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01/23/2025

Due South North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC's most anticipated books of winter/spring 2025 includes THE ANTHOLOGY OF BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE POETRY (on sale 2/18/25)—thanks for the callout Flyleaf Books!
https://www.wunc.org/show/due-south/2025-01-16/due-souths-most-anticipated-books-of-winter-spring-2025

01/23/2025

“McKinley hasn’t had a moment in the sun like this in a long time,” Justin F. Jackson, an associate professor at Bard College and the author of ‘The Work of Empire,’ a history of McKinley’s time, which is being published this spring.“ —via The New York Times

THE WORK OF EMPIRE: War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines by Justin F. Jackson is available for preorder & available May 2025 wherever books are sold.

➡️ Take 30% off—use promo code 01UNCP30—preordering via uncpress during final sale days thru 1/31/25.

William McKinley, the 25th president, loved tariffs and expanded American territory. What more do you need to know?

01/22/2025

PRO TIP: listening to the UNC Press Presents podcast is an easy and fun way to engage with academics and authors to learn something new about a wide range of topics 🎧

Listen to authors talk about their books and learn something new on the UNC Press Presents podcast, produced by the New Books Network. With recent episodes on s*x and the Civil War, American diet culture, the history segregation scholarships in the south, and much more, you're bound to learn somethi...

01/22/2025

UNC Press Holiday Sale is extended through 1/31/25 ⤵️
Check out our latest releases and use promo code 01UNCP30 for ✨30% off your purchase✨ And: US orders $75+ receive free ground shipping ❄️

Save 30% on all books in print. Get free US shipping on orders of $75 or more.

01/22/2025

Doc Watson: A Life in Music
https://bluegrasstoday.com/doc-watson-a-life-in-music/

01/22/2025

"University of North Carolina Press has released a new biography on one of that state’s most influential native sons, Doc Watson. . . . [Eddie Huffman, writer and photographer]'s is a concise book . . . It’s hard to imagine why any Doc Watson fan wouldn’t want this one in their collection."

Doc Watson: A Life in Music
https://bluegrasstoday.com/doc-watson-a-life-in-music/

01/22/2025

Trump’s Talk of the Panama Canal Taps Into Old Myths About U.S. Power: TIME Made by History opinion by Julie Greene University of Maryland, author of the new book BOX 25: Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal.

By threatening to reclaim the Panama Canal, Trump is evoking false stories about U.S. beneficence.

01/22/2025

CONGRATS Chef Ricky Moore and Saltbox Seafood Joint, Durham, NC, seminfinalist for the 2025 James Beard Foundation Outstanding Chef Award!

Can't make it to Durham? THE SALTBOX SEAFOOD JOINT COOKBOOK by Ricky Moore with KC Hysmith is available wherever cookbooks are sold.

Introducing the 2025 Restaurant and Chef Award semifinalists!

01/22/2025

Reads for the Rest of Us: The Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2025 according to Ms. Magazine, including BLACK GIRLS AND HOW WE FAIL THEM by Aria S. Halliday, on sale 2/18/25 wherever books are sold, including from Bookshop.

Reads for the Rest of Us: The Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2025—new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups.

01/20/2025

A great list of 5 books on MLK Jr Day to add to your TBR including LIVING THE DREAM by Daniel T. Fleming 👇👏

Get ready for MLK week at the U by checking out these recommended reads from J. Willard Marriott Library.

01/16/2025

In memoriam: Bernard L. Herman, professor emeritus The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of American Studies, author and editor of many UNC Press books, including THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF UNSETTLED THINGS, A SOUTH YOU NEVER ATE, and TOWN HOUSE.

We are saddened to hear of the passing of Bernard L. Herman, professor emeritus of UNC-Chapel Hill's Department of American Studies, who died on December 30, 2024. Most recently, Herman had co-curated the traveling exhibition Unsettled Things: Art from an African American South, currently on view th...

