Category Archives: black studies

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 →

August 16, 2012

New Journal: Women, Gender, and Families of Color

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This month, UIP launches a new journal in cooperation with the University of Kansas. Women, Gender, and Families of Color expands the mission of Black Women, Gender, and Families, which has ceased publication. The new title explicitly includes Black, Latina, … Continue reading →