By Francine Banner, author of Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems What does it mean to be complicit? This question is at the heart of my book, Beyond …
Read More >UC Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Animal History, a journal of historical research into animals and human-animal relationships.
Read More >By Amy Coddington, author of How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop: Radio, Rap, and Race As hip hop turns 50, many mainstream outlets have highlighted how it has utterly transformed U.S. popular …
Read More >By SpearIt, author of Muslim Prisoner Litigation: An Unsung American Tradition “Prison jihad” is a real thing happening in American prisons across the country. While this idea might conjure up all sorts …
Read More >by Patricia Ventura and Edward K. Chan, co-authors of White Power and American Neoliberal Culture We didn’t set out to write a catalogue of horror—instead we stumbled upon these sadistic texts of …
Read More >Many readers may not think of the American West as a particularly religious place. What do we gain by paying attention to the role of religion in its history? It is true …
Read More >Orisanmi Burton describes his approach to writing his new book through a methodological approach he developed called archival war.
Read More >Melissa Ooten and Jason Sawyer present their alt-travel guide to Richmond and Central Virginia.
Read More >The American Studies Now series refuses the distinction between politics and culture—focusing on historical cultures of power and protest on the one hand, or the political importance of cultural practices on the …
Read More >A conversation with FirstGen scholar Emma Day, author of “In Her Hands: Women’s Fight against AIDS in the United States”
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