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How Immigrant Workers Hold Up the Food System
Aug 27 2025
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.
A Sad Prediction Born Out by Events
Aug 13 2025
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.
Reproductive Freedom and Bodily Autonomy for All
Aug 08 2025
Marlene Fried and Loretta Ross on writing a history of abortion politics through a reproductive justice framework.
Q&A with Carol Mason, author of "From the Clinics to the Capitol"
Aug 07 2025
Author Carol Mason giving historical contexts for today's political rhetoric
Q&A with Isak Ladegaard, author of “Open Secrecy”
Aug 05 2025
Author Isak Ladegaard on how large, shadowy groups undermine state control and present new capacities for collective action.
Is There a Way to Fight Back?
Aug 05 2025
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.
How Black Workers Drove Interracial Labor Solidarity
Aug 04 2025
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?
Q&A with Venezia Michalsen, author of "Intersectional Feminist Criminology"
Jul 11 2025
Author Venezia Michalsen discusses her motivations for writing the book and the impact she hopes it will have on other Criminology students and scholars.
What LA’s Antelope Valley Teaches Us about Fighting for Just Cities
May 13 2025
Today, there's a broad understanding that American cities are operating in unsustainable ways. How does this untenable model persist? As author Rahim Kurwa explains, it has to do with offloading crises to cities' peripheries.
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.