Join us for an evening with UC Davis faculty authors Lisa G. Materson and Corrie Decker as part of Covered, a monthly event series celebrating recent books from the College of Letters and Science.

Lisa G. Materson, associate professor of history, traces civil rights activist Ruth Reynolds’ deep involvement in the movement for Puerto Rico’s independence in Radical Solidarity, offering a nuanced account of political allyship, anti-colonial struggle and cross-racial collaboration. 
 

Corrie Decker, associate professor of history, examines how colonial courts and ethnographers in 20th century East Africa transformed complex rites of passage into simplified “puberty rites" in The Age of Sex: Custom, Law, and Ritual in Twentieth-Century East Africa, reshaping legal understandings of childhood, adulthood, gender and sexual maturity.