Social Change

Latest News

Bitaniya Giday selected as Truman Scholar (April 23, 2024)
UN Commission on the Status of Women (March 11, 2024)
New Faculty Spotlight for Race and Social Justice (March 9, 2023)
LaShawnDa Pittman Appointed The Joff Hanauer Honors Professorship In Western Civilization (January 24, 2023)
New publication -- Gendered Invisibility: Ethnic Mexican Women and the Bracero Program (November 8, 2021)

Related Research

"Langston Hughes's Short Fiction in 1930s Korea," in Langston Hughes in Context, ed. Vera Kutzinski and Anthony Reed (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 232-42.
"The Harlem Renaissance in Translation: Socialism, Nostalgia, and the Multilingual Spaces of Diaspora," American Quarterly 72, no. 3 (September 2021): 597-617. (*Winner of the 2022 Constance M. Rourke Prize from the American Studies Association)
"'Our Temples for Tomorrow': Langston Hughes and the Making of a Democratic Korea," Langston Hughes Review 27, no. 2 (September 2021): 115-36.
"Beyond Afro-Orientalism: Langston Hughes, Koreans, and the Poetics of Overlapping Dispossessions," Comparative Literature 69, no. 2 (June 2017): 201-21.
Courage in Action: The Life and Legacy of Gordon K. Hirabayashi. Symposium. Feb. 22-23, 2014.
Rick Bonus. “Filipino American Community Organizations,” “Filipino American Newspapers,” and “Filipino Pensionados,” in Asian Americans: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History, edited by Xiaojian Zhao and Edward J. W. Park. Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood Press, 2014: 386-389, 392-393, and 415-416.
Flores, Lupe Alberto. 2024. "How CBP One Pushes the US' Digital Border South." Border Observatory Special Issue: Reimagining the Migration Protection System: Critical Reflections from the Border. Hope Border Institute. El Paso, TX.