We’re excited to announce that three UC Press authors will be featured on panels at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books this weekend. Marcus Anthony Hunter, co-author of Chocolate Cities: The Black …
Read More >From Earth Day Network’s The History of Earth Day: The idea for a national day to focus on the environment came to Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from …
Read More >Khaled Beydoun, author of American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear is committed to sharing his passion, dedication, and energy in supporting and enriching communities. He says: I spent much of …
Read More >With the annual meeting of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies happening this week in Toronto, conference attendees are invited to connect with Feminist Media Histories at the following in-person events, and at @FemMediaHist and …
Read More >Tomorrow marks the 125th anniversary of UC Press. Last week staff celebrated our quasquicentennial (say that three times fast for a real tongue twister!) with food and drink, and song and verse. …
Read More >Within the history of Los Angeles, the Latin American cadence is hard to ignore: Among the city’s most consistent beats, its most influential set of rhythms and melodies, are those that have …
Read More >From searing critiques of power and wealth, to in-depth investigations of race, gender, and class to cultural histories of activism and social justice, these new releases will inspire the way you think …
Read More >Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars as much as any city in the nation. And, yet, few historians have attempted big-picture narratives of the city’s transformation over …
Read More >by Casey Philip Wong, in collaboration with H. Samy Alim and Jeff Chang On November 8th and 9th, Stanford University’s Institute for Diversity in the Arts (IDA) will host an international community …
Read More >Music and musicians from Latin America are inextricable from the development of Los Angeles as a modern musical city. This volume listens for the musical urbanism of Los Angeles through the ear …
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