UC Press Blog

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.

Author Oneya Fennell Okuwobi on where diversity programs fail and how to imagine changes in our workplaces that center employees.

Author Patricia O'Hara explains how her small molecular gastronomy course transformed into popular general course on food chemistry—introducing students to the basics of chemistry through approachable recipes.

Author Julia Alekseyeva discusses what lessons antifascist avanat-garde documentaries from the 1960s hold for our current political moment.

The co-editors of "Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film," winner of the SCMS 2025 Best Edited Collection Award, highlight five new projects that expand the horizons of the feminist incomplete.

Masha Salazkina, author of "Romancing Yesenia" and "World Socialist Cinema" discusses how the 70's Mexican melodrama "Yesenia" became the highest grossing movie in the history of Soviet film exhibition—and what we can learn by studying popular culture on a global scale.

Lindsey Dillon, author of "Toxic City," writes about environmental activism in the Bay Area

Author Claire Mercer talks about her new book and how the suburb and the middle classes construct each other.

Author Sidney Xu Lu on challenging and complicating the story of Japanese migration to Brazil.

Author James Lin on the rural history that defined a generation of Taiwanese.