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Recovering the transnational history of the Sandinista Revolution
When I submitted my dissertation in 2019, my supervisor gave me the mug that had been on her desk for years. Printed on it were the red and black silhouettes of people waving rifles, flags, and signs ...
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UC Press May Award Winners
UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our May 2024 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!
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Q&A with Chelsea Schields, author of Offshore Attachments
Offshore Attachments reveals how the contested management of sex and race transformed the Caribbean into a crucial site in the global oil economy. By the mid-twentieth century, the Dutch islands of ...
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Critical Wage Theory — A Timely New Approach to an Old Problem
Raising the federal minimum wage is not a front burner issue in the U.S. presidential election campaign. Other important issues such as the war in Gaza, the trials of former President Donald Trump, or ...
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A Critical Yet Hopeful Comic on Pregnancy Privacy
is the Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor in the Communication, Culture, and Technology program at Georgetown University. She is the author of Ctrl+Z: The Right to Be Forgotten and The ...
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We Need to Reclaim the Muddy Waters of the Louisiana Gulf Coast From the Climate Crisis
I grew up in the shadow of the Mississippi River, whose mythology pressed upon my imagination. Its culture inspired iconic works and political movements, while its agency resisted efforts to corral it ...
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Why We Need a Handbook for Practicing Asylum
Practicing Asylum brings together experienced expert witnesses and immigration attorneys to highlight best practices and strategies for giving expert testimony in asylum cases. As the scale and ...
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The Very, Very Basics of Fair Use in Scholarly Publishing
Copyright and fair use are not subjects that rivet a lot of people, but it’s necessary that an author planning to publish their work understands the fundamentals of ...
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Fetal personhood laws have been around for years. Why are we only angry now?
When I say that the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses are legal persons, many people may assume I’m talking about the recent opinion that stated embryos created in ...
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The Chilling Truth Behind Silicon Valley’s Surveillance of Immigrants
Around 2018, I started to read reports about increasing information technology surveillance at the U.S.-Mexico border and around the U.S. to assist in immigration detention and deportation. When I ...
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Shore Wildflowers of California, Oregon, and Washington
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and ...
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Chelsea Schields
Offshore Attachments reveals how the contested management of sex and race transformed the Caribbean into a crucial site in the global oil economy. By the mid-twentieth century, the Dutch islands of ...