Publicity Highlights
The Heart of a Woman, by Rae Linda Brown and edited by Guthrie Ramsey, was reviewed in Booklist and included in roundups in Chicago Magazine, the Boston Globe, Ms., and the Chicago Reader. Chicago Magazine called it “a fascinating study of an overlooked Chicagoan.” Always the Queen, by Denise LaSalle with David Whiteis, was reviewed in Blues Blast Magazine, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Booklist, Blues Music Magazine, Living Blues, Blues & Rhythm, No Depression, Chapter 16, and Chicago Blues Guide. Joanna Russ, by Gwyneth Jones, was featured in a piece on Joanna Russ in The New Yorker. The piece noted the useful glimpse the book provides into Russ’s early life. Labor: Studies in Working Class History did a special roundtable on our The Working Class in American History series anniversary in the December 2019 issue. Contributors surveyed the role the series has played in labor studies; how the series has shaped our understanding of the historical experiences of African American and women workers in the US; and how the series explores the intellectual problems facing the next generation of labor historians. Blues Legacy: Tradition and Innovation in Chicago, by David Whiteis, was reviewed in DownBeat, No Depression, Blues Music Magazine, Blues & Rhythm, Chicago Blues Guide, and Living Blues Magazine. Chicago Catolico, by Deborah Kanter; Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr., by E. James West; Always the Queen, by Denise LaSalle with David Whiteis; and The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago, by Robert E. Weems, were included in books-not-to-miss roundups in the Chicago Sun-Times.
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Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America, by E. James West, was reviewed in Publishers Weekly. The reviewer said, “this astute history shines a welcome light on a pioneering journalist.” Jose Angel N., author of Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant, wrote a piece in Literal Magazine responding to American Dirt, and was interviewed in the Chicago Tribune about Oprah’s special on American Dirt. Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 2, 1928–1929, written by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Barbara Klaw, and edited by Barbara Klaw, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, Margaret A. Simons, and Marybeth Timmermann, was reviewed in the London Review of Books. Palestine on the Air, by Karma Chavez, was reviewed in the Middle East Monitor. The reviewer said, “The book is an exercise in pointing out the political bias promoted by Israel and the US.” Dirty Jokes and Bawdy Songs: The Uncensored Life of Gershon Legman, by Susan G. Davis, was reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement. The reviewer called it “a vigorous. . . intellectual biography of [Legman’s] peculiar, relentless career.” Cinematic Encounters 2: Portraits and Polemics, by Jonathan Rosenbaum, was reviewed in Cineaste. Degrees of Difference, edited by Kimberly D. McKee and Denise A. Delgado, was reviewed in the Women’s Review of Books, Library Journal, and Science Magazine. Science said, “the book incites the disruption needed to make change happen.” The editors also wrote a piece for the “Conditionally Accepted” column in Inside Higher Ed about how to retain women of color graduate students.
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