Category Archives: black studies

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 →

August 9, 2012

New in paperback: Hands on the Freedom Plow

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On August 27, 2012, we will publish a paperback edition of Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC, edited by Faith S. Holsaert, Martha Prescod Norman Noonan, Judy Richardson, Betty Garman Robinson, Jean Smith Young, and Dorothy … Continue reading →

July 13, 2012

Q&A with Blackness in Opera editors

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On March 26, 2012, we published Blackness in Opera, which examines the intersections of race and music in the multifaceted genre of opera.  The collection’s editors, Naomi André, Karen M. Bryan, and Eric Saylor, collectively answered questions about their new book. Q:  … Continue reading →

June 12, 2012

Q&A with Julie A. Gallagher, author of Black Women & Politics in New York City

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On June 18, 2012, we will publish Black Women & Politics in New York City by Julie A. Gallagher, assistant professor of history at Pennsylvania State University, Brandywine.  Professor Gallagher took time recently to answer our questions about her new … Continue reading →

April 4, 2012

Meta DuEwa Jones on Left of Black

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Meta DuEwa Jones, author of the recent book The Muse Is Music: Jazz Poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to Spoken Word, was a guest in the second half of the April 2, 2012, edition of Mark Anthony Neal’s Left of Black program.

February 17, 2012

Good Times for Equal Time

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Finished copies of Aniko Bodroghkozy’s book Equal Time: Television and the Civil Rights Movement just arrived from the printer and will be officially published on March 12, 2012.  Equal Time explores the crucial role of network television in reconfiguring new … Continue reading →

February 15, 2012

Pete Daniel in PBS program Slavery by Another Name

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Pete Daniel, author of the University of Illinois Press book The Shadow of Slavery: Peonage in the South, 1901-1969, explains in the documentary Slavery by Another Name why the 13th Amendment didn’t abolish slavery.

January 27, 2012

Q&A with Eugene Kinckle Jones author Felix Armfield

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Eugene Kinckle Jones (1885–1954) is an underknown figure in American history, but he was instrumental in professionalizing black social work in America. Author Felix L. Armfield discusses his discovery of Jones and the writing of Eugene Kinckle Jones: The National … Continue reading →

January 20, 2012

Praise for Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance

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In December 2011 we published Steven Tracy’s edited volume Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance, which covers a vast collection of subjects, including many important writers such as Richard Wright, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Lorraine Hansberry as well as cultural products … Continue reading →

January 10, 2012

NPR explores Beauty Shop Politics

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NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with Tiffany Gill, author of the University of Illinois Press book Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry on the December 28, 2011, edition of Tell Me More. MARTIN: Well, you know, … Continue reading →