Richard Mora is a sociologist at Occidental College who studies youth cultures, education, immigration, and social inequality. Before participating in a panel on post-immigrant Los Angeles, he talked in the Zócalo green room about queso fresco and friendship, and the professors who changed his life and the questions he wishes his students would ask.
Los Angeles is a city increasingly made up of native-born residents and fewer and fewer immigrants. Occidental College cultural critic and historian Thaddeus Russell opened a conversation on L.A.’s post-immigrant …
I have the same Hawai’i long form birth certificate as President Obama. Mine is four years newer. But it lists my parents’ race as “Korean” just as Obama’s birth certificate …
How much should we love what’s on TV? A panel of critics, producers, and television writers agreed that a lot of shows today are excellent and that viewers have more …
We hate it and we love it. Television is worse than ever and better than ever. Most of us can reel off the names of ten shows that we consider …
