University Of Illinois Press imprint: 158 books
Out in Theory
The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2002
A companion volume to Out in the Field, a benchmark examination of lesbian and gay experiences in anthropology, Out in Theory presents lesbian and gay anthropology as a distinct specialization and addresses the theoretical issues that define the emerging field.
This compelling collection of essays...
Wired into Nature
The Telegraph and the North American Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
The completion of the Transcontinental Telegraph in 1861 completed telegraphy's mile-by-mile trek across the West. In addition to linking the coasts, the telegraph represented an extraordinary American effort in many fields of endeavor to know, act upon, and control a continent. Merging new research...
Zombies, Migrants, and Queers
Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
The alarm and anxiety unleashed by the Great Recession found fascinating expression across popular culture. Harried survivors negotiated societal collapse in The Walking Dead. Middle-class whites crossed the literal and metaphorical Mexican border on Breaking Bad or coped with a lack of freedom among...
Becoming the Story
War Correspondents since 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
The September 11 attacks produced changes in journalism and the lives of the people who practiced it. Foreign reporters felt surrounded by the hate of American colleagues for "the enemy." Americans in combat areas became literal targets of anti-U.S. sentiment. Behind the lines, editors...
To Live Here, You Have to Fight
How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2018
Launched in 1964, the War on Poverty quickly took aim at the coalfields of southern Appalachia. There, the federal government found unexpected allies among working-class white women devoted to a local tradition of citizen caregiving and seasoned by decades of activism and community service. Jessica...
Myths America Lives By
White Supremacy and the Stories That Give Us Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018
Six myths lie at the heart of the American experience. Taken as aspirational, four of those myths remind us of our noblest ideals, challenging us to realize our nation's promise while galvanizing the sense of hope and unity we need to reach our goals. Misused, these myths allow for illusions of innocence...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
A city's infrastructure influences the daily life of residents, neighborhoods, and businesses. But uniting the hard infrastructure of roads and bridges with the soft infrastructure of parks and public art creates significant political challenges. Planners at all stages must work at an intersection...
Curious Encounters with the Natural World
From Grumpy Spiders to Hidden Tigers
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Michael R. Jeffords and Susan L. Post have circled the globe--and explored their neighborhood--collecting images of the natural world. This book opens their personal cabinet of curiosities to tell the stories of the pair's most unusual encounters. From the "necking" battles of mate-hungry...
Disruption in Detroit
Autoworkers and the Elusive Postwar Boom
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
It is a bedrock American belief: the 1950s were a golden age of prosperity for autoworkers. Flush with high wages and enjoying the benefits of generous union contracts, these workers became the backbone of a thriving blue-collar middle class. It is also a myth. Daniel J. Clark began by interviewing...
Survivors
CAMBODIAN REFUGEES IN THE UNITED STATES
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2004
In this clear, comprehensive, and unflinching study, Sucheng Chan invites us to follow the saga of Cambodian refugees striving to distance themselves from a series of cataclysmic events in their homeland. Survivors tracks not only the Cambodians' fight for life lives but also their battle for self-definition...
The Revolt of the Black Athlete
50th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
The Revolt of the Black Athlete hit sport and society like an Ali combination. This Fiftieth Anniversary edition of Harry Edwards's classic of activist scholarship arrives even as a new generation engages with the issues he explored. Edwards's new introduction and afterword revisit the revolts by...
Bach Perspectives, Volume 6
J. S. Bach's Concerted Ensemble Music, The Ouverture
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2007
As the official publication of the American Bach Society, Bach Perspectives has pioneered new areas of research in the life, times, and music of Bach since its first appearance in 1995. In a series long known for its major essays by leading Bach scholars and performers, Bach Perspectives, Volume 6...
New Italian Migrations to the United States
Vol. 2: Art and Culture since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
This second volume of New Italian Migrations to the United States explores the evolution of art and cultural expressions created by and about Italian immigrants and their descendants since 1945. The essays range from an Italian-language radio program that broadcast intimate messages from family members...
Assassins against the Old Order
Italian Anarchist Violence in Fin de Siecle Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
The image of the anarchist assassin haunted the corridors of power and the popular imagination in the late nineteenth century. Fear spawned a gross but persistent stereotype: a swarthy "Italian" armed with a bloody knife or revolver and bred to violence by a combination of radical politics,...