Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2022 Association for the Study of African American Life and History annual conference! Explore our extensive collection of books, […]
ASALH 2022 Virtual Exhibit
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Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2022 Association for the Study of African American Life and History annual conference! Explore our extensive collection of books, […]
September’s free ebook is here! Check out Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century by Danielle Fuentes Morgan before the month is over! By subverting […]
Join us in congratulating Tyrone Mckinley Freeman, whose book, Madam C. J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving: Black Women’s Philanthropy during Jim Crow, has been shortlisted for the 2022 Indiana Authors Awards in […]
We are pleased to announce that Surviving South Hampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner’s Community by Vanessa M. Holden has won the James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize from SHEAR […]
Miriam Thaggert, author of Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad, answers questions on the significance of the time period she writes about, what she hopes readers […]
We are pleased to announce that Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund has awarded a grant to support publication of the book Dream Books and Gamblers: Black Women’s […]
June’s free ebook is here! Check out Black Queer Freedom: Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire by GerShun Avilez before the month is over! Whether engaged in same-sex desire […]
Welcome to the Press’s 2020 ASALH Virtual Exhibit! Browse our newest Black studies titles, as well as journals that disseminate Black studies scholarship. And use Promo Code ASALH20 to get […]
African American figures and subjects continue to play a central role in the stories and scholarship offered by the Press. A number of recent releases highlight our commitment to publishing […]
We are pleased to announce Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement by Naomi André has won the Society for American Music‘s Irving Lowens Book Award. From the SAM Bulletin:“Focusing on opera, […]
We are pleased to announce Banjo Roots and Branches edited by Robert B. Winans has won the American Musical Instrument Society’s Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize. The Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize is awarded […]
Here are 5 new African American Studies books to keep an eye out for at ASALH this year. Make sure to stop by the UIP booth and check them out! […]