Daniel Widener
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1109921 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Daniel Widener |
| NOMBRES | Daniel |
| APELLIDO | Widener |
| FIRMA | WIDENER D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California San Diego |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
From South Africa to South Central L.A
Using Los Angeles as a case study, this essay explores transnational Black protest, celebrity, and the cultural boycott. Although cultural activism was a staple of anti-apartheid activity across the world, Los Angeles was distinguished in the U.S. context by an ongoing campaign that mobilised African Americans for the purpose of confronting Black celebrities who violated the cultural boycott. Organising around the cultural boycott took place alon…
An origin story for a new American majority
Race and Sport
This chapter explores the relationship between race and sport from the late nineteenth century to the present. It tracks processes of racial exclusion, colonial control, and antiracist contestation, as well as the more diffuse context of an ostensibly postracial neoliberal sporting landscape. Included are discussions of crucial figures such as Jack Johnson, Jackie Robison, Muhammad Ali, and Michael Jordan. Campaigns such as the sporting boycott o…
Across the Pitch
This essay assesses three recent writings on soccer and society in Europe. Examining developments in England, Spain, and across the breadth of Europe, it tracks the formation of the English Premier League, discusses the politics within the Real Madrid-Barcelona rivalry, and explores the possibility of soccer as a site of anticapitalist resistance. Issues surrounding race, capitalism, gender, democratic participation, and globalization are discuss…
Continuity and Change
Black Arts West
Black Arts West
From postwar efforts to end discrimination in the motion-picture industry, recording studios, and musicians' unions, through the development of community-based arts organizations, to the creation of searing films critiquing conditions in the black working class neighborhoods of a city touting its multiculturalism-Black Arts West documents the social and political significance of African American arts activity in Los Angeles between the Second Wor…
Another City Is Possible
This essay examines cross-racial political activism in Los Angeles from 1992 to the present day, an era unique for both the nature and quantity of working-class radicalism. This paper offers a brief sketch of the primary contexts, composition, and contradictions of local interethnic organizing. After beginning with a historical overview of previous moments of multiracial politics in Southern California, I turn to a discussion of contemporary even…
Seoul City Sue and the Bugout Blues
Writing Watts
The Watts Writers Workshop was among the most visible community arts projects to develop in Southern California after the 1965 Watts riot. The brainchild of author, screenwriter, and Hollywood personality Budd Schulberg, the workshop sought to develop creative writing talent as an antidote for black social alienation. As an effort in interracial urban reform through artistic expression, the workshop found strong initial support among liberal cele…
A History of Black and Brown
Research Article| January 01 2008 A History of Black and Brown: Chicana/o–African American Cultural and Political Relations Luis Alvarez, Luis Alvarez Luis Alvarez is an assistant professor in the history department at UC San Diego where he teaches courses in U.S. history, ethnic studies, and popular culture. He is the author of The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II (forthcoming in spring 2008 from the University…
Heartbeat of Struggle
The Rondezvous of Remembrance and Revolt daniel widener (bio) Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama. By Diane Fujino. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005) Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles. By Laura Pulido. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006) Soul Power: Culture, Radicalism, and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left. By Cynthia Young. (Durham: Duke University Press…
Perhaps the Japanese Are to Be Thanked?” Asia, Asian Americans, and the Construction of Black California
Research Article| February 01 2003 “Perhaps the Japanese Are to Be Thanked?” Asia, Asian Americans, and the Construction of Black California Daniel Widener Daniel Widener Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2003) 11 (1): 135–181. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-11-1-135 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email T…
Perhaps the Japanese Are to Be Thanked?” Asia, Asian Americans, and the Construction of Black California
Research Article| February 01 2003 “Perhaps the Japanese Are to Be Thanked?” Asia, Asian Americans, and the Construction of Black California Daniel Widener Daniel Widener Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2003) 11 (1): 135–181. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-11-1-135 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email T…
