University Of California Press: 1479 books
Eugenic Nation
Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
First edition, Winner of the Arthur J. Viseltear Prize, American Public Health Association
With an emphasis on the American West, Eugenic Nation explores the long and unsettled history of eugenics in the United States. This expanded second edition includes shocking details demonstrating that...
They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields
Illness, Injury, and Illegality among U.S. Farmworkers
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields takes the reader on an ethnographic tour of the melon and corn harvesting fields of California’s Central Valley to understand why farmworkers suffer heatstroke and chronic illness at rates higher than workers in any other industry. Through captivating accounts...
Home Bound
Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2003
Filipino Americans, who experience life in the United States as immigrants, colonized nationals, and racial minorities, have been little studied, though they are one of our largest immigrant groups. Based on her in-depth interviews with more than one hundred Filipinos in San Diego, California, Yen...
Appealing to Justice
Prisoner Grievances, Rights, and Carceral Logic
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Having gained unique access to California prisoners and corrections officials and to thousands of prisoners’ written grievances and institutional responses, Kitty Calavita and Valerie Jenness take us inside one of the most significant, yet largely invisible, institutions in the United States. Drawing...
Suisun Marsh
Ecological History and Possible Futures
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
One of California's most remarkable wetlands, Suisun Marsh is the largest tidal marsh on the West Coast and a major feature of the San Francisco Estuary. This productive and unique habitat supports endemic species, is a nursery for native fishes, and is a vital link for migratory waterfowl. The 6,000-year-old...
by Gerald Asher
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Gerald Asher, who served as *Gourmet’*s wine editor for thirty years, has drawn together this selection of his essays, published in Gourmet and elsewhere, for the collective insight they give into why a wine should always be an expression of a place and a time. Guiding the reader through twenty-seven...
Strategies of Segregation
Race, Residence, and the Struggle for Educational Equality
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Strategies of Segregation unearths the ideological and structural architecture of enduring racial inequality within and beyond schools in Oxnard, California. In this meticulously researched narrative spanning 1903 to 1974, David G. García excavates an extensive array of archival sources to expose...
Human Impacts on Seals, Sea Lions, and Sea Otters
Integrating Archaeology and Ecology in the Northeast Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
For more than ten thousand years, Native Americans from Alaska to southern California relied on aquatic animals such as seals, sea lions, and sea otters for food and raw materials. Archaeological research on the interactions between people and these marine mammals has made great advances recently...
A Diagram for Fire
Miracles and Variation in an American Charismatic Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
What is the work that miracles do in American Charismatic Evangelicalism? How can miracles be unanticipated and yet worked for? And finally, what do miracles tell us about other kinds of Christianity and even the category of religion? A Diagram for Fire engages with these questions in a detailed sociocultural...
Raise
What 4-H Teaches Seven Million Kids and How Its Lessons Could Change Food and Farming Forever
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
When city-dwelling journalist Kiera Butler visits a county fair for the first time, she is captivated by the white-uniformed members of the 4-H club and their perfectly groomed animals. She sets off on a search for a "real" 4-H’er, a hypothetical wholesome youth whom she imagines wearing...
More Than Just Food
Food Justice and Community Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
The industrial food system has created a crisis in the United States that is characterized by abundant food for privileged citizens and “food deserts” for the historically marginalized. In response, food justice activists based in low-income communities of color have developed community-based...
Beyond Hawai'i
Native Labor in the Pacific World
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
In the century from the death of Captain James Cook in 1779 to the rise of the sugar plantations in the 1870s, thousands of Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) men left Hawai‘i to work on ships at sea and in *na ‘aina ‘e *(foreign lands)—on the Arctic Ocean and throughout the Pacific Ocean,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Between the discovery of California placer gold in 1848 and the rush to Alaska fifty years later, the search for the precious yellow metal accelerated worldwide circulations of people, goods, capital, and technologies. A Global History of Gold Rushes brings...
Biodiversity in a Changing Climate
Linking Science and Management in Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
One major consequence of climate change is abrupt, dramatic changes in regional biodiversity. Even if the most optimistic scenarios for mitigating climate change transpire, the fate of many wild species rests on the shoulders of people engaged in conservation planning, management, and policy. Providing...