University Of Illinois Press: 158 books
Lucretia Mott Speaks
The Essential Speeches and Sermons
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Committed abolitionist, controversial Quaker minister, tireless pacifist, fiery crusader for women's rights--Lucretia Mott was one of the great reformers in America history. Drawing on widely scattered archives, newspaper accounts, and other sources, Lucretia Mott Speaks unearths the essential speeches...
The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, Volume 4
Round the World for Birth Control, 1920-1966
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
When Margaret Sanger returned to Europe in 1920, World War I had altered the social landscape as dramatically as it had the map of Europe. Population concerns, sexuality, venereal disease, and contraceptive use had entered public discussion, and Sanger's birth control message found receptive audiences...
The Taco Truck
How Mexican Street Food Is Transforming the American City
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
Icons of Mexican cultural identity and America's melting pot ideal, taco trucks have transformed cityscapes from coast to coast. The taco truck radiates Mexican culture within non-Mexican spaces with a presence--sometimes desired, sometimes resented--that turns a public street corner into a bustling...
New Italian Migrations to the United States
Vol. 1: Politics and History since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Italian immigration from 1945 to the present is an American phenomenon too little explored in our histories. Until now. In this new collection, Laura E. Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra edit essays by an elite roster of scholars in Italian American studies. These interdisciplinary works focus on leading...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Opinions of specialized labor courts differ, but labor justice undoubtedly represented a decisive moment in worker 's history. When and how did these courts take shape? Why did their originators consider them necessary? Leon Fink and Juan Manuel Palacio present essays that address these essential...
Peruvian Lives across Borders
Power, Exclusion, and Home
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
In Peruvian Lives across Borders, M. Cristina Alcalde examines the evolution of belonging and the making of home among middle- and upper-class Peruvians in Peru, the United States, Canada, and Germany. Alcalde draws on interviews, surveys, participant observation, and textual analysis to argue that...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Veterinarians serve on the front lines working to prevent animal suffering and abuse. For centuries, their compassion and expertise have improved the quality of life and death for animals in their care. However, modern interest in animal rights has led more and more people to ask questions about the...
Asianfail
Narratives of Disenchantment and the Model Minority
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Eleanor Ty's bold exploration of literature, plays, and film reveals how young Asian Americans and Asian Canadians have struggled with the ethos of self-sacrifice preached by their parents. This new generation's narratives focus on protagonists disenchanted with their daily lives. Many are depressed....
Colored No More
Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Home to established African American institutions and communities, Washington, D.C., offered women in the New Negro movement a unique setting for the fight against racial and gender oppression. Colored No More traces how African American women of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth century made...
Migrant Marketplaces
Food and Italians in North and South America
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Italian immigrants to the United States and Argentina hungered for the products of home. Merchants imported Italian cheese, wine, olive oil, and other commodities to meet the demand. The two sides met in migrant marketplaces--urban spaces that linked a mobile people with mobile goods in both real...
Media, Geopolitics, and Power
A View from the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The end of apartheid brought South Africa into the global media environment. Outside companies invested in the nation's newspapers while South African conglomerates pursued lucrative tech ventures and communication markets around the world. Many observers viewed the rapid development of South African...
Leaders of Their Race
Educating Black and White Women in the New South
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Secondary level female education played a foundational role in reshaping women's identity in the New South. Sarah H. Case examines the transformative processes involved at two Georgia schools--one in Atlanta for African-American girls and young women, the other in Athens and attended by young white...
Mascot Nation
The Controversy over Native American Representations in Sports
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
The issue of Native American mascots in sports raises passions but also a raft of often-unasked questions. Which voices get a hearing in an argument? What meanings do we ascribe to mascots? Who do these Indians and warriors really represent? Andrew C. Billings and Jason Edward Black go beyond the...
Sustaining Interdisciplinary Collaboration
A Guide for the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
At once a slogan and a vision for future scholarship, interdisciplinarity promises to break through barriers to address today's complex challenges. Yet even high-stakes projects often falter, undone by poor communication, strong feelings, bureaucratic frameworks, and contradictory incentives. This...