The February 2011 issue of Essence magazine features Charlayne Hunter-Gault’s review of Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. The stories of the ‘beloved community’ of […]
Category: reviews
CHE Q&A w/ Dr. Vang
The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s PageView column recently profiled Chia Youyee Vang’s new book Hmong America: Reconstructing Community in Diaspora, including a short interview with Dr. Vang. “Q. As a member of the […]
“Gone to the Country” reviewed in The Wall Street Journal
The December 18, 2010, issue of The Wall Street Journal features a review of Ray Allen’s new book Gone to the Country: The New Lost City Ramblers and the Folk Music […]
WSJ.com recommends Sacred Steel for the holidays
The Wall Street Journal‘s online holiday gift guide recommends Sacred Steel: Inside an African American Steel Guitar Tradition. “The steel guitar is fundamental to the rollicking music of Pentecostal worship […]
Ms. on Hands on the Freedom Plow
Jillian Weinberger reviews Hands on the Freedom Plow for Ms. Magazine’s blog. “Most of the narratives in this invaluable collection proudly note that while an element of gender bias certainly […]
AARP The Magazine reviews Hands on the Freedom Plow
The online version of AARP The Magazine just published a review of Hands on the Freedom Plow. “With the exception of Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, and Fannie Lou Hamer, […]
Washington Post’s The Root reviews Hands on the Freedom Plow
On November 9, 2010, The Root published Charles Cobb’s review of Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. “Women are almost invisible in civil rights storytelling, and […]
Library Journal starred review for “Hands on the Freedom Plow”
Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC received a *starred* review in the October 1, 2010, issue of Library Journal. “Powerful, inspiring, and tremendously moving, the oral […]
The Chicago Sun-Times answers the question “what’s that pig outdoors?”
The August 29, 2010, edition of the Chicago Sun-Times profiled the University of Illinois Press reissue of What’s That Pig Outdoors? A Memoir of Deafness by Henry Kisor. “Henry’s Norman Rockwell upbringing […]
The Taste for Civilization on MSNBC
A recent story on MSNBC referenced Janet Flammang’s The Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics, and Civil Society and Michael Pollan’s review of the book in NYRB. “Working women are too busy to […]
TLS reviews “Golf in America”
The May 21 issue of the Times Literary Supplement includes David Goldblatt’s favorable review of George Kirsch’s recent book Golf in America. “Kirsch delivers excellent pen portraits of the great, good […]
“The Taste for Civilization” in The New York Review of Books
The June 10, 2010, issue of The New York Review of Books features an essay by Michael Pollan titled “The Food Movement, Rising.” The piece touches on food safety, animal welfare, the environment, […]