UC Press Blog

Authors Kathryn Henne and Matt Ventresca explain the larger story of inequality behind today's concussion crisis—and why many more people experience brain injury without the same attention afforded athletes.

"Challenging the Myths of US History" offers a meditation on the soul of America and asks: what narrative should we tell ourselves about the nation’s past?

Authors Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern and Teresa Mares on why there can be no quality or sustainable food for consumers if frontline immigrant workers are not treated with dignity and justice.

Author Qian Liu on why she wrote "Leftover Women in China."

Who counts as a "skilled" worker for immigration purposes, and who doesn't and why?

Twenty-two years ago, author James Ron published a book that predicted much of what we see today in Gaza. He reflects on what the book got right and wrong, in the wake of current events.

We talk with Claudia Agostoni about her "Mexican Studies" article examining the training, work, and qualities of hospital nursing staff in Mexico City during the 1940s and 1950s.

Author John Chalcraft discusses a new theory of popular mobilization, helping us to fight for an alternative to the multiple crises of the present—from authoritarianism to genocide.

The elusive promise of interracial solidarity is an age-old question, one made all the more urgent in the current political climate. Can Black and white workers stick together against their bosses?

Inspired by the COVID pandemic and his ongoing research on Japanese American history, historian Jonathan van Harmelen investigates the medical history of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II.