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UC Press Welcomes the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
Oct 30 2024
The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture will be published by UC Press beginning in Spring 2025.
System-affected academics are building a movement — and transforming the academy
Oct 30 2024
In October of 2002, I was sitting in the commons area of a cellblock in the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City, waiting my turn to catch a prison plane to my assigned penitentiary. I was both stressed out and exhausted, wired with anxiety.
Ask Our Staff: What is Copyediting
Oct 28 2024
In this video Senior Production Editors Emily Park and Julie Van Pelt talk about the first step in doing that: copyediting, specifically book copyediting. They discuss what it is, what you can expect, and how you and your copyeditor will work together.
How California’s Dr. Bronner’s Spiritual Messaging Became a Global Brand
Oct 23 2024
Many of us are now familiar with Dr. Bronner’s. Yet behind this now popular brand lays a larger story of California as an important site for reconceptualizing communities of belief and belonging.
Housing discrimination is a public health disaster — and we need widespread social mobilization to fix it
Oct 21 2024
Residential racial segregation is both an economic injustice and a public health hazard. My new book contends that housing insecurity and its health consequences make up key components of an unjust, destructive, and deadly racial order.
Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Charles Ives's Birth
Oct 20 2024
In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Charles Ives's birth, we have temporarily removed the paywall from a selection of articles about the composer.
Native land claims and culture are inseparable
Oct 18 2024
I grew up during the Native land claims era in Alaska. Throughout the twentieth century, Alaska Native people watched their lands and livelihoods slip away as settlers came to the territory in search of resources.
Ten Intriguing Facts about Fearless Writer Sanora Babb
Oct 17 2024
Iris Jamahl Dunkle, author of "Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb," shares 10 intriguing facts about intrepid writer Sanora Babb — peerless author of midcentury American literature who was silenced by John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath."
Finding hope in a precarious place
Oct 17 2024
While rising insurance rates in New Orleans reflect the challenges of engineering away from danger, we are drawn to something more powerful than a hurricane: a fierce cultural persistence for breaking bread in the ruins.
Michael Finewood and Michelle Luebke on Environmental Justice and the Bronx River Watershed
Oct 16 2024
Environmental injustice has become much more visible in recent years, thankfully, and people are looking for ways to incorporate environmental justice frameworks more explicitly into their research and teaching.