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Notes from the Third General Assembly: A Look Back at Occupy’s Origins

ssilverman — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 22:12:45 +0000

To mark the 2nd anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement, we’re revisiting the origins of the General Assembly with this excerpt from Nathan Schneider’s Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse. The book is an up-close, inside account of OWS’s first year in New York City, written by one of the first reporters [more...]

Carrying Civil Rights Forward through Scholarship

ssilverman — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 19:13:06 +0000

From Martin Berger’s Freedom Now!. Unidentified photographer, Woman Resisting Arrest, Birmingham, Alabama, April 14, 1963. Courtesy of Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images.

It’s been 50 years since the March on Washington, and the issues of racial equality and economic justice are just as vital as ever.

UC Press is proud to contribute to the preservation of Martin [more...]

Replenished Ethnicity Author on Immigration Reform in the L.A. Times

ssilverman — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 20:37:59 +0000

Tomás R. Jiménez, author of Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity, recently contributed an op-ed to the L.A. Times on the immigration bill just passed in the Senate whose fate will now be determined by the House of Representatives. Jiménez and co-author Helen B. Marrow argue against claims that Mexicans who immigrate to the U.S. [more...]

New UC Press Author Asks: Who Profits From Poverty?

ssilverman — Mon, 13 May 2013 18:39:13 +0000

Ananya Roy and her colleagues at the #GlobalPOV Project, an initiative of UC Berkeley’s Blum Center for Developing Economies, have just released a stunning new illustrated video that explores the business of poverty. Roy is the author of Encountering Poverty (forthcoming from UC Press), a path-breaking book that will consolidate a new field of inquiry: global poverty studies.

Watch the [more...]

Sheryl Sandberg and Jody Williams: A Study in Contrasts

ssilverman — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 01:08:52 +0000

What do Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams have in common? According to a recent article in Foreign Policy Journal, “two remarkable women have been in the news promoting their books. [Sandberg's ubiquitous Lean In and Williams' recent UC Press book, My Name Is Jody Williams] Both women are brilliant, hardworking, dedicated, focused [more...]

When Breast Isn’t Best: Spiked Reviews Bottled Up

ssilverman — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:26:29 +0000

In the wake of Mayor Bloomberg’s decision last summer to remove formula samples from the diaper bags given to new mothers in New York City, the breast vs. bottle feeding debate is more contentious than ever.

The Spiked Review of Books recently took up this issue in a review of Suzanne’s Barston’s new book, Bottled Up: How [more...]

Among Murderers: Prisoners Respond to Sabine Heinlein

ssilverman — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 19:08:06 +0000

Sabine Heinlein sent a finished copy of her book, Among Murderers, to Richie, an interviewee serving time at Attica prison. He then passed it around to friends and fellow cellblock-mates. Two of them were so moved by her research on the struggle to navigate life after a murder conviction, they felt compelled to write responses to Heinlein.

Below are [more...]

Travelling the 38th Parallel: What’s Happening Now?

ssilverman — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 21:38:56 +0000

Three years ago, David and Janet Carle, authors of the new book Traveling the 38th Parallel, embarked on the trip of a lifetime. The former state park rangers from Mono Lake, California journeyed around the world along the 38th parallel in search of water-related environmental and cultural intersections.

We’ve followed their adventures before here on the UC Press [more...]

UC Press Podcast: Sabine Heinlein on Life After a Murder Conviction

ssilverman — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 23:13:35 +0000

What is it like for a convicted murderer who has spent decades behind bars to suddenly find himself released into a world he barely recognizes? What is it like to start over from nothing? To answer these questions Sabine Heinlein followed the everyday lives and emotional struggles of Angel Ramos and his friends Bruce and [more...]

Roger Lancaster’s NYT Op-Ed on Just Laws for Sex Offenders

ssilverman — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:24:47 +0000

Roger N. Lancaster, professor of anthropology and cultural studies at George Mason University and author of Sex Panic and the Punitive State, recently penned an op-ed for the New York Times on how restrictions for sex offenders should be determined and the implications of creating policies in direct response to traumatic events. Read his take below:

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