african american studies

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The (real) cost of living with dignity

This week in North Philly Notes, Lisa Iezzoni, author of Making Their Days Happen, writes about the personal and political implications

6 min read 2021-12-23 01:11:07

This week in North Philly Notes, the staff at Temple University Press suggests the Temple University Press books they would give along with

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This week in North Philly Notes, we present the new issues of Kalfou. PROLOGUEThe Last Straw • Cherríe Moraga 9————————SPECIAL

6 min read 2021-12-02 00:06:13

This week in North Philly Notes, we are pleased to present our forthcoming Spring 2022 titles (in alphabetical order). Africana Studies:

1 min read 2021-11-24 21:35:00

New from UNC Press Blog Last Week, UNC Press author of White Philanthropy Maribel Morey had a conversation with Wesleyan University’s Khalil

1 min read 2021-11-19 21:30:00

New from UNC Press Blog Earlier this month we shared a virtual conversation held at the 33rd annual Southern Festival of Books. We’re back this

1 min read 2021-11-15 21:30:00

New from UNC Press Blog The following is an excerpt from Ashley D. Farmer’s Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era. In this

1 min read 2021-11-11 21:45:00

New from UNC Press Blog Happy tenth anniversary to University Press Week! This year’s Association of University Presses annual celebration,

1 min read 2021-11-11 21:00:00

In celebration of the tenth annual University Press Week, we are sharing the “famous last words” from ten of our most noteworthy books of the

1 min read 2021-11-09 21:30:00

New from UNC Press Blog Happy tenth anniversary to University Press Week! This year’s Association of University Presses annual celebration,

1 min read 2021-11-08 10:11:30

University Press Week is November 8-12. The UP Blog Tour will feature entries all week long that celebrate this year’s theme, “Keep UP.” This

1 min read 2021-11-01 20:43:18

This week in North Philly Notes, Shamira Gelbman, author of The Civil Rights Lobby, writes about the history of the Leadership Conference on Civil

1 min read 2021-11-01 19:00:00

Fall in love with our new November releases! In Multisituated, Kaushik Sunder Rajan proposes a reconceptualization of ethnography as a multisituated

1 min read 2021-10-27 20:44:00

New from UNC Press Blog The following is an excerpt from Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh’s The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women

1 min read 2021-10-25 22:57:11

New from UNC Press Blog The following is an excerpt from Douglas J. Flowe’s Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim