ILLINOIS AND THE MIDWEST
2021
ENERGY NEVER DIES
Afro-Optimism and Creativity in Chicago
AYANA CONTRERAS The undefeatable culture of Black Chicago, past and present “Contreras puts virtually every aspect of Black Chicago culture, music, business breakthroughs, and more on the table, then shows exactly how they are all interconnected. She writes the book as the Black experience is actually lived— this guy knows that guy, but the other guy used to work for the two of them. And none of it would’ve happened were it not for a certain audacious manner of hope and optimism found in Black Chicago.” —LEE BEY, author of Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side From Afro Sheen to Theaster Gates and from Soul Train to Chance the Rapper, Black Chicago draws sustenance from a culture rooted in self-determination, aspiration, and hustle. In Energy Never Dies, Ayana Contreras embarks on a journey to share the implausible success stories and breathtaking achievements of Black Chicago’s artists and entrepreneurs. Past and present generations speak with one another, maintaining a vital connection to a beautiful narrative of Black triumph and empowerment that still inspires creativity and pride. Contreras weaves a hidden history from these true stories and the magic released by undervalued cultural artifacts. As she does, the idea that the improbable is always possible emerges as an indestructible Afro-Optimism that binds a people together.
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Passionate and enlightening, Energy Never Dies uses the power of storytelling to show how optimism and courage fuel the dreams of Black Chicago.
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AYANA CONTRERAS is a radio host/producer at Chicago Public Media, a founder/blogger at darkjive.com, and a columnist and reviewer at DownBeat Magazine.
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AN ATLAS OF ILLINOIS FISHES
150 Years of Change
BRIAN A. METZKE, BROOKS M. BURR, LEON C. HINZ JR., LAWRENCE M. PAGE, and CHRISTOPHER A. TAYLOR A scientific and visually spectacular guide to every fish species in Illinois “What a monumental endeavor—to capture all that has changed in Illinois fish diversity and distribution in recent times. The result is a reference that will be enjoyed by scientist and naturalist alike.” —BRANT FISHER, Indiana Department of Natural Resources Lake Michigan, winding creeks, sprawling swamps, and one of the world’s great rivers—Illinois’s variety of aquatic habitats makes the Prairie State home to a diverse array of fishes. The first book of its kind in over forty years, An Atlas of Illinois Fishes is a combination of nature guide and natural history. It provides readers with an authoritative resource based on the extensive biological data collected by scientists since the mid-1850s. Each of the entries on Illinois’s 217 current and extirpated fish species offers one or more color photographs; maps depicting distributions at three time periods; descriptions of identifying features; notes on habitat preference; and comments on distribution. In addition, the authors provide a pictorial key for identifying Illinois fishes.
312 PAGES. 8.5 X 11 INCHES 246 COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS, 3 TABLES, 19 FIGURES, 3 FRONT MATTER ILLUSTRATIONS, 8 ILLUSTRATIONS
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Scientifically up-to-date and illustrated with over 240 color photos, An Atlas of Illinois Fishes is a benchmark in the study of Illinois’s ever-changing fish communities and the habitats that support them. BRIAN A. METZKE is State Aquatic Ecologist for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. BROOKS M. BURR is an emeritus professor of zoology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and a coeditor of Freshwater Fishes of North America. LEON C. HINZ JR. is the Wildlife Action Plan Coordinator for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. LAWRENCE M. PAGE is Curator of Fishes at the Florida Museum of Natural History. He is coauthor of Peterson Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes of North America North of Mexico. CHRISTOPHER A. TAYLOR is an aquatic biologist and Curator of Fishes and Crustaceans with the Illinois Natural History Survey at the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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DANGEROUS IDEAS ON CAMPUS
Sex, Conspiracy, and Academic Freedom in the Age of JFK
MATTHEW C. EHRLICH What two controversies tell us about academia and America, then and now “Matthew Ehrlich takes what might have been local events and uses serious research to illuminate and elevate them to national and historical significance. His thoughtful weaving of threads such as academic freedom, university governance, student life, and sexual mores becomes a lively story and analysis of higher education that builds suspense, then provides answers. One of the best accounts of campus life and problems in the early 1960s I have read.” —JOHN R. THELIN, author of Going to College in the Sixties 240 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 19 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS
In 1960, University of Illinois professor Leo Koch wrote a public letter condoning premarital sex. He was fired. Four years later, a professor named Revilo Oliver made white supremacist remarks and claimed there was a massive communist conspiracy. He kept his job.
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Matthew C. Ehrlich revisits the Koch and Oliver cases to look at free speech, the legacy of the 1960s, and debates over sex and politics on campus. The different treatment of the two men marked a fundamental shift in the understanding of academic freedom. Their cases also embodied the stark divide over beliefs and values—a divide that remains today. Ehrlich delves into the issues behind these academic controversies and places the events in the context of a time rarely associated with dissent, but in fact a harbinger of the social and political upheavals to come.
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An enlightening and entertaining history, Dangerous Ideas on Campus illuminates how the university became a battleground for debating America’s hot-button issues.
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E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05315-3 Publication supported by a grant from the Winton U. Solberg US History Subvention Fund
MATTHEW C. EHRLICH is a professor emeritus of journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His books include Kansas City vs. Oakland: The Bitter Sports Rivalry That Defined an Era and Radio Utopia: Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public Interest, winner of the James W. Tankard Book Award.
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LYING IN THE MIDDLE
Musical Theater and Belief at the Heart of America
JAKE JOHNSON Imagining a better world from stages across the nation “With an unlikely cast of polygamists, conservative Christians, senior citizens, and aspiring stars who end up cookie cutter performers, Johnson’s polemic for and against the Broadway musical (and how all of us use it) cuts to the heart of our post-truth moment.” —TODD DECKER, author of Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical The local and regional shows staged throughout America use musical theater’s inherent power of deception to cultivate worldviews opposed to mainstream ideas. Jake Johnson reveals how musical theater between the coasts inhabits the middle spaces between professional and amateur, urban and rural, fact and fiction, fantasy and reality, and truth and falsehood. The homegrown musical provides a space to engage belief and religion—imagining a better world while creating opportunities to expand what is possible in the current one. Whether it is the Oklahoma Senior Follies or a Mormon splinter group’s production of The Sound of Music, such productions give people a chance to jolt themselves out of today’s post- truth malaise and move toward a world more in line with their desires for justice, reconciliation, and community. Vibrant and strikingly original, Lying in the Middle discovers some of the most potent musical theater taking place in the hoping, beating hearts of Americans.
