This Spring author Maxine Gordon continues her extensive tour of speaking engagements and presentations around the release of Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon, the highly-acclaimed official biography of her late …
Read More >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 >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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