We're excited to announce our new #openaccess edited collection, Beyond Mestizaje: Contemporary Debates on Race in Mexico. Edited by Milena Ang and Tania Islas Weinstein. Translated by Ellen Jones Available now at: doi.org/10.3998/mpub.1…

📢 Applications are now open for our 2024/25 Black Women's History Series Incubator 📢 Selected applicants will receive feedback on their work-in-progress from series editors Talitha LeFlouria, Ashley D. Farmer, & Daina Ramey Berry. Learn more and apply here: uncpress.org/black-womens-h…

Call for papers on Slavery and its Afterlives! AAIHS’s 10th anniversary. Also, so proud of Mickell J. Carter, who’s on the planning committee 🥳 aaihs.org/call-for-paper…

For those interested in know-your-place aggression, please check out this recent Public Books conversation with my dear Harvey Young, which includes links to several relevant articles. Please share widely. publicbooks.org/white-mediocri…

🙋‍♀️Oh heyyy Chris Cooper! Galleys of *Anatomy of a Purple State: A North Carolina Politics Primer* are here! 💜🕺

"Nuanced and creative...an enlightening and rigorous examination of sass as a means of asserting one’s power in an oppressive world. It’s an insightful study of the politics of humor." -- Publishers Weekly on J Finley's forthcoming book SASS. #MFseries publishersweekly.com/9781469680019

"The monument will be the first in the state marking her daring mission in June 1863 along the Combahee River... The raid made Tubman, known as the Moses of Her People, the first woman ever to lead a major military operation in the U.S." alabamareflector.com/2024/05/16/sc-…

Happy to share the first issue I edited of #DRESS the Costume Society of America (CSA) Journal, which is also open access for the month of June. Take a look of these great articles by these wonderful authors. And if you are a fashion scholar, consider submitting yourself tandfonline.com/journals/ydre20

Proofs!

Attending AUPresses 📚 #aupresses24 next week in Montreal? Looking for a good place to eat, a great cup of coffee, or something to do in the evenings? MQUP and Concordia University Press have compiled a list of staff favourites to help guide you: buff.ly/4ccz0Gd

In my book, I show how southern state govts. underfunded their public Black colleges. Many paid for segregation scholarships by taking money out of HBCU operating budgets. Lawmakers had no problem robbing Peter to pay Paul. Get your copy of #AForgottenMigration today! UNC Press

I’m very excited to be in Bogotá next week! Latin American Studies Association (LASA) I still have some time in my schedule and would love to talk about your work (esp. gender/sexuality/migration/social movements/counterculture/youth/music) and publishing with UNC Press Email me (in bio) to schedule!

I’m excited to share that I’ll be moderating a panel at AUPresses 📚—Conferences 101: How to Survive (and Thrive) at Your Next Academic Conference. Looking forward to a great discussion with Kathie Jiang Penn Press, Ezra Rodriguez Hopkins Press, and Colleen Lanick Harvard University Press.

I wrote this post for academics who think they want to write a trade book (a book for “general readers”) It tells you what you need to do (differently) if you want to write such a book vs a traditional scholarly monograph manuscriptworks.com/blog/trade

Fall 2024 UNC Press frontlist catalog is here!—featuring new 📚 (all available for preorder) by Ilan Stavans Margaret Boyle Kate Masur Chris Cooper Sayantani Dasgupta Nathan Kalman-Lamb Derek Silva (derekcrim.bsky.social) Dr. Brittany Friedman 🌹 Paul Renfro Gunther Peck Mary Ellen Hicks Dr. Crystal Sanders . . . uncpress.org/fall-2024-seas…

Have you seen the new “Support your Local University Press” bumper stickers? Pick one up at the #aupresses24 Registration Desk, then customize & print more when you get back home. bit.ly/3KASeJS

So my next 📕, BORN A SUFFERAH: DANCEHALL MUSIC'S INSURGENT SOUNDSCAPES, drops in early 2025 Bloomsbury U.S.. Cover designed by the phenomenal Diana Ejaita. Enjoy this sample of its music and themes - tinyurl.com/32b2fxnx. More about the 📕 here - tinyurl.com/yvhs7mu2.

Flash sale! 50% off UNC Press books! This is a particularly perfect time to order J Finley's new books SASS, which is the first book in the MF! Momentary Futures in Black Studies series, edited by LaMonda HStallings: uncpress.org/book/978146968…