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Searching for Democracy
In the lead up to the 2012 election season, California Humanities embarked on a two-year initiative called Searching for Democracy, aiming to engage Californians in a statewide conversation about the..Read More
Hollywood Chinese
Nearly a decade before #OscarSoWhite made racism in Hollywood a national topic, award–winning filmmaker and historian Arthur Dong explored how Chinese and Chinese Americans had been represented on screen. Additionally,..Read More
From Barrios to Big League
Mexican American Baseball in Los Angeles: From the Barrios to the Big Leagues, a project of the Baseball Reliquary, a small community-based archive and collection dedicated to preserving and sharing..Read More
Making Connections: Career Waitresses of San Francisco
“I really wanted it to reach the masses,” Project Director Candacy Taylor says of her 2004-2005 exhibit-based project, Making Connections: Career Waitresses of San Francisco. With support provided by a..Read More
California Reads The Grapes of Wrath
“This is the beginning—from ‘I’ to ‘we’” is how Steinbeck describes the Joad’s family journey along Route 66 to California as that “western land nervous under the beginning change” in..Read More
Re-Envisioning the Los Angeles River
Re-Envisioning the Los Angeles River was an ambitious, multifaceted, year-long project organized by Occidental College’s Urban and Environmental Policy Institute in partnership with the community-based environmental organization, Friends of the..Read More
