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Juneteenth: Authors Andrea Boyles and Orly Clerge on What the Day Represents
Jun 19 2021
This week, President Biden signed a bill to make Juneteenth an official federal holiday. The date commemorates the anniversary of Union army general Gordon Granger's arrival in Texas to proclaim the end of slavery of the Civil War - over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Known also as E
Watch: Interview with Asian American Artist-Activist Nobuko Miyamoto, From Internment to Liberation
Apr 08 2021
A veteran of both Broadway and the protest line, Nobuko Miyamoto is an iconic Asian American artist and activist. Growing up in the 1940s as a third-generation Japanese American "without a song of my own," she found her voice in the 1960s through the revolutionary movements occurring in the U.S. and
Dating while Black: Online, but Invisible
Feb 14 2021
by Ken-Hou Lin, Celeste Curington, and Jennifer Lundquist, authors of The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online RomanceDating apps and websites have become the most popular way Americans meet new people and the only way to do so during the pandemic. Yet, for many Black America
How Do You Launch a Movement? How Do You Sustain It? Aldon Morris on Social Justice Success
Feb 10 2021
Prolific and prestigious sociologist Aldon Morrison explains how social justice movements succeed—from Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter.
The Fathers Who Could Have Been George Floyd
Nov 19 2020
by Jennifer Randles, author of Essential Dads: The Inequalities and Politics of FatheringOnly if I’m dead or in jail. These were the reasons the fathers I talked to said they would not be there for their children. In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in 2020, these words would c
Joe Biden Called Ella Baker “A Giant of the Civil Rights Movement.” Here’s Why Her Philosophy Matters Now.
Oct 30 2020
by Patricia S. Parker, author of Ella Baker’s Catalytic Leadership: A Primer on Community Engagement and Communication for Social JusticeWhen former Vice-President Joe Biden accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination as President of the United States in August, he began his remarks with a refere
How to Sustain a Mass Movement? Lessons from Urban Indigenous Youth Collectives and “Decolonial Anarchism” in Mexico
Oct 12 2020
by Maurice Rafael Magaña, author of Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in MexicoDespite the COVID-19 pandemic and global stay-at-home orders, 2020 has been a year of historic mass mobilizations. The most spectacular constellation of actions has emerged from the
Black Health Care Workers are Suffering from Coronavirus Too—In More Ways Than One
Sep 07 2020
By Adia Harvey Wingfield, author of Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New EconomyAt this point, it is safe to say that the coronavirus has laid bare foundational inequalities in American life--in access to education, work, housing, and perhaps most visibly, health and health car
Spotlight on UC Press Black Authors
Aug 08 2020
UC Press is committed to supporting the research and mission of Black scholars, and we're so proud of our many award-winning and acclaimed Black authors. For this year's ASA, we want to spotlight some the of Black sociologists and scholars in our publishing program who are making waves with their in
Q&A with ASA President-Elect, Aldon Morris
Aug 06 2020
This year marks several honors for UC Press author and distinguished sociologist, Aldon Morris—including recognition as the incoming 2021 ASA President and the W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award. Yet these honors are no exception to Morris' prolific and prestigious career, from