“What determines the worth of an academic idea in any field is controlled by its gatekeepers, and in disciplines in the West, they have always been white.”
Read More >Ethnomusicologist Deborah Wong will read excerpts from her new book, Louder and Faster: Pain, Joy, and the Body Politic in Asian American Taiko, at several University of California campuses during the winter …
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Read More >By Paul Almeida, author of Social Movements: The Structure of Collective Mobilization October 2019 witnessed an inordinate clustering of massive civil disobedience in the global South. These protests include major social movement …
Read More >Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Barry Siegel will be at several Southern California literary events in promotion of his new book, Dreamers and Schemers: How an Improbable Bid for the 1932 Olympics …
Read More >Award-winning journalist and author Roland De Wolk will be touring to discuss his new book, American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford, which chronicles the untold story of the life and …
Read More >On November 10 , 2019, the Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Venice, California will be honoring UC Press author Harryette Mullen as part of their 9th Annual Awards Dinner, the Beyond Salon. Harryette …
Read More >“I’ve always been interested as a sociologist and a researcher in trying to better understand how issues related to race, gender, and inequality persist in professional workplaces.” — Adia Harvey Wingfield, author …
Read More >On Sept. 11 , 2019, the Smithsonian-affiliated Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh, PA hosted Carnegie Mellon University professor Joe William Trotter, Jr. for a celebration of his new book Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America.
Read More >This fall, author Tyler Green is continuing his series of lectures in relation to his award-winning book, Carleton Watkins: Making the West American, an expansive history of influential landscape photographer Carleton Watkins …
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