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To Fix Our Broken Health Care System, Include Black Providers
Aug 13 2019
By Adia Harvey Wingfield, author of Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New EconomyThis 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. #ASA19With the 2020 elec
Racism and Population Health in the Era of Trump
Aug 12 2019
By Robert A. Hummer, author of Population Health in AmericaThis 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. #ASA19Over the last couple of weeks, President Trump has intens
Making Sense of Education & Society
Aug 12 2019
By Thurston Domina and Benjamin G. Gibbs, editors of Education and Society: An Introduction to Key Issues in the Sociology of EducationThis 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
Ranita Ray Wins 2018 C. Wright Mills Award
Aug 12 2019
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. Wright Mills A
Drug Policy and Social Justice: It’s Time to Think Outside of the Box
Aug 11 2019
By Miriam Boeri and Rashi K. Shukla, editors of Inside Ethnography: Researchers Reflect on the Challenges of Reaching Hidden PopulationsThis 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 1
UC Press Titles Nominated for the 2018 C. Wright Mills Award
Aug 11 2019
This post is published in conjunction with the 114th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting in New York City, NY, August 10 – 19 2019. #ASA19UC Press is delighted to share that three UC Press titles have been selected as finalists for the 2018 C. Wright Mills Award. First establish
Dimensionality as Social Justice
Aug 10 2019
By Tasseli McKay, Megan Comfort, Christine Lindquist, and Anupa Bir; authors of Holding On: Family and Fatherhood during Incarceration and ReentryThis 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
Award-Winning Authors and Books at ASA 2019
Aug 10 2019
At this year’s American Sociological Association conference, we celebrate the work of our award-winning authors. Congratulations to our wonderful scholars, teachers, and activists. #ASA19 #ScholarActivistAbigail Leslie Andrews, Undocumented Politics: Place, Gender, and the Pathways of Me
Attend ASA 2019 Author Sessions
Aug 10 2019
This year’s American Sociological Association conference in New York City from August 10 – August 13 includes many exciting sessions featuring some of our wonderful UC Press authors! You can see the full online program schedule at the ASA website. #ASA19Saturday, August 10thRandol Contre
“We cannot afford to not think about our responsibility as social scientists” — A Q&A with Civic Sociology Associate Editor Elisabeth Becker
Aug 09 2019
Elisabeth Becker is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Religion & Its Publics project at the University of Virginia and the Institute for the Advanced Study of Culture, where her research focuses on Muslim migrant/post-migrant responses to exclusion in urban contexts. She is also Associate Editor of