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Continue reading →: On Norman Maclean: Guest Post by Rebecca McCarthyThis month marks the 50th anniversary of A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, the bestselling book that turned Norman Maclean into a late-in-life literary phenomenon and then a household name after the success of Robert Redford’s film based on the title story. In her book Norman Maclean: A…
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Continue reading →: Poetry and the Politics of Chinese Immigration on Angel Island: Q&A with Judy YungIn the early twentieth century, most Chinese immigrants coming to the United States were detained at the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay. There, they were subject to physical exams, interrogations, and often long detentions aimed at upholding the exclusion laws that kept Chinese out of the country.…
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Continue reading →: Chicano Camera Culture: A Conversation on Latinx Photography with Elizabeth FerrerFor decades, the contributions of Chicano photographers to American art history have been largely overlooked. Chicano Camera Culture: A Photographic History, 1966–2026—published to accompany a major exhibition at the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture (“The Cheech”) of the Riverside Art Museum—offers the first comprehensive survey of photography…
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Continue reading →: Excerpt from “Moving Mountains: Asian American and Pacific Islander Feminisms and the 1977 National Women’s Conference” by Judy Tzu-Chun WuIn November 1977, over twenty thousand participants, mostly women, gathered in Houston for the first and only US National Women’s Conference, funded by the federal government with the goal of creating a national women’s agenda. In Moving Mountains, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Adrienne A. Winans center the more than eighty…
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