The Society of Undergraduate Humanities Publications

Written by Julianne Vu, USC 21' In the midst of a pandemic, USC Village is unnervingly empty and quiet. Under any other circumstances, as summer goes out in a blaze of heat and leaves behind the milder temperatures of autumn, this time in the semester would find students clogging

Written by Joseph Cho, USC 21' In December 2018, the USC Board of Trustees voted in support of Interim President Wanda Austin’s termination of Marshall School of Business Dean James Ellis. This decision prompted several University alumni and the USC Marshall Board of Leaders to pen strongly-worded letters

By Trinity Yang, USC 23' I never thought Greek life was for me. To me, the invitation of a sorority bid was being asked to sit at a table that was never made to accommodate an unpopular, non-white introvert like me. To enter a world of drama, drinking, and

By Judy Song, USC 22' “Are Asian Americans even people of color?” As a Korean American, this is a question I have come face to face with at least once in my journey to self-actualization. Because the question seems to just barely scratch the surface of the Asian American

Jack Casey, USC 22' Since the 1880 founding of the University of Southern California, there have been ebbs and flows of change and migration to the size and style of its campus. The most significant of these was the city’s radical transformation from a colonial Hispanic town to

By Giacomo Green, USC 22' On October 24th, 1988 the Daily Trojan reported that on the previous Thursday, several pledges of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity distributed flyers around the University of Southern California advertising a “Slave Auction”. These flyers included a ‘Fiji Man’ logo, a caricature of a

Written by Lydia Burleson, Yale 21'                                                                               Edited by Jisoo Choi, Yale 22' In the time before and during the Civil Rights Movement, Gwendolyn Brooks used her poetry to explore the shifting concept of Black agency, specifically the freedom of choice and movement for Black individuals within a white-dominated

Alexis Altshuler, USC 21' What if I told you that the single most addressable threat to the U.S. criminal justice system was your own subconscious? Americans have advocated for reform of the judicial system since its inception, usually in the form of dramatic upheaval of the entire structure.

By: Chynna Hinrichsen, USC 22' INTRODUCTION COVID-19 has exposed a legacy of systemic racism in the United States. African Americans only account for 13.4% of the U.S. population yet make up nearly half of COVID-19 cases and almost 60% of deaths.1 The disproportionate rate of infection

By Maria Lentz, USC, 23' At the advent of the 20th century, the creation of the film camera ushered in a new age of entertainment. Hollywood movies portrayed characters in fantastical realism, glorifying actors on the silver screen.1 In his book The Star System: Hollywood’s Production of

In August 2020, Jisoo Choi sat down with Camille Delaney-Mcneil, Director of Programs with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra OrchKids. Jisoo Choi: Could you briefly describe what OrchKids does with respect to its programs and the impact it seeks to have? Camille Delaney-McNeil: OrchKids, in short, is a “music for social

Written by Polly Moser, Stanford 22' Edited by Fiona Benson, Yale 22', Meghan Gupta, Yale 21', and Mary Tate, Yale 21' For many, an image of the archetypal eating disorder patient is easy to bring to mind; she is female, White, young, and painfully thin. This

Interview by John Cao, Northwestern 22' Written by Catherine Campusano, Northwestern 23' In a conversation originally centered around racism in the United States, Professor Marquis Bey begins with an articulation of the distinction between racism and anti-Blackness now commonplace in academic African American studies. This notion of ‘anti-Blackness’

Written by Esther Reichek, Yale 23' Edited by Emma Gray, Yale 21' When I first opened Zadie Smith’s Intimati ons: Six Essays (Penguin, 112 pp., $10.95, July 2020), I felt disappointed. Not by the length – barely 100 pages of text – but by the dimensions. Each page

Written by Leigh Logan, Yale 21' Edited by Serena Cho, Yale 21' and Yassi Xiong, Yale 22' After Emancipation in 1863, white supremacists sought to replicate oppression during the period of chattel slavery. They created the rape/lynch myth, which saw black men as violent predators of

Written by Emma Gray, Yale 21' Edited by Esther Reichek, Yale 23' In 1871, architect Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi arrived in New York with a project in mind, a project so ambitious that he wrote to his mother that she should not share it lest he “would appear eccentric,

Interview by Henry Jacob, Yale 21' Transcription by Grace Blaxill, Yale 22' YHR: A knot of desire links Alex, Emira, and Kelley. Alex and Kelley’s use of the word “crush” and “love” reveal this connection. I will draw four quotations to make this triangle more visible. A

Written by Jisoo Choi, Yale 22' Edited by Lydia Burleson, Yale 21' Cathy Park Hong's recent book of essays, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, has been on nearly every reading list this summer, cropping up on colorful Instagram posts and reviews of 2020 releases. I