Bøker utgitt av University of Illinois Press

Explores the life, work, and persona of saxophonist Fred Ho, an unabashedly revolutionary artist whose illuminating and daring work redefines the relationship between art and politics.

Focuses on the representations and stereotypes of South Asian characters in American film and television.

Rewrites the history of early twentieth-century pop music in modernist terms.

The first complete study of the protean filmmaker

Details the musical life of a superstar of film scoring, from The Pink Panther to "Moon River"

Discusses the power of the press in Japanese American history

Expands and enrichs African diaspora history in the Americas

How two southern ministers preached and practiced a vision of a more democratic America

Negotiating identity in hip-hop culture

A musical biography of one of bluegrass's true pioneers

The transformation of slavery and free labour in the Upper South

The first full-length critical study of lynching plays in American culture

Rethinking digital literary criticism by situating computational work within the broader context of the humanities

A landmark collection of Beauvoir's literary writings

A fresh assessment of Chinese immigrant participation in small-town America

Exposing the corporate structures behind exploitative migrant labour programs

An in-depth analysis of photography during the Japanese American incarceration during World War II

One community's response to globalization and deindustrialization

A perceptive analysis of the daring Danish filmmaker's oeuvre

Assessing the roles of religion, politics, and class in the golden decade of black business

An elaborate articulation of the connections between jazz, poetry and gender

A unique technique of guiding the body from everyday movements and into dance

A provocative triptych of black queer desire, articulated through aesthetic works and experiences

Untangling the ongoing consequences of Guatemala's 1954 coup d'etat

A pioneering, field-defining collection of essential texts exploring girlhood in the twentieth century

A pioneering, field-defining collection of essential texts exploring girlhood in the nineteenth century

The music, religion, and relationships of the exceptional Wesley family

A comprehensive guide to the texts and tunes of an American musical tradition

Interrogating the gendered nature of world's fairs throughout history

Confronts the consciousness of an absent (though perhaps still existent) God in the writings of Thomas De Quincey, Robert Browning, Emily Bront, Matthew Arnold, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. This title surveys the intellectual and material developments that conspired to cut man off from God.