October’s free e-book is here! Check out Manifest Technique: Hip Hop, Empire, and Visionary Filipino American Culture by Mark R. Villegas before the month is over! Filipino Americans have been […]
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Free E-book Giveaway: BUY BLACK
August’s free e-book is here! Check out Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture by Aria S. Halliday before the month is over! Buy Black examines the role American […]
Q&A with the author of WAIKIKI DREAMS
Patrick Moser, the author of Waikiki Dreams: How California Appropriated Hawaiian Beach Culture, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? I wanted […]
Free E-book Giveaway: BUILDING SUSTAINABLE WORLDS
May’s free e-book is here! Check out Building Sustainable Worlds: Latinx Placemaking in the Midwest edited by Theresa Delgadillo, Ramon H. Rivera-Servera, Geraldo L. Cadava, and Claire F. Fox before […]
Free E-book Giveaway: DRESSED FOR FREEDOM
January’s free e-book is here! Check out Dressed for Freedom: The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox before the month is over! Often condemned as a form of […]
Q&A with Shreerekha Pillai, editor of CARCERAL LIBERALISM
Shreerekha Pillai, editor of Carceral Liberalism: Feminist Voices against State Violence, answers questions on her new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? This is a case […]
Free E-book Giveaway: A HISTORY OF THE OZARKS, VOLUME 1
July’s free e-book is here! Check out A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1: The Old Ozarks by Brooks Blevins before the month is over! Geologic forces raised the Ozarks. […]
Free E-book Giveaway: AFRO-NOSTALGIA
February’s free e-book is here! Check out Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture by Badia Aha-Legardy before the month is over! As early as the eighteenth century, white Americans […]
Q&A with the authors of MARIANNE MEETS THE MORMONS
Heather Belnap, Corry Cropper, and Daryl Lee, authors of Marianne Meets the Mormons: Representations of Mormonism in Nineteenth-Century France, answers questions on their scholarly influences, discoveries, and reader takeaways from […]
Free Ebook Giveaway: BLACK QUEER FREEDOM
June’s free ebook is here! Check out Black Queer Freedom: Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire by GerShun Avilez before the month is over! Whether engaged in same-sex desire […]
Q&A With Rachel E. Black, Author of Cheffes de Cuisine
Rachel E. Black, author of Cheffes de Cuisine: Women and Work in the Professional French Kitchen, answers questions on her culinary influences, discoveries, and reader takeaways from her book. Q: […]
ASALH 2021 Virtual Exhibit
Welcome to the University of Illinois Press Association for the Study of African American Life and History 2021 virtual exhibit! Step inside and take a look at some of our […]