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UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are some of our recent award winners from November 2022. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!Kate Albers 2022 Photography Network Book Prize The Photography Networ

For Mother's Day, author Natalia Molina remembers her grandmother Doña Natalia Barraza, the impressive woman who opened the Nayarit restaurant in Echo Park, Los Angeles in 1951. The restaurant became an urban anchor for the local community of Mexican immigrants, offering a space of belonging in Los

Photo credit: Mike GlierAs a professor American studies and ethnicity at USC, Natalia Molina has spent her career studying race, citizenship, and the experiences of immigrants in the U.S. Last year, Molina was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in honor of her “revealing how narratives of racial dif

This World Health Day, The World Health Organization is calling for action to eliminate health inequities, as part of a year-long global campaign to build a fairer, healthier world. COVID-19 has brought to the fore long-standing systemic health and social inequities and pushed many more people i

UC Press stands in solidarity with our Asian and Asian-American colleagues, authors, and neighbors. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, UC Press books and authors have been referenced in conversations and articles about race and xenophobia. A selection of those perspectives appears below—we will conti

This excerpt is from an essay that originally appeared on Public Books, and it is reproduced here with permission.by Natalia Molina, author of Relational Formations of Race, Fit to Be Citizens?, How Race Is Made in America. I remember the first time I cried in an archive. I was doing

UC Press is thrilled to share that USC professor and UC Press author Natalia Molina has been named a 2020 MacArthur Fellow.Each year, the MacArthur Fellowship, which includes a $625,000 stipend, is awarded “to extraordinarily talented and creative individuals as an investment in their potential

As the public health crisis wrought by COVID-19 continues to upend the everyday life of communities, families, and individuals throughout the globe, not all of the challenges that lie before us are as novel as the coronavirus.As two UC Press authors specializing in race in America explain, there