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 […]
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Free Ebook Giveaway: SEX TESTING
May’s free ebook is here! Check out Sex Testing: Gender Policing in Women’s Sports by Lindsay Parks Pieper before the month is over! In 1968, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) […]
Free Ebook Giveaway: Queering the Global Filipina Body
April’s free ebook is here! Check out Queering the Global Filipina Body: Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/o Diaspora by Gina K. Velasco before the month is over! Contemporary popular culture […]
Free Ebook Giveaway: The Heart of a Woman
Celebrate Women’s History Month with March’s free ebook The Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price by Rae Linda Brown. The giveaway ends at the […]
African American Studies E-Book Sale
To celebrate Black History Month, we’re making all African American Studies e-books $8 during the month of February. Use promo code BHM22. See the books on sale here. […]
Free Ebook Giveaway: The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago
Celebrate Black History Month with February’s free ebook THE MERCHANT PRINCE OF BLACK CHICAGO: ANTHONY OVERTON AND THE BUILDING OF A FINANCIAL EMPIRE by Robert E. Weems Jr.! Born to […]
January Free E-book: Between Fitness and Death
January’s free e-book is Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean by Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy. Winner of the 2021 Disability History Association Outstanding Book Award, it’s a groundbreaking […]
Free Ebook Giveaway: Ritual Soundings
November’s free ebook is here! We’re giving away Ritual Soundings: Women Performers and World Religions by Sarah Weiss. The women of communities in Hindu India and Christian Orthodox Finland alike […]
UI Press Receives National Endowment for the Humanities Grant
The University of Illinois Press is pleased to announce the receipt of a grant of $199,794 from the National Endowment for the Humanities Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan […]
Free Ebook Giveaway: The Labor of Care
October’s free ebook is here! We’re giving away The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age by Valerie Francisco-Menchavez. For generations, migration moved in one […]
September Free Ebook Giveaway: In a Classroom of Their Own
September’s free ebook is here! We’re giving away In a Classroom of Their Own: The Intersection of Race and Feminist Politics in All-Black Male Schools by Keisha Lindsay! Many advocates […]
August Free Ebook Giveaway: The Enforcers
August’s free ebook is here! We’re giving away The Enforcers: How Little-known Trade Reporters Exposed The Keating Five and Advanced Business Journalism by Rob Wells! Charles H. Keating had long […]