This dissertation investigates the historical and present relationship of didactic poetry to the political thought of radical communities. Poetry from the Romantic period to the present is often seen as the valence of lyric and personal registers of thought, and its political utility is typically equated with the extent to which it resists concreti...
Instructor: Greg Castillo, Scott SaulTerm: Spring 2020Course #: American Studies 102 / Environmental Design 109Why Read This Case Study?Cities of the East Bay, such as Oakland and Berkeley, were well-known as centers of political, social, and cultural activist in the 1960s. But less well known is the fact that the East Bay continued to be a site of...
Decades before street food became trendy, People of Color overcame economic exclusion by creating their own livelihoods through street vending that brought low-cost goods and services into distressed Los Angeles communities. From 1994 to 2018, however, street vending was classified as a misdemeanor and street vendors were regularly fined, jailed, a...
