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May 16, 2017 (May 15, 2017)

Harry Edwards on fighting for black athletes and coaches, whether they like it or not

African American Studies Olympic history politics sports history

An excerpt from the new introduction to The Revolt of the Black Athlete: 50th Anniversary Edition, by Harry Edwards. I believe that over the last fifty years, the facts, the relationships, […]

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April 27, 2017 (April 26, 2017)

Backstreet Bop: Rhythm of the rails

African American Studies american history Illinois / regional music

On this day in 1947, the City of New Orleans made its first run between the Chicago and the Crescent City on the Illinois Central line. The City traveled the early 921-mile […]

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April 13, 2017 (April 4, 2017)

Backlist Bop: Take a Ride on the Reading

African American Studies American literature literary studies

As main man LeVar Burton can attest, you can go twice as high if you take a look, it’s in a book. Reading, though an essential skill to anyone outside politics, […]

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February 28, 2017 (February 23, 2017)

Backlist Bop: Only Pam Grier can save us

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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February 23, 2017 (February 23, 2017)

Backlist Bop: Black power in its many forms

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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February 22, 2017

Funk the Power, Funk the Erotic

African American Studies black studies gender studies sexuality studies

“We have just witnessed a spectacular demonstration of the failures of a national, political imagination. Many of us feel devastated, afraid, and confused. There is no better time than this […]

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February 1, 2017 (January 11, 2017)

Release Party: The Loyal West, by Matthew E. Stanley

African American Studies american history Illinois / regional military history

A free region deeply influenced by southern mores, the Lower Middle West represented a true cultural and political median in Civil War–era America. Here grew a Unionism steeped in the […]

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January 24, 2017 (January 20, 2017)

Sa-lute: Another award for “Funk the Erotic”

African American Studies literary studies music

Awards season continues with one of our already-lauded books receiving another prize. L. H. Stallings‘s Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures has won the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award, […]

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January 17, 2017 (December 12, 2016)

Release Party: May Irwin, by Sharon Ammen

African American Studies biography music

May Irwin reigned as America’s queen of comedy and song from the 1880s through the 1920s. A genuine pop culture phenomenon, Irwin conquered the legitimate stage, composed song lyrics, and […]

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January 5, 2017 (December 15, 2016)

Separating families for enslavement

African American Studies american history migration sexuality studies women's history world history

Excerpted from Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage, by Sowande’ M. Mustakeem The nature of slavery inflicted permanent scars as traders moved purchased captives off […]

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November 11, 2016 (November 10, 2016)

Guest post: “Making America great again with Octavia Butler,” by Gerry Canavan

African American Studies biography science fiction

Today’s post is by Gerry Canavan, author of the new UIP book Octavia E. Butler. Canavan is an assistant professor of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature at Marquette University, specializing in science […]

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November 10, 2016 (November 10, 2016)

Octavia Butler and a new direction

African American Studies American literature science fiction

Octavia Butler accomplished many near-impossibles. She succeeded as a woman in science fiction. She succeeded as an African American woman in science fiction. She also broke out of the genre’s […]

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