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September 1, 2022 (August 22, 2022)

Free E-book Giveaway: LAUGHING TO KEEP FROM DYING

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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 […]

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August 26, 2022 (August 29, 2022)

Q&A with Laura E. Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra, Guest Editors of ITALIAN AMERICAN REVIEW Special Issue

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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 […]

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June 1, 2022 (May 31, 2022)

Free Ebook Giveaway: BLACK QUEER FREEDOM

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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 […]

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August 31, 2020 (September 1, 2020)

Q&A with Koritha Mitchell, Author of From Slave Cabins to the White House

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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. […]

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July 13, 2020 (June 30, 2020)

African Americans in Chicago

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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 […]

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January 6, 2017 (January 4, 2017)

Backlist Bop: Four censorship battles

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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 […]

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August 4, 2016 (July 27, 2016)

Throwbacklist Thursday: Welcome to the Machine

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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 […]

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April 13, 2016 (April 27, 2016)

Q&A with Vita Sexualis author Ralph Leck

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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: […]

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February 17, 2016 (February 17, 2016)

Funk the Erotic wins Emily Toth Award

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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. […]

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October 7, 2014 (October 3, 2014)

Beyond the White Negro wins Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize

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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 […]

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May 1, 2014

Ruth Nicole Brown: “Black girlhood is freedom”

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Ruth Nicole Brown is an assistant professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of Hear Our Truths: The Creative Potential of […]

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