Alumna Christina Firpo (B.A. '01) published a book entitled The Uprooted: Race, Children, and Imperialism in French Indochina, 1890-1980 with the University of Hawai'i Press. The book is about the systematic uprooting of métis children - those with Southeast Asian mothers and white, African, or Indian fathers - at the hands of French officials in Indochina. The University of Hawai'i Press writes: "The Uprooted offers an in-depth investigation of the colony's child-removal program: the motivations behind it, reception of it, and resistance to it. This poignant and little known story will be of interest to scholars of French and Southeast Asian studies, colonialism, gender studies, and the historiography of the family."
Firpo is currently Assistant Professor of History at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo.