Abstract This dissertation studies a creative archive composed of poems, novels, performances, and visual art produced after 1990 that increasingly represent the ocean as “one salt water”: a space of relations among Indigenous oceanic peoples, animals, plants, and other beings. In doing so, these texts work to forge solidarities and...
This dissertation traces the historical development of diasporic Filipino American activism after the watershed 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act and during the military dictatorship of Ferdinand E. Marcos in the Philippines. Using multi-country archival research and approximately sixty oral history interviews, it analyzes labor, student, anti-dictatorship, and human rights activists...
"Black Power TV: A Cultural History of Black Public Affairs Television, 1968-1980" chronicles the history of a television genre that emerged in 1968, addressing African American audiences with such bold titles as Like It Is, Say Brother, Our People, and For Blacks Only in cities such as Boston, New York,...