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Backlist Bop: Women’s work is never done

Posted on March 9, 2017 (March 7, 2017) by rkcunningham
in labor history, women's history

Although the most visible banners of feminism were carried by educated, white-collar, professional women, in fact, working-class women were a powerful force in the campaign for gender equality. “Rights, Not […]

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Tagged Dennis W. Deslippe, labor studies, women's studies

Purple ribbons and red clothes for International Women’s Day

Posted on March 8, 2017 (March 7, 2017) by rkcunningham
in feminist studies, gender studies, women's history

It is International Women’s Day, comrade! By universal proclamation we honor women and dedicate ourselves to helping them overcome the many obstacles they still face in this man’s world. Indeed, some […]

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Tagged feminism, gender studies, International Women's Day, labor studies, women's studies

Ask the Bolshevik

Posted on March 7, 2017 (March 2, 2017) by rkcunningham
in publishing, radical studies

Meet the UI Press is a recurring feature that delves into issues affecting academic publishing, writing, education, and related topics. Today, industry advice columnist The Bolshevik answers your questions. Dear Bolshevik, […]

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Tagged aftershave, Ask the Bolshevik, Casanova, kangaroos, Manhood on the Line, masculinity, Philippe Sollers, Stephen Meyer

Anatomy of a Peggy Seeger classic

Posted on March 1, 2017 (February 28, 2017) by rkcunningham
in biography, music, women

Excerpted from Peggy Seeger: A Life of Music, Love, and Politics, by Jean Freedman Peggy had written some mildly feminist songs, such as “Darling Annie,” about an equal partnership between […]

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Tagged feminism, folk music, Jean Freedman, Peggy Seeger

Backlist Bop: Only Pam Grier can save us

Posted on February 28, 2017 (February 23, 2017) by rkcunningham
in African American Studies, feminist studies, film, women

This lively study unpacks the intersecting racial, sexual, and gender politics underlying the representations of racialized bodies, masculinities, and femininities in early 1970s black action films, with particular focus on […]

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Tagged African American Women, movies

Jose Angel N. on undocumented immigrants and negative growth

Posted on February 27, 2017 (February 27, 2017) by rkcunningham
in biography, immigration, politics

Today at The Point, José Ángel N. contributes an essay drawing on his experiences as an undocumented immigrant to ponder American progress, the idea of home, and today’s fraught immigration […]

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Tagged essay, Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant, Jose Angel N, UIP authors

200 Years of Illinois: Death of a science fiction master

Posted on February 24, 2017 (February 23, 2017) by rkcunningham
in American literature, science fiction

On February 25, 2009, science fiction master Philip José Farmer—author of the Riverworld series and the Hugo-winning To Your Scattered Bodies Go—departed our reality at age 91. When it happened I wondered, How […]

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Tagged 200 Years of Illinois, Philip José Farmer, science fiction

Kenneth M. Hamilton on Booker T. Washington

Posted on February 23, 2017 (February 23, 2017) by rkcunningham
in Uncategorized

Recently, Kenneth M. Hamilton sat down with podcast The Bookmonger to discuss his new book, Booker T. Washington in American Memory. It is ten minutes well spent as he discusses how […]

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Backlist Bop: Black power in its many forms

Posted on February 23, 2017 (February 23, 2017) by rkcunningham
in African American Studies, black studies, radical studies

Despite the growing scholarly interest in the civil rights movement, to date there has been no comprehensive examination of the Black Power movement. Black Power in the Belly of the […]

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Tagged African American history, black power movement, political science

Release Party: Chinatown Opera Theater in North America, by Nancy Yunhwa Rao

Posted on February 7, 2017 (January 12, 2017) by rkcunningham
in asian american studies, music

The Chinatown opera house provided Chinese immigrants with an essential source of entertainment during the pre–World War II era. But its stories of loyalty, obligation, passion, and duty also attracted […]

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Tagged American music, Asian studies, Chinese Americans, migration, opera

200 Years of Illinois: Cheap Trick is big in Japan

Posted on February 7, 2017 (February 7, 2017) by rkcunningham
in music

February 7, 2017, marks the approximate, not to say the exact, date of a landmark in Illinois rock and roll. On this day (more or less) in 1979, the Rockford band […]

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Tagged 200 Years of Illinois, Cheap Trick, rock and roll music, Rockford

Release Party: Networking China, by Yu Hong

Posted on February 7, 2017 (January 12, 2017) by rkcunningham
in communication

In recent years, China’s leaders have taken decisive action to transform information, communications, and technology (ICT) into the nation’s next pillar industry. In Networking China, Yu Hong offers an overdue […]

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Tagged Asian studies, China, international affairs, labor studies
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