UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our June 2024 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the …
Read More >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 …
Read More >For World Refugee Day, we share the words of the refugee women featured in Accidental Sisters: Refugee Women Struggling Together for a New American Dream. Accidental Sisters follows five refugee women in Houston, …
Read More >Tragedy seldom unifies Americans today. Every year, horrific crises induce tremendous suffering. Most are privately tragic, affecting only those directly harmed and their immediate relations. A small number, though, become politically notorious and, therefore, publicly tragic.
Read More >Celebrating 25 years of REFRIED ELVIS with the first of two posts focusing on the monumental book.
Read More >Every year the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) awards the Antonia I. Castañeda Prize to recognize historical scholarship that examines the intersections of class, race, gender, and sexuality, as …
Read More >By Charles Binkley and Tyler Loftus, co-authors of Encoding Bioethics: AI in Clinical Decision-Making Encoding Bioethics begins where all good healthcare stories begin: in the trenches of patient care. We have many …
Read More >Offshore Attachments reveals how the contested management of sex and race transformed the Caribbean into a crucial site in the global oil economy. By the mid-twentieth century, the Dutch islands of Curaçao …
Read More >Practicing Asylum brings together experienced expert witnesses and immigration attorneys to highlight best practices and strategies for giving expert testimony in asylum cases. As the scale and severity of violence in Latin …
Read More >By Eline van Ommen, author of Nicaragua Must Survive: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War When I submitted my dissertation in 2019, my supervisor gave me the mug that had …
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