While many of us might associate archaeology with the pop culture adventure icon Indiana Jones, the truth of the field is just as fascinating and more accessible to all of us. Being …
Read More >By Joshua Bloom, co-author of Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party Denial of systemic racism continues following Derrick Chauvin’s murder of George Floyd. A friend told …
Read More >by Klára Móricz, author of In Stravinsky’s Orbit: Responses to Modernism in Russian Paris, for Igor Stravinsky’s birthday As a musician, I always feel a bit embarrassed when I sing “Happy Birthday.” Prompted …
Read More >Answering the question “what do ambulance workers do?” might seem like a simple task — they are frontline healthcare workers who help save the lives of the critically injured. But this response …
Read More >In recognition of the latest milestone for LGBTQ rights in the United States, UC Press celebrates the landmark Supreme Court ruling that protects gay and transgender workers from workplace discrimination. UC Press …
Read More >by Aliya Hamid Rao, author of Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment As of April 2020, the unemployment rate in the U.S stands at 14.7% (4 percentage points higher than the …
Read More >UC Press is proud to celebrate Black Music Month by spotlighting a range of titles that explore the richness and expanse of Black music in America and beyond. The following books feature …
Read More >By Andrea S. Boyles, author of recent book You Can’t Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder and Social Ties in Post-Ferguson American and previous book Race, Place, and Suburban Policing: Too Close for …
Read More >By Mugambi Jouet, author or Exceptional America: What Divides Americans From the World and From Each Other As America and the world ponder George Floyd’s appalling death, what lies beneath the tip …
Read More >Every academic discipline has an origin story complicit with white supremacy. Racial hierarchy and colonialism structured the very foundations of most disciplines’ research and teaching paradigms. In the early twentieth century, the …
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