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August 12, 2014 (August 7, 2014)

Roberta Gold: tenants’ rights and equitable citizenship

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Economic inequality has been making headlines, and so have mitigating measures like living wage bills, which have passed in several cities. There is no denying the importance of such reforms. […]

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August 1, 2014 (July 31, 2014)

Brazil’s sex tourism perceptions and culture

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Erica Lorraine Williams visited the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University to discuss her book Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements. In her talk, Williams examines the impact of […]

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June 5, 2014 (June 4, 2014)

Q&A with Maya Market Women author S. Ashley Kistler

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S. Ashley Kistler is an assistant professor of anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Rollins College. In her new book Maya Market Women: Power and Tradition in San Juan Chamelco, […]

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May 20, 2014 (May 19, 2014)

Q&A with Autism and Gender author Jordynn Jack

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Jordynn Jack is an associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She is the author of Autism and Gender: From Refrigerator Mothers to Computer Geeks. She recently answered […]

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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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April 14, 2014 (April 11, 2014)

Q&A with Sex Tourism in Bahia author Erica Lorraine Williams

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Erica Lorraine Williams is an assistant professor of anthropology at Spelman College.  She answered some questions about her book Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements. Q: For your book research you […]

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March 26, 2014 (April 29, 2014)

Applications now open for NWSA/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize

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June 1, 2014, is the next application deadline for the NWSA/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize. From the NWSA press release: The National Women’s Studies Association and the University […]

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March 13, 2014 (March 14, 2014)

Q&A with Caribbean Spaces author Carole Boyce Davies

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Carole Boyce Davies is a professor of Africana studies and English at Cornell University. She is the editor of the three-volume Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture and several other collections […]

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February 25, 2014

Caribbean Spaces up for OCM Bocas Prize

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Carole Boyce-Davies has been named to the long list for the 2014 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones is one of three books nominated […]

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October 17, 2013

Hear Our Truths: the music video

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To promote Ruth Nicole Brown’s forthcoming book Hear Our Truths: The Creative Potential of Black Girlhood, the UIP staff decided to get creative ourselves.  The result is our first-ever self produced […]

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