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Category Archives: Current Affairs
The Human Consequences of the War on Terror
Peter Jan Honigsberg is Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco School of Law. He is the author of Crossing Border Street: A Civil Rights Memoir (UC Press, June 2000), among other books. He visited Guantánamo in May… Continue reading
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The Seer in Ancient Greece
Michael Flower is Senior Research Scholar at Princeton University and editor, in collaboration with John Marincola, of Herodotus, Histories, Book IX, author of Theopompus of Chios: History and Rhetoric in the Fourth Century B.C., and editor, with Mark Toher, of… Continue reading
UC Press Podcast Featuring, Michael McLeod
We are pleased to announce that Episode 14 of the UC Press podcast series is now available. In this episode, Chris Gondek of Heron and Crane Productions interviews Michael McLeod, as he talks about the mysterious and mythical creature known… Continue reading
Post-Racial America?
John Iceland is Professor of Sociology and Demography at Penn State University, and former Branch Chief, Poverty and Health Statistics Branch, Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division, U. S. Census Bureau. He is also the author of Poverty in America:… Continue reading
George Perle, a Composer and Theorist, Dies at 93
The composer, author, theorist, teacher, and Pulitzer Prize winner for music, George Perle, died last Friday at the age of 93. The New York Times published an obituary this past Saturday. The University of California Press published The Operas of… Continue reading
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Global Warming and the Future of Water in the West
James Lawrence Powell is Executive Director of the National Physical Science Consortium at the University of Southern California and is author of Grand Canyon: Solving Earth’s Grandest Puzzle, among other books. Powell’s latest book, Dead Pool: Lake Powell, Global Warming,… Continue reading
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The War Comes Home
Aaron Glantz, an independent journalist whose work has appeared in The Nation and The Progressive and on Democracy Now!, is the author of How America Lost Iraq. In his latest book, The War Comes Home: Washington’s Battle Against America’s Veterans,… Continue reading
The Power of the Latino Vote
Randy Shaw is the Director of San Francisco’s Tenderloin Housing Clinic, and is Editor of the online daily newspaper, BeyondChron.org. His previous books are The Activist’s Handbook and Reclaiming America, both from UC Press. While his latest book, Beyond the… Continue reading
Posted in Author Blogs, Beyond the Fields, California, Cesar Chavez, Chicano Studies, Current Affairs, History, Latin American Studies, Latino Stuidies, Randy Shaw, Sociology, Sociology of Labor, U.S. History, UC Press, UFW, Uncategorized, University of California Press, ethnic studies, labor movements, social movements
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The Power of the Latino Vote
Randy Shaw is the Director of San Francisco’s Tenderloin Housing Clinic, and is Editor of the online daily newspaper, BeyondChron.org. His previous books are The Activist’s Handbook and Reclaiming America, both from UC Press. While his latest book, Beyond the… Continue reading
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The Power of the Latino Vote
Randy Shaw is the Director of San Francisco’s Tenderloin Housing Clinic, and is Editor of the online daily newspaper, BeyondChron.org. His previous books are The Activist’s Handbook and Reclaiming America, both from UC Press. While his latest book, Beyond the… Continue reading
Posted in Author Blogs, Current Affairs, History, Sociology, Uncategorized
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