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Blacksound explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy (the first original form of American popular music) and the racial foundations of American musical culture from the early 1800s through the turn of the twentieth century. With this namesake book, Matthew D. Morrison develops the concept o

On March 8, 2024, the Rutgers Digital Ethnography Working Group welcomed University of California Press Senior Editor, Michelle Lipinski, for the online event Demystifying Dissertation-to-Book. This talk breaks down the steps and the often winding pathways scholars can take from finishing a diss

As part of our ongoing Editor Spotlight Series, we connected with UC Press Associate Editor Naja Pulliam Collins to talk about her role as the new Environmental Studies and Geography Editor, what kinds of projects she’s looking for, and how authors can connect.How did you become an editor at UC

Alberto García is Assistant Professor of History at San José State University. Abandoning Their Beloved Land offers an essential new history of the Bracero Program, a bilateral initiative that allowed Mexican men to work in the United States as seasonal contract farmworkers from 1942 to 1964. Us

Wondering how a book cover comes to be? In this video, UC Press Marketing Associate and FirstGen Program Committee member Sara Fan interviews Senior Book Designer Kevin Barrett Kane about how he approaches book design and how authors can be partners in the process. Kevin Barrett Kane is an award

Part of our Feminist Media Histories series, A Queer Way of Feeling gathers an unexplored archive of fan-made scrapbooks, letters, diaries, and photographs to explore how girls coming of age in the United States in the 1910s used cinema to forge a foundational language of female nonconformity, intim

The Tropical Turn chronicles the earliest histories of familiar tropical Asian crops in the ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean, from rice and cotton to citruses and cucumbers. Drawing on archaeological materials and textual sources in over seven ancient languages, The Tropical Turn unravels t

As part of our FirstGen Program, we're working to make the publishing process more transparent by sharing resources for authors on what to expect. Whether you're a first-gen grad student hoping to publish in the future, or a faculty member currently working on a manuscript, we've compiled a list of