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When US Corporations Play Government: Notes from Africa Author Amy Elizabeth Stambach on Amazon's recent expansion in South Africa and imagining futures that don’t rely on corporate alibis.

"When a corporation donates bottled water, who drained the river in the first place?"

Amy Elizabeth Stambach, author of THE CORPORATE ALIBI, asks you to consider this question and more in her #AAA2025NOLA post:

Volume 80 Issue 2-3 | Nineteenth-Century Literature | University of California Press

The new December 2025 issue of "Nineteenth_Century Literature" is available online now. online.ucpress.edu/ncl/issue/80...

Also hiring for another position in our Marketing Department! We're looking for a Marketing Manager to manage campaigns and champion our authors. Join our mission-driven team! careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucop/EMP...

College Football, Masculinity, and Race: Q&A with Tracie Canada With the 2025 NCAA Football National Championship game near, "Tacking the Everyday" author Tracie Canada talks about her new book and her unique perspective on college football.

"The whole system depends on predominantly Black football players’ athletic labor and commitment to the game, but they are not compensated in a way that acknowledges that contribution."

Read our Q&A with TACKLING THE EVERYDAY author Tracie Canada: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/q...

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University of California Press Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

An incredibly timely examination of living undocumented, Andrea Gómez Cervantes writes for our blog about her book ILLEGALITY IN THE HEARTLAND and the lives of those living undocumented in the Midwest during the first Trump administration.

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At #ASA2025 (American Studies)? Join Editor Naja Pulliam-Collins for a roundtable this afternoon:

📚 Publishing in Environmental Justice, Naturecultural Studies, & Environmental Humanities
🕒 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
📍Room 204

Q&A with Kevin Lewis O'Neill, author of "Unforgivable" Author Kevin Lewis O'Neill discusses his new book "Unforgivable," the first book to expose how the Catholic Church systematically covers up scandal by moving abusers across borders.

"I was unprepared for the scale of the abuse that I ended up documenting."

Our powerful Q&A with UNFORGIVABLE author Kevin O'Neill and the lengths the Catholic Church will go to cover up abusers.*: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/q...

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*Trigger warning for conversations around sexual abuse

American Anthropological Association 2025 Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

We're here early today, #AAA2025NOLA attendees! So drop in and wake us up by taking a look at our latest Anthro books!

Our AAA website is here for you to save 40% off those books!

American Studies Association 2025 Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

Hello for day 2 of #ASA2025! If you aren't busy hitting the beach, drop by the exhibit hall and see us! It's just as fun!

If you can't make it in today, visit our website and save 40% of the American Studies books we have on the stand: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...

Gender Violence in Late Antiquity by Jennifer Barry - Hardcover Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

If you are headed to #SBLAAR25 #AARSBL25 Gender Violence will be available at 40% off! Stop by the @ucpress.bsky.social booth and pick up a copy! If you would like to grab coffee to talk about the book or other things, send me a DM! www.ucpress.edu/books/gender...

These are Science News’ favorite books of 2025 Books about AI, Mars and infectious disease were among our top reads this year.

Tales of Militant Chemistry is one of @sciencenews.bsky.social’s 10 favorite books of 2025!

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Volume 49 Issue 2 | 19th-Century Music | University of California Press

The November 2025 issue of "19th-Century Music" is available online now. online.ucpress.edu/ncm/issue/49/2

New advance articles just posted on "Music Perception" online.ucpress.edu/mp/advance-a...

Q&A with Ieva Jusionyte, author of Exit Wounds American guns have entangled the lives of people on both sides of the US-Mexico border in a vicious circle of violence. After treating wounded migrants and refugees seeking safety in the United…

Her book EXIT WOUNDS is now in paperback and she's also a 2025 MacAuthor Fellow. Check out our interview with acclaimed author Ieva Jusionyte: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/6...

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The Land of Open Graves by Jason De Leon - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

Our esteemed UC Press author and National Book Award winner @jasondeleon.bsky.social will give tonight's Opening Keynote at #AAA2025NOLA.

Revisit his acclaimed book THE LAND OF OPEN GRAVES and save 40% with code UCPAAA:

Corrine Adams and Forcing Industry to Clean Up Its Act Author Bob Wyss on the unexpected champion of clean air.

Thrilled to present original author content exclusively for #ASA2025.

Bob Wyss, author of BLACK GOLD, writes about an unexpected champion of clean air in the early 20th century in Corrine Adams: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/c...

Stop by the UC Press #ASA2025 booth to learn more about THE VIOLENCE OF LOVE by @kit-myers.bsky.social. It’s an exploration of transracial adoption and identity that asks hard but necessary questions about love and kinship.

At #ASA2025? Find Christina Gerhardt’s SEA CHANGE in our booth—an atlas of not only maps but art and poetry that explore the impact of climate change on islands around the world.

So great to be back in The Big Easy for @americananthro.bsky.social's annual meeting! Drop by our booth and check out our latest books in Anthro!

Also be sure to check out our AAA website and find out how to save 40% on our displayed titles: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...

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¡Buenos días, #AMSTD2025 attendees! We're thrilled to be in San Juan for the annual American Studies Association conference!

Drop by our booth to see our wide selection of books on American Studies. And visit our website to save 40% on all books on display: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...

#AMSTD2025 booth is all setup ✅. Exhibits open tomorrow! Stop by to meet our Editors, peruse our books, and maybe even leave inspired to start (or finish) that manuscript.

Hello #AAA2025NOLA attendees! A heads up that at 8:30AM tomorrow our very own editor Kate Marshall will be on the following panel:

Event: 1886 - Anthropologists Writing Trade Books
Type: Roundtable/Town Hall
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: Sheraton, Napoleon BR B3 (3rd fl)

Folks, when your library subscribes to Animal History, you get access to all our articles & reviews! The journal is published by Univ. of CA Press (a nonprofit) that relies on library subscriptions to get research to you! Our library recommendation form: online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibr...

Bracero Stories: A Q&A with Michael Snodgrass Learn more about Michael Snodgrass's research into the bracero guest worker program.

Historian Michael Snodgrass asks how and why a guest worker program initially celebrated for its contractual guarantees and migrants’ contributions to agricultural development became so stigmatized. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/b...

What are the risks—and opportunities—of drawing close to one's objects of study as a feminist scholar? Alix Beeston reflects on her experience of writing a critical–creative account of women and girls in photography history. @alixbeeston.bsky.social

Open access now: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....

Workers turn to 'polyworking' to combat frozen salaries and inflation Working professionals in the U.S. are taking on side jobs to supplement their incomes amid frozen salaries, inflation and fear of layoffs.

I had a great time talking to Cathy Bussewitz for this story on polyemployment!

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apnews.com/article/work... turn to 'polyworking' to combat frozen salaries and inflation

American Society of Criminology 2025 Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

Thank you for a wonderful few days of sharing truth and knowledge, #ASCriminology2025 attendees!

Our ASC website where you can save 40% on all books on display will remain up for a few weeks for you to take advantage of: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...

See you next year for #ASCriminology2026

How We Fight Back: Storytelling for Reproductive Justice Stories resist carceral logics, affirm survival, and show why Black women’s reproductive freedom must be told from the margins.

Stories resist carceral logics, affirm survival, and show why Black women’s reproductive freedom must be told from the margins. From Stacie Selmon McCormick: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/h... #NWSA

In today’s @insidehighered.com article, @abankston.bsky.social and I draw from our book 'Thriving As An International Scientist' to unpack:
- challenges international scientists in U.S. face
- concrete actions universities, employers & scientific societies can take for their dynamic career success.