ethnic Studies Review
This historically important document is a translation of a humorous comic book published in 1931 based on the experiences of the author, Henry (Yoshitaka) Kiyama, as he immigrated to the United States. Kiyama crossed the ocean from Japan to study art in San Francisco in 1904, at the age of nineteen. Upon his arrival he worked as a house servant during the day and went to school at night. It is not well known here, but until the Second World War a large number of Japanese immigrants came to mainland America with student visas rather than work permits; many of …