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The Enduring Power of Hunger Strikes
Dec 20 2021
By Nayan Shah, author of Refusal to Eat: A Century of Prison Hunger StrikesIn February 1989, I traveled to Durban, South Africa. I was twenty-two years old and had just graduated from Swarthmore college. I was visiting apartheid South Africa on a Thomas J. Watson fellowship to study religion and com
World Health Day: One Year of COVID-19, What Have We Learned?
Apr 07 2021
This World Health Day, The World Health Organization is calling for action to eliminate health inequities, as part of a year-long global campaign to build a fairer, healthier world. COVID-19 has brought to the fore long-standing systemic health and social inequities and pushed many more people i
UC Press Authors on Anti-Asian Violence
Mar 13 2021
UC Press stands in solidarity with our Asian and Asian-American colleagues, authors, and neighbors. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, UC Press books and authors have been referenced in conversations and articles about race and xenophobia. A selection of those perspectives appears below—we will conti
At the Intersection of Public Health and Xenophobia
Mar 17 2020
As the public health crisis wrought by COVID-19 continues to upend the everyday life of communities, families, and individuals throughout the globe, not all of the challenges that lie before us are as novel as the coronavirus.As two UC Press authors specializing in race in America explain, there
Public Health in the Time of Coronavirus
Feb 13 2020
In recent weeks, headlines and broadcasts have been dominated by news surrounding the outbreak of a dreadful new strain of coronavirus, officially designated as COVID-19.Originating in the Chinese city of Wuhan on December 31st, 2019, the virus has sparked global health advisories and concerns r