Book giveaways!
April 30, 2013
It finally feels like spring! We’re celebrating the season by hosting Goodreads giveaways for two new titles from our spring catalog. Check ’em out below, and enter to win a… READ MORE
Category: Race & Ethnicity
Marathon bombers’ refugee roots shed light on trajectories
April 29, 2013
Silvia Domínguez, author of Getting Ahead (NYU Press, 2010), recently appeared on the Huffington Post with an excellent piece on the refugee roots of the Boston Marathon bombers. An excerpt appears below. Dzhokhar was… READ MORE
Words do matter in the immigration debate
April 23, 2013
—Ediberto Román and Bobby Joe Bracy [This post originally appeared on the Latinovations blog. Read it here.] After decades of inaction, this week’s unveiling of the Senate’s “Gang of Eight”… READ MORE
Marriage equality and the law, 1967 and 2013
April 18, 2013
—Howard Ball In 1967, when a good cigar only cost five cents, a very different U.S. Supreme Court, led by a very different Chief Justice (Earl Warren), faced a choice… READ MORE
UB Law’s Higginbotham takes on the lingering effects of Jim Crow
April 12, 2013
[Note: This article originally appeared in the Daily Record here. ] In May 2004, University of Baltimore School of Law professor F. Michael Higginbotham gave a speech to mark the 50th… READ MORE
Celebrating women of color, one girl at a time
March 13, 2013
—Andreana Clay Last month, when The Onion magazine posted a tweet calling nine year old Quvenzhané Wallis the c-word, I tweeted a reply, “No Black girl is safe.” And that’s… READ MORE
In memoriam: Hugo Chávez
March 11, 2013
—Michael D. Yates The death of Hugo Chávez saddens those struggling for a better world. He was a great champion of the impoverished workers and peasants of both Venezuela and… READ MORE
Which women’s histories? Feminism, race, and Women’s History Month
March 8, 2013
—Alison Piepmeier To tell you the truth, I’m a bit skeptical of Women’s History Month. I’m skeptical of all the themed months. In part, I’m skeptical because they encourage us… READ MORE