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November 4, 2008

American Studies Titles on Sale

Now through December 1, we are offering 20% off selected titles in American Studies. For more details about the sale, including a list of books please click here. You can also browse the sale titles by different categories: American History...

November 3, 2008

Religion and American Politics and Culture — An Interview with Mark Hulsether

“McCain’s apparent hypocrisy when he mouths religious rhetoric is also fascinating. And we could say something similar about Ronald Reagan. Both of the Clintons, and of course also Jimmy Carter, are far more serious and thoughtful about religion than either...

October 22, 2008

Frederick Douglass Opie Discusses Soul Food on NPR

Is soul food healthy? What was the connection between soul food and the Black Power movement of the 1960s? How did European exploration affect West African food? These are just some of the questions that Frederick Douglass Opie, author of...

October 20, 2008

Don Hollenbeck: A Pioneer in Media Criticism

Over the weekend, the New York Times ran an article about Don Hollenbeck and Loren Ghiglione’s new biography, CBS’s Don Hollenbeck: An Honest Reporter in the Age of McCarthyism. The book and the article come on the heels of the...

September 4, 2008

Interview with Houston Baker on Open Salon

“[I]n the present economy black intellectuals are invited to the grand salon and are asked to sit down at the table, and discuss the next issue of neoconservative declaration of bad black behavior. It’s kind of astonishing from a perspective...

July 22, 2008

"In Praise of Localism": From American Pests

Following up on yesterday’s post about James McWilliams’s American Pests: Losing the War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT, here is an excerpt from the book that was posted on Celsias, which was recently named one of the top...

May 16, 2008

An Interview with Houston Baker in Diverse Magazine

Interest in Houston Baker’s Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Movement continues as evidenced by the interview he gave to Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. You can hear or read the interview. In the...

April 22, 2008

Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy

Richard Kahlenberg’s biography of Albert Shanker the former head of the American Federation of Teachers was recently lauded in two different publications. In the New Republic, John Judis cited Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race,...

April 21, 2008

Review of Betrayal from the Los Angeles Times

Friday’s Los Angeles Times had a review of Houston Baker’s Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era. The review offers a very good summary of Baker’s argument and his critiques of prominent Black intellectuals:...

April 17, 2008

Review of Betrayal

The blog Prometheus 6 has posted an interesting review of Houston Baker’s Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era. There is also a video available of Houston Baker participating on a special panel with...

April 8, 2008

Houston Baker on National Public Radio

Houston Baker appeared on NPR’s News and Notes yesterday to discuss his book Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era. In the interview Baker discusses his upbringing in Louisville’s Little Africa, how Shelby Steele...

April 7, 2008

Houston Baker on Martin Luther King

This past weekend on the occasion of the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination, many commentators explored the legacy on Martin Luther King. In his new book Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era,...

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