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The following is an excerpt from the article of the same name, by Alison Ledgerwood et al., which was recently published in UC Press’s open-access journal Collabra: Psychology. In the face of longstanding and entrenched patterns of global and racial exclusion in psychology and acad...

Orisanmi Burton’s new book, Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt boldly and compellingly argues that prisons are a domain of hidden warfare within US borders. With this book, he explores what he terms the Long Attica Revolt, a criminalized t...

by Melissa Ooten and Jason Sawyer The author team of Melissa Ooten and Jason Sawyer takes travelers out of our nation’s capital and into Richmond and Central Virginia, a historic epicenter of America’s racialized history. In A People’s Guide to Richmond and Central Virginia they ...

The following post is reprinted with permission from History@Work, the peer-edited, multi-interest blog of the National Council on Public History (NCPH), UC Press’s society partner in publishing the journal The Public Historian. The original post can be found here. Editor’s Note: This ...

Global PerspectivesEditor-in-Chief: Helmut K. Anheier, Hertie School and Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLAonline.ucpress.edu/gp Sociology of DevelopmentEditors: Andrew Jorgenson, Boston College and Jeffrey Kentor, Wayne State Universityonline.ucpress.edu/socdev Civic So...

Recognizing and honoring the unique and different aspects of being a mother in 2023 While Mother’s Day is a time for mothers across the globe to be celebrated, it is equally important to take into account the issues that society and policies have enacted that put mother’s in a position...

UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our March 2023 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news! Moon-Ho Jung 2023 David Montgomery Award Winner Organization of Americ...

By Matthew Frye Jacobson, author of Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era: A Cultural History It has been supremely challenging, in the face of the constant emergencies and the grotesque uncertainties of the twenty-first century, to address question...

Nine young men and women sitting in a field, Tulare County, 1912 [229]. Roberts Family Papers, African American Museum & Library at Oakland. California History recently published its second special issue on the history of African Americans in California. This issue arrived in a mom...

Upcoming books exploring Black history Throughout the month of February, UC Press will highlight books we have had the privilege to publish. Books featured raise Black voices, highlight the works of Black artists, bring forth the history, and speak about the issues facing the black com...