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Excerpts from "The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora"

Fifty years after resettlement following the US War in Vietnam, nearly 17,000 Southeast Asian refugees are living with deportation orders. Author Jennifer Huynh explains how Vietnamese communities are building systems of mutual aid to support each other through ongoing removal by the US government.

Marking fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War, Allen L. Tran, author of A LIFE OF WORRY, looks at the lingering anxieties that have taken hold of the country.

Author Oneya Fennell Okuwobi on where diversity programs fail and how to imagine changes in our workplaces that center employees.

UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are our March 2025 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!

As a complex, dynamic system, wind challenged physics and scientific modelling capabilities while also presenting human imagination with the very embodiment of change and ephemera in spite of its apparent insubstantiality.

Author Patricia O'Hara explains how her small molecular gastronomy course transformed into popular general course on food chemistry—introducing students to the basics of chemistry through approachable recipes.

Darshana Sreedhar Mini, author of "Rated A," speaks about labor in soft porn in India and the unflattering treatment of actors.

Brian Fauteux, author of "Music in Orbit," writes about the legacy of satellite radio

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