This week, President Biden signed a bill to make Juneteenth an official federal holiday. The date commemorates the anniversary of Union army general Gordon Granger’s arrival in Texas to proclaim the end of slavery of the Civil War – over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Know...
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 t...
by Ken-Hou Lin, Celeste Curington, and Jennifer Lundquist, authors of The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance
Dating apps and websites have become the most popular way Americans meet new people and the only way to do so during the pandemic. Yet, for many Bl...
Prolific and prestigious sociologist and author of the award-winning book The Scholar Denied, Aldon Morris is much admired for sparking public conversation and understanding around systemic racism. An experienced activist, race scholar, and President of the American Sociological Associati...
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The featured books cover a wide-range of current events and social justice topics, including racial justice ...
by Jennifer Randles, author of Essential Dads: The Inequalities and Politics of Fathering
Only if I’m dead or in jail. These were the reasons the fathers I talked to said they would not be there for their children. In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in 2020, these wo...
by Patricia S. Parker, author of Ella Baker’s Catalytic Leadership: A Primer on Community Engagement and Communication for Social Justice
When former Vice-President Joe Biden accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination as President of the United States in August, he began his remarks wi...
by Maurice Rafael Magaña, author of Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and global stay-at-home orders, 2020 has been a year of historic mass mobilizations. The most spectacular constellation of actions has emerge...
In support of the #ScholarStrike for racial justice, UC Press is featuring titles that highlight the long history of protest, and the following list provides context for the continued struggle for racial justice.
The Black Revolution on Campusby Martha Biondi
Martha Biondi m...
By Adia Harvey Wingfield, author of Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy
At this point, it is safe to say that the coronavirus has laid bare foundational inequalities in American life–in access to education, work, housing, and perhaps most visibly, health and ...