University of California Press8d
Actual Malice
"A detailed examination of . . . the landmark 1964 Supreme Court decision that defined libel laws and increased protections for journalists."—The New York Times Book Review A deeply researched legal ...
University of California Press10d
The United States of War
A provocative examination of how the U.S. military has shaped our entire world, from today’s costly, endless wars to the prominence of violence in everyday American life. Our authors reflect on what ...
University of California Press14d
System-affected academics are building a movement — and transforming the academy
In October of 2002, I was sitting in the commons area of a cellblock in the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City, waiting my turn to catch a prison plane to my assigned penitentiary. It was always ...
University of California Press14d
Busting the Bankers' Club
An eye-opening account of the failures of our financial system, the sources of its staying power, and the path to meaningful economic reform. Bankers brought the global economic system to its knees in ...
University of California Press15d
Ask Our Staff: What is Copyediting
Copyediting is expert but not arbitrary. Your copyeditor brings years of experience editing book-length works and has a reason for every mark they make, suggesting style and usage guidelines that fit ...
University of California Press21d
How California’s Dr. Bronner’s Spiritual Messaging Became a Global Brand
Many of us are now familiar with Dr. Bronner’s Soaps, a family-owned business based in Vista, California known for the colorful and text-laden, spiritual messaging of its packaging. Yet behind this ...
University of California Press23d
Housing discrimination is a public health disaster — and we need widespread social mobilization to fix it
Nearly a century ago, Walter Benjamin observed that what those who live in comfort perceive as states of emergency are the normal conditions experienced by the oppressed. Throughout history, oppressed ...
University of California Press26d
Native land claims and culture are inseparable
My interest in Indigenous territorial claims began in my childhood. I grew up during the Native land claims era in Alaska. Throughout the twentieth century, Alaska Native people watched their lands ...
University of California Press27d
Finding hope in a precarious place
My wife Jessica calls New Orleans the land of misfit toys. While rising insurance rates reflect the challenges of engineering away from danger, we are drawn to something more powerful than a hurricane ...
University of California Press27d
Ten Intriguing Facts about Fearless Writer Sanora Babb
Iris Jamahl Dunkle, author of Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb, shares ten intriguing facts about intrepid writer Sanora Babb — peerless author of midcentury American literature and ...
University of California Press27d
Michael Finewood and Michelle Luebke on Environmental Justice and the Bronx River Watershed
Michael Finewood is a human geographer and political ecologist, and Chairperson at Pace University's Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences; Michelle Luebke is part of the Stormwater ...
University of California Press28d
Interview with Emrah Yildiz, author of "Zainab's Traffic"
Emrah Yıldız (EY): On 8 January 2009, while reading the daily news from local media in Turkey’s Kurdistan, I was astounded by a brief clip from Antep. None of it seemed to make sense. It reported that ...