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2 September 2010, 9:47 am
We welcome a guest post today from Susan Nance, author of How the Arabian Nights Inspired the American Dream, 1790-1835. Americans have always shown a fascination with the people, customs, and legends of the “East,” such as the stories of the Arabian Nights, the performances of Arab belly dancers and acrobats, the feats of turban-wearing [...] Read more »
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Ellen on
16 August 2010, 1:15 pm
Congratulations to Malinda Maynor Lowery, author of Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation, who was recently named one of History News Network’s Top Young Historians. HNN’s feature on Lowery includes a list of professional accomplishments (did you know she has produced award-winning documentary films?) as well [...] Read more »
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Ellen on
12 May 2010, 9:42 am
We welcome a guest post today from Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff, author of Black Culture and the New Deal: The Quest for Civil Rights in the Roosevelt Era. In her book, Sklaroff argues that New Deal cultural programs supporting notable black intellectuals, celebrities, and artists (including Lena Horne, Joe Louis, Duke Ellington, and Richard Wright) represent [...] Read more »
Filed under African American Studies, American History, Civil Rights, Film, Guest Bloggers.
Tagged american guide series, betty grable, black actresses, black freedom struggle, black pioneers, cabin in the sky, dorothy dandridge, duke ellington, federal theater project negro units, halle berry, joe louis, lena horne, liberal white americans, negro affairs division of the federal writers' project, new deal cultural programs, racism, richard wright, stormy weather
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Ellen on
13 April 2010, 12:51 pm
Tonight at 10 p.m. on WUNC-TV will be the broadcast premiere of the documentary film Change Comes Knocking: The Story of the NC Fund. The film explores a bold, biracial initiative to fight poverty in 1960s North Carolina. The anti-poverty project known as the North Carolina Fund is also the subject of a new book [...] Read more »
Filed under African American Studies, American History, Civil Rights, Film, North Carolina, Public Policy, UNC Press News.
Tagged antipoverty programs, bob korstad, Change Comes Knocking, civil rights movement, James Leloudis, jim leloudis, nc fund, North Carolina Fund, Robert Korstad, war on poverty
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matt on
24 February 2010, 4:32 pm
The first few books from UNC Press’ Spring|Summer 2010 catalog made it to bookshelves this month, and many more will be debuting in the coming months. One of the books we’re excited to publish, in partnership with Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement, is Robert R. Korstad and James L. Leloudis’ To Right These Wrongs: [...] Read more »
Filed under African American History, African American Studies, American History, American Studies, Appalachian Studies, Civil Rights, Film, History, North Carolina, Public Policy, Southern Studies, UNC Press News.
Tagged Billy E. Barnes, Change Comes Knocking, James Leloudis, Long Civil Rights Movement, North Carolina Fund, Robert Korstad, Terry Sanford, To Right These Wrongs
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matt on
22 January 2010, 4:33 pm
Happy Friday, readers! Here at UNC Press, we’re finishing up our book launch week–planning out our titles for Fall 2010. The books we plan to put on the shelves in 2010 have us very excited, and we know you’ll enjoy them. In the meantime though, we thought it would be good to highlight some of [...] Read more »
Filed under Christian Studies, Current Events, Film, Media Studies, Native American Studies, North Carolina, Religion, Reviews, Southern Studies, UNC Press Authors, UNC Press News.
Tagged anthea butler, Avatar, Daniel Heath Justice, Disney, dogs reading books, First Peoples, indigenous studies, James Cameron, New Orleans, The Princess and the Frog
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Ellen on
19 December 2009, 8:11 am
Today we welcome a guest post from Lee Bernstein, author of America Is the Prison: Arts and Politics in Prison in the 1970s (forthcoming June 2010). In his book, Bernstein explores the forces that sparked a dramatic “prison art renaissance” in the 1970s, when incarcerated people produced powerful works of writing, performance, and visual art. [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, Film, Guest Bloggers, Literature, Theatre.
Tagged baretta, benjamin bratt, bodega sold dreams, broadway play, fort apache the bronx, kojak, lee bernstein, lincoln center, lower east side poem, marvin felix camillo, miami vice, miguel pinero, obie awards, off-broadway, prison literature, public theater in greenwich village, riverside church, short eyes, sing sing, teatro de la calle, the family, the sun always shines for the cool, theatre du jour, third world projects for the theater, times square
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30 July 2009, 3:20 pm
Today, The New York Times ran Jones County, Miss. – Civil War Fires Up Literary Shootout, a report by Michael Cieply about two conflicting books and a yet-to-be greenlighted Hollywood movie. At the center of everything lies Newton Knight, a white, landowning, Confederate deserter living deep in Mississippi, who famously tried to secede and form [...]
Filed under African American Studies, American History, Civil Rights, Civil War, Film, Southern Studies, The Book Biz, UNC Press Authors.
Tagged Amazon.com, Civil War Memories, David Paletz, Gary Ross, internet, John Stauffer, Long Civil Rights Movement, Michael Cieply, Mississippi, New York Times, Newton Knight, Pop Matters, Renegade South, Sally Jenkins, State of Jones, Universal Pictures, Victoria Bynum, Web 2.0