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JAKE JOHNSON is an associate professor of musicology at Oklahoma City University and the author of Mormons, Musical Theater, and Belonging in America.
A volume in the series Music in American Life Publication supported by a grant from the General Fund of the American Musicological Society, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. All rights: University of Illinois
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PUERTO RICAN CHICAGO
Schooling the City, 1940–1977
MIRELSIE VELÁZQUEZ How education helped build a community “Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940–1977 is an essential contribution to the growing scholarship on Latinos in the Midwest. It powerfully chronicles the persistent efforts of the Puerto Rican community, especially women, to advocate for their children’s right to a meaningful education and a more promising future. Meticulously researched and eloquently written, Mirelsie Velázquez’s book is a must read for those interested in community- based activism, education, urban history, and Puerto Rican and Latino studies.” —LOURDES TORRES, author of Puerto Rican Discourse: A Sociolinguistic Study of a New York Suburb The postwar migration of Puerto Rican men and women to Chicago brought thousands of their children into city schools. These children’s classroom experience continued the colonial project begun in their homeland, where American ideologies had dominated Puerto Rican education since the island became a US territory. Mirelsie Velázquez tells how Chicago’s Puerto Ricans pursued their educational needs in a society that constantly reminded them of their status as second-class citizens. Communities organized a media culture that addressed their concerns while creating and affirming Puerto Rican identities. Education also offered women the only venue to exercise power, and they parlayed their positions to take lead roles in activist and political circles. In time, a politicized Puerto Rican community gave voice to a previously silenced group—and highlighted that colonialism does not end when immigrants live among their colonizers.
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HARDCOVER, 978-0-252-04424-3 $110.00x £88.00 PAPER, 978-0-252-08628-1 $26.00x £19.99 E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05320-7 A volume in the series Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest, edited by Omar Valerio-Jiménez, and Sujey Vega
A perceptive look at big-city community building, Puerto Rican Chicago reveals the links between justice in education and a people’s claim to space in their new home.
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MIRELSIE VELÁZQUEZ is an associate professor of education at the University of Oklahoma.
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AMERICA’S RELIGIOUS CROSSROADS
Faith and Community in the Emerging Midwest
STEPHEN T. KISSEL Religion’s influence on the Old Northwest “An important work. Kissel demonstrates the commonalities in the processes of community organization—domestic devotion, church-building, schooling, discipline, and civic engagement—shared across the religious faiths in the first generation of Euro-American settlement of the Old Northwest.” —KYLE ROBERTS, author of Evangelical Gotham: Religion and the Making of New York City, 1783–1860 Between 1790 and 1850, waves of Anglo-Americans, African Americans, and European immigrants flooded the Old Northwest (modern-day Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin). They brought with them a mosaic of Christian religious belief. Stephen T. Kissel draws on a wealth of primary sources to examine the foundational role that organized religion played in shaping the social, cultural, and civic infrastructure of the region. As he shows, believers from both traditional denominations and religious utopian societies found fertile ground for religious unity and fervor. Able to influence settlement from the earliest days, organized religion integrated faith into local townscapes and civic identity while facilitating many of the Old Northwest’s earliest advances in literacy, charitable public outreach, formal education, and social reform. Kissel also unearths fascinating stories of how faith influenced the bonds, networks, and relationships that allowed isolated western settlements to grow and evolve a distinct regional identity.
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Perceptive and broad in scope, America’s Religious Crossroads illuminates the integral relationship between communal and spiritual growth in early Midwestern history. STEPHEN T. KISSEL is an assistant professor of history at Oakland City (Indiana) University.
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SWEET GREEKS
First-Generation Immigrant Confectioners in the Heartland
ANN FLESOR BECK Making candy—and a new life—in the Midwest “This remarkable story is both unique and universal. It is the story of tenacious immigrant entrepreneurs overcoming enormous odds to find that sweet spot, making candy that would become a permanent feature of American daily life.” —KEN ALBALA, author of Noodle Soup: Recipes, Techniques, Obsession and grandson of an immigrant from Greece Gus Flesor came to the United States from Greece in 1901. His journey led him to Tuscola, Illinois, where he learned the confectioner’s trade and opened a business that still stands on Main Street. Sweet Greeks sets the story of Gus Flesor’s life as an immigrant in a small town within the larger history of Greek migration to the Midwest. Ann Flesor Beck’s charming personal account re-creates the atmosphere of her grandfather’s candy kitchen with its odors of chocolate and popcorn and the comings-and-goings of family members. “The Store” represented success while anchoring the business district of Gus’s chosen home. It also embodied the Midwest émigré experience of chain migration, immigrant networking, resistance and outright threats by local townspeople, food-related entrepreneurship, and tensions over whether later generations would take over the business.
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An engaging blend of family memoir and Midwest history, Sweet Greeks tells how Greeks became candy makers to the nation, one shop at a time.
E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05228-6 A volume in the series Heartland Foodways, edited by Bruce Kraig
ANN FLESOR BECK is a third-generation Greek confectioner and independent scholar. With her sister, she co-owns and operates Flesor’s Candy Kitchen in Tuscola, Illinois.
