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DESCRIPTION:Please join ICW and CCI at the third Western Histories in the M
 aking. Three graduate students will present their work and their research p
 aths to continue fostering a connection between ICW and Doheny Library. All
  are welcome.\n\n \n\nJulia Brown-Bernstein\n\n"At the Corner of Glenoaks a
 nd Arroyo: Collectivism and Cultural Hybridity at the San Fernando Swap Mee
 t "\n\nBy the mid 1980s\, the swap meet industry reached its height as a co
 rnerstone of Southern California’s LatinX immigrant and working class commu
 nities. Swap meets became a viable source of income for newcomers and helpe
 d them build social networks. Less than a decade later\, swap meets faced r
 acist attacks. Cities permanently closed locations. The mainstream media em
 phasized crime rates and counterfeit goods. Yet swap meets have persisted. 
 Their resemblance to the pre-Hispanic tianguis market\, affordable prices\,
  and familial atmosphere continue to attract millions of vendors and shoppe
 rs each year. In this case study of the San Fernando Swap Meet\, Brown-Bern
 stein demonstrates that swap meets are an enduring space of class solidarit
 y and cultural hybridity. \n\n \n\nLaura Dominguez\n\n"Courtyard Sisters: I
 nterpreting Progressivism at the International Institute of Los Angeles"\n\
 nOn a January afternoon in 1932\, a multiracial assembly of Los Angeles res
 idents gathered in Boyle Heights to dedicate a new building as a tribute to
  the city's international character and progressive spirit. For nearly two 
 decades\, social workers at the International Institute of Los Angeles had 
 served thousands of immigrant women from their perch on the city's eastside
 . The organization's new Spanish Colonial Revival structure reaffirmed its 
 vow to fashion worthy citizens and to model inter-group cooperation. Laura 
 Dominguez's work explores how this understudied group of reformers policed 
 the borders of Anglo settler imaginations in Progressive-Era Los Angeles an
 d contemplates the built legacy of Americanization in the city today. \n\n 
 \n\nYesenia Navarrete Hunter\n\n"Performing Requests from Heart Mountain"\n
 \nKazuko Hata wrote to his friend and fellow-farmer\, Don McDonald\, reques
 ting his help in locating belongings left behind in Wapato\, Washington. Mr
 . Hata sent the letter from Heart Mountain\, Wyoming on May 4\, 1943\, just
  a few short months after his family and neighbors were evacuated from the 
 Yakima Valley. Mr. Hata’s letter is one of 57 that McDonald’s family kept i
 n their family archive. In the span of four years\, McDonald received and r
 esponded to dozens of individuals as they requested favors\, inquired about
  the harvest\, and negotiated the use of their place of worship\, the Yakim
 a Buddhist Bussei Kaikan. Rather than read the letters through the logics o
 f resistance or agency\, which has the potential for a contrary read of def
 eat or passivity\, I read these letters to illuminate the performance of re
 questing\, or in other words\, the ways in which Japanese individuals utili
 zed their connections to allies to make their requests known\, express thei
 r desires\, and advocate for their needs.
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SUMMARY:Western Histories in the Making: Graduate Student Presentations (US
 C ICW)
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