How do we lift the silicon heel from the lives of the exploited workers who make our gadgets? Jack Linchuan Qiu‘s insightful and enraging new book Goodbye iSlave delves into one of the […]
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Throwbacklist Thursday: The Immigrant Songs
Pretty much every world religion and ethical system makes a virtue of offering succor to travelers, the rootless, and the persecuted. Immigration, the social-political system we’ve constructed around those ideas, […]
How ’bout a Nice Hawaiian Putsch?
For years, native Hawaiians had fought with a modest degree of success to maintain their autonomy. But in 1893, white businessmen—sugar magnates and the like—had taken control by tossing out […]
Dissident Feminisms New Series Editor: Elora Halim Chowdhury
By Dawn Durante, Acquisitions Editor The University of Illinois Press is pleased to share the news that Elora Halim Chowdhury is the new editor of the Dissident Feminisms series. Dr. […]
Throwbacklist Thursday: O Mother, Where Art Thou?
I wouldn’t try being a mom for a million bucks. I’m not just talking about all the surgery it would require. Fatherhood is definitely its own cross to bear, don’t […]
5 reasons to visit us at AAAS
Headed to Miami for the Association for Asian American Studies conference April 28-30? We have your agenda. Warm up for the proceedings by checking out our great new UIP titles along with […]
Not our first Zika
To judge when an emerging pathogen enters the historical record, we look to medical journals and the Centers for Disease Control. To judge when an emerging pathogen enters the zeitgiest, […]
The story of Cappy Harada
Baseball had been a popular pastime in Japanese American communities for years prior to World War Two. When the incarceration of people of Japanese descent finally ended, players and fans […]
The Tao of Ho
Eighty-five years ago today, out where the warm trade winds blow, Don Ho began life in Hawai’i, one of the nicer outposts of our current reality. In time, his mellow singing […]
Shilpa and Kal in Washington
Shilpa Davé writes about the “brown voice” of South Asian characters in tv and on film in her book Indian Accents: Brown Voice and Racial Performance in American Television and Film. Featured […]
Annexing an island in the empire
On July 7, 1898, President William McKinley signed the Newlands Resolution which annexed the Republic of Hawai’i and created the Territory of Hawai’i. The annexation gave the U.S. use of […]
Ebertfest hosts Spike Lee and VIPs get SPIKE LEE
The UIP has been partnering with Champaign’s annual Roger Ebert Film Festival for several years now, contributing books from the Contemporary Film Directors Series for the Fest to give to […]