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...
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 the twentieth century. With this namesake book, Matthew D. Morrison develops...
By Raven Simone Maragh-Lloyd, author of Black Networked Resistance: Strategic Rearticulations in the Digital Age
For my sanity, I’ve mostly avoided politics this 2024 season. Yet somehow, I found myself glued to the television for the recent State of the Union address — the “superbowl”...
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...
“A must-read for those interested in understanding how anti-Black policy decisions drive mass incarceration, gentrification, and dire racial inequality in Washington, DC, and throughout our nation.”—Derek Hyra, author of Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City
Before Gentri...
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 ...
As Aldon Morris author of The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology notes below, Du Bois remains a figure of global importance because of his activism for human liberation. A cornerstone of his legacy still rests in his home in Accra, Ghana, which is owned ...
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...