Welcome to the University of Illinois Press’s virtual exhibit for the 2022 African American Intellectual History Society annual meeting. We hope you’ll peruse our virtual booth below and browse books, journals, author events, and more. Use promo code AAIHS22 for 50% off all of our African American Intellectual History books March 11-12, 2022, And, buy 3 books to receive a free issue of the Journal of Civil and Human Rights.
Featured Books on Black History and Culture
Books in The New Black Studies Series, edited by Darlene Clark Hine and Dwight A. McBride
Black Internationalism Series, edited by Keisha N. Blain and Quito Swan
Meet The Editor

We are pleased to announce that Dominique Moore has joined the University of Illinois Press as an acquisitions editor. She will acquire in the fields of Black studies, women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, and American ethnic studies. With years of freelance work as a copyeditor and proofreader and positions that include managing editor at Human Kinetics, Mellon University Press Diversity Fellow at the Ohio State University Press, and, most recently, assistant editor at the University of North Carolina Press, she brings a wealth of publishing experience to UIP. You can follow her on Twitter at @DomTheEditor.
Read the full announcement here.
Featured Journals

Journal of Civil and Human Rights (JCHR) is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, academic journal dedicated to studying modern U.S.-based social justice movements and freedom struggles, including transnational ones, and their antecedents, influence, and legacies.

Women, Gender, and Families of Color is a multidisciplinary journal that centers on the study of Black, Latina, Indigenous, and Asian American women, gender, and families. It is published in partnership with the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of Kansas.
Watch Our Virtual Events
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More From Our Authors
- “As a vegan, there’s a lot of soul food I can’t eat. What kind of Black person does that make me?” by Christopher Carter in the Los Angeles Times
- Watch a book talk with Rachel Afi Quinn
- Listen to an interview with Ayana Contreras on City Cast Chicago
- Reighan Gillam, author of Visualizing Black Lives Website
- Wanda Hendricks presents at the YWCA World Service Council on Madie Hall Xuma (37:43)
- Watch an interview with Kathy Roberts Forde on the Black News Channel
- Listen to an interview with Robert Marovich on WXPN’s World Cafe
- Building the Black Press, a digital history project By E. James West
- Listen to an interview with Badia Ahad-Legardy on the Professoring podcast
- Watch an event with Mecca Jamilah Sullivan with the Paul Robeson House and Museum
- Listen to an interview with Tyrone McKinley Freeman on the Good CEO podcast
- Listen to an interview with Danielle Morgan on KALW’s Crosscurrents
- Listen to an interview with GerShun Avilez on the New Books Network
- Read an interview with Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel on Black Perspectives
- “The Delicate Balancing Act of Black Women’s Memoir” in Electric Lit by Koritha Mitchell
- Listen to an interview with Tiffany Florvil on the Waterloo Center for German Studies