Kondo published two new episodes in her podcast, "The Art of Racial Reckoning." To listen, go here.

Quin Anex-Ries' research examines the historical relationship between technology and sexuality. In this article, Quin explains how anti-porn laws have historically been weaponized against LGBTQ Americans, feminists, and others. You can read the article here. 

The Sixties was a time of turmoil and peace, utopian idealism and often-nightmarish brutality. It was a time when love was all ‘you’ needed, yet war was all around. It was the time of the Woodstock Nation and the Silent Majority, communes and the Manson family. It was the time of sex, rock ‘n roll and drugs. It had Hippies and Yippies and Panthers, JFK and Nixon. And fifty years later, we are still trying to make sense of it. This course will examine this tumultuous period with all its contradictions and various movements. We will look at the ‘good’ Sixties and the ‘bad’ Sixties. We will read, watch and study a variety of texts from this messy time in order to gain a richer understanding of what this past has left us. And in the end, all those who have memories of the Sixties yet were never there, might discover that what they recall, what they have been sold by mass media over the years, is not quite adequate to this moment when things seemed so miraculously wonderful and often so profoundly banal.

Learn about how the IRT can help you with the graduate school application process!

Students interested in graduate studies in the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Mathematics, Computer Science and Education are encouraged to attend!

Wednesday, January 6, 2021 will live in infamy as a day when democracy in the United States sustained a direct assault from domestic terrorists. The violent insurrection so many of us witnessed through media coverage of the event was directly incited by the President and by certain Senators and Representatives to overturn the Constitutional processes in place for a peaceful transition of power to a new presidential administration. On Friday, the Organization of American Historians signed on to a statement by the American Historical Association condemning the actions of those who stormed the United States Capitol which, as we know now, included the intention to kidnap or kill Vice President Pence, Speaker of the House Pelosi, and other elected legislators and their staff. The insurrection and assault on the Capitol did take the lives of five individuals, including a Capitol policeman defending the building and those inside. Those who were involved in and who incited the insurrection must be held to account for their actions and prosecuted. Read more.

Professor Adrian De Leon was interviewed for an ABC Nightline segment on Filipino nurses during the pandemic, and had been working with the producer to shape the overall feature. You can catch the segment here.

Gualtieri's wonderful new book, Arab Routes, has also won an award, The Alixa Naff Prize in Migration Studies, which is described in more detail in this link, along with a terrific story about Sarah Gualtieri and her book.

Wednesday, October 28, 4:00pm EST

In the final installment of this three-part series, Anna Deavere Smith invites the perspectives of Susan K. Lee, Senior Advisor to the Mayor of the City of Chicago, and Dorinne Kondo, Professor of American Studies & Anthropology at the University of Southern California, to discuss today's Black Lives Matter movement and its intersections with the L.A. riots that were the subject of Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992.

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How have Black artists, writers and intellectuals from Africa, the Americas and Europe accounted for experiences of travel and migration? Exploring a range of narrative projects while reflecting on the conditions of their productions, this course will explore the ways in which Black modern subjectivities have been –and continue to be---shaped transnationally by the exchange of bodies, commodities, cultures and ideas across oceans in the triangular geography famously theorized as The Black Atlantic.  Read more

Monday/Wednesday | 2:00-3:50 PM | ONLINE

Professor Lydie Moudileno

Eyebeam selects artists for final phase of Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future

Here is the description of each fellow:

https://www.eyebeam.org/rapid-response-phase-2/

The USC Dornsife professor of American studies and ethnicity receives the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in recognition of her examinations of race, citizenship and belonging among immigrant groups in the United States.

SCRIPPS COLLEGE PRESENTS:

Any fan of the Hulu hit Ramy knows just how singular it is. What may be less apparent to a fans are the creative forces that have informed it. Meet Maytha Alhassen.  Read more.

Mark Padoongpatt ‘11, a professor of Asian American studies, turned his Ph.D. thesis into a book on Thai immigrants that landed him air time on the Hulu show hosted by Padma Lakshmi.

Quinn Anex-Ries has joined the USC President's Task Force on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion as one of the student representatives.

