Systematic plunder – of land, natural resources, labor, bodies, and minds – is central to colonial and global capitalist regimes…
A People’s Guide Book Series
I am coeditor of a UC Press book series, with Laura Barraclough and Laura Pulido. Tourism is one of the…
Of Abject Fathers and Angry Mothers: Chia-Chia Lin’s The Unpassing
March 2020. Published at tropicsofmeta.com. Chia-Chia Lin’s The Unpassing (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2019) is the most Taiwanese American book I’ve ever…
East of East: The global cosmopolitans of suburban LA
Spring 2015. Article published in Boom: A Journal of California. While Los Angeles’s San Gabriel Valley is best known for…
A Brief History (and Geography) of the San Gabriel Valley
August 4, 2014. Article published by kcet.org. The SGV is not only east of East L.A. — and a notable…
Local Academics, Gilda Ochoa and Wendy Cheng Tackle Community Relations in Southern California
Jan. 22, 2014 Interview by Uprisingradio.org. Southern California has its own unique racial makeup, not just in urban areas, but…
The Black Panther Party Headquarters and Other Invisible Places
August 13, 2012. Los Angeles Review of Books. “WHY SHOULD WE visit invisible places?” someone asked at a recent bookstore…
A people’s guide to Los Angeles sheds light on less-frequented but important sites in LA
May 25, 2012 Radio interview with KPCC Tourists who come to Los Angeles tend to visit the same places: Venice…
Karen Tei Yamashita: A Twist on the Mix
Interview with novelist Karen Tei Yamashita, Loggernaut.org (September 2005). “I have heard Brazilian children say that whatever passes through the…
Wendy Cheng 