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#OAH2021: Explore Free Content from UC Press Journals
Apr 19 2021
We're continuing our #0AH2021 promotions by removing the paywall from select issues of UC Press history journals. Click on the covers below to access the free issues.
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Interview with George Sanchez, on the promise and history of Boyle Heights
Apr 15 2021
“When I think of the future of the United States, and the history that matters in this country, I often think of Boyle Heights.” —George J. SánchezIn this virtual conversation, acclaimed scholar George Sanchez, author of Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American
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Editor Spotlight: Meet Niels Hooper, our History, American Studies, and Middle East Studies Editor
Apr 14 2021
As part of our ongoing Editor Spotlight Series, we connected with UC Press Executive Editor Niels Hooper to talk about his History, American Studies, and Middle East Studies lists, and how our program has developed over the time he's worked at the Press. Niels also shares his journey from Oxford to
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Interview with MacArthur Fellow, Natalia Molina
Apr 14 2021
Photo credit: Mike GlierAs a professor American studies and ethnicity at USC, Natalia Molina has spent her career studying race, citizenship, and the experiences of immigrants in the U.S. Last year, Molina was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in honor of her “revealing how narratives of racial dif
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COVID-19 and the Long History of Indigenous Survivance in California
Apr 13 2021
Over the last year, we’ve seen how American Indian have continued a long tradition of survivance to cope with the devastating effects of the pandemic. In California, as well as the rest of the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the long-standing implications of settler colonialism.
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Breaking the Cycle of Health Crises
Apr 12 2021
By Martin Halliwell, author of American Health Crisis: One Hundred Years of Panic, Planning, and PoliticsThis guest post is part of our #OAH2021 conference series. Visit our virtual exhibit to learn more and get 40% off the book.When I began working on my new book American Health Crisis, I w
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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
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Essential and Excluded: The Paradox of Assimilation in the United States
Nov 18 2020
While Trump has bragged about not paying taxes, immigrants and their advocates have stressed immigrants’ contributions to the United States. We’re reminded that immigrants pay billions of dollars in taxes annually and fill jobs that most US citizens don’t want.
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“Tiger Cages” in Vietnam: How the call for U.S. Prison Abolition is a Global Issue
Jul 17 2020
By Stuart Schrader, author of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American PolicingJuly 17, 2020Fifty years ago today, Life magazine printed photographs taken inside a prison on an island off the coast of Vietnam called Côn Sơn.The photos depicted a wing of a
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Watch: Naomi Paik on U.S. immigration and the abolitionist sanctuary movement
Jul 01 2020
Days after taking the White House, Donald Trump signed three executive orders—these authorized the Muslim Ban, the border wall, and ICE raids. These orders would define his administration’s xenophobic, racist, ableist, and patriarchal approach toward non-citizens. By all accounts, he embodies an ant
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