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How to do Bolder, Better Community-Engaged Environmental Justice Research

Apr 03 2024
By Michael Mascarenhas, author of Toxic Water, Toxic System: Environmental Racism and Michigan's Water WarMy new book, Toxic Water, Toxic System is not just the story of how the state failed Black communities in Michigan—poisoning an entire city and shutting off water to thousands of people. It’
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The Long Rebellion from the Late 1960s to the Present

Jun 01 2020
By Scott Kurashige, author of The Fifty-Year Rebellion: How the U.S. Political Crisis Began in DetroitEngulfing cities in both literal and metaphorical flames, a wave of rebellions erupts across the nation amid a pandemic killing tens of thousands of people while unemployment surges to level
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UC Press Visits Sheridan Printing Plant in Chelsea, MI

Jul 03 2019
By Angela Chen, Archna Patel, and Jack Young, UC Press Production and Editorial StaffLast month while in Detroit attending the annual Association of University Presses conference, we made a side trip to the Sheridan printing plant which is only 1 hour outside of the city. Tim Kennard, Produc
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