April 30, 2021
UCLA In the News lists selected mentions of UCLA in the world’s news media. Some articles may require registration or a subscription to view. See more UCLA In the News.
(Commentary by UCLA’s Laura Gómez) As the preliminary 2020 census results continue to trickle out, one statistic may be surprising. The numbers are certain to show that the second-largest racial category in the United States is “other,” after “white.” And upwards of 97% of those who self-classify as “other” will in all probability be Latinos. In the 2020 census, Latinos are expected to account for more than 20% of the U.S. population more than 60 million people. But why do so many Latinos choose “other”?
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03/04/2021 08:29 AM EST
Hi, China Watchers! Please join me in welcoming your guest host for this week, Diana Fu, a scholar of Chinese politics at the University of Toronto, a fellow at Brookings, the Wilson Center, NCUSCR and occasional TV host. She is author of the award-winning book, Mobilizing without the Masses. Over to you, Diana. Ben Pauker, world and national security editor.
Where to Begin: New Perspectives on Chinese Labor
Posted by Paulina Hartono | Jul 2, 2010
Mark Frazier, Professor of Chinese Politics and Associate Professor of International and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma, offers some reading suggestions for those seeking to understand more about China’s labor situation. From the China Beat:
A January 2010 London Review of Books article by Perry Anderson hailed Ching Kwan Lee’s Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt (University of California Press, 2007) with this accolade: “Although quite different in mode and scale, in power nothing like it has appeared since E.P. Thompson’s Making of the English Working Class.” Thompson’s 1966 classic on late 17th-, early 18th-century England brought to light the cultural contestation and repertoires of resistance as the moral economy of artisans and their guilds gave way to the mass production and mechanization of industrial capitalism. In Against the Law