Join University of California Press this fall at the 2014 American Studies Association Annual Meeting. The meeting convenes November 6-9 in Los Angeles. Please visit us at booth 401 at the Westin …
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Read More >A recent article in the Atlantic cited Kathryn Edin, co-author, with Timothy Nelson, of Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City, on anti-poverty programs’ effects on poor working fathers. The article is one …
Read More >Judith Levine, author of Ain’t No Trust: How Bosses, Boyfriends, and Bureaucrats Fail Low-Income Mothers and Why It Matters, joined MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry for a panel on the challenges facing single mothers from low-income backgrounds, …
Read More >Follow the link and register for your chance to win a free copy of the paperback edition of Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom …
Read More >October 19-December 13, 2013 Art, Design & Architecture Museum UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-7130 “The best-known images of the civil rights struggle show black Americans as nonthreatening victims of white …
Read More >In the latest episode of the UC Press Podcast, Unfathomable City authors Rebecca Snedeker and Rebecca Solnit share how they became interested in making a book of maps about New Orleans, and what their respective …
Read More >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 …
Read More >Despite some signs that the economy is getting better, poverty is still a persistent threat for the majority of Americans, a new study by the AP has found. Survey data showed that …
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