By Jessica T. Simes, author of Punishing Places: The Geography of Mass Imprisonment Despite growing attention to the problem of mass incarceration, we are still only beginning to capture its far-reaching harms. …
Read More >By Andrea Leverentz, author of Intersecting Lives: How Place Shapes Reentry In October 2014, a bridge that connected Long Island in Boston Harbor to Moon Island — as well as Squantum Peninsula …
Read More >By Geniece Crawford Mondé, author of This Is Our Freedom: Motherhood in the Shadow of the American Prison System In the wake of global protests for justice in the summer of 2020, …
Read More >UC Press is proud to support scholarship that advocates for the health and well-being of trans and gender-nonconforming young people. The books on this list speak to a shared mission: improving the …
Read More >Welcome to the virtual tour of A People’s Guide to New York City! Unlike traditional guidebooks that highlight the glitz, glamor, consumption, and spectacle of cities, often at the expense of people …
Read More >By Tracy Perkins, author of Evolution of a Movement: Four Decades of California Environmental Justice Activism Today, there is no nuclear waste dump in Ward Valley. This beautiful stretch of California’s Mojave …
Read More >By Stephen Wheeler, co-author of Reimagining Sustainable Cities: Strategies for Designing Greener, Healthier, More Equitable Communities As one of the landmark publications of the last year in the social sciences, The Dawn …
Read More >By Mitchell Schwarzer, author of Hella Town: Oakland’s History of Development and Disruption It was the spring of 1964 and the sea air caressed my face as my father drove us along …
Read More >By Ana Muñiz, author of Borderland Circuitry: Immigration Surveillance in the United States and Beyond The passage below is an adapted excerpt from Borderland Circuitry. I’ve loved the land for as long …
Read More >“One of the things I really love about CPCS is that it is one of the rare journals in which there really is no ideological leaning towards particular methodologies—there are purely qualitative and ethnographic studies alongside quantitative regression models on large cross-national samples.”
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