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MAYOR HAROLD WASHINGTON
Champion of Race and Reform in Chicago
ROGER BILES The political biography of the African American mayor and reformer “This is a must read for all who seek valuable insight into Mayor Harold Washington—the man, his administration, and the power struggle that accompanied the election of Chicago’s first African American mayor.” —DAVID ORR In 1983, Harold Washington made history by becoming Chicago’s first African American mayor. The racially charged campaign and election heralded an era of bitter political divisiveness that obstructed his efforts to change city government. 400 PAGES. 6.125 X 9.25 INCHES 13 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 4 MAPS
Roger Biles’s sweeping biography provides a definitive account of Washington and his journey. Once in City Hall, Washington confronted the backroom deals, aldermanic thuggery, open corruption, and palm greasing that fueled the Chicago machine’s autocratic political regime. His alternative: a vision of fairness, transparency, neighborhood empowerment, and balanced economic growth at one with his emergence as a dynamic champion for African American uplift and a crusader for progressive causes. Biles charts the countless infamies of the Council Wars era and Washington’s own growth through his winning of a second term—a promise of lasting reform left unfulfilled when the mayor died in 1987.
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Original and authoritative, Mayor Harold Washington redefines a pivotal era in Chicago’s modern history. ROGER BILES is Professor Emeritus of History at Illinois State University. His books include Richard J. Daley: Politics, Race, and the Governing of Chicago and The Fate of Cities: Urban America and the Federal Government, 1945–2000.
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A HISTORY OF THE OZARKS, VOLUME 1
The Old Ozarks
BROOKS BLEVINS The Ozarks before they were the Ozarks “Brooks Blevins is an expert in weaving many diverse strands into a seamless tapestry.” —ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT GAZETTE The Ozarks reflect the epic tableau of the American people—the native Osage and would-be colonial conquerors, the determined settlers and on-the-make speculators, the hardscrabble farmers and visionary entrepreneurs. Brooks Blevins begins his three-volume history of the region and its inhabitants in deep prehistory, charting how the highlands came to exist. From there he turns to the political and economic motivations behind the eagerness of many peoples to possess the Ozarks. Blevins places these early proto-Ozarkers within the context of the economic, social, and political forces that drove American history. But he also tells the colorful human stories that fill the region’s storied past—and contribute to the powerful myths and misunderstandings that even today distort our views of the Ozarks’ places and people.
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A monumental history in the grand tradition, A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1: The Old Ozarks is essential reading for anyone who cares about the highland heart of America.
E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05060-2 All rights: University of Illinois
BROOKS BLEVINS is the Noel Boyd Professor of Ozarks Studies at Missouri State University. He is the author or editor of nine books, including A History of the Ozarks, Volume 2: The Conflicted Ozarks; Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South; and Arkansas, Arkansaw: How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies, and Good Ol’ Boys Defined a State.
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A HISTORY OF THE OZARKS, VOLUME 2
The Conflicted Ozarks
BROOKS BLEVINS Slavery, civil war, and the birth of the modern Ozarks “Brooks Blevins’s second volume of A History of the Ozarks is the work of a premier historian and a master storyteller. Whether the topic is Civil War guerrillas or postwar Bald Knobbers, Blevins peels away the layers of myth and legend to reveal the region’s heritage and history in all its complexity. Highly recommended for both the scholar and the general reader.” —WILLIAM GARRETT PISTON, coauthor of Wilson’s Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It The Ozarks of the mid-1800s was a land of divisions. The uplands and its people inhabited a geographic and cultural borderland straddling Midwest and West, North and South, frontier and civilization, and secessionist and Unionist. As civil war raged across the region, neighbor turned against neighbor, unleashing a generation of animus and violence that lasted long after 1865.
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The second volume of Brooks Blevins’s history of the Ozarks begins with the region’s distinctive relationship to slavery. Because the Ozarks were largely unsuitable for plantation farming, residents used enslaved persons on a smaller scale or, in some places, not at all. Blevins moves on to the devastating Civil War years where the dehumanizing, personal nature of Ozark conflict was made uglier by the predations of marching armies and criminal gangs. Blending personal stories with a wide narrative scope, he examines how civilians and soldiers alike experienced the war, from brutal partisan warfare to ill-advised refugee policies to women’s struggles to safeguard farms and stay alive in an atmosphere of constant danger. The war stunted the region’s growth, delaying the development of Ozarks society and the processes of physical, economic, and social reconstruction. More and more, striving uplanders dedicated to modernization fought an image of the Ozarks as a land of mountaineers and hillbillies hostile to the idea of progress. Yet the dawn of the twentieth century saw the uplands emerge as an increasingly uniform culture forged, for better and worse, in the tumult of a conflicted era.
E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05159-3 All rights: University of Illinois
BROOKS BLEVINS is the Noel Boyd Professor of Ozarks Studies at Missouri State University. He is the author or editor of nine books, including A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1: The Old Ozarks and Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South.
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HERNDON’S INFORMANTS Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln
Edited by DOUGLAS L. WILSON and RODNEY O. DAVIS With the assistance of Terry Wilson The indispensable collection of sources on Lincoln’s early life “[Wilson and Davis] have done a service of inestimable value to historians by the complete, accurately transcribed, indexed, and annotated edition of the written accounts of Herndon’s interviews with 264 people. . . . It is a monumental achievement of scholarship. That is true not simply because of the editorial skill and effort required to complete it, but mainly because this material is the basis for most of what we know about the first half of Lincoln’s life.” —JAMES M. MCPHERSON, New York Review of Books 864 PAGES, 6.125 X 9.25 INCHES
Women to whom Lincoln proposed marriage, political allies and adversaries, judges and fellow attorneys, longtime comrades, erstwhile friends—all speak out here in words first gathered by William H. Herndon, Lincoln’s law partner, between 1865 and 1890. Historian David Herbert Donald has called Herndon’s materials “the basic source for Abraham Lincoln’s early years.”
PAPER, 978-0-252-08563-5 $40.00x £32.00 All rights: University of Illinois
Winner of the Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Award
Now available in paperback, Herndon’s Informants collects and annotates more than 600 letters and interviews providing information about Abraham Lincoln’s prepolitical and prelegal careers. Some of the people Herndon questioned were illiterate. Others could read but barely write. The editors’ undertaking took them to three major collections for the mammoth task of transcribing aged documents that often were barely legible. A priceless resource for scholars and anyone curious about Lincoln and his times, Herndon’s Informants includes an introduction, scholarly annotations, a registry of the informants, and a detailed topical index. DOUGLAS L. WILSON is the director of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College, in Galesburg, Illinois. RODNEY O. DAVIS (d. 2019) was co-director of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College. They are the coeditors of Lincoln’s Confidant: The Life of Noah Brooks, Herndon on Lincoln: Letters, Herndon’s Lincoln, and The Lincoln-Douglas Debates. TERRY WILSON is an assistant in Reference and Special Collections, Knox College Library.
