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Celebrate Earth Day 2020 with UC Press
Apr 22 2020
Happy Earth Day 2020! This year, celebrating the outdoors and our planetary biosphere is more important than ever before. Even as California's landscape is regularly glassed, COVID-19 is offering a glimpse at what a future ecotopia could consist of. And if a week marked by oil prices inverting into
The Human Rights of Youth
Dec 10 2019
Human Rights Day is observed every year on December 10th—the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. A milestone document, it proclaimed the inalienable human rights which everyone is inherently entitled to regardless of race, ethnicity, rel
Imagination in Dark Times
Nov 08 2019
By Julie Sze, author of Environmental Justice in a Moment of DangerBong Joon- Ho’s acclaimed film, Parasite offers a trenchant and thrilling critique of capitalism. In it, a poor family (the Kims) that “infiltrate” a rich family (the Parks) through deceptions that veer into unexpected pl
The Newest Books from American Studies Now
Oct 07 2019
Tackling questions of inclusion, gender and sexuality, and environmental justice, here’s a preview of what’s coming up next in the series.