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March 24, 2014 (March 12, 2014)

Q&A with Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad author Cheryl LaRoche

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Cheryl Janifer LaRoche is a lecturer in American studies at the University of Maryland. She answered some questions about her book Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of […]

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March 17, 2014

Living with Lynching author recognized by Congress

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On Friday, March 14, 2014, Koritha Mitchell, author of Living with Lynching:  African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930, spoke at the James Madison Memorial Building of the Library of Congress. […]

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March 13, 2014 (March 14, 2014)

Q&A with Caribbean Spaces author Carole Boyce Davies

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Carole Boyce Davies is a professor of Africana studies and English at Cornell University. She is the editor of the three-volume Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture and several other collections […]

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March 7, 2014 (March 5, 2014)

Living with Lynching author to speak at Library of Congress

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How did African Americans survive the period between 1890 and 1930 when mobs lynched members of their communities and proudly circulated pictures of the mutilated corpses?  How did African Americans […]

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March 5, 2014 (March 4, 2014)

Q&A with the editors of Gendered Resistance

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Delores M. Walters is a cultural anthropologist who directs the Southern Rhode Island Area Health Education Center at the University of Rhode Island. The Center aims to alleviate health disparities […]

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February 25, 2014

Caribbean Spaces up for OCM Bocas Prize

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Carole Boyce-Davies has been named to the long list for the 2014 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones is one of three books nominated […]

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February 12, 2014 (February 12, 2014)

Q&A with Hear Our Truths author Ruth Nicole Brown

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Ruth Nicole Brown is an assistant professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of Black Girlhood Celebration: Toward a Hip-Hop Feminist […]

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January 30, 2014 (February 5, 2014)

Black History Month $2.99 e-book sale

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For the month of February we have lowered the e-book list price of five Black History titles in the University of Illinois Press catalog to $2.99. King: A Biography, Third Edition […]

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January 20, 2014 (January 17, 2014)

David Levering Lewis on the Martin Luther King, Jr. legacy

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Fifty years after the historic March on Washington and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, many are reflecting on the King legacy. David Levering Lewis writes in […]

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January 13, 2014

Carole Boyce Davies finds a ‘missed opportunity’ in 12 Years a Slave

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Carole Boyce Davies, author of Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones has written about some of differences between the film 12 Years a Slave and the 1854 memoir penned by […]

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January 8, 2014 (December 22, 2015)

Caribbean Spaces makes Best of 2013 for The Public Archive

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Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones by Carole Boyce Davies was featured on The Public Archive’s “best of 2013” list of recent work from the fields of Black and Africana Studies. From the […]

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January 7, 2014

Happy birthday, Zora Neale Hurston

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Harlem Renaissance author Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 7, 1891. Also an American folklorist and anthropologist, Hurston wrote short stories, plays, essays and four novels including Their Eyes Were Watching […]

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