A History of Black and Brown
Research Article| January 01 2008 A History of Black and Brown: Chicana/o–African American Cultural and Political Relations Luis Alvarez, Luis Alvarez Luis Alvarez is an assistant professor in the history department at UC San Diego where he teaches courses in U.S. history, ethnic studies, and popular culture. He is the author of The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II (forthcoming in spring 2008 from the University…
Perhaps the Japanese Are to Be Thanked?” Asia, Asian Americans, and the Construction of Black California
Research Article| February 01 2003 “Perhaps the Japanese Are to Be Thanked?” Asia, Asian Americans, and the Construction of Black California Daniel Widener Daniel Widener Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2003) 11 (1): 135–181. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-11-1-135 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email T…
Heartbeat of Struggle
The Rondezvous of Remembrance and Revolt daniel widener (bio) Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama. By Diane Fujino. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005) Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles. By Laura Pulido. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006) Soul Power: Culture, Radicalism, and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left. By Cynthia Young. (Durham: Duke University Press…
Another City Is Possible
This essay examines cross-racial political activism in Los Angeles from 1992 to the present day, an era unique for both the nature and quantity of working-class radicalism. This paper offers a brief sketch of the primary contexts, composition, and contradictions of local interethnic organizing. After beginning with a historical overview of previous moments of multiracial politics in Southern California, I turn to a discussion of contemporary even…
Seoul City Sue and the Bugout Blues
Writing Watts
The Watts Writers Workshop was among the most visible community arts projects to develop in Southern California after the 1965 Watts riot. The brainchild of author, screenwriter, and Hollywood personality Budd Schulberg, the workshop sought to develop creative writing talent as an antidote for black social alienation. As an effort in interracial urban reform through artistic expression, the workshop found strong initial support among liberal cele…
A History of Black and Brown
Research Article| January 01 2008 A History of Black and Brown: Chicana/o–African American Cultural and Political Relations Luis Alvarez, Luis Alvarez Luis Alvarez is an assistant professor in the history department at UC San Diego where he teaches courses in U.S. history, ethnic studies, and popular culture. He is the author of The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II (forthcoming in spring 2008 from the University…
Black Arts West
Black Arts West
From postwar efforts to end discrimination in the motion-picture industry, recording studios, and musicians' unions, through the development of community-based arts organizations, to the creation of searing films critiquing conditions in the black working class neighborhoods of a city touting its multiculturalism-Black Arts West documents the social and political significance of African American arts activity in Los Angeles between the Second Wor…
Continuity and Change
Across the Pitch
This essay assesses three recent writings on soccer and society in Europe. Examining developments in England, Spain, and across the breadth of Europe, it tracks the formation of the English Premier League, discusses the politics within the Real Madrid-Barcelona rivalry, and explores the possibility of soccer as a site of anticapitalist resistance. Issues surrounding race, capitalism, gender, democratic participation, and globalization are discuss…
Race and Sport
This chapter explores the relationship between race and sport from the late nineteenth century to the present. It tracks processes of racial exclusion, colonial control, and antiracist contestation, as well as the more diffuse context of an ostensibly postracial neoliberal sporting landscape. Included are discussions of crucial figures such as Jack Johnson, Jackie Robison, Muhammad Ali, and Michael Jordan. Campaigns such as the sporting boycott o…
An origin story for a new American majority
From South Africa to South Central L.A
Using Los Angeles as a case study, this essay explores transnational Black protest, celebrity, and the cultural boycott. Although cultural activism was a staple of anti-apartheid activity across the world, Los Angeles was distinguished in the U.S. context by an ongoing campaign that mobilised African Americans for the purpose of confronting Black celebrities who violated the cultural boycott. Organising around the cultural boycott took place alon…
Political science (10 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Politics (7 obras) · Gender Studies (6 obras) · History (6 obras) · Race, History, and American Society (5 obras) · Art (4 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Art history (3 obras)