Oliver Wang is an associate professor of sociology at CSU-Long Beach. Apart from being a contributing audio editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books, he also regularly contributes to NPR and the Los Angeles Times and writes his own audioblog, soul-sides.com. He is the author of an upcoming book on Filipino American mobile DJs (on Duke University Press) entitled Legions of Boom.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
From Chop Suey to Haute Cuisine: A Case Study in American “Ethnic Food”
Oliver Wang digests books on the complicated history of Chinese-American cuisine and the problematic label of “ethnic food.”...
Space Invaders
Geoff Manaugh elevates burglars above petty criminal status and instead characterizes them as “drunk Jedis of architectural space.”...
Top Five, Dead or Alive
On Shea Serrano's new "Rap Year Book."...
Records Don’t Love You Back: In Search of Lost 78s
These records, like the collectors who chase after them, enjoy transient existences and sharing them gives that ephemerality some meaning and purpose....
Rage, Race, and Recipes
In Fresh Off the Boat, Chef Eddie Huang’s thoughts on race and masculinity are provocative but they often result in the memoir’s most muddled arguments....
RJ Smith on James Brown
RJ Smith photo by Jenny Burman Oliver Wang interviews R.J. Smith about his biography of the hardest working man ...
PODCAST: Laura Pulido and Wendy Cheng and The People's Guide to LA
Co-authors Laura Pulido and Wendy Cheng take Oliver Wangon an audio tour of several of the sites in The People's Guide ...
David Leonard and Oliver Wang on "After Artest"
David J. Leonard discusses race, sports, and his new book "After Artest: The NBA and the Assault on Blackness" with LARB ...
Living with Linsanity
Racial difference was an integral part of Linsanity since the beginning and, as the phenomenon grew, the issue would continue to snowball....