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MAKING AN ANTISLAVERY NATION
Lincoln, Douglas, and the Battle over Freedom
GRAHAM A. PECK The politics and political battles spawned by slavery "Sure to interest anyone looking for a fine-grained account of pre–Civil War politics." —PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY This sweeping narrative presents an original and compelling explanation for the triumph of the antislavery movement in the United States prior to the Civil War. Graham A. Peck meticulously traces the conflict over slavery in Illinois from the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 to Lincoln’s defeat of his archrival Stephen A. Douglas in the 1860 election. Douglas’s attempt in 1854 to persuade Northerners that slavery and freedom had equal national standing stirred a political earthquake that brought Lincoln to the White House. Yet Lincoln’s framing of the antislavery movement as a conservative return to the country’s founding principles masked what was in fact a radical and unprecedented antislavery nationalism that justified slavery’s destruction but triggered the Civil War.
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Presenting pathbreaking interpretations of Lincoln, Douglas, and the Civil War’s origins, Making an Antislavery Nation reveals how battles over slavery paved the way for freedom’s triumph in America.
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Winner of the Russell P. Strange Memorial Book Award
GRAHAM A. PECK is the Wepner Distinguished Professor of Lincoln Studies in the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Springfield. He is the writer, director, and producer of the award-winning documentary Stephen A. Douglas and the Fate of American Democracy. His film, podcasts, and publications are available at civilwarprof.com.
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ALWAYS THE QUEEN
The Denise LaSalle Story
DENISE LASALLE, with DAVID WHITEIS The autobiography of the southern soul superstar “I’ve known Denise LaSalle for many years personally, professionally, and spiritually. Her legacy will live on forever. I am blessed to have been a ‘Knight in Her Majesty’s court.’ Long live the Queen.” —BENNY LATIMORE Denise LaSalle’s journey took her from rural Mississippi to an unquestioned reign as the queen of soul-blues. From her early R&B classics to bold and bawdy demands for satisfaction, LaSalle updated the classic blueswoman’s stance of powerful independence while her earthy lyrics about relationships connected with generations of female fans. Off-stage, she enjoyed ongoing success as a record label owner, entrepreneur, and genre-crossing songwriter. As honest and no-nonsense as the artist herself, Always the Queen is LaSalle’s in-her-own-words story of a lifetime in music. Moving to Chicago as a teen, LaSalle launched a career in gospel and blues that eventually led to the chart-topping 1971 smash “Trapped by a Thing Called Love” and a string of R&B hits. She reinvented herself as a soul-blues artist as tastes changed and became a headliner on the revitalized southern soul circuit and at festivals nationwide and overseas. Revered for a tireless dedication to her music and fans, LaSalle continued to tour and record until shortly before her death.
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DENISE LASALLE (1934–2018) was a soul and blues singer-songwriter and businesswoman. Her songs include “Trapped by a Thing Called Love,” “Married, but Not to Each Other,” and the modern-day soul-blues standards “A Lady in the Street,” “Don’t Jump My Pony,” and “Someone Else Is Steppin’ In.” LaSalle entered the Blues Hall of Fame in 2011 and the Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame in 2015. DAVID WHITEIS is a journalist, writer, and educator living in Chicago. His books include Blues Legacy: Tradition and Innovation in Chicago and Southern Soul-Blues.
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THE MERCHANT PRINCE OF BLACK CHICAGO
Anthony Overton and the Building of a Financial Empire
ROBERT E. WEEMS JR. The journey of the African American entrepreneur “Weems has produced a pioneering study of Chicago’s preeminent financial titan of the Black Metropolis Era of the 1920s and beyond. This first full-length, thoroughly documented account of Anthony Overton meticulously details how he amassed a business fortune while building an empire that became a major source of empowerment for women ranging from executive and managerial appointments to essential clerical positions.” —CHRISTOPHER R. REED, The Rise of Chicago’s Black Metropolis, 1920–1929 248 PAGES 6 X 9 INCHES 18 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 5 TABLES
Born to enslaved parents, Anthony Overton became one of the leading African American entrepreneurs of the twentieth century. Overton’s Chicago-based empire ranged from personal care products and media properties to insurance and finance. Yet, despite success and acclaim as the first business figure to win the NAACP’s Spingarn Medal, Overton remains an enigma.
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Robert E. Weems Jr. restores Overton to his rightful place in American business history. Dispelling stubborn myths, he traces Overton’s rise from mentorship by Booker T. Washington, through early failures, to a fateful move to Chicago in 1911. There, Overton started a popular magazine aimed at African American women that helped him dramatically grow his cosmetics firm. Overton went on to become the first African American to head a major business conglomerate, only to lose significant parts of his businesses—and his public persona as “the merchant prince of his race”—in the Depression, before rebounding once again in the early 1940s.
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Revealing and panoramic, The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago weaves the fascinating life story of an African American trailblazer through the eventful history of his times. ROBERT E. WEEMS JR. is the Willard W. Garvey Distinguished Professor of Business History at Wichita State University. His books include Business in Black and White: American Presidents and Black Entrepreneurs in the Twentieth Century and Building the Black Metropolis: African American Entrepreneurship in Chicago.
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EBONY MAGAZINE AND LERONE BENNETT JR.
Popular Black History in Postwar America
E. JAMES WEST How Ebony educated African Americans about their history “A well-researched and accessible study situated within the growing field of black intellectual history, Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr. is a major contribution to our understanding of what West aptly calls ‘popular black history.’” —PERO G. DAGBOVIE, author of Revisiting the Black Past: The Use and Misuse of African American history in the Twenty-First Century From its launch in 1945, Ebony magazine was politically and socially influential. However, the magazine also played an important role in educating millions of African Americans about their past. Guided by the pen of Lerone Bennett Jr., the magazine’s senior editor and in-house historian, Ebony became a key voice in the popular black history revival that flourished after World War II. Its content helped push representations of the African American past from the margins to the center of the nation’s cultural and political imagination.
