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July 3, 2020 (June 17, 2020)

Italian American Studies at the U of I Press

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The Journals and Books divisions at the Press endeavor to present scholarship not as two separate entities, but as a unified whole beneath the UIP banner. The field of Italian […]

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February 18, 2019 (February 19, 2019)

Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross Discusses JAEH Article

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Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross is associate professor of history at the University of Victoria and the project director for Landscapes of Injustice, a seven-year, multi-partner research project exploring the forced dispossession […]

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July 5, 2018 (July 16, 2018)

Immigration Reading List

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For many, it is impossible to ignore what is happening in the United States right now. As thousands of families have been separated at the border, many of us have […]

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May 30, 2018 (May 30, 2018)

Q&A with Himanee Gupta-Carlson, author of “Muncie, India(na): Middletown and Asian America”

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Himanee Gupta-Carlson is an associate professor at SUNY Empire State College. She recently answered some questions about her new book, Muncie, India(na): Middletown and Asian America. Q. Muncie, Indiana is […]

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January 18, 2018 (January 19, 2018)

Q&A with Laura E. Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra, editors of “New Italian Migrations to the United States”

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Laura E. Ruberto is a professor of Humanities at Berkeley City College in the Department of Arts and Cultural studies, and Joseph Sciorra is the Director for Academic and Cultural Programs at the […]

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May 5, 2017 (May 3, 2017)

200 Years of Illinois: Dutch windmill

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On May 5, 2001, the village of Fulton officially opened the majestic De Immigrant, the 100-foot tall Dutch windmill overlooking the Mississippi River. Built in the Netherlands and reconstructed piece-by-piece […]

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February 27, 2017 (February 27, 2017)

Jose Angel N. on undocumented immigrants and negative growth

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Today at The Point, José Ángel N. contributes an essay drawing on his experiences as an undocumented immigrant to ponder American progress, the idea of home, and today’s fraught immigration […]

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December 8, 2016 (December 2, 2016)

Backlist Bop: Mythbusting an American institution

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Forbidden Relatives challenges the belief—widely held in the United States—that legislation against marriage between first cousins is based on a biological risk to offspring. In fact, its author maintains, the […]

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December 1, 2016 (November 23, 2016)

Backlist Bop: The Mars Project

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This classic on space travel was first published in 1953, when interplanetary space flight was considered science fiction by most of those who considered it at all. Here the German-born […]

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November 10, 2016 (November 10, 2016)

Throwbacklist Thursday: Cambodians in America

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Winner of the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award, Survivors follows the saga of Cambodian refugees striving to distance themselves from a series of cataclysmic events in their homeland. […]

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November 3, 2016 (November 2, 2016)

Throwbacklist Thursday: The Immigrant Songs

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Pretty much every world religion and ethical system makes a virtue of offering succor to travelers, the rootless, and the persecuted. Immigration, the social-political system we’ve constructed around those ideas, […]

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October 12, 2016 (August 30, 2016)

Release Party: Gendered Asylum

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Women filing gender-based asylum claims long faced skepticism and outright rejection within the U.S. immigration system. Despite erratic progress, the United States still fails to recognize gender as an established […]

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