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Latin American Migrations to the U.S. Heartland

Changing Social Landscapes in Middle America

Edited by Linda Allegro and Andrew Grant Wood

Strange Natures

Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination

Nicole Seymour

Working for Justice

A Handbook of Prison Education and Activism

Edited by Stephen John Hartnett, Eleanor Novek, and Jennifer K. Wood

Rooting for the Home Team

Sport, Community, and Identity

Edited by Daniel A. Nathan

Southern Soul-Blues

David Whiteis Foreword by Denise LaSalle

Friday Night Fighter

Gaspar "Indio" Ortega and the Golden Age of Television Boxing

Troy Rondinone

Macroanalysis

Digital Methods and Literary History

Matthew L. Jockers

Black Flag Boricuas

Anarchism, Antiauthoritarianism, and the Left in Puerto Rico, 1897-1921

Kirwin R. Shaffer

Kings for Three Days

The Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian Festival

Jean Muteba Rahier

Yellow Power, Yellow Soul

The Radical Art of Fred Ho

Edited by Roger N. Buckley and Tamara Roberts

Indian Accents

Brown Voice and Racial Performance in American Television and Film

Shilpa S. Davé

Fighting from a Distance

How Filipino Exiles Helped Topple a Dictator

Jose V. Fuentecilla

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Summer Reading $2.99 eBook sale From now until June 30th we are lowering the eBook list price of four titles in the University of Illinois Press catalog to $2.99. Link to the buy options below. Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins by Diane Diekman Recent winner of … Continue reading

NWSA/UIP First Book Prize deadline approaching! The deadline for the NWSA-University of Illinois Press First Book Prize is June 1! The National Women’s Studies Association and the University of Illinois Press are pleased to announce a competition for the best dissertation or first book manuscript by a … Continue reading

Q&A with Friday Night Fighter author Troy Rondinone Gaspar “Indio” Ortega appeared on prime-time network television more than almost any other boxer in history. Rising from poverty in his native Tijuana, Mexico, Ortega used his skills in the ring and a sense of showmanship to take the boxing world by … Continue reading

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Events Calendar

International Country Music Conference Thu, 23 May 2013 08:30:00 CDT
North American Society for Sport History Fri, 24 May 2013 08:30:00 CDT
Book Expo America Thu, 30 May 2013 08:30:00 CDT
Thomas Leslie at Book Expo America, New York, NY Thu, 30 May 2013 13:00:00 CDT — Book Signing
Troy Rondinone at the International Boxing Hall of Fame, Canastota, NY Thu, 06 Jun 2013 19:00:00 CDT — Book Signing
Printers Row Lit Fest Sat, 08 Jun 2013 08:30:00 CDT
Stephen Wade at the Printers Row Lit Fest, Chicago, IL Sat, 08 Jun 2013 13:00:00 CDT — Presentation
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