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Enjoy free access (for a limited time) to the lead article in our May issue: Héritier Mesa on how precarious youth in Kinshasa improvise livelihoods and political participation despite being outcasts from society.
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In our new issue, Maggie Hennefeld and Laura Horak join a panel of esteemed historians, archivists, filmmakers, and composers to salvage the future from the dustbins of history by way of forgotten feminist media archives. Read the roundtable for free here: online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/10…
Prominent historians who resisted describing Trump as a fascist publicly changed their minds after Jan. 6. Finchelstein was among them — almost. His current preferred term for Trump & the title of his forthcoming book is “wannabe fascists' nytimes.com/2024/04/27/mag… Charles Homans
1/2 Join us, Zoom, Fri. May 3, 10:30am *PST*: Professor Sunaura Taylor, CSUSB Disability Studies Lecture Series, on her new book 'Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert' University of California Press! Event Link: csusb.edu/event/578685 CSUSB #CSUSB CSUSB_SBS John M. Pfau Library
My best chance to tell Americans why our guns are responsible for the violence south of the border and how they affect migration & drug trafficking. An honor to be on CNN GPS with Fareed Zakaria to talk about #ExitWoundsBook University of California Press
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Sarah Namirembe, ChinaScherz, George Mpanga, w/ University of California Press have made their important new book Open Access and Free for Download. Please access it either through the bar code or download a free PDF copy using the link below. The book will be launched this Friday 26th Makerere University Food
My book “Disrupting the patrón: Indigenous land rights and the fight for environmental justice in Paraguay’s Chaco” was named a 2024 CSU Warner College outstanding publication! Honored for the recognition. Read the book open access here👉 ucpress.edu/book/978052039…. University of California Press
Some good news - Hoof Beats received the 2024 Kayden Book Award from the University of Colorado! The award is given to a book representing excellence in humanities, history, and the arts - and will be used to organize a symposium for the public later this year. University of California Press
Happy pub day to Mark R. Rank, whose new book, THE RANDOM FACTOR, is out today from University of California Press! In a fantastic The Globe and Mail op-ed, Rank reminds us that 'what is often needed beyond just talent and determination in order to be highly successful is luck.'
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Just got my hands on a copy of this book by Sunaura Taylor, and I am so incredibly excited to read it! Cover is beautiful! University of California Press
From Witness From Speech From Image: a brilliant essay by س on Etel Adnan's The Arab Apocalypse and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee Poetry Northwest: t.ly/R0oV7. Print version available Open Books, proceeds go to Gaza Poets Society: t.ly/IxTT3
Destroying Yemen: Brothers and Friends Alike, Where Art Thou? ucpress.edu/blog/33472/des… via University of California Press
In 10.2-3, Claire Cooley embraces the scattered nature of materials on female cine-workers in contexts such as Egypt and Iran, and ponders its implications for a decolonial, feminist practice of film curation.
Read the essay for #free here:
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In an exclusive Rolling Stone excerpt from her new book EXIT WOUNDS, @IevaJu traces the deadly pipeline of American assault weapons into the hands of organized crime in Mexico. A must-read. University of California Press rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…