“I’m standing across the street from Stonewall in Sheridan Square. Here I was, an 18-year-old kid living at the YMCA in a $6-a-night room with no job, no prospects for the future, no real place to live and no money in my pocket. I’m thinking, What am I going to do? And it came to…
The Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a year-long series of events highlighting some of our region’s vibrant cultures. Launched in 1990, the Division of Social Sciences’ department is an interdisciplinary community of scholars engaged in the study of race, ethnicity, indigeneity, gender, sexuality,…
U.S. political leaders have long opposed walls. Twenty-five years ago when President George H. W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act into law he said, “Let the shameful wall of exclusion finally come tumbling down.” At his 1987 address at the Brandenburg Gate, former President Ronald Reagan answered the delayed call of Eastern Europeans suffering…
