Each year, thousands of youth endure harrowing unaccompanied and undocumented migrations across Central America and Mexico to the United States in pursuit of a better future. Drawing on the firsthand narratives of migrant youth in Los Angeles, California, Stephanie L. Canizales shows that while a lu...
By Stephanie Summerhays, Senior Production Editor at UC Press
Whoever coined the old adage about a picture being worth a thousand words clearly wasn’t in the business of bookmaking. When it comes to producing books, even simple art programs require a kind of careful handling that many ...
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 Neal Swain, subsidiary rights & licensing manager, University of California Press
Copyright and fair use are not subjects that rivet a lot of people, but it’s necessary that an author planning to publish their work understands the fundamentals of both, particularly if their work...
As college grads across the country are receiving their diplomas, there remains very real questions about pursuing advanced degrees in their future.
Yvette Martínez-Vu and Miroslava Chávez-García’s latest book, Is Grad School for Me?, is the first guidebook of its kind to provide gr...
On March 8, 2024, the Rutgers Digital Ethnography Working Group welcomed University of California Press Senior Editor, Michelle Lipinski, for the online event Demystifying Dissertation-to-Book.
This talk breaks down the steps and the often winding pathways scholars can take from finis...
Is Grad School for Me? is a calling card and a corrective to the lack of clear guidance for historically excluded students navigating the onerous undertaking of graduate school—starting with asking if grad school is even a good fit. This essential resource offers step-by-step instructi...
Watch Parts 1 and 2 of our EA Roundtable.
As an author, you might have a sense of what an Acquisitions Editor does, since you’ve been talking with them about your new book proposal. But what do Editorial Assistants (EA) do and how will you be working with them?
In this EA Roundtable...
In this video, UC Press Marketing Associate and FirstGen Program Committee member Sara Fan interviews Senior Production Editor Stephanie Summerhays and FirstGen Program Committee member on the role of the production editor in turning a manuscript into a book and the people authors work wi...
As an author, you might have a sense of what an Acquisitions Editor does, since you’ve been talking with them about your new book proposal. But what do Editorial Assistants (EA) do and how will you be working with them?
In this EA Roundtable video series, our Asian and Latin American S...