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Category Archives: radical studies
2018 NWSA/UIP First Book Prize: Call for Papers
in Call for Papers, feminist studies, gender, gender studies, NWSA First Book Prize, radical studies, women, women's history
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Call for Papers for the 2018 NWSA/UIP First Book Prize The University of Illinois Press and the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) are pleased to continue the annual competition for the best dissertation or first book manuscript by a single … Continue reading
Ask the Bolshevik
in publishing, radical studies
Tagged Ask the Bolshevik, Meet the UI Press, Publishing
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Meet the UI Press is a recurring feature that delves into issues affecting academic publishing, writing, education, and related topics. Today, industry advice columnist The Bolshevik answers your questions. Dear Bolshevik, The other day I caught up with a science story that … Continue reading
Backlist Bop: Soviet conspiracy unveiled!
in american history, biography, radical studies
Tagged Backlist Bop, cold war, communism, espionage, Thomas Sakmyster
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Comrades, The Press has asked me, The Bolshevik, to pause from my advice column to fill in with the popular Backlist Bop feature. And good timing it is, for today the roulette wheel of UIP books stops on Radical Studies. … Continue reading
Backlist Bop: John Lennon knows politics ain’t easy
in american history, music, politics, radical studies
Tagged FBI, John Lennon, Jon Wiener, protest
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As the tumultuous late Sixties and early Seventies retreat into history, the zeitgeist is steadily sanding the many rough edges off John Lennon in order to enjoy his music without all the bummer stuff. But Lennon in his own time … Continue reading
Ask the Bolshevik
in publishing, radical studies
Tagged aftershave, Ask the Bolshevik, Casanova, kangaroos, Manhood on the Line, masculinity, Philippe Sollers, Stephen Meyer
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Meet the UI Press is a recurring feature that delves into issues affecting academic publishing, writing, education, and related topics. Today, industry advice columnist The Bolshevik answers your questions. Dear Bolshevik, The other day it occurred to me that literacy is … Continue reading
Backlist Bop: Black power in its many forms
in African American Studies, black studies, radical studies
Tagged African American history, black power movement, political science
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Despite the growing scholarly interest in the civil rights movement, to date there has been no comprehensive examination of the Black Power movement. Black Power in the Belly of the Beast fills this gap by providing the first in-depth look … Continue reading
Ask the Bolshevik: The alternative reality era
in publishing, radical studies
Tagged Ask the Bolshevik, censorship, Meet the UI Press, Publishing
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Meet the UI Press is a recurring feature that delves into issues affecting academic publishing, writing, education, and related topics. Today, industry advice columnist The Bolshevik answers your questions. Dear Bolshevik, With the amazing recent changes in the political landscape, does … Continue reading
Release Party: Of G-Men and Eggheads
in american history, communication, radical studies
Tagged FBI, John Rodden, red scare
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Back before the FBI was accused of throwing elections, it kept immense files on all sorts of American citizens. Many of these suspicious characters worked as public intellectuals, a class of people regarded in some circles as, by definition, subversive. John … Continue reading
Our lives and all lives under the silicon heel
in all things digital, labor history, radical studies
Tagged Asian studies, China, labor studies, slavery, technology
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Excerpted from the new UIP book Goodbye iSlave, by Jack Linchuan Qiu. Hans Rollman at PopMatters reviewed the book here. Welcome to a brave New World of profit making, propelled by high technology, guarded by enterprising authority, carried forward by millions of … Continue reading
Ask the Bolshevik: A Nobel confusion
in music, radical studies
Tagged Ask the Bolshevik, Bob Dylan, folk music, literature, Nobel Prize
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Dear Bolshevik, As a part of the highbrow academic publishing community, what do you think about Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize in Literature? I know you’re not putting out fiction and poetry. But does giving that kind of august … Continue reading
