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Emerging from a recognition of inequities in scholarly publishing and in alignment with the larger mission of the University of California, the FirstGen Program at UC Press seeks to cultivate new and under-represented voices through financial support and access to publishing resources. Defined as the first in their family to receive a college degree, first-gen authors bring diverse perspectives to their writing and scholarship, contributing to key intellectual debates across disciplines. We are proud to partner with these first-gen scholars on bringing these important and exciting projects into the world.
To learn more about the FirstGen Program at University of California Press, please visit our program page or contact us at firstgen@ucpress.edu.
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The New Public Safety: Police Reform and the Lurking Threat to Civil Liberties
by Shawn E. Fields (Author)Aug 2025Leftover Women in China: Understanding Legal Consciousness through Intergenerational Relationships
by Qian Liu (Author)Aug 2025Open AccessFood Fight: Misguided Policies, Supply Challenges, and the Impending Struggle to Feed a Hungry World
by Richard J. Sexton (Author)Jul 2025Disreputable Women: Black Sex Economies and the Making of San Diego
by Christina Jessica Carney (Author)Jul 2025Incorporating Architects: How American Architecture Became a Practice of Empire
by Aaron Cayer (Author)Jun 2025The Last Door: A History of Torture in Mexico's War against Subversives
by Gladys I. McCormick (Author)May 2025Values That Pay: Complicity, Sincerity, and Hip Hop in Contemporary Moroccan Life
by Kendra Salois (Author)May 2025Open AccessThe Weight of the White Coat: Latinos Navigating American Medicine
by Glenda M. Flores (Author)Apr 2025Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires
by Sidney Xu Lu (Author)Feb 2025Open AccessAntifascism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Documentary in the 1960s
by Julia Alekseyeva (Author)Feb 2025Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins: Lessons on Belonging from Our DNA
by Shoumita Dasgupta (Author)Feb 2025The Violence of Love: Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States
by Kit W. Myers (Author)Jan 2025Open AccessThe Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism
by Jathan Sadowski (Author)Jan 2025Class Meets Land: The Embodied History of Land Financialization
by Maria Kaika (Author), Luca Ruggiero (Author)Nov 2024Building the Black City: The Transformation of American Life
by Joe William Trotter (Author)Oct 2024The Fourth Invasion: Decolonizing Histories, Extractivism, and Maya Resistance in Guatemala
by Giovanni Batz (Author)Oct 2024Open AccessBeing Another Way: The Copula and Arabic Philosophy of Language, 900–1500
by Dustin Klinger (Author)Sep 2024Open Access