Human Rights Day is observed every year on December 10th—the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, 70 years ago today, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A milestone document, it proclaimed the inalienable …
Read More >UC Press is honored to celebrate the work of our award-winning authors, Barbara Ransby and Sharon Luk, who are both being recognized for their outstanding scholarship at this week’s American Studies Association conference …
Read More >Political protests have a deep past in U.S. history, with varied degrees of success in accomplishing what they set out to do. Gleaned from L.A. Kauffman’s eye-opening new book, How to Read a …
Read More >Beginning this Fall, author Maxine Gordon will begin an extensive tour of speaking engagements and presentations around the release of Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon, an official biography of …
Read More >University of California Press is pleased to welcome Ethnic Studies Review to its growing stable of sociology journals, and in celebration, we are making a special issue of ESR dedicated to the …
Read More >This guest post is published as part of our Scholar-Activist series related to the American Sociological Association conference from August 11 – 14 in Philadelphia. #ASA18 #ScholarActivist By Nikki Jones, author of The Chosen Ones: …
Read More >To commemorate the fortieth anniversary (1978–2018) of the African American Museum Association (AAMA), known today as the Association of African American Museums (AAAM), The Public Historian has published a special issue on …
Read More >“Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon is a creative telling of the life of Dexter Gordon, best known as one of the world’s greatest jazz musicians, but also …
Read More >Six years after the murder of Trayvon Martin, esteemed activist Barbara Ransby takes stock of the evolving Black Lives Matter Movement and Movement for Black Lives in her forthcoming book Making All Black Lives …
Read More >There will be no Barack Obama Presidential Library. Think about that for a moment. Let it sink in. The nation’s first African American president will not have a presidential library administered by …
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