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Q&A with Glenda Flores, author of "The Weight of the White Coat"

May 21 2025
Author Glenda M. Flores on the medical school journey of Latina/o physicians.
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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.
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Q&A with Julia Alekseyeva, author of "Antifascism and the Avant-Garde"

Mar 31 2025
Author Julia Alekseyeva discusses what lessons antifascist avanat-garde documentaries from the 1960s hold for our current political moment.
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FirstGen Program: Looking Back on Three Years of Learning, Support, and Growth

Mar 26 2025
Three years into our FirstGen Program—and 104 new projects signed—we reflect on the program’s growth and achievements.
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Why You Should Care About Style—Lessons from a Production Editor at UC Press

Feb 25 2025
Every seven years or so, editors across the country observe an important but unofficial holiday: the release of a new edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. The most recent edition is full of new and updated guidance on the writing, editing, and publishing of books.
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Book Publishing Resources Redux

Dec 20 2024
As the year comes to a close, we’ve rounded up some new and helpful resources for scholars embarking on your writing or book publishing journey.
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Ask Our Staff: What is Copyediting

Oct 28 2024
In this video Senior Production Editors Emily Park and Julie Van Pelt talk about the first step in doing that: copyediting, specifically book copyediting. They discuss what it is, what you can expect, and how you and your copyeditor will work together.
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Q&A with Stephanie L. Canizales, author of Sin Padres, Ni Papeles

Sep 04 2024
First-gen scholar and author Stephanie L. Canizales discusses the inspiring stories of the migrant youth at the center of her work, the research and writing process for Sin Padres, Ni Papeles, and how to better support first-gen scholars.
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Making the Most of Your Art Program

Jul 02 2024
By Stephanie Summerhays, Senior Production Editor at UC PressWhoever coined the old adage about a picture being worth a thousand words clearly wasn’t in the business of bookmaking. When it comes to producing books, even simple art programs require a kind of careful handling that many thousands o
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Q&A with Matthew Morrison, author of Blacksound

Jun 26 2024
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
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