Christina Heatherton

Postdoctoral Fellow

Christina Heatherton is a historian and interdisciplinary scholar of social movements. Her work explores the intersections of race, class, and gender. She is the author of The Color Line and the Class Struggle: The Mexican Revolution, Internationalism, and the American Century (forthcoming) and is currently editing a volume entitled The World Refuses: Global Struggles Against Racism and Imperialism, 1893-1933. Her work will appear in the volume Rising Tides of Color: Race, Radicalism, and Repression on the Pacific Coast and Beyond edited by Moon-Ho Jung (University of Washington Press, 2014) among other places. She is the co-editor with Jordan T. Camp of Freedom Now! Struggles for the Human Right to Housing in LA and Beyond (2012). She received her Ph.D. from USC’s Department of American Studies and Ethnicity in 2012 and is currently a member of the Global Advisory Board of the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership.

Participating Years

2013–2014

Remaking Worlds: Insurgencies, Revolutions, Utopias

Building on the past two years of seminars devoted to the theme of “Uprisings” the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics will focus its upcoming 2013-2014 seminar on questions of insurgencies, revolutions, and utopias. We propose to examine each of these phenomena as ongoing processes rather than as singular historical, present, or forthcoming events.

2012–2013

Uprisings: in History, in Process, in the Future

The last year has witnessed an extraordinary flowering of political and social protest across the globe. Each location of struggle, whether the revolutions sometimes called the “Arab Spring” or the vigorous demonstrations of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement, provides important lessons in how we understand social change in the current conjuncture.What is the longue durée of such struggle? How do uprisings reconfigure the social? How are they represented and is representation itself an uprising?