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E. James West’s fresh and fascinating exploration of Ebony’s political, social, and historical content illuminates the intellectual role of the iconic magazine and its contribution to African American scholarship. He also uncovers a paradox. Though Ebony provided Bennett with space to promote a militant reading of black history and protest, the magazine’s status as a consumer publication helped to mediate its representation of African American identity in both the past and present.
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Mixing biography, cultural history, and popular memory, West restores Ebony and Bennett to their rightful place in African American intellectual, commercial, and political history.
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E. JAMES WEST is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in American History at Northumbria University.
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New Negro Writers, Artists, and Intellectuals, 1893–1930
Edited by RICHARD A. COURAGE and CHRISTOPHER ROBERT REED Foreword by Darlene Clark Hine The origins of an African American cultural vanguard “An important work of intellectual and cultural recovery. It brings to the surface corners of Chicago’s vibrant intellectual and cultural life that we have never considered or simply heard about in passing. The archival depth and artistic breadth will powerfully add to a much broader understanding of black cultural renaissance both geographically and conceptually.” —DAVARIAN L. BALDWIN, author of Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life
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The Black Chicago Renaissance emerged from a foundational stage that stretched from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition to the start of the Great Depression. During this time, African American innovators working across the landscape of the arts set the stage for an intellectual flowering that redefined black cultural life.
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Richard A. Courage and Christopher Robert Reed have brought together essays that explore the intersections in the backgrounds, education, professional affiliations, and public lives and achievements of black writers, journalists, visual artists, dance instructors, and other creators working in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Organized chronologically, the chapters unearth transformative forces that supported the emergence of individuals and social networks dedicated to work in arts and letters. The result is an illuminating scholarly collaboration that remaps African American intellectual and cultural geography and reframes the concept of urban black renaissance.
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RICHARD A. COURAGE is a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the State University of New York and a professor of English at Westchester Community College/SUNY. He is the coauthor of The Muse in Bronzeville: African American Creative Expression in Chicago, 1932–1950. CHRISTOPHER ROBERT REED is a professor emeritus of history at Roosevelt University. His books include Knock at the Door of Opportunity: Black Migration to Chicago, 1900–1919 and The Rise of Chicago’s Black Metropolis, 1920–1929.
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CHICAGO CATÓLICO
Making Catholic Parishes Mexican
DEBORAH E. KANTER How churches transformed Mexican communities and an American city “Chicago Católico is the first book of its kind, a superb history of Mexican parish life in a city of diverse Catholic immigrants. Kanter relates a fascinating tale of faith, identity, and the transformation of a city’s largest religious institution.” —TIMOTHY MATOVINA, author of Latino Catholicism: Transformation in America’s Largest Church Today, over one hundred Chicago-area Catholic churches offer Spanish-language mass to congregants. How did the city’s Mexican population, contained in just two parishes prior to 1960, come to reshape dozens of parishes and neighborhoods? Deborah E. Kanter tells the story of neighborhood change and rebirth in Chicago’s Mexican American communities. She unveils a vibrant history of Mexican American and Mexican immigrant relations as remembered by laity and clergy, schoolchildren and their female religious teachers, parish athletes and coaches, European American neighbors, and by the immigrant women who organized as guadalupanas and their husbands who took part in the Holy Name Society. Kanter shows how the newly arrived mixed memories of home into learning the ways of Chicago to create new identities. In an ever-evolving city, Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans’ fierce devotion to their churches transformed neighborhoods such as Pilsen.
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The first-ever study of Mexican-descent Catholicism in the city, Chicago Católico illuminates a previously unexplored facet of the urban past and provides present- day lessons for American communities undergoing ethnic integration and succession.
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DEBORAH E. KANTER is John S. Ludington Endowed Professor of History at Albion College. She is the author of Hijos del Pueblo: Gender, Family, and Community in Rural Mexico, 1730–1850.
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OWEN LOVEJOY AND THE COALITION FOR EQUALITY
Clergy, African Americans, and Women United for Abolition
JANE ANN MOORE and WILLIAM F. MOORE An Illinois activist and his abolitionist alliance “The Moores have now given us the most thorough biography of Lovejoy to date. Grounded in deep research and an unparalleled familiarity with the ins and outs of Illinois politics, the Moores demonstrate Lovejoy’s crucial role in the creation of the ‘coalition for equality’ that eventually brought slavery down.” —JAMES OAKES, author of The Scorpion’s Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War
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Antislavery white clergy and their congregations. Radicalized abolitionist women. African Americans committed to ending slavery through constitutional political action. These diverse groups attributed their common vision of a nation free from slavery to strong political and religious values. Owen Lovejoy’s gregarious personality, formidable oratorical talent, probing political analysis, and profound religious convictions made him the powerful leader the coalition needed.
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Owen Lovejoy and the Coalition for Equality examines how these three distinct groups merged their agendas into a single antislavery religious and political campaign for equality, with Lovejoy at the helm. Combining scholarly biography, historiography, and primary source material, Jane Ann Moore and William F. Moore demonstrate Lovejoy’s crucial role in nineteenth-century politics, the rise of antislavery sentiment in religious spaces, and the emerging congressional commitment to end slavery.
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JANE ANN MOORE and WILLIAM F. MOORE are codirectors of the Lovejoy Society. They are the authors of Collaborators for Emancipation: Abraham Lincoln and Owen Lovejoy and the editors of Owen Lovejoy’s His Brother’s Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838–64. They manage the website www.increaserespect.com, which applies the concepts of this book.
