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Still the Time For Tricksters in the New South

Nov 09 2019
By L.H. Stallings, author of A Dirty South Manifesto: Sexual Resistance and Imagination in the New South
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Imagination in Dark Times

Nov 08 2019
By Julie Sze, author of Environmental Justice in a Moment of DangerBong Joon- Ho’s acclaimed film, Parasite offers a trenchant and thrilling critique of capitalism. In it, a poor family (the Kims) that “infiltrate” a rich family (the Parks) through deceptions that veer into unexpected pl
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Film Festival Programming as Activism: A Q&A with Contributors to Feminist Media Histories’s Special Issue on “Media Activism”

Nov 07 2019
In the latest issue of Feminist Media Histories on the theme of “Activism,” Marisa Hicks-Alcaraz and Eve Oishi co-wrote the essay “Negotiating Political Identity in Community-Based Film Festivals: Perspectives from Curator/Scholar/Activists.” Oishi and Hicks-Alcaraz met as professor and graduate stu
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Policing Honolulu

Nov 07 2019
UC Press is proud to be part of the Association of University Press’s eighth annual University Press Week, whose overall theme this year is Read. Think. Act."Through this positive theme AUPresses members worldwide seek to encourage people to read the latest peer-reviewed publications about issues th
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ASA 2019: Visit Us This Week in Honolulu

Nov 04 2019
If you’re headed to the 2019 meeting of the American Studies Association this week in Honolulu, be sure to visit UC Press at booth #205 for a 40% discount.
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