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For this year's Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, our authors reflect on the the verbal and violent hate crimes against AAPI communities, which increased over the last couple years with the outbreak of COVID-19. With these sad events — the recent expressions of a long legacy of racism in the U.

For the Fall 2022 season, UC Press will publish the restored edition of Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and a reissue of Cha's Exilee and Temps Morts: Selected Works edited by curator Constance M. Lewallen who recently passed away. UC Press spoke with Summer Farah about editorially overseeing the pr

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

For Asian Pacific American Heritage Month—celebrated in May to commemorate the arrival of the first Japanese immigrants to the United States on May 7, 1843 and to mark the anniversary of the transcontinental railroad completion on May 10, 1869—UC Press is proud to feature titles that honor and explo

For Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, UC Press is excited to provide a virtual look into the forthcoming second edition of The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa: Contours in the Air by Timothy Anglin Burgard and Daniell Cornell.Published in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

For Asian Pacific American Heritage Month—celebrated in May to commemorate the arrival of the first Japanese immigrants to the United States on May 7, 1843 and to mark the anniversary of the transcontinental railroad completion on May 10, 1869—UC Press is proud to feature several titles that recogni