On August 27, 2012, we will publish a paperback edition of Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC, edited by Faith S. Holsaert, Martha Prescod Norman Noonan, […]
Category: black studies
Q&A with Blackness in Opera editors
On March 26, 2012, we published Blackness in Opera, which examines the intersections of race and music in the multifaceted genre of opera. The collection’s editors, Naomi André, Karen M. Bryan, […]
Q&A with Julie A. Gallagher, author of Black Women & Politics in New York City
On June 18, 2012, we will publish Black Women & Politics in New York City by Julie A. Gallagher, assistant professor of history at Pennsylvania State University, Brandywine. Professor Gallagher […]
Meta DuEwa Jones on Left of Black
Meta DuEwa Jones, author of the recent book The Muse Is Music: Jazz Poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to Spoken Word, was a guest in the second half of the April 2, […]
Good Times for Equal Time
Finished copies of Aniko Bodroghkozy’s book Equal Time: Television and the Civil Rights Movement just arrived from the printer and will be officially published on March 12, 2012. Equal Time […]
Pete Daniel in PBS program Slavery by Another Name
Pete Daniel, author of the University of Illinois Press book The Shadow of Slavery: Peonage in the South, 1901-1969, explains in the documentary Slavery by Another Name why the 13th […]
Q&A with Eugene Kinckle Jones author Felix Armfield
Eugene Kinckle Jones (1885–1954) is an underknown figure in American history, but he was instrumental in professionalizing black social work in America. Author Felix L. Armfield discusses his discovery of […]
Praise for Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance
In December 2011 we published Steven Tracy’s edited volume Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance, which covers a vast collection of subjects, including many important writers such as Richard Wright, […]
NPR explores Beauty Shop Politics
NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with Tiffany Gill, author of the University of Illinois Press book Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry on the December 28, […]
The Root and Foreword Reviews review From Jim Crow to Jay-Z
Miles White’s From Jim Crow to Jay-Z: Race, Rap, and the Performance of Masculinity has picked up some recent endorsements. The book examines how representations of black masculinity in musical and cultural […]
Q&A with Daughter of the Empire State author Jacqueline A. McLeod
On December 5, 2011, we will publish Daughter of the Empire State: The Life of Judge Jane Bolin, a biography of the nation’s first African American woman judge. Author Jacqueline A. […]
Art in America reviews “Races of Mankind”
The November 2011 issue of Art In America magazine features a four-page review, with multiple illustrations, of Marianne Kinkel’s new book Races of Mankind: The Sculptures of Malvina Hoffman. The book traces […]