by Maurice Rafael Magaña, author of Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and global stay-at-home orders, 2020 has been a year of historic …
Read More >In support of the #ScholarStrike for racial justice, UC Press is featuring titles that highlight the long history of protest, and the following list provides context for the continued struggle for racial …
Read More >By Adia Harvey Wingfield, author of Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy At this point, it is safe to say that the coronavirus has laid bare foundational inequalities …
Read More >UC Press is committed to supporting the research and mission of Black scholars, and we’re so proud of our many award-winning and acclaimed Black authors. For this year’s ASA, we want to …
Read More >This year marks several honors for UC Press author and distinguished sociologist, Aldon Morris—including recognition as the incoming 2021 ASA President and the W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award. Yet …
Read More >As many scholars can attest, this year’s ASA President Christine Williams is one of the most influential sociologists of the last half century. With almost too-many awards to count, Williams has challenged …
Read More >by Leigh Goodmark, author of Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence If you had told me 25 years ago that I would eventually call myself a prison …
Read More >By Stuart Schrader, author of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing July 17, 2020 Fifty years ago today, Life magazine printed photographs taken inside a prison on an island …
Read More >By Janet Kraynak, author of Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life (coming November 2020) The image of a darkened White House from several weeks ago, while screams of protest clamored …
Read More >by Randy Shaw, author of The Activist’s Handbook: Winning Social Change in the 21st Century Blacks Lives Matter (BLM) has become the broadest, most diverse social movement of our time. Having written The …
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