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Help Us Grow Our FirstGen Program!
Apr 22 2025
UC Press has great news to share about FirstGen program growth and seeks your support for its continued success. Here’s how our program has benefitted first-gen authors so far.
From the UC Press Journals Archives: Remembrances of the Vietnam War
Apr 14 2025
The pages of UC Press’s journals have examined the War from a myriad of angles, from all sides of the conflict–its global economic and political impact, the role of student activism, memory in small-town America, and more.
50 Years Since the Vietnam War: The Cleaving
Apr 12 2025
Excerpts from "The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora"
Creating Communities of Care Amidst Deportation
Apr 11 2025
Fifty years after resettlement following the US War in Vietnam, nearly 17,000 Southeast Asian refugees are living with deportation orders. Author Jennifer Huynh explains how Vietnamese communities are building systems of mutual aid to support each other through ongoing removal by the US government.
Vietnam's Age of Anxiety
Apr 10 2025
Marking fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War, Allen L. Tran, author of A LIFE OF WORRY, looks at the lingering anxieties that have taken hold of the country.
An Exploration into India’s Adult Film Industry
Apr 01 2025
Darshana Sreedhar Mini, author of "Rated A," speaks about labor in soft porn in India and the unflattering treatment of actors.
Japan’s Empire through the Lens of Settler Colonialism in Latin America
Mar 16 2025
Author Sidney Xu Lu on challenging and complicating the story of Japanese migration to Brazil.
How Taiwanese Vegetables Became the Envy of the World
Mar 15 2025
Author James Lin on the rural history that defined a generation of Taiwanese.
Bringing Visibility to Vietnamese American Writers
Mar 12 2025
Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, co-editor of "The Cleaving," on the invisibility of Vietnamese American writers and poets and bringing light to their work.
Q&A with Andrew Campana, author of "Expanding Verse"
Mar 11 2025
Author Andrew Campana discusses his book "Expanding Verses: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media"