Books we are reading together

CALIFORNIA

Almaguer, Tomas. Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy (2008).

Brodkin, Karen. How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America (1998).

Flamming, Douglas. Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America (2006).

Gilmore, Ruth. Golden Gulag: Prisons, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (2007).

Hudson, Lynn. West of Jim Crow: The Fight Against California’s Color Line (2020).

Kim, Nadia. Imperial Citizens: Koreans and Race from Seoul to LA (2008).

Madley, Benjamin. American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 (2017).

Martinez Hosang, Daniel. Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California (2010).

Matsumoto, Valerie. Farming the Home Place: A Japanese American Community 8 in California, 1919-1982 (1993).

Molina, Natlia. How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts (2014).  

Park, John. Immigration Law and Society (2018).

Pastor, Manuel. State of Resistance: What California’s Dizzying Descent and Remarkable Resurgence Mean for America’s Future (2019).

Stevenson, Brenda. The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots (2013).

SOUTH KOREA

Abelman, Nancy, and John Lie. Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots (1995).

Brazinsky, Gregg. Nation Building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans, and the Making of a Democracy (2007).

Choo, Hae Yeon. Decentering Citizenship: Gender, Labor, and Migrant Rights in South Korea (2016).

Cumings, Bruce. Korea’s Place in the Sun (2005).

Eckert, Carter. Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism, 1866-1945 (2016).

Kim, Charles. Youth for Nation: Culture and Protest in Cold War South Korea (2017).

Kim, Eleana. Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging (2010).

Lee, Namhee. The Making of Minjung: Democracy and the Politics of Representation in South Korea (2007).

Lie, John. Han Unbound: The Political Economy of South Korea (1988).

Moon, Katherine. Protesting America: Democracy and the U.S.-Korea Alliance (2012).

Shin, Gi-Wook, and Joon Nak Choi. Skilled Labor as Social Capital in Korea (2015).

Woo, Susie. Framed By War: Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of U.S. Empire (2019).

Yoo, Theodore. The Koreas: The Birth of Two Nations Divided (2020).

Yuh, Ji Yeon. Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in America (2002).

FRANCE

Beaman, Jean. Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France (2017).

Kleinman, Julie. Adventure Capital: Migration the Making of an African Hub in Paris (2019).

Lepinard, Eleonore. Feminist Trouble: Intersectional Politics in Post-Secular Times (2020).

Rogozen-Soltar, Mikaela. Spain Unmoored: Migration, Conversion, and the Politics of Islam (2017).