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Boom California
Abstract: Excerpt from Chapter: Shoreline Futures By: Eric Porter SFO, like other airports situated along or near oceans, seas, and estuaries across the globe, is under direct threat from future sea-level rise stemming from racial capitalism’s long development as it has interfaced with atmospheric and geological processes. The question is not whether the airport will be […] PubDate: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 21:50:11 +000
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Boom California
Abstract: On the Front Porch with Oakland Activist David Peters An Interview by Dr. Gregory Downs On the front porch of his house in West Oakland’s Hoover-Foster neighborhood, across the street from one of the elementary schools that define the neighborhood, David Peters knows everybody, whether he’s met them or not. Animated, boisterous, and always busy, […] PubDate: Mon, 01 Apr 2024 18:38:44 +000
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Boom California
Abstract: Latino Interchanges: Greater East Los Angeles in the Freeway Era By: Gilbert Estrada and Jerry González Why Eastside Los Angeles' With a lack of Eastside financial capital, a dearth of political representation followed. Freeway planning can be an obscure top-down process, but freeway planning is also part of American democracy. After World War II, racism, […] PubDate: Wed, 19 Apr 2023 23:00:00 +000
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Boom California
Abstract: At the start of a new year, BOOM California editors sat to talk with Char Miller, environmental historian and director of environmental analysis at Pomona College in Claremont, California. A senior fellow of the Pinchot Institute for Conservation, and a fellow of the Texas State Historical Association and of the Forest History Society, Miller is the author of numerous important […] PubDate: Wed, 19 Apr 2023 18:46:08 +000
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Boom California
Abstract: By José Vadi Why repealing bans against cruising matters Lowriders are motorized time capsules that command respect, or at the very least, a head turn. In Sacramento, the lowrider scene is palpable on sight, with Broadway a favorite strut. We were having a drink on this stretch a few months ago when my wife and […] PubDate: Mon, 06 Mar 2023 17:00:45 +000
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Boom California
Abstract: By: David Goldblatt Indeed I live in the dark ages!A guileless word is an absurdity. A smooth forehead betokensA hard heart. He who laughsHas not yet heardThe terrible tidings. Ah, what an age it isWhen to speak of trees is almost a crimeFor it is a kind of silence about injustice!And he who walks calmly […] PubDate: Mon, 06 Mar 2023 16:46:41 +000
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Boom California
Abstract: This Land is Their Land However polite its title, the 1891 “Petition to the Senators and Representatives of the Congress of the United States in the Behalf of the Remnants of the former Tribes of the Yosemite Indians Praying for Aid and Assistance” was anything but deferential. The petition offered a blunt critique of the mostly […] PubDate: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 19:11:02 +000
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Boom California
Abstract: Andrew Garrett Adapted from The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall: Language, Memory, and Indigenous California, by Andrew Garrett, published by The MIT Press (to appear in 2023). It rained for ten days in late February and early March 1911. “Enough Water to Last All Summer” was the Sacramento Bee headline.[1] Juan Dolores was stuck inside, unable […] PubDate: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 19:10:40 +000
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Boom California
Abstract: Kinship and Cultural Resistance to Environmental Racism in Avocado Heights, California On December 13, 2022, Quemetco, Inc. (also known as Ecobat), a battery smelter in City of Industry, California, agreed to pay $2.3 million in a civil settlement litigation brought on by the Department of Toxic and Substances Control (DTSC). Along with committing to infrastructural […] PubDate: Tue, 24 Jan 2023 23:47:01 +000
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