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BLUES BEFORE SUNRISE 2
Interviews from the Chicago Scene
STEVE CUSHING Face-to-face with the blues, one more time “Cushing has provided a massive public service . . . with this enthralling volume.” —JUKE BLUES
“Rarely are sequels better than the originals, but Blues Before Sunrise 2 is a happy exception. Cushing delivers another truly significant contribution to the blues literature.” —EDWARD KOMARA, editor of Encyclopedia of the Blues In this new collection of interviews, Steve Cushing once again invites readers into the vaults of Blues Before Sunrise, his acclaimed nationally syndicated public radio show. Icons from Brewer Phillips (talking about his days with Memphis Minnie) to the Gay Sisters stand alongside figures like schoolteacher Flossie Franklin, who helped Leroy Carr pen some of his most famous tunes; saxman Abb Locke and his buddy Two-Gun Pete, a Chicago cop notorious for killing people in the line of duty; and Scotty ”The Dancing Tailor” Piper, a font of knowledge on the black entertainment scene of his day.
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Cushing also devotes a section to religious artists, including the world-famous choir Wings Over Jordan and their travails touring and performing in the era of segregation. Another section focuses on the jazz-influenced Bronzeville scene that gave rise to Marl Young, Andrew Tibbs, and many others, while a handful of Cushing’s early brushes with the likes of Little Brother Montgomery, Sippi Wallace, and Blind John Davis round out the volume.
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Diverse and entertaining, Blues Before Sunrise 2 adds a chorus of new voices to the fascinating history of Chicago blues. STEVE CUSHING has hosted Blues Before Sunrise for forty years. He is the author of Blues Before Sunrise: The Radio Interviews and Pioneers of the Blues Revival.
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NEGOTIATING LATINIDAD Intralatina/o Lives in Chicago
FRANCES R. APARICIO One family, multiple identities, and today’s changing Latina/o world “Aptly interweaving humanities and social science approaches to identity, Aparicio sets up some of the building blocks for what Latino Studies will become in the twenty-first century. Her compelling engagement with storytelling by Latinos articulating intraLatina/o identities in Chicago is a groundbreaking intervention in the study of US Latinidad that transcends while honoring cultural nationalist models that may not always serve to capture our realities.” —ALAÍ REYES-SANTOS, author of Our Caribbean Kin: Race and Nation in the Neoliberal Antilles Longstanding Mexican and Puerto Rican populations have helped make people of mixed nationalities—MexiGuatemalans, CubanRicans, and others—an important part of Chicago’s Latina/o scene. Intermarriage between Guatemalans, Colombians, and Cubans have further diversified this community-within-a-community. Yet we seldom consider the lives and work of these Intralatino/as when we discuss Latino/as in the United States.
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In Negotiating Latinidad, a cross section of Chicago’s second-generation Intralatino/ as offer their experiences of negotiating between and among the national communities embedded in their families. Frances R. Aparicio’s rich interviews reveal Intralatino/as proud of their multiplicity and particularly skilled at understanding difference and boundaries. Their narratives explore both the ongoing complexities of family life and the challenges of fitting into our larger society, in particular the struggle to claim a space—and a sense of belonging—in a Latina/o America that remains highly segmented in scholarship. The result is an emotionally powerful, theoretically rigorous exploration of culture, hybridity, and transnationalism that points the way forward for future scholarship on Intralatino/a identity.
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FRANCES R. APARICIO is a professor emerita at Northwestern University. She is the author of Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures.
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HERNDON ON LINCOLN
Letters
WILLIAM H. HERNDON, edited by DOUGLAS L. WILSON and RODNEY O. DAVIS The paperback edition of important primary source materials on Abraham Lincoln “A major scholarly achievement that will be of great value to Lincoln biographers and scholars.” —JAMES M. MCPHERSON, author of War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861–1865 After Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, William Herndon, his former law partner, began exhaustive research on what would become his influential biography of the late president. As Herndon’s biographer David Donald said, “To understand Herndon’s own rather peculiar approach to Lincoln biography, one must go back to his letters.”
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Herndon carried on an extensive correspondence with people who wanted to know more about the late president. In Herndon on Lincoln: Letters, Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis collect the fruits of those exchanges. This invaluable resource offers unique insights into Lincoln’s life and career from someone close to him during Lincoln’s time as a lawyer, Republican Party founder, and candidate for office, all rendered in Herndon’s own authoritative and distinctive voice. A trove of primary source material, Herndon on Lincoln: Letters is a must for libraries, research institutions, and scholars of a towering American figure and his times.
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WILLIAM H. HERNDON (1818–1891) was Abraham Lincoln’s law partner from 1844 until Lincoln became president in 1861. DOUGLAS L. WILSON and RODNEY O. DAVIS are co-directors of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, and the co-editors of Herndon’s Informants, Herndon’s Lincoln, and The Lincoln-D ouglas Debates.
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CLEAR IT WITH SID!
Sidney R. Yates and Fifty Years of Presidents, Pragmatism, and Public Service
MICHAEL C. DORF and GEORGE VAN DUSEN Ten presidents, eight Speakers, one political powerhouse “A bracing and insightful read.” —RICK KOGAN, Chicago Tribune
“With an electorate so polarized today, the life and political career of Sidney R. Yates reminds us of a time when being a congressman meant being willing to reach across the aisle and work toward bipartisan solutions.“ —CHICAGO JEWISH NEWS The son of a Lithuanian blacksmith, Sidney R. Yates rose to the pinnacle of Washington power and influence. As chair of a House Appropriations subcommittee, Yates was a preeminent national figure involved in issues that ranged from the environment and Native American rights to Israel and support for the arts. Speaker Tip O’Neill relied on the savvy Chicagoan in the trenches and advised anyone with controversial legislation to first “clear it with Sid!”
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Michael C. Dorf and George Van Dusen draw on scores of interviews and unprecedented access to private papers to illuminate the life of an Illinois political icon. Wise, energetic, charismatic, petty, stubborn—Sid Yates presented a complicated character to constituents and colleagues alike. Yet his get-it-done approach to legislation allowed him to bridge partisan divides in the often-polarized House of Representatives. Following Yates from the campaign trail to the negotiating table to the House floor, Dorf and Van Dusen offer a rich portrait of a dealmaker extraordinaire and tireless patriot on a fifty-year journey through postwar American politics.
