UC Press is pleased to announce the summer appointment of co-Editors-in-Chief Hagen Schulz-Forberg and J.P. Singh to the editorial helm of Global Perspectives.Global Perspectives is a transdisciplinary journal publishing social science research and debates in a globalizing world. In 2021, under the ...
For World Refugee Day, we share the words of the refugee women featured in Accidental Sisters: Refugee Women Struggling Together for a New American Dream. Accidental Sisters follows five refugee women in Houston, Texas, as they navigate a program for single mothers overseen by Alia Alt...
by Valeria Manzano
Twenty-five years ago, University of California Press published Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture by Eric Zolov. The book traced Mexican rock and roll from the 1950s, when it was heavily influenced by U.S. bands, to the emergence of a full-blow...
Offshore Attachments reveals how the contested management of sex and race transformed the Caribbean into a crucial site in the global oil economy. By the mid-twentieth century, the Dutch islands of Curaçao and Aruba housed the world’s largest oil refineries. To bolster this massive ind...
By Eline van Ommen, author of Nicaragua Must Survive: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War
When I submitted my dissertation in 2019, my supervisor gave me the mug that had been on her desk for years. Printed on it were the red and black silhouettes of people waving...
In Seeding Empire, Aaron Eddens rewrites an enduring story about the past—and future—of global agriculture. Eddens connects today’s efforts to cultivate a “Green Revolution in Africa” to a history of American projects that introduced capitalist agriculture across the Global South. ...
Palestinian writing imagines the nation, not as a nation-in-waiting but as a living, changing structure that joins people, place, and time into a distinct set of formations. Novel Palestine: Nation through the Works of Ibrahim Nasrallah examines these imaginative structures so that we mig...
by Sahana Ghosh, author of A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands
Borders and bordering in South Asia continue to be a hot topic. India and China are currently at an impasse over territorial disputes along its shared border, on the brink...
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 ...
By Gustav Cederlöf, author of The Low-Carbon Contradiction: Energy Transition, Geopolitics, and the Infrastructural State in Cuba
When lightning set 40 percent of Cuba’s oil reserves ablaze last year—a thunderstorm hit its main oil storage facility—the thick plume of smoke released inc...