Category Archives: black studies

April 16, 2013

David Levering Lewis on MLK’s Letter from Birmingham Jail

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Fifty years ago today Martin Luther King Jr. completed his open letter from Birmingham Jail. David Levering Lewis, writes in his book King: A Biography (recently released in a new third edition): “Every nation has its stockpile of rhetorical memorabilia, … Continue reading →

February 6, 2013

Black History Month $2.99 e-book sale

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For the month of February we have lowered the e-book list price of four Black History titles in the University of Illinois Press catalog to $2.99. Sojourner Truth’s America by Margaret Washington Winner of the inaugural 2010 OAH Darlene Clark Hine Award … Continue reading →

January 17, 2013

Rebels and Runaways wins Florida Historical Society award

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Larry Eugene Rivers’ recent University of Illinois Press book, Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida has earned the Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Award from the Florida Historical Society. Using a variety of sources such as slaveholders’ wills … Continue reading →

October 19, 2012

An Interpretive Overview of Open Wound, part 2

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This is the second half of the “Interpretive Overview” by William McKee Evans, the author of Open Wound: The Long View of Race in America. It appears before the Preface in the book. The first half of the essay was … Continue reading →

October 18, 2012

An Interpretive Overview of Open Wound, part 1

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Right after the last election we published Open Wound: The Long View of Race in America. The work is a capstone achievement by William McKee Evans,  professor emeritus of history at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. It received excellent reviews, and … Continue reading →

October 17, 2012

Congratulations Koritha Mitchell

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Koritha Mitchell’s Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930, is the Society for the Study of American Women Writers 2012 Book Award Winner. Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890–1930 demonstrates that … Continue reading →

October 1, 2012

Television and the Civil Rights Movement

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Henry Jenkins’s Confessions of an Aca-Fan blog features a multi-segment Q&A with Aniko Bodroghkozy, author of Equal Time: Television and the Civil Rights Movement. From Part Three: One of the surprising discoveries you made was that while the networks did cover … Continue reading →

September 25, 2012

Join us at ASALH and IBMA for booksignings and more

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It will be a be a busy week for University of Illinois Press staff and authors. We will be at the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) meeting from September 26-30, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We … Continue reading →

September 11, 2012

LA Times reviews The Beautiful Music All Around Us

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This week the Los Angeles Times published a sparkling review of Stephen Wade’s new book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience. “Musician and folklorist Stephen Wade dissects and celebrates the vast diversity of American culture in The … Continue reading →

August 27, 2012

The Chicago Tribune profiles The Black Chicago Renaissance

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The August 27, 2012, issue of the Chicago Tribune includes a profile of the new University of Illinois Press collection The Black Chicago Renaissance. Edited by Darlene Clark Hine and John McCluskey Jr., The Black Chicago Renaissance presents early twentieth-century Chicago as a vital … Continue reading →