GFP Alumni Books

By Jason Corburn and DeVone Boggan

Mission possible: ending gun violence in America’s Black and brown communities.

As COVID-19 took hold, urban gun violence exploded—but not in four cities in California. What did these cities...Read more about Advancing Peace: Ending Urban Gun Violence Through the Power of Redemptive Love

By Jennifer Jihye Chun and Ju Hui Judy Han: Across the world, protest has become a much-debated tactic in struggles against inequality, political corruption, and ecological disaster. In South Korea, protest is a ubiquitous and essential form of political expression. In 1987,...Read more about Against Abandonment: Repertoires of Solidarity in South Korean Protest

Edited by David Philoxene, Danfeng Soto-Vigil Koon, Emma Haydée Fuentes: This volume highlights a case study of one diverse institution of higher education that was transformed to support faculty and students with varied cultures and identities.

...Read more about Crafting Homeplace in the Academic Borderlands: Humanizing Education, Research, and Relationships

Els de Graauw and Shannon Gleeson

Houston is one of the most diverse cities in the United States and has long been a prime destination for international migrants from Latin America, Asia, and more recently, Africa. However, the city is politically mixed,...Read more about Advancing Immigrant Rights in Houston

By Olivia Chilcote: An inside account of one Luiseño tribe's history and their efforts to be recognized by the United States

With the largest number of Native Americans as well as the most non-federally recognized tribes in the United States, the state of California...Read more about Unrecognized in California: Federal Acknowledgment and the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians

Edited by Mimi E. Kim, Cameron Rasmussen, and Durrell M. Washington: A critical anthology exploring the debates, conundrums, and promising practices around abolition and social work in academia and within impacted communities.

Within social...Read more about Abolition and Social Work: Possibilities, Paradoxes, and the Practice of Community Care

by Lindsey Dillon

Toxic City presents a novel critique of postindustrial green gentrification through a study of Bayview-Hunters Point, a historically Black neighborhood in...Read more about Toxic City: Redevelopment and Environmental Justice in San Francisco

By Héctor Beltrán: In Code Work, Héctor Beltrán examines Mexican and Latinx coders’ personal strategies of self-making as they navigate a transnational economy of tech work. Beltrán shows how these hackers apply concepts from the code worlds to their...Read more about Code Work: Hacking across the US/México Techno-Borderlands

By Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales and Magdalena L. Barrera: In The Latinx Guide to Graduate School Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales and Magdalena L. Barrera provide prospective and current Latinx graduate students in the humanities and social sciences fields with a roadmap for surviving and...Read more about The Latinx Guide to Graduate School

By: Juan Herrera

In Cartographic Memory, Juan Herrera maps 1960s Chicano movement activism in the Latinx neighborhood of Fruitvale in Oakland, California, showing how activists there constructed a politics forged through productions of space. From Chicano-inspired...Read more about Cartographic Memory: Social Movement Activism and the Production of Space

By Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo - Over the last five decades, South Los Angeles has undergone a remarkable demographic transition. In South Central Dreams, eminent scholars Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor follow its transformation from a historically Black...Read more about South Central Dreams: Finding Home and Building Community in South L.A.