Film Review

In the early 1950s, the Los Angeles public began to hear about the forcible evictions taking place in an area known as Chavez Ravine, located on the north-east hills of Los Angeles. Chavez Ravine was largely populated by a tight-knit community of Mexican…

This paper highlights the racism that permeated Labor Unions across Los Angeles while determining the methods that African American men and women employed in order to successfully lobby not only the unions themselves but the United States government in cases…

Chinese immigrants in the mid 1800’s faced legislative discrimination as well as a brutal race-riot to establish themselves in Los Angeles. The organizations called huiguans they had developed to support travelers in China played an important role in…

From the 1900s to the 1930s, the Anglo power structure in Los Angles silenced all groups who challenged their rule. Ricardo Flores Magón, who was the intellectual writer for the Mexican Revolution in the early 20th century, resisted the Mexican dictator…

Geopolitics in the decades following World War II focused on the concept of decolonization and the dismantlement of Western European and Japanese empires established before World War I, a process that began between the wars.[1] Another focus was the…

On April 21, 1975, General Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, the Head of State of Ghana, the former Gold Coast colony and leader of the National Redemption Council (NRC), established the National Council on Women and Development (NCWD). The following day in an…

On March 5, 1983, The Republic of Upper Volta underwent a radical transformation through the Burkina Faso Revolution, led by Thomas Sankara, to strive towards social democracy and economy self-sufficiency. Since the nation gained its independence in 1960,…

Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb was released January 29, 1964. It was a turbulent time in American history. John F. Kennedy’s assassination had occurred only two months prior, [1] and just a year before…

After the long struggle for decolonization, Congolese people were able to accomplish gaining independence from Belgium in 1960 and bring an end to much of their violent, corrupt history. Much of this success was attributed to Patrice Lumumba’s political…

Ever since the civil rights movement, the notion of what constitutes history worth writing about has changed significantly. The mold of the white male elite narrative shattered and so began an exploration into other stories. This allowed women’s histories,…

“I want, what they want, and every other guy who came over here and spilled his guts and gave everything he had, wants! For our country to love us as much as we love it! That’s what I want!”…

In Falling Down , Joel Schumacher presents the audience with a portrait of one man’s failure to reconcile the promises he had internalized regarding the privileges traditionally accorded to men of his social and racial class, and the reality of the modern…