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MICHAEL C. DORF is a practicing lawyer and an adjunct professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was Congressman Yates’s Special Counsel in Washington and remained his lawyer and campaign chairman until the congressman’s death. GEORGE VAN DUSEN is Mayor of Skokie, Illinois, and an adjunct professor at Oakton Community College. He oversaw Yates’s Ninth District Operations for over twenty-five years.
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ILEGAL
Reflexiones de un inmigrante indocumentado
JOSÉ ÁNGEL N. Traducido por Verónica Murguía, en colaboración con el autor Prólogos de Marco Escalante y Francisco González Crussí Notas del indocumentado subterráneo, ahora disponible en una edición en español “He aquí la autobiografía de un hombre honesto, obligado a vivir entre sombras, a evadir preguntas y a mentir, alguien que se presenta de manera anónima, ya que revelar su identidad sería arriesgarse al arresto y la deportación. Un retrato fiel, una fotografía en close-up de la vida de un inmigrante indocumentado en Estados Unidos.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS Por fin disponible en español, Ilegal es el aclamado libro de memorias de José Ángel N., un inmigrante indocumentado que se construyó una vida nueva en Estados Unidos, a donde llegó habiendo cursado la secundaria. N. acogió la educación y de ahí ascendió, de ser aprendiz del inglés como segunda lengua a realizar estudios de posgrado, antes de convertirse en traductor profesional. A pesar de tener un buen trabajo, hubo barreras que lo confinaron a las sombras. La falta de documentación legal le impedía viajar con libertad e incluso comprar una cerveza en un juego de béisbol. A pesar de vivir en un lujoso rascacielos, no puede abrazar completamente el sueño americano. Sin embargo, N. persistió. Esta motivante historia de éxito contradice los estereotipos de los inmigrantes indocumentados a la vez que evidencia cómo la educación puede convertirse en un triunfo ante la adversidad.
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TAPA DURA, 978-0-252-04238-6 $99.00x £76.00 EDICIÓN DE BOLSILLO, 978-0-252-08417-1 $19.95 £14.99 LIBRO ELECTRÓNICO, 978-0-252-05122-7 Este es un tomo de la serie Latinos en Chicago y en el Medio Oeste, editada por Frances R. Aparicio
JOSÉ ÁNGEL N. es escritor y traductor. Sus ensayos se han publicado en revistas culturales en México y Estados Unidos. VERÓNICA MURGUÍA es escritora y traductora y radica en México.
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Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant
JOSÉ ÁNGEL N. Translated by Verónica Murguía, in collaboration with the author Foreword by Marco Escalante and Francisco González Crussí Notes from the undocumented underground, now in a Spanish-language edition “A memoir from a decent man living in the shadows, evading questions and telling lies, presented here anonymously since to reveal his identity would mean to risk arrest and deportation. An utterly believable close-up picture of one illegal immigrant’s life in the United States.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS 160 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES
At last available in a Spanish-language edition, Ilegal is the acclaimed memoir of José Ángel N., an undocumented immigrant who built a new life in the United States. Arriving in the United States having only finished the ninth grade, N. embraced education, rising from ESL classes to graduate school before becoming a professional translator. Despite a good job, barriers forced him into the shadows. A lack of legal documentation meant he could not easily travel or even buy a beer at the ballpark. Though he lived in a luxury high-rise, he could not fully embrace the American dream. Yet N. persevered. His inspiring success story debunks stereotypes of undocumented immigrants while showing how education can triumph over adversity.
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JOSÉ ÁNGEL N. is a writer and translator whose essays have appeared in cultural magazines in the United States and Mexico. VERÓNICA MURGUÍA is a writer and translator based in Mexico.
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COLLABORATORS FOR EMANCIPATION
Abraham Lincoln and Owen Lovejoy
WILLIAM F. MOORE and JANE ANN MOORE How a unique relationship aided the fight to end slavery “A useful corrective to those historians and others who have overemphasized Lincoln’s cautious temperament at the expense of his radical leanings, or his alleged timidity regarding emancipation, or his substantive disagreements, such as they were, with abolitionists. . . . A book worth reading and pondering.” —CIVIL WAR BOOK REVIEW 216 PAGES. 6.125 X 9.25 INCHES 6 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS
Few expected politician Abraham Lincoln and Congregational minister Owen Lovejoy to be friends when they met in 1854. One was a cautious lawyer who deplored abolitionists’ flouting of the law, the other an outspoken antislavery activist who captained a stop on the Underground Railroad. Yet the two built a relationship that, in Lincoln’s words, “was one of increasing respect and esteem.”
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In Collaborators for Emancipation: Abraham Lincoln and Owen Lovejoy, the authors examine the thorny issue of the pragmatism typically ascribed to Lincoln versus the radicalism of Lovejoy, and the role each played in ending slavery. Exploring the men’s politics, personal traits, and religious convictions, the book traces their separate paths in life as well as their frequent interactions. Collaborators for Emancipation shows how Lincoln and Lovejoy influenced one another and analyzes the strategies and systems of belief each brought to the epic controversies of slavery versus abolition and union versus disunion.
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Moore and Moore, editors of a previous volume of Lovejoy’s writings, use their deep knowledge of his words and life to move beyond mere politics to a nuanced perspective on the fabric of religion and personal background that underlay the minister’s worldview. Their multifaceted work of history and biography reveals how Lincoln embraced the radical idea of emancipation, and how Lovejoy shaped his own radicalism to wield the pragmatic political tools needed to reach that ultimate goal. WILLIAM F. MOORE and JANE ANN MOORE are co-directors of the Lovejoy Society. They are the authors of Owen Lovejoy and the Coalition for Equality: Clergy, African Americans, and Women United for Abolition, and editors of Owen Lovejoy’s His Brother’s Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838–64. They manage the website www.increaserespect.com, which applies the concepts of this book.
