November 2nd: The Gail Project: An Okinawan-American Public History Project
The Gail Project: An Okinawan-American Dialogue is a multi-year public history project involving professors and undergraduate student researchers. As the project director, UC Santa Cruz Professor Alan Christy spoke about the extent of military occupation of Okinawa today, about Charles Eugene Gail (the namesake of the project) and about the extensive labor involved in creating a digital public history project. He explained the ways in which students played a key role as project collaborators. Alan Christy is an associate professor of history and provost of Cowell College at UC Santa Cruz.

November 9th: It is PLEDGE drive – Please #Give2KZSC and support our work… Re-airing interview with assistant professor of Sociology Patrick Lopez-Aguado (Santa Clara University) from July 6, 2017 about his forthcoming book titled Stick Together and Come Back Home: Racial Sorting and the Spillover of Carceral Identity (University of California Press, 2018).

November 16th: No show
November 23rd: No show – Happy Holidays!

November 30th: Latino Mass Mobilization
Chris Zepeda-Millan is the author of a new book called Latino Mass Mobilization: Immigration, Racialization, and Activism (2017, Cambridge University Press). Dr. Zepeda-Millan is an assistant professor in Comparative Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley.  We discussed his book’s major findings, about his views regarding today’s political climate when it comes to immigration, and about the role of Spanish media in informing the public about anti-immigrant legislation.