To coincide with multiple music meetings in November 2014, we are offering eBook versions of four University of Illinois Press music titles on sale for $4.99. The sale will run through […]
Hear Our Truths: Black Girl Genius Week November 3-8
Ruth Nicole Brown’s book Hear Our Truths: The Creative Potential of Black Girlhood examines how Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truths, or SOLHOT, a radical youth intervention, provides a space […]
Q&A with Digital Depression author Dan Schiller
Dan Schiller is a professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science and the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is answered some questions […]
Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed wins Association for Humanist Sociology book award
On October 11 Shannon Elizabeth Bell accepted the Association for Humanist Sociology book award for 2014 at the AHS conference in Cleveland, Ohio, Bell’s Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed was selected […]
Chicken in the coffee pot: a pioneer’s blues tale
Steve Cushing’s book Pioneers of the Blues Revival is a treasure trove for blues fans who want to learn the stories behind such roots music giants as Mississippi John Hurt, […]
Ray Bradbury’s ‘Moby Dick’
Many a high school English student has turned to a video of the 1950s film adaptation of Moby-Dick when faced with writing a report on lengthy sea tale. The plot […]
Intersecting queer rights and immigration rights
How are queerness and immigration linked? Karma R. Chávez, author of Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities, sees many commonalities and barriers for activists in both these communities. […]
Happy birthday, Natalie Maines
Name one other banjo player who wears Prada. And I don’t mean Prada overalls. —Natalie Maines The lead singer of the breakout bluegrass trio the Dixie Chicks, Natalie Maines, was […]
Author Berenbaum honored by President
University of Illinois press author and professor of entomology May Berenbaum has been awarded the National Medal of Science. The Medal is the nation’s highest honor for “achievement and leadership […]
$2.99 eBook sale on select music titles
To coincide with this month’s International Bluegrass Music Association’s World of Bluegrass event in Raleigh, North Carolina, we are offering eBook versions of four University of Illinois Press music titles on sale […]
Beyond the White Negro wins Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize
The UIP book Beyond the White Negro: Empathy and Anti-Racist Reading by Kimberly Chabot Davis has won the 2014 Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize, sponsored by the New England American Studies […]
Q&A with Winning the War for Democracy author David Lucander
David Lucander is a professor of history at SUNY Rockland Community College. He recently answered some questions about his UIP book Winning the War for Democracy: The March on Washington Movement, […]