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RADICALS IN THE HEARTLAND
The 1960s Student Protest Movement at the University of Illinois
MICHAEL V. METZ When change a long time coming arrived on the U. of I. campus “Thoughtful, provocative, and powerful, filled with both painful memories and humorous anecdotes, Metz’s book about the upheaval of one college campus during the radical Sixties is a real work of history.” —ROGER SIMON In 1969, the campus tumult that defined the Sixties reached a flash point at the University of Illinois. Out-of-town radicals preached armed revolution. Students took to the streets and fought police and National Guardsmen. Firebombs were planted in lecture halls while explosions rocked a federal building on one side of town and a recruiting office on the other. Across the state, the powers-that-be expressed shock that such events could take place at Illinois’s esteemed, conservative, flagship university—how could it happen here, of all places?
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Positioning the events in the context of their time, Michael V. Metz delves into the lives and actions of activists at the center of the drama. A participant himself, Metz draws on interviews, archives, and newspaper records to show a movement born in demands for free speech, inspired by a movement for civil rights, and driven to the edge by a seemingly never-ending war. If the sudden burst of irrational violence baffled parents, administrators, and legislators, it seemed inevitable to students after years of official intransigence and disregard. Metz portrays campus protesters not as angry, militant extremists but as youthful citizens deeply engaged with grave moral issues, embodying the idealism, naiveté, and courage of a minority of a generation.
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MICHAEL V. METZ is retired from a career in high-tech marketing. He took part in the student movement at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1965 to 1970.
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HOSTILE HEARTLAND
Racism, Repression, and Resistance in the Midwest
BRENT M. S. CAMPNEY Retracing the contours of racist violence beyond the South “In this very smart book, Brent Campney builds upon his vast research unearthing the history of racist violence in America’s heartland. Hostile Heartland is a thorough and impressive work that challenges midwesterners’ time-honored penchant for claiming progressive superiority over the South when it comes to matters of racial egalitarianism and violence. Any reader who has ever contemplated race relations or racist violence in the Midwest today will find clear answers and lines linking the present to the past within these pages. Hostile Heartland opens much-needed windows onto the histories of race relations in the Midwest and the Great Migrations of African Americans to the region.” —KIDADA E. WILLIAMS, author of They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies about Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I
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We forget that racist violence permeated the lower Midwest from the pre–Civil War period until the 1930s. From Kansas to Ohio, whites orchestrated extraordinary events like lynchings and riots while engaged in a spectrum of brutal acts made all the more horrific by being routine. Also forgotten is the fact African Americans forcefully responded to these assertions of white supremacy through armed resistance, the creation of press outlets and civil rights organizations, and courageous individual activism.
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Drawing on cutting-edge methodology and a wealth of documentary evidence, Brent M. S. Campney analyzes the institutionalized white efforts to assert and maintain dominance over African Americans. Though rooted in the past, white violence evolved into a fundamentally modern phenomenon, driven by technologies such as newspapers, photographs, automobiles, and telephones. Other surprising insights challenge our assumptions about sundown towns, the people targeted by whites, law enforcement’s role in facilitating and perpetrating violence, and the details of African American resistance. BRENT M. S. CAMPNEY is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He is the author of This Is Not Dixie: Racist Violence in Kansas, 1861–1927.
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FOSTERING ON THE FARM Child Placement in the Rural Midwest
MEGAN BIRK A somber chapter in the history of American childhood “Birk forcefully describes the power of ideology and its tragic consequences, using institution records, newspapers, and reformers’ publications. Recommended.” —CHOICE
“A richly detailed picture of child welfare in the period from 1870 to the Great Depression. The study’s timeframe captures a significant period in the history of child welfare policy, while its geographical boundaries allow the author to examine the ground-level practices that resulted from those policies. . . . An informative, interesting, and well-researched book that merits attention from historians in a broad range of fields.” —MICHIGAN HISTORICAL REVIEW 256 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 8 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 2 MAPS
From 1870 until after World War I, reformers led an effort to place children from orphanages, asylums, and children’s homes with farming families. The reformers believed children would learn lessons in family life, citizenry, and work habits that institutions simply could not provide.
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Drawing on institution records, correspondence from children and placement families, and state reports, Megan Birk scrutinizes how the farm system developed—and how the children involved became some of America’s last indentured laborers. Birk reveals how the nostalgia attached to misplaced perceptions about healthy, family-based labor masked the cruel realities of abuse, overwork, and loveless upbringings. She also considers how rural people cared for their own children while being bombarded with dependents from elsewhere. Finally, Birk traces how the ills associated with rural placement eventually forced reformers to transition to a system of paid foster care, adoptions, and family preservation.
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MEGAN BIRK is an associate professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
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LATIN AMERICAN MIGRATIONS TO THE U.S. HEARTLAND
Changing Social Landscapes in Middle America
Edited by LINDA ALLEGRO and ANDREW GRANT WOOD New perspectives on a hot-button issue “Allegro and Wood organized a volume that provides a more humane depiction of Latin American immigrants by carefully documenting the challenges and possibilities they present in the region. . . . They also do an excellent job of positioning the Midwest as a dynamic region where complex and often contradictory politics coexist.” —THE ANNALS OF IOWA
“Allegro and Wood have assembled an interesting and informative set of essays useful to any scholar interested in the history of immigration to the United States and its regional, local, and national implications for the present and the future. A welcome assessment of what can happen when globalization disrupts rural communities on both sides of the border.” —THE JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN HISTORY 344 PAGES. 6.125 X 9.25 INCHES 1 MAP, 18 CHARTS, 9 TABLES
This collection examines Latina/o immigrants and the movement of the Latin American labor force to the central states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Arkansas, Missouri, and Iowa. Contributors look at outside factors affecting migration, including corporate agriculture, technology, globalization, and government. They also reveal how cultural affinities like religion, strong family ties, farming, and cowboy culture attract these newcomers to the Heartland.
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LINDA ALLEGRO is an independent scholar engaged in immigrant and worker advocacy in Tulsa, Oklahoma. ANDREW GRANT WOOD is the Stanley Rutland Professor of American History at the University of Tulsa. He is the author of Agustín Lara: A Cultural Biography.
A volume in the series The Working Class in American History, edited by James R. Barrett, Julie Greene, William P. Jones, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Nelson Lichtenstein
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