LA Times - Little noticed, Filipino Americans are dying of COVID19 at an alarming rate

Dornsife News - Illuminating what home means for a global community of Filipinos

Reading list: Want a better understanding of racism and privilege in America? USC Dornsife faculty give their suggestions for books and articles that provide historical and cultural context for what's taking place across the country, and offer ways to create change.

The OAH is delighted to welcome George Sanchez, professor of American Studies & Ethnicity and History at the University of Southern California, to his role as president of the OAH beginning on April 4, 2020. We give sincere thanks to Joanne Meyerowitz for her service in what proved to be a challenging year.

Sanchez is dedicated to broadening the reach of the historical profession through scholarship, teaching, and mentorship of the next generation of scholars, and public history through museums, archives, and all the institutions that present the American past.

"I am honored to become president of the Organization of American Historians, and hope to help steer the organization through these difficult times. I look forward to working with the other leaders of the OAH as we take on the challenges ahead."

George Sanchez is the author and editor of numerous works including Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles (Oxford University Press, 1993) and, most recently, ed., Beyond Alliances: The Jewish Role in Reshaping the Racial Landscape of Southern California (Purdue University Press, 2012).

Please join us in welcoming George Sanchez.

"Why Karen Carpenter Matters" by Karen Tongson

"A very strong year for women writing books" -see 6 minutes in.

Why seeing marginalized communities in pop culture matters

Anthropologist, playwright and author of a new book on race and the arts Dorinne Kondo of USC Dornsife weighs in on why representation is vital.

Since arriving in ASE in 2009, Jujuana has gone above and beyond the call of duty on countless occasions, managing departmental events, situations, faculty, campus colleagues and student workers with grace and ease as she serves as the first person encountered by anyone who visits the department. She has continued to grow as an employee and as a person, adding skills and expertise both within and outside the traditional scope of her job duties. Each time one of her co-workers have been out on medical leave, she stepped in to ensure the smooth running of the office, providing service well above her pay grade, with a team spirit that transcends the status quo. Her professionalism and attention to detail set her apart from her peers and we are so very fortunate to have her as part of Team ASE.  We Love You!

The faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity remember today the wonderful work of Ntozake Shange, author of the Obie-award winning play, for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf, and numerous other plays, novels, and poems. A leading figure in the Black Arts movement, Ntozake Shange earned her M.A. in American Studies from the University of Southern California in 1973. We mourn the loss of this remarkable author with her family, friends, readers, and audiences.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts in American studies and ethnicity and a minor in Spanish from USC Dornsife. She will serve as an English teaching assistant in Mexico, where she hopes to create an after-school literacy program for children in the community.

“I hope this program makes it easier for them to get access to books and other reading materials,” she said. “Overall, I am looking forward to the learning exchanges between my students, the community, and myself.”

"Nguyen is among 213 notables elected this year to the prestigious academy, which honors exceptional scholars, leaders, artists and innovators, and engages them in sharing knowledge and addressing challenges facing the world. Other 2018 awardees include former President Barack Obama, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, author Ta-Nehisi Coates and actor Tom Hanks."

Viet Thanh Nguyen, University Professor, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and MacArthur Fellow. Professor Nguyen is internationally known for his groundbreaking works in fiction and non-fiction, providing key insight and perspective to a global audience and exploring critical issues related to the immigrant experience, both historical and current, across generations, races, and political divides.

Among other accolades, his debut novel The Sympathizer has emerged as one of the most celebrated works of fiction in the past twenty-five years, winning the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Carnegie Medal for Literary Excellence from the American Library Association, and a California Book Award. Acclaimed for its compelling and inventive narrative of the Vietnam War, the novel was a New York Times bestseller and named to over thirty best-of-the-year lists. His collection of stories, The Refugees, was a bestseller, and his nonfiction Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War was a finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award.

"What can popular music teach us about migration and cultural change? How can pleasure and joy help us redefine what it means to be a ‘serious' intellectual?  What might be stimulating or even transformative about the sprawl of Southern California?

In Episode 52 of the Imagine Otherwise Podcast, host Cathy Hannabach interviews podcaster and professor Karen Tongson about music and its relationship to place, the migratory and melodic flows between Manila and Los Angeles, how the Spice Girls can help us understand Adorno and Horkheimer, and the queer and transnational inspiration that Karen draws from her namesake, Karen Carpenter."