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Explore Sociology Journals from UC Press at #ASA2023
Jul 05 2023
As one of the world's most forward-thinking publishers, UC Press gives voice, reach, and impact to innovative research and exceptional scholarship.
Before the tragic Buffalo shooting, Tops represented a victory over retail inequality
Aug 03 2022
By Ken Kolb, author of Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert DebateThe mass murder of ten Black residents in Buffalo on May 14th was a horrific act of racist terrorism. The fact that it took place in a grocery store—Tops Friendly Market—added unspeakable pain. Tops had been a symbolic vic
Explore Sociology Journals from UC Press at #ASA2022
Jul 05 2022
As one of the world's most forward-thinking publishers, UC Press gives voice, reach, and impact to innovative research and exceptional scholarship.
Marc Stein: How to Become a Queer Historian
Jun 21 2022
This interview was originally published on Public Seminar and is reproduced here with permission.Marc SteinMarc Stein is Professor of History at San Francisco State University, where he teaches U.S. law, politics, sexuality, gender, race, and social movements. He’s also an old friend: we met
Dating while Black: Online, but Invisible
Feb 14 2021
by Ken-Hou Lin, Celeste Curington, and Jennifer Lundquist, authors of The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online RomanceDating apps and websites have become the most popular way Americans meet new people and the only way to do so during the pandemic. Yet, for many Black America
Author Spotlight: Writing History from the West with Bill Deverell and Anne Hyde
Oct 14 2020
This post is part of our #WHA2020 blog series. Learn more at our WHA virtual exhibit.When scholars Bill Deverell and Anne Hyde first started working on Shaped by the West, they said it was mostly because they wanted to have a reason to work together and "have lunch on someone else's ticket."
Natalia Molina named 2020 MacArthur Fellow
Oct 09 2020
UC Press is thrilled to share that USC professor and UC Press author Natalia Molina has been named a 2020 MacArthur Fellow.Each year, the MacArthur Fellowship, which includes a $625,000 stipend, is awarded “to extraordinarily talented and creative individuals as an investment in their potential
For Hispanic Heritage Month—Why We Need to Build Toward a Latinx Future
Oct 08 2020
By Catherine S. Ramírez, author of Assimilation: An Alternative History“Hispanics are not just a significant part of our Nation’s origin; they are essential to America’s future.”US Senators Orrin G. Hatch and Paul Simon, on the creation of National Hispanic Heritage Month, April 15, 1988Each