News: Recent UC Press Book Signings
We're excited to announce a selection of our latest book signings! We look forward to working with these authors on their upcoming projects.
Enough: Ending Hunger in America for Once and All / Bowen & Hardison-Moody
Scholars Sarah Bowen and Annie Hardison-Moody know that one in seven Americans does not have enough to eat and connect the personal to the political in ENOUGH: ENDING HUNGER IN AMERICA FOR ONCE AND ALL, pointing to the success of pandemic-era policies and programs to argue that a new approach to food assistance is possible, to Kate Marshall at University of California Press (world).
Look Away: History, Race, and the Search for a Fair Trial in the Most Prosecuted Case in American History / Carrington
Professor of Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law, director of the Mississippi Innocence Project, and author, with Radley Balko, of THE CADAVER KING AND THE COUNTRY DENTIST Tucker Carrington’s LOOK AWAY: HISTORY, RACE, AND THE SEARCH FOR A FAIR TRIAL IN THE MOST PROSECUTED CASE IN AMERICAN HISTORY, a history of race bias in jury selection, a deeply reported account of the Curtis Flowers case, and a thunderous rebuke of the structural racism that put him on death row for twenty-five years, to Maura Roessner at the University of California Press (world).
Making the Child Welfare System Obsolete: An Insider’s View and Call for Abolition / Dettlaff
Professor and former dean at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work Alan Dettlaff’s MAKING THE CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM OBSOLETE: AN INSIDER’S VIEW AND CALL FOR ABOLITION, an up-close chronicle of the harms of the child welfare system, a full-throated call for its abolition, and a vision for how we can strengthen and support families instead of surveilling and separating them, to Maura Roessner at the University of California Press (world).