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November 14, 2024

Native American Heritage Month Reading List

In honor of Native American Heritage Month, we’re proud to highlight a selection of books that explore the rich histories, cultures, and contemporary experiences of Native American communities. Whether you’re looking to deepen your understanding of Native American history, explore Indigenous culture, or learn more about ongoing social and political issues, our curated collection includes important contributions from Native authors… Continue Reading Native American Heritage Month Reading List

Categories Native Amer./Indigenous Studies/Native American History/Reading Lists
May 11, 2023

2023 Native American & Indigenous Studies Association Annual Meeting

UNC Press is excited to be exhibiting in-person at the Native American & Indigenous Studies Association annual meeting! We hope you’ll stop by our booth to say hello to editor Mark Simpson-Vos, to learn more about our Critical Indigeneities Series, and to browse our titles on display. If you can’t join us in-person, you can always visit our virtual booth!… Continue Reading 2023 Native American & Indigenous Studies Association Annual Meeting

Categories Exhibits/Native Amer./Indigenous Studies/Native American History
May 12, 2022

AAPI Heritage Month 2022 Reading List

Happy Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! The following reading list highlights titles covering a broad array of Asian American and Pacific Islander histories and topics, ranging from immigration and politics, to the performing arts, and the impact of climate change on the AAPI community. Arise, Africa! Roar, China!: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth… Continue Reading AAPI Heritage Month 2022 Reading List

Categories Asian American Studies/Asian Studies/Native Amer./Indigenous Studies/Native American History/UNC Press News
November 23, 2021

“Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Adapting to Segregation”

The following is an excerpt from Malinda Maynor Lowery’s Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation. With more than 50,000 enrolled members, North Carolina’s Lumbee Indians are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River. Malinda Maynor Lowery, a Lumbee herself, describes how, between Reconstruction and the 1950s, the Lumbee… Continue Reading “Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Adapting to Segregation”

Categories Anthropology/Excerpts/History/Native Amer./Indigenous Studies/Native American History/North Carolina
November 16, 2021

Happy National Native American Heritage Month: A Reading List

Since 1990, November has been nationally celebrated as Native American Heritage Month. We take this month to honor the cultures, histories and contributions that Native people have made throughout the years. To help celebrate, we’ve curated a reading list of books from all Native American authors touching on different aspects of Native American life. We would also like to highlight… Continue Reading Happy National Native American Heritage Month: A Reading List

Categories American Studies/Anthropology/Business/History/Literature/Native Amer./Indigenous Studies/Native American History/North Carolina/Reading Lists
August 16, 2021

An Unexpected Mechanism of Native Dispossession

The following is a guest blog post by Jonathan Todd Hancock, author of Convulsed States: Earthquakes, Prophecy, and the Remaking of Early America. Through varied peoples’ efforts to come to grips with the New Madrid earthquakes, Hancock reframes early nineteenth-century North America as a site where all of its inhabitants wrestled with fundamental human questions amid prophecies, political reinventions, and… Continue Reading An Unexpected Mechanism of Native Dispossession

Categories American History/Environmental Studies/Guest Bloggers/History/Native Amer./Indigenous Studies/Native American History
June 23, 2021

A Volcano in Asheville

Guest blog post by Jonathan Todd Hancock, author of Convulsed States: Earthquakes, Prophecy, and the Remaking of Early America In December 1811, a volcano erupted in Asheville.  An eyewitness named John Edwards reported the disturbing details to the Raleigh newspaper The Star.  After an unusual earthquake, a mountain burned “with great violence,” and cooling lava had dammed up the French Broad River.  The din… Continue Reading A Volcano in Asheville

Categories American History/Environmental Studies/Guest Bloggers/History/Native American History
June 15, 2021

Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions

Guest blog post by Susan Burch, author of Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions “It is said to be the only institution of its kind,” announced the New York Daily Tribune, lauding the opening of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians in South Dakota in 1902. The appreciation of its exceptionality that the Tribune expressed to its readers was not shared by… Continue Reading Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions

Categories Native Amer./Indigenous Studies/Native American History
April 27, 2021

Happy Pub Day to Adrian Miller’s Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue

We are thrilled that today marks the official on sale date for UNC Press’s third book authored by James Beard Award winner Adrian Miller, Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue. Black Smoke is the fourth book published in the Ferris & Ferris Imprint for high-profile, general-interest books about the American South. You can preview Black Smoke… Continue Reading Happy Pub Day to Adrian Miller’s Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue

Categories African American History/African American Studies/Food Studies/Native American History/UNC Press News