For Malcolm X Day, UC Press is featuring an excerpt from The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union by Stephen Tuck. Less than three months before he was assassinated, Malcolm X …
Read More >Excerpted from Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin by James Campbell The main activity of the Harlem Renaissance took place in the years immediately before and after James Baldwin’s …
Read More >By Nikki Jones, author of The Chosen Ones: Black Men and the Politics of Redemption Calls to defund the police often elicit fear. How will I stay safe, wonder people who associate …
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 …
Read More >Renowned professor emeritus and musicologist H. Colin Slim met Igor Stravinsky in 1952 and again in 1966, events that inspired a lifelong interest in the composer’s personal and professional life. His collection …
Read More >“For decades, the feminist artist was pushed to the sidelines. Relevant once again, she can no longer be ignored.”—The New York Times, February 2018 Gail Levin’s critically-acclaimed biography of Judy Chicago gives us an …
Read More >The current political administration in the United States has raised into question the future of our public lands. Given the continued discussion over the ownership of national parks and monuments, the …
Read More >Rooting poetry beyond location and historical time, Jerome Rothenberg’s seminal compilation Technicians of the Sacred has educated and inspired poets, artists, musicians, and other readers—from Allen Ginsberg to Nick Cave—for generations, exposing them to the …
Read More >May is Get Caught Reading Month, and what better book to be caught red-handed with than our newly repackaged edition of a classic? A bit of backstory on this influential book is in …
Read More >It’s common knowledge at this point that China has rapidly transformed over the last few decades. Andrew Kipnis, an Anthropologist at The Australian National University, has looked at how one city, Zouping, has …
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