Shreerekha Pillai, editor of Carceral Liberalism: Feminist Voices against State Violence, answers questions on her new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? This is a case […]
Q&A with Shreerekha Pillai, editor of CARCERAL LIBERALISM

Shreerekha Pillai, editor of Carceral Liberalism: Feminist Voices against State Violence, answers questions on her new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? This is a case […]
July’s free e-book is here! Check out A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1: The Old Ozarks by Brooks Blevins before the month is over! Geologic forces raised the Ozarks. […]
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 […]
Laura E. Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra, guest editors of Italian American Review Special Issue, answer questions on their biggest influences, interesting takeaways, and advice to scholars. Q: What were the […]
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 […]
Author, Koritha Mitchell, of From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture answers questions about her influences, discoveries, and dispelling myths about African American culture. […]
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 […]
One might be forgiven for thinking that, given current political trends, a new public affection for censorship is in the offing. After all, history shows that the Americans who loudly […]
With robots and other thinking devices prepared to replace us in about eight days, we thought it time to curry favor by highlighting UIP titles that engage the dilemmas and […]
Ralph M. Leck teaches in the University Honors Program at Indiana State University. He answered some questions about his book Vita Sexualis: Karl Ulrichs and the Origins of Sexual Science. Q: […]
Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures by L. H. Stallings has won the Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work by One or More Authors in Women’s Studies. […]
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 […]