Anirudh Krishna’s essay “The Poorest After the Pandemic” is featured in Current History’s November special issue on the pandemic’s global ramifications. Krishna is the Edgar T. Thompson Professor of Public Policy and …
Read More >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 >This post is part of our AAA #RaisingOurVoices2020 event blog series. Check out our virtual exhibit page for more. by Roberto J. González, author of Connected: How a Mexican Village Built Its …
Read More >We are delighted to welcome Current History to UC Press’s portfolio of journals. Current History‘s September 2020 issue—the first issue to be published by UC Press—has just released, and, in celebration, we …
Read More >by Carolyn McLaughlin, author of South Bronx Battles Last year, I released South Bronx Battles, a chronicle and tribute to the South Bronx as a community that has worked to create a …
Read More >In contributing to a global turn in media studies, this special issue has offered context-specific conceptual and empirical reflection on mediated, digitized, and datafied processes co-shaping migration and nationalism across Asia, the Americas, and Europe.
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 >by Charles L. Briggs, author of Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare In New York City, low-income, especially racialized communities are trapped as the rich flee …
Read More >By Avram Finkelstein, author of After Silence: A History of AIDS through Its Images Home. It’s a leitmotif that underpins every conversation about COVID-19, and a word used with escalating frequency. It implies …
Read More >It has been well understood for some time now that COVID-19 and its ensuing global pandemic are unprecedented events in our contemporary world. Not since the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 has global …
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