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August 19, 2019 (July 22, 2019)

Q&A with Hannah Durkin, author of “Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham”

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Hannah Durkin is a lecturer in literature and film at Newcastle University. She is a coeditor of Visualising Slavery: Art Across the African Diaspora. She recently answered some questions about her new […]

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June 19, 2019

Peter Cole wins Philip Taft Labor History Book Award for “Dockworker Power”

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We are pleased to announce that Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area by Peter Cole was a co-winner of the Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, […]

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May 20, 2019 (May 13, 2019)

Rediscovering the Black Arts Movement, Jonathan Fenderson on Hoyt Fuller

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Jonathan Fenderson is an assistant professor of African and African American studies at Washington University in St. Louis. He recently answered some questions about his new book Building the Black Arts […]

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May 15, 2019 (May 6, 2019)

Angelique Harris on “Emotions, Feelings, and Social Change”

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Dr. Angelique Harris is the founding director of the Center for Gender and Sexualities Studies and the Gender and Sexualities Studies Program and is an associate professor of sociology  in […]

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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 […]

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December 21, 2018 (December 19, 2018)

Dockworker Power First Recipient of a Grant from the Brooks Fund for Progressive Thought

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The University of Illinois Press is pleased to announce that Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area by Peter Cole has been selected as […]

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August 31, 2018 (August 31, 2018)

Celebrating 40 Years of The Working Class in American History Series

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This labor day weekend, we are celebrating 40 years of The Working Class in American History Series! The Working Class in American History series publishes research that illuminates the broad […]

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August 23, 2018 (August 23, 2018)

Q&A with Keisha Lindsay, author of “In a Classroom of Their Own”

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Keisha Lindsay is an associate professor of gender and women’s studies and political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She recently answered some questions for us about her new book, In […]

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June 18, 2018 (July 11, 2018)

Celebrating Black Music Month

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June is Black Music Month! Here are several titles to help you celebrate and appreciate black artists who have influenced the music industry. Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement Naomi Andre […]

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May 30, 2018 (July 24, 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 […]

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April 16, 2018

Beyond Respectability awarded OAH Merle Curti Intellectual History Award

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We are pleased to announce that Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women by Brittney C. Cooper has won the Organization of American Historians Merle Curti Intellectual History Award. […]

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February 26, 2018

Announcing a New Series: Black Internationalism

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The University of Illinois Press is pleased to announce our new series, Black Internationalism, edited by Keisha N. Blain and Dr. Quito Swan. Dawn Durante, a senior acquisition editor at the […]

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