This is the third of four daily recaps by Matthew Delmont, author of Making Roots: A Nation Captivated (coming August 2016) about the remake of Alex Haley’s Roots television miniseries airing on HISTORY Channel. If you …
Read More >This is the second of four daily recaps by Matthew Delmont, author of Making Roots: A Nation Captivated (coming August 2016) about the remake of Alex Haley’s Roots television miniseries airing on HISTORY Channel. If …
Read More >This is the first of four daily recaps by Matthew Delmont, author of Making Roots: A Nation Captivated (coming August 2016) about the remake of Alex Haley’s Roots television miniseries airing on HISTORY Channel. If …
Read More >By Matthew F. Delmont, author of The Nicest Kids in Town, Why Busing Failed, and Making Roots When Alex Haley’s book Roots was published by Doubleday in 1976 it became an immediate bestseller. …
Read More >UC Press is pleased to present Beyond the Walled City: Colonial Exclusion in Havana, the first book by Guadalupe García. Havana has recently become the center of media attention as one of the …
Read More >By Paul A. Schroeder Rodríguez, author of Latin American Cinema: A Comparative History 2016 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Latin American Studies Association, the largest organization of Latin Americanists in the …
Read More >If you’re attending the LASA 2016 Congress in New York this year (or even if you aren’t) you’ll want to stop by the UC Press booth and check out Arlene Dávila’s newest book, …
Read More >May is Jewish American Heritage Month, a celebration of the rich history of Jewish contributions to American culture in a multitude of fields. Our forthcoming book, Judaisms: A Twenty-First-Century Introduction to Jews and Jewish Identities, …
Read More >By Corinna Kruse, author of The Social Life of Forensic Evidence I have a confession to make: I find CSI (the long-running TV show Crime Scene Investigation) much less interesting than the non-fictional …
Read More >In the last 40 years millions of jobs in the United states have been lost due to capital flight and deindustrialization. Unemployment rates have skyrocketed for all workers, but especially Black workers. …
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