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The Enduring Power of Hunger Strikes
Dec 20 2021
By Nayan Shah, author of Refusal to Eat: A Century of Prison Hunger StrikesIn February 1989, I traveled to Durban, South Africa. I was twenty-two years old and had just graduated from Swarthmore college. I was visiting apartheid South Africa on a Thomas J. Watson fellowship to study religion and com
UC Press Authors on Anti-Asian Violence
Mar 13 2021
UC Press stands in solidarity with our Asian and Asian-American colleagues, authors, and neighbors. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, UC Press books and authors have been referenced in conversations and articles about race and xenophobia. A selection of those perspectives appears below—we will conti
At the Intersection of Public Health and Xenophobia
Mar 17 2020
As the public health crisis wrought by COVID-19 continues to upend the everyday life of communities, families, and individuals throughout the globe, not all of the challenges that lie before us are as novel as the coronavirus.As two UC Press authors specializing in race in America explain, there