As pointed out by W. Joseph Campbell, author of Getting it Wrong, today is the 42nd Anniversary of the women’s liberation protest September 7, 1968, on the Atlantic City boardwalk where the …
Read More >Out of the tens of millions of pilgrims who have sought healing at Lourdes since the 19th century, there have been 66 official miracles, says Robert Scott in this UC Press podcast. …
Read More >Jeff Sallaz’s book The Labor of Luck: Casino Capitalism in the United States and South Africa has recently been honored with the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, from the American Sociological Association’s …
Read More >The University of California Press’s record with the Thomas and Znaniecki Book Awards is nothing less than honorable—the award has recognized 12 UC Press titles in the past 10 years. Most recently, …
Read More >Peter Schrag, author of Not Fit for Our Society, and Tyche Hendricks, author of The Wind Doesn’t Need a Passport, were guests on KQED’s Forum yesterday. They discussed immigration with fellow guest …
Read More >When her first book came out, Allison Pugh hoped it would create a stir but feared no one would notice. Her hope won out. Longing and Belonging has been honored by the …
Read More >Arizona’s new immigration law, which allows police to stop people they suspect to be in the US illegally and requires immigrants to carry documentation with them, has stirred up controversy and widespread …
Read More >After decades on the rise, obesity rates have stabilized among most groups of Americans, according to two CDC studies published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. But rates remain …
Read More >UC Berkeley Sociology Professor Martín Sánchez-Jankowski has devoted his career to studying the very thing he once tried to escape—poverty. Born to indigenous and mestizo migrant laborers in Sonoro, Mexico, Sánchez-Jankowski moved …
Read More >We are pleased to announce that Episode 21 of the UC Press podcast series is now available. In this episode, Chris Gondek of Heron and Crane Productions interviews Bryant Simon as he …
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