01/16/2025

Thankful for the opportunity this week to share the stage at Flyleaf Books with UNC Assistant Professor Kelly Alexander, George B. Tindall Fellow of American Studies and author of the new University of North Carolina Press book Truffles & Trash. Alexander’s book examines food insecurity and food waste as a political and ethical problem through the lens of institutional and community efforts to recuperate and redistribute food waste in Brussels, Belgium. Feed-Well Fridges Founder Chef Sera Cuni and Alexander discussed the successes and challenges of similar food waste reduction efforts in the U.S. and how community fridge programs like ours and Durham Community Fridges are helping at the community level. Thanks to all who attended!

01/16/2025

Segregation academies and a forgotten migration: Crystal Sanders, author of A FORGOTTEN MIGRATION: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs joined The Broadside North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC to discuss:

Today’s push for school vouchers highlights America’s long and sometimes forgotten history of resisting integration in the classroom.

01/16/2025

New Biography THANKS TO LIFE by Ericka Verba Details the Life of Chilean Musician, Rebel, and Cultural Icon Violetta Parra—via GirlTalkHQ

'Thanks to Life' is an exploration of the creative and deeply personal life of Violetta Parra, by CSU LA Professor Ericka Verba.

01/15/2025

We are saddened to hear of the passing of Bernard L. Herman, professor emeritus UNC Department of American Studies, who co-curated Unsettled Things: Art from an African American South, on view through May 4, 2025 at International African American Museum.

Herman wrote and edited numerous books published by UNC Press over his distinguished career, including this exhibition's catalogue, "The Unfinished Business of Unsettled Things: Art from an African American South:" https://ow.ly/Z50S50UHbiE

The International African American Museum is proud to present Unsettled Things: Art from an African American South, Dec. 7, 2024 – May 4, 2025.

This compelling exhibition features 44 works by 28 African American artists, many of whom have been marginalized under labels like "folk," "self-taught," or "outsider."

Originally curated by Bernard L. Herman, professor emeritus of American Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, and Lauren Turner, associate curator for contemporary art and special projects at the Ackland Art Museum, Unsettled Things is divided into three thematic sections: “Life”, “Spirit”, and “Matter”. These sections explore the nuances of everyday existence, the powerful presence of belief, and the thoughtful use of materials.

Unsettled Things: Art from an African American South is organized by the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with the help of national tour sponsor . Additional support comes from the Major Sponsor, Tim W. Hughes and Gail Coutcher-Hughes, and Contributing Sponsor, the Herzman-Fishman Charitable Fund

01/15/2025

ICYMI, TRUFFLES AND TRASH by Kelly Alexander is available now wherever books and ebooks are sold.
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469678597/truffles-and-trash/

Congratulations to Kelly Alexander for the publication of her book Truffles and Trash: Recirculating Food in a Social Welfare State!!

Book description:
On a fragile planet with spreading food insecurity, food waste is a political and ethical problem. Examining the collaborative, sometimes scrappy institutional and community efforts to recuperate and redistribute food waste in Brussels, Belgium, Kelly Alexander reveals it is also an opportunity for new forms of sociality. Her study plays out across a diverse set of locations—including a food bank with ties to the EU, a social restaurant serving low-cost meals made from supermarket surplus by an emergent immigrant labor force, and a social inclusion program in an urban market with a “zero food waste” pop-up café. Alexander argues that these efforts, in concert with innovative policy, effectively recirculate wasted food to new publics and produce what she terms a “spectrum of edibility.”

According to Alexander, these models face challenges—including reproducing the very power dynamics across race, class, and citizenship status they seek to circumvent. They also mirror the challenges of the everyday operations of the European social welfare state, which is increasingly reliant on NGOs to meet provisioning promises. Yet she finds that they also move the needle forward to reduce food waste across one city, providing an example for major urban centers around the world.

01/15/2025

Ryan Emanuel Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke talks intersection of environmental justice, Indigenous communities in his new book, ON THE SWAMP—via Technician

Dr. Ryan Emanuel’s book is a unique collection of interdisciplinary work. He weaves a narrative bridge between his quantitative academic background in hydrology and the sacredness and respect with which