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New book by UCI sociologist explores the religious and racial origins of society’s obsession with thinness

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, UCI Distinguished Professor of comparative literature and English, has been awarded the 2019 Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize for Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature, about language and its constructive role in national culture, history and identity. The collection of essays advocates for linguistic decolonization and is one […]

Scholarly reach and public impact of highly utilized humanities resource are expanded

UCI professor uses linguistics, DNA to help long-isolated Colombian community descended from escaped slaves find its roots

Concert highlighting African American composers will cap conference for college conductors, kick off Black History Month