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Announcing Author Nobuko Miyamoto’s New Album, 120,000 Stories
Dec 09 2020
Smithsonian Folkways has just announced artist and activist Nobuko Miyamoto's new album, 120,000 Stories. The album will release January 29th and is now available for pre-order.From the Smithsonian Folkways press release:120,000 Stories is...her first release since 1973’s seminal A Grain of
Film Festival Programming as Activism: A Q&A with Contributors to Feminist Media Histories’s Special Issue on “Media Activism”
Nov 07 2019
In the latest issue of Feminist Media Histories on the theme of “Activism,” Marisa Hicks-Alcaraz and Eve Oishi co-wrote the essay “Negotiating Political Identity in Community-Based Film Festivals: Perspectives from Curator/Scholar/Activists.” Oishi and Hicks-Alcaraz met as professor and graduate stu
Upcoming Talks with Adia Harvey Wingfield, author of Flatlining
Sep 30 2019
"I've always been interested as a sociologist and a researcher in trying to better understand how issues related to race, gender, and inequality persist in professional workplaces."— Adia Harvey Wingfield, author of Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy In this Harvard Busi
Mark Godsey wins 2019 Digital Book World Award
Sep 11 2019
UC Press warmly congratulates Mark Godsey on his receipt of the 2019 award for Best Book Published by a University Press for his book, Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions, presented by Digital Book World.From the Digital Book World
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