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Journals Q4 UPdate
Q&A with Leta E. Miller, author of UNION DIVIDED
Leta E. Miller, author of Union Divided: Black Musicians’ Fight for Labor Equality, answers questions on her new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? The story […]
Q&A with the editors of SOUND PEDAGOGY
Colleen Renihan, John Spilker, and Trudi Wright, editors of Sound Pedagogy: Radical Care in Music, answers questions on their new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? […]
Q&A with the editors of CHICAGO’S MODERN MAYORS
Dick Simpson and Betty O’Shaughnessy, editors of Chicago’s Modern Mayors: From Harold Washington to Lori Lightfoot, answers questions on their new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this […]
Q&A with Siobhan Moroney, author of CHICAGOLAND DREAM HOUSES
Siobhan Moroney, author of Chicagoland Dream Houses: How a Mid-Century Architecture Competition Reimagined the American Home, answers questions on her new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this […]
Q&A with Robert Bruno, author of WHAT WORK IS
Robert Bruno, author of What Work Is, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? I discovered the poetry of Phillip Levine. His […]
Q&A with Carole Pegg, author of DRONES, TONES, AND TIMBRES
Carole Pegg, author of Drones, Tones, and Timbres: Sounding Place among Nomads of the Inner Asian Mountain-Steppes, answers questions on her new book. Q: Why did you decide to write […]
Q&A with Kim Hong Nguyen, author of MEAN GIRL FEMINISM
Kim Hong Nguyen, author of Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss, answers questions on her new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? […]
2024 Black History Month
African American Studies is a cornerstone of the University of Illinois Press. While we honor Black history all year, this month we’re celebrating with some of our favorite and forthcoming […]
Q&A with Patrick Wohl, author of DOWN BALLOT
Patrick Wohl, author of Down Ballot: How a Local Campaign Became a National Referendum on Abortion, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this […]
Free E-book Giveaway: THE LIFE OF MADIE HALL XUMA
February’s free e-book is here! Check out The Life of Madie Hall Xuma: Black Women’s Global Activism during Jim Crow and Apartheid by Wanda A. Hendricks before the month is […]
Q&A with Michael Austin, author of THE TESTIMONY OF TWO NATIONS
Michael Austin, author of The Testimony of Two Nations: How the Book of Mormon Reads, and Rereads, the Bible, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide […]