Smithsonian Folkways has just announced artist and activist Nobuko Miyamoto’s new album, 120,000 Stories. The album will release January 29th and is now available for pre-order.
From the Smithsonian Folkways press release:
120,000 Stories is…her first release since 1973’s se...
In the latest issue of Feminist Media Histories on the theme of “Activism,” Marisa Hicks-Alcaraz and Eve Oishi co-wrote the essay “Negotiating Political Identity in Community-Based Film Festivals: Perspectives from Curator/Scholar/Activists.” Oishi and Hicks-Alcaraz met as professor a...
“I’ve always been interested as a sociologist and a researcher in trying to better understand how issues related to race, gender, and inequality persist in professional workplaces.”— Adia Harvey Wingfield, author of Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy
In th...
UC Press warmly congratulates Mark Godsey on his receipt of the 2019 award for Best Book Published by a University Press for his book, Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions, presented by Digital Book World.
From the Digital...
By Adia Harvey Wingfield, author of Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy
This guest post is part of our ASA blog series published in conjunction with the meeting of the American Sociological Association in New York City, NY, August 10-13. #ASA19
With th...
By Robert A. Hummer, author of Population Health in America
This guest post is part of our ASA blog series published in conjunction with the meeting of the American Sociological Association in New York City, NY, August 10-13. #ASA19
Over the last couple of weeks, President Trump...
By Thurston Domina and Benjamin G. Gibbs, editors of Education and Society: An Introduction to Key Issues in the Sociology of Education
This guest post is part of our ASA blog series published in conjunction with the meeting of the American Sociological Association in New York City, NY...
UC Press is thrilled to share that Ranita Ray has won the 2018 C. Wright Mills Award for her book The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City, presented by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP).
First established in 1964, the C. Wri...
By Miriam Boeri and Rashi K. Shukla, editors of Inside Ethnography: Researchers Reflect on the Challenges of Reaching Hidden Populations
This guest post is part of our ASA blog series published in conjunction with the meeting of the American Sociological Association in New York City, N...
This post is published in conjunction with the 114th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting in New York City, NY, August 10 – 19 2019. #ASA19
UC Press is delighted to share that three UC Press titles have been selected as finalists for the 2018 C. Wright Mills Award.
Firs...