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October 1, 2021 (September 29, 2021)

Free Ebook Giveaway: The Labor of Care

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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 […]

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October 28, 2020 (August 21, 2020)

Q&A with Ann Flesor Beck, Author of Sweet Greeks

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Author, Ann Flesor Beck of Sweet Greeks: First-Generation Immigrant Confectioners in the Heartland, answers questions about her family influences, purpose for writing and myths she hopes to dispel about first-generation […]

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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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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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March 28, 2018 (March 22, 2018)

AAAS 2018 Conference Roundup

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Are you headed to the 2018 Association for Asian American Studies conference in San Francisco? We are! Here is a preview of new books in The Asian American Experience series to […]

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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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January 5, 2017 (December 15, 2016)

Separating families for enslavement

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Excerpted from Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage, by Sowande’ M. Mustakeem The nature of slavery inflicted permanent scars as traders moved purchased captives off […]

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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 8, 2015 (October 6, 2015)

Throwbacklist Thursday

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Migrations are in the news again. As happens when humanity goes through one of its giant spasms of violence, displacement follows. People tired of bombs, bullets, hunger, and the rest […]

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