Introduction to the Special Collection
Geography and environmental case studies are regularly one and the same. Unpacking environmental case studies requires a geographic framework, examining how flows—economic, environmental, cultural, political—intersect in an absolute location and d...
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“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...
COURT RULES HINDU NOT A ‘WHITE PERSON’; Bars High Caste Native of India From Naturalization as an American Citizen.
–NY Times, February 20, 1923
Photograph of Bhagat Singh Thind in his U.S. Army Uniform, from 1918. Thind enlisted in the U.S. Army, and trained at Camp Lewis, Washington...
Tracing the paths of figures like Black American artist Elizabeth Catlett, Indian anti-colonial activist M.N. Roy, Mexican revolutionary leader Ricardo Flores Magón, Okinawan migrant organizer Paul Shinsei Kōchi, and Soviet feminist Alexandra Kollontai, Arise! reveals how activists aro...
Eiko Fried is a psychologist, methodologist, open science enthusiast, an Associate Professor in the Department of Clinical Psychology at Leiden University, and Associate Editor for UC Press’s open-access journal Collabra: Psychology, which is the official journal of the Society for the Im...
This year’s American Sociological Association conference is back and in-person in Los Angeles from August 5-9! This year, we have several of our esteemed authors participating in Book Forums that you won’t want to miss. #ASA2022
Saturday, August 6th
Josh Seim, author of Bandage, So...
Rebel Speak sounds the alarm for a global movement to end systemic injustice led by people doing the day-to-day rebel work in the prison capital of the world. Prison activist, artist, and scholar Bryonn Rolly Bain brings us transformative oral history ciphers, rooted in the tradition ...
America, Goddam is a powerful account of violence against Black women and girls in the United States and their fight for liberation. Combining history, theory, and memoir, Treva Lindsey renders visible the gender dynamics of anti-Black violence. Black women and girls occupy a uni...