Posts tagged history

Book Review - Beyond Walls:...

By Prerna on August 27, 2009
Book Review – Beyond Walls: Reinventing the Canada-United States Borderlands

I just finished a book review for the Journal of Landscape Research. The book is aptly titled ‘Beyond Walls: Reinventing the Canada-United States Borderlands‘ because the entire book is a complete reinvention, devoid of much historical understanding or exploration of how the Canada-U.S. border is... [+]

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27Aug

Journal of Peasant Studies - Peasant...

By Prerna on September 23, 2008
Journal of Peasant Studies – Peasant Pasts: History and Memory in Western India

This book review should appear in the upcoming edition of the Journal of Peasant Studies. I cannot publish the whole bit here even though it is my work, since I signed over licensing rights but it should be available through your college databases. I don’t know... [+]

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23Sep

If history is indeed written by...

By Prerna on May 13, 2008
If history is indeed written by victors…

I take great inspiration from this quote by Jennifer Beals at an NAACP event a few years ago: “It has been said, ‘History is written by the victors.’ I take this to mean we can make ourselves victorious by writing, and then rewriting our own stories.... [+]

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13May

A History of Xenophobia in U.S....

By Prerna on March 2, 2008
A History of Xenophobia in U.S. Immigration Policy and the new McCarthyism

Discrimination against those that are seemingly foreign-born and ‘different’ from the (White Protestant) norm is pervasive in the immigration control history of United States. It goes back to when the United States was a budding new nation of (illegal) immigrants from Europe and conscious of the ‘dangerous’... [+]

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02Mar