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...W. T. Laprade The Year of the Oath: The Fight for Academic Freedom at the University of California . By Stewart George R. in collaboration with other Professors of the University of California. Garden City : Doubleday and Co. , 1950 . Pp. 156 . $2.00 . This Happened in Pasadena...

...Christopher Newfield; Colleen Lye When then-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger cut the California higher education budget by 20 percent in 2009, the largest protests erupted on University of California campuses than had been seen in the United States since the 1960s. The struggle for public education...

...Chris Chen This essay tracks the instability of race as a political signifier in the California student movement, with a particular focus on the racial critiques of the politics of direct action and the escalation of hate crimes directed at communities of color over the course of the 2009–2010...

...Harlan W. Hamilton Greene Centennial Studies: Essays Presented to Donald Greene in the Centennial Year of the University of Southern California . Edited by Korshin Paul J. Allen Robert R. . Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia , 1985 . Pp. xx , 489 . $27.50...

...Keramet Reiter On July 1, 2011, approximately four hundred prisoners in California’s Pelican Bay State Prison began a sustained hunger strike. Most of these prisoners had been in total solitary confinement, under conditions of extreme sensory deprivation, for five or more years; a few had been...

...Carlos Amador This essay provides an account of the events that took place during the November 2009 protests against the University of California Regents' tuition hikes at UCLA. Although the tuition hikes affected every student in the UC system, they are particularly difficult for undocumented...

...Michael Shane Boyle Through a discussion of selected guerilla performances, Internet pranks, and ironic manifestos created by the UC Movement for Efficient Privatization (UCMeP), this essay focuses on the ways student activists at the University of California have turned to satiric performance...

... of California presented a radical challenge not only to the UC administration's rhetoric of sacrifice and shared pain, but also to debt's logic of deferred inevitability. It closes by suggesting new forms that organizing might take at the UC and nationally, if we are to confront the crisis of rising student...

...Amanda Armstrong Composed in the aftermath of the 2009–10 protests at California universities, “States of Indebtedness” provides a critical appraisal and recounting of these events, stressing their disruptive effects in relation to the increasingly damaging social and spatial relations...

...Bryan Ziadie Consistently ranked by U.S. News and World Report as one of the most diverse national universities today, the University of California, Riverside is being adversely affected by what UCR professor Mike Davis has called a “scheme for gentrifying” the campus. This article discusses...

... our society in profound ways. Concentrating on the recent hunger strikes in the security housing units (SHUs) of Pelican Bay and throughout the California prison system, this essay reflects on the long reach and myriad forms of law in our penal archipelago. The new global order of justice not only...

... dehumanizing practices—illustrate the militarization of US society. The mimetic recycling of war- and peacetime crimes is complete when the force-feeding of hunger strikers at Guantánamo Bay finds its parallel in the force-feeding of hunger strikers at Pelican Bay prison in California. The normalization...

..., in between, and beyond the capacity of technological norms. This essay offers the perspective from that underground social network of a California Native American living in Ontario, Canada, during the Idle No More movement. © 2015 Duke University Press 2015 California Canada Indigenous Idle...

... following an immigration raid at an informal hiring site in southern California, the essay explores how day laborers’ Popular Education praxis has been mobilized through music to build worker solidarity in the defense of hiring sites as a form of urban commons. It argues that the growing repertoire of day...

..., and Deleuze and Guattari, I emphasize the interrelated themes of the distribution of excess, the socius or virtual body of the social, and the reproduction of form. Taking as an example California’s recent struggles to make good on what some have viewed as the revolutionary potential of solar, this essay...

... pretrial. The Debt Collective—the nation’s first debtors’ union—is piloting work to abolish $500 million in bail debt held by cosigners across California as a new form of collective action around carceral debt. We explore the concept of a carceral debtors’ union as part of broader debtors’ union...

...Brian Dolber This article explores how Rideshare Drivers United (RDU), a fledgling union of app‐based drivers in California, works in dialectical relationship to processes of surveillance capitalism. First, the article gives a brief history of RDU's organizing strategy in the lead‐up to two strikes...

... by indirections is difficult to pin down due to his indirect relationship with the various movements of the modern theater, our ultimate inability to comprehend the shape of his career so far is partly because Green­ wald has not set it firmly enough in the theater of its time. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA...

... friend of the United States and no hero of peace. Regardless of such pretensions, the virtues of this book are much more evident than its flaws. Its scholarship is both deep and extensive, and it reads well. It deserves a respectable place in the literature of the Federalist era. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA...

..., it is a very important contribution to our understanding of this troubling subject, being not simply another monograph, but a real attempt at historical synthesis. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE JOHN STAUDE The Redemption of the Robot. By Herbert Read. New York: Tri­ dent Press, 1966. Pp. xxxiv, 254...