University Of Illinois Press imprint: 158 books
Building the Black Metropolis
African American Entrepreneurship in Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
From Jean Baptiste Point DuSable to Oprah Winfrey, black entrepreneurship has helped define Chicago. Robert E. Weems Jr. and Jason P. Chambers curate a collection of essays that place the city as the center of the black business world in the United States. Ranging from titans like Anthony Overton...
by D. Harlan Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Prophetic short stories and apocalyptic novels like The Crystal World made J. G. Ballard a foundational figure in the British New Wave. Rejecting the science fiction of rockets and aliens, he explored an inner space of humanity informed by psychiatry and biology and shaped by Surrealism. Later in...
Against Labor
How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Against Labor highlights the tenacious efforts by employers to organize themselves as a class to contest labor. Ranging across a spectrum of understudied issues, essayists explore employer anti-labor strategies and offer incisive portraits of people and organizations that aggressively opposed unions....
Black Public History in Chicago
Civil Rights Activism from World War II into the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
In civil-rights-era Chicago, a dedicated group of black activists, educators, and organizations employed black public history as more than cultural activism. Their work and vision energized a black public history movement that promoted political progress in the crucial time between World War II and...
Hillbilly Hellraisers
Federal Power and Populist Defiance in the Ozarks
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
J. Blake Perkins searches for the roots of rural defiance in the Ozarks--and discovers how it changed over time. Eschewing generalities, Perkins focuses on the experiences and attitudes of rural people themselves as they interacted with government in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He...
Radical Gotham
Anarchism in New York City from Schwab's Saloon to Occupy Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
New York City's identity as a cultural and artistic center, as a point of arrival for millions of immigrants sympathetic to anarchist ideas, and as a hub of capitalism made the city a unique and dynamic terrain for anarchist activity. For 150 years, Gotham's cosmopolitan setting created a unique interplay...
Global Perspectives on the United States
Pro-Americanism, Anti-Americanism, and the Discourses Between
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
This daring collaborative effort showcases dialogues between international scholars engaged with the United States from abroad. The writers investigate the analytic methods and choices that label certain talk, images, behaviors, and allusions as "American" and how to read the data on such...
Health Equity in Brazil
Intersections of Gender, Race, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Brazil's leadership role in the fight against HIV has brought its public health system widespread praise. But the nation still faces serious health challenges and inequities. Though home to the world's second largest African-descendant population, Brazil failed to address many of its public health...
Storytelling in Siberia
The Olonkho Epic in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Olonkho , the epic narrative and song tradition of Siberia 's Sakha people, declined to the brink of extinction during the Soviet era. In 2005, UNESCO 's Masterpiece Proclamation sparked a resurgence of interest in olonkho by recognizing its important role in humanity 's oral and intangible heritage....
Czech Bluegrass
Notes from the Heart of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Bluegrass has found an unlikely home, and avid following, in the Czech Republic. The music’s emergence in Central Europe places it within an increasingly global network of communities built around bluegrass activities.
Lee Bidgood offers a fascinating study of the Czech bluegrass phenomenon that...
Bach Perspectives 11
J. S. Bach and His Sons
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Among his numerous children, Johann Sebastian Bach sired five musically gifted sons. The eleventh volume of Bach Perspectives presents essays that explore these men's lives and careers via distinctive and, in several cases, alternative and interdisciplinary methodologies. Robert L. Marshall traces...
Global Lynching and Collective Violence
Volume 1: Asia, Africa, and the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Often considered peculiarly American, lynching in fact takes place around the world. In the first book of a two-volume study, Michael J. Pfeifer collects essays that look at lynching and related forms of collective violence in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Understanding lynching as a transnational...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
From 2000 to 2010, the Latino population increased by more than 73 percent across eight midwestern states. These interdisciplinary essays explore issues of history, education, literature, art, and politics defining today’s Latina/o Midwest. Some contributors delve into the Latina/o revitalization...
Global Lynching and Collective Violence
Volume 2: The Americas and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
In this second volume of the groundbreaking survey, Michael J. Pfeifer edits a collection of essays that illuminates lynching and other extrajudicial "rough justice" as a transnational phenomenon responding to cultural and legal issues. The volume's European-themed topics explore why three...