The story of Jorge Velasquez’s quest for justice for the murder of his daughter and the stories of other women seeking help or safe haven from crime and terror simultaneously transcend the individual and teach us all something about humanity and ourselves.
Read More >Recognizing and honoring the unique and different aspects of being a mother in 2023 While Mother’s Day is a time for mothers across the globe to be celebrated, it is equally important …
Read More >Pressing Onward: The Imperative Resilience of Latina Migrant Mothers centers the stories of mothers who migrated from Latin America, settled in New Haven, Connecticut, and overcame trauma and ongoing adversity to build futures …
Read More >By Christina Heatherton, author of Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution My new book, Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution, was born of family …
Read More >If you are attending the College Art Association’s annual conference in New York, we invite you to join us in the UC Press booth (#109) in the conference exhibit hall on Thursday, …
Read More >By Tatiana Reinoza, co-editor of Self Help Graphics at Fifty: A Cornerstone of Latinx Art and Collaborative Artmaking Throughout the last five decades, Self Help Graphics & Art has created an artist-centered …
Read More >Tracing the paths of figures like Black American artist Elizabeth Catlett, Indian anti-colonial activist M.N. Roy, Mexican revolutionary leader Ricardo Flores Magón, Okinawan migrant organizer Paul Shinsei Kōchi, and Soviet feminist Alexandra …
Read More >The University of California Press is pleased to return in-person to the College Art Association’s 111th annual conference in New York this week. We’re thrilled to announce two forthcoming books publishing next …
Read More >By Michael Dear, author of Border Witness: Reimagining the US-Mexico Borderlands through Film Over the past two decades, there has been an explosion of film releases about the US-Mexico borderlands. Not surprisingly, …
Read More >By Mareike Winchell, author of After Servitude: Elusive Property and the Ethics of Kinship in Bolivia In 2010, I was just beginning an ethnographic study of Quechua water activists in Cochabamba. At …
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