http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/ucsd_ethnicstudies/rss Recent eScholarship items from Department of Ethnic Studies Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:21:22 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4h07n2ts How did we get here? What is the history of the land UCSD sits on? A look into UC San Diego’s land tenure and history, this work seeks to answer these questions. Tracing back the university’s land history reveals a prominent Kumeyaay village by the name of Ystagua alongside three military bases, two of which make up the land the university is now on. Further revealed are the various ways that the university erases its Indigenous past through the romanticization of San Diego’s Spanish past and the celebration of UCSD’s military history, as seen through the official university history book An Improbable Venture and the original site considerations. This thesis analyzes the processes through which Kumeyaay land is marked for national sacrifice, leaving a legacy of military and navy usage that continues until now–a celebration of militarism which attempts to erase UCSD’s Kumeyaay past. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4h07n2ts Sun, 16 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Drake, Hannah https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8tg41561 The 1882 trial of Crow Dog (Kangi Súŋka), for the murder in 1881 of Spotted Tail (Siŋté Glešká), a leader of the Sicangu/Brulé Lakota, had all of the hallmarks of a twentieth- or twenty-first-century celebrity trial. People came for miles around Deadwood, Dakota Territory and far-flung parts to the west in order to attend the trial and rub shoulders with the participants. From the point of view of government officials in the Bureau of Indian Affairs who engineered the trial, the goal was to wrest criminal jurisdiction from Indian governments on reservations. A number of drawings on paper, “ledger drawings,” produced by Crow Dog and other Lakota participants engulfed in the trial and related activities, show another colonial process at work—the appropriation and resignification of the Native voice within the public sphere. The confluence of national, regional, and local events swirling around Deadwood, Dakota Territory, and the legal case that becomes Ex-parte Crow Dog before the... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8tg41561 Thu, 13 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Frank, Ross https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4d18v3bc 1 Critical Refugee Studies and Asian American Studies: Vietnamese Refugees in Asian America https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4d18v3bc Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Espiritu, Yê N Lê https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1r317919 Introduction: Critical Refugee Studies and Asian American Studies https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1r317919 Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Espiritu, Yen https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1sd505bz Refugee Lifemaking Practices: Southeast Asian Women https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1sd505bz Tue, 1 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Espiritu, Yen Le https://escholarship.org/uc/item/152912sj The Philippine Refugee Processing Center: The Relational Displacements of Vietnamese Refugees and the Indigenous Aetas https://escholarship.org/uc/item/152912sj Tue, 1 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Espiritu, Yen Le https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3kz8r37k Feminist Refugee Epistemology: Reading Displacement in Vietnamese and Syrian Refugee Art https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3kz8r37k Sun, 21 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Espiritu, Yến Lê Duong, Lan https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4655f5gq This article marks experimental modes of sociality in a transnational Indian assisted reproductive technology (ART) clinic as a contact zone between elite doctors, gestational surrogates, and transnational commissioning parents. It examines efforts within one ART clinic to separate social relationships from reproductive bodies in its surrogacy arrangements as well as novel social formations occurring both because of and despite these efforts. Draft regulative legislation in India marks a shift in the distribution of risk among actors in the clinic that parallels a shift in medical practice away from a technique of caring for the body to producing bodies as instruments of contracted service. The clinic provides an opportunity to observe forms of sociality that emerge as experiments with modernities, with different relationships to the body and the social meaning of medicalized biological reproduction, and with understanding the role of the market and altruism in the practice of... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4655f5gq Wed, 3 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Vora, Kalindi https://escholarship.org/uc/item/05g9x31r Based on fieldwork at a transnational surrogacy clinic in India and analysis of assisted reproductive technology (ART) legislation under consideration in the Indian parliament, this paper examines how bodies become potentialized through a combination of technology and networks of social and economic inequality. In this process, the meaning that participants assign to bodies and social relationships mediated by bodies becomes destabilized in a way that allows some surrogates to imagine and work toward a connection to commissioning parents that will offer them long-term benefit. The politics that position the clinic to potentialize the bodies of surrogates-and as a result the relations between participants and their imagined outcomes-occur at a moment of global demand for ARTs. As such, they rely on differentiation of subjects culturally, geographically, and economically. This article examines how the potentializing of women's bodies as surrogates occurs at the nexus of political,... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/05g9x31r Wed, 3 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Vora, Kalindi