Category Archives: Authors on Issues

March 8, 2019

Sonja Thomas on “Tap Dancing and Embodied Feminist Pedagogies”

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Sonja Thomas is an assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Colby College, where she teaches courses on gender and human rights, feminist theory, critical race feminisms, and postcolonial and native feminisms. She is the author of Privileged … Continue reading →

May 30, 2018

Authors on Issues: Courtney Baker on Childish Gambino’s “This is America”

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The following is a guest post from Courtney R. Baker, the author of Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African-American Suffering and Death. ? When I first published my book on looking at images of African American suffering and death, … Continue reading →

April 23, 2018

Authors on Issues: Stefan M. Bradley on the 1968 Columbia University Student Rebellion

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The following is a guest post from Stefan M. Bradley, the author of Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s. “Racist Gym Must Go!”: Remembering the 1968 Columbia University Student Rebellion. Any story involving Alexander Hamilton, … Continue reading →

March 13, 2018

Authors on Issues: Jane Rhodes on “Black Panther” Mania

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The following is a guest post from Jane Rhodes, the author of Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon.  The Revolution has come. . . Again Panthermania is back. In the 1960s and 1970s, and … Continue reading →

February 2, 2018

Authors on Issues: The Political Football

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 In this latest installment in our Authors on Issues series, Thomas P. Oates, author of Football and Manliness: An Unauthorized Feminist Account of the NFL, writes about the political and cultural force of the NFL.    The Political Football By Thomas … Continue reading →

November 1, 2017

Authors on Issues: What do Employers have to do with Individualism and Racism?

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        In this latest installment in our Authors on Issues series, Rosemary Feurer and Chad Pearson, co-editors of the edited collection Against Labor: How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism, write about how employers use racism to divide … Continue reading →

June 12, 2017

Authors on Issues: Valerie Francisco on “My Family’s Slave”

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  This is the inaugural post of our new series, Authors on Issues, in which UIP authors weigh in on current events. Valerie Francisco, author of The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age, responded to the recent … Continue reading →