Culture
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Playing Foreign and Building Community at Deer Park
Japanese Village and Deer Park operated from 1967-74 as part of the growing Orange County, CA amusement corridor, anchored by Disneyland. “Deer Park,” as it … Read MorePrison Tourism in the Era of Mass Incarceration
In 2017, The World Travel Awards named Spike Island, a former fortress and prison located on the southern coast of Ireland, Europe’s leading tourist attraction. Read MoreAsian Americans, Bamboo Ceilings, and Affirmative Action
Asian Americans are popularly recognized as successful academic achievers, to the point of stereotype. Over half of Asian American adults have a bachelor’s degree or … Read MoreThinking Caps
This Spring, an annual fashion trend will return to the campus of California State University–Long Beach. As the familiar sounds of “Pomp and Circumstance” carry … Read MoreD is for disaster
A 6-year-old boy in Buras, LA sits down with his father to read Patti the Pelican and the Gulf Oil Spill. Buras was devastated … Read MoreWhat’s So Cultural about Hookup Culture?
Arman was 7,000 miles from his family, one of the roughly million international students who were enrolled in U.S. colleges last year. Dropped into the … Read MoreHamilton’s Immigrant America
On the same day Donald Trump won the Indiana Republican Primary, virtually sealing his candidacy for the Presidency of the United States—May 3, 2016—the American … Read MoreDorothea Lange and the Art of the Caption
Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother” is one of the most reproduced photographs in the world. Like other iconic images, it has taken on a life of … Read MoreLearning From NASA’s Robotic Planetary Missions
The scientist at the front of the room hunched over and splayed his arms out to his sides. Waddling a bit like a penguin, he … Read More