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Posts by Sojin Kim
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Train Tracks: A Transcontinental Railroad PlaylistListen to a soundtrack of experiences associated with this historical endeavor, a mixtape of music that echoes the railroad’s varied impact on American culture.
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Writ Large: The Art of CHELOVE and MASPAZLook closely and you can track these two artists across the D.C. landscape.
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Sounds of California: Hearing Migration Through MusicIn 2015, fifty years after the Hart-Celler Immigration and Nationality Act launched an era of accelerated and greatly diversified immigration to the United States, have we achieved a better vantage point?
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On Fences, Plazas, and Latino Urbanism:
A Conversation with James RojasJames Rojas is busy. In 2014, he worked in over ten cities across seven states. In early February 2015, he had just finished leading a tour of East Los Angeles’s vernacular landscape.
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Asian American Folklore: Redefining and Debating Meanings and MethodologiesAsian American folklore—it’s both a simple and unwieldy category. It might involve people who trace their ancestry to such far-flung places as China, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Laos, but it could also encompass people not of Asian ancestry whose lives are tied up with Asian American people and culture.
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Just Dance: Connecting Life, Death, Traditions, and Communities in L.A.No doubt about it, Los Angeles is a place infamous for its fractures—pulled apart across an expansive geography by forces of nature and disparities in its social and political economy.
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