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December 4, 2018

Q&A: Stephen Gillers on the Constitutional Protection of the Free Press

“Journalism Under Fire issues an extraordinarily timely five-alarm warning. It is a forceful response to those who today—and in the future—would demean and disparage the essential importance of a free press to American democracy.” ~Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher, The Nation...

December 4, 2018

New Book Tuesday! Excessive Saints, Heading Home, Energy Kingdomsand More

Our weekly list of new releases is now available! Excessive Saints Gender, Narrative, and Theological Invention in Thomas of Cantimpré’s Mystical Hagiographies Rachel J. D. Smith Heading Home Motherhood, Work, and the Failed Promise of Equality Shani Orgad Energy Kingdoms...

December 1, 2018

Walking the Toaster: an Excerpt from Illuminations on Market Street

“Benjamin Heim Shepard’s beautifully composed and wonderfully moving White Nights and Ascending Shadows is a fine and telling history of how one city faced—and still faces—the endless effects of AIDS.” ~ Michael Bronski, The Guide, Summer 1998 Today is World AIDS Day—a day...

November 30, 2018

Book Excerpt! Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question (introduction)

“Bénédicte Boisseron’s Afro-Dog hones in, acutely and in detail, on the often-unhappy convergence of ‘animal’ and ‘black’ in current and historical thought, deftly dismantling their rhetorical obfuscations while sacrificing neither ‘the animal’ nor ‘the black.’ Instead, she calls for attending to human-animal...

November 29, 2018

The N-Word, Again: Bénédicte Boisseron on Afro-Dog Blackness and the Animal Question

“Dazzling in its reach and groundbreaking in its methodology, Afro-Dogredraws the contours of intellectual inquiry with dogs at the lead. Boisseron aims to rethink the hyper-legality of racism and the practice of inequality in ways that are radical and far-reaching.” ~...

November 28, 2018

Book Excerpt! The Gang Paradox: Inequalities and Miracles on the U.S. -Mexico Border (introduction)

“Anchored in a critical revisionist history of the Southwest borderlands and the social construction of ‘the Hispanic gang,’ The Gang Paradox offers a multidisciplinary analysis of the origins, composition, and cultural significance of gangs as a site of group identity. ” ~ Cynthia...

November 27, 2018

New Book Tuesday! Countersexual Manifesto, Blaming Immigrants, and Renewable Energy

Our weekly list of new releases is now available! Countersexual Manifesto Paul B. Preciado, translated by Kevin Gerry Dunn, foreword by Jack Halberstam. Blaming Immigrants Nationalism and the Economics of Global Movement Neeraj Kaushal Renewable Energy A Primer for the...

November 27, 2018

Q&A: Robert J. Durán on The Gang Paradox

“The Gang Paradox tells a story about the Mexican American experience on the border, including gangs and institutional reactions to them. In clear, descriptive, and refreshingly reflexive language Durán argues that the reality of gangs is far from its media image,...

November 21, 2018

New Book Tuesday! Fall of the Wild,The Conversational Firm, Avicenna and the Aristotelian Left, and More

Our weekly list of new releases is here! The Conversational Firm Rethinking Bureaucracy in the Age of Social Media Catherine J. Turco Avicenna and the Aristotelian Left Ernst Bloch, translated by Loren Goldman and Peter Thompson Man, the State, and...

November 16, 2018

#TurnItUp Science: Miranda Martin on Publishing in the Sciences

“What I’m learning from them is that scientists must often show determination and courage in their work and in their efforts to inform the public.”~Miranda Martin It’s the last day of the Association of University Presses blog tour. Today, our...

November 15, 2018

My Time at CUP: Mark Saunders

“Columbia drew on the ethos of the city — we were expected to channel our mission-driven impulses through a businesslike approach to making books, a discipline that served us all well.“ Mark Saunders DIRECTOR, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY...

November 14, 2018

#TurnItUp Neighborhoods: New York, Brooklyn, and Harlem’s People, Places, and History

Think university presses only publish monographs and textbooks? Think again. University presses can play a critical role in publishing books about the cities and regions in which we reside. In light of #TurnItUp Neighborhood, today’s post features excerpts from some...

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