Video: William Ferris on the music of survival
UNC’s Endeavors magazine recently profiled William Ferris, documentarian of Mississippi Delta blues music and author of Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues. The hardcover edition...
View ArticleVideo: Walt Wolfram on American dialects
“Studying dialect in North Carolina is like dying and coming to dialect heaven. It’s incredible. There is no state that has a richer tradition,” says Walt Wolfram, co-author of Hoi Toide on the Outer...
View ArticleNotes from the Field: Miguel La Serna Returns to Ayacucho
Peru’s indigenous peoples played a key role in the tortured tale of Shining Path guerrillas from the 1960s through the first decade of the 21st century. The villagers of Chuschi and Huaychao, high in...
View ArticleJean Dennison: Osage Nation Reform: From Colonial Entanglement to Citizen...
[This article is crossposted at FirstPeoplesNewDirections.org.] Jean Dennison’s new book, Colonial Entanglement: Constituting a Twenty-First-Century Osage Nation, is a grounded ethnographic...
View ArticleInterview: Nicole Fabricant on Mobilizing Bolivia’s Displaced
[This article is crossposted at FirstPeoplesNewDirections.org.] Nicole Fabricant(photo by Luis Arauz) In her new book, Mobilizing Bolivia’s Displaced: Indigenous Politics and the Struggle Over Land,...
View ArticleExcerpt: Decolonizing Museums, by Amy Lonetree
[This article is crossposted at FirstPeoplesNewDirections.org.] Museum exhibitions focusing on Native American history have long been curator controlled. However, a shift is occurring, giving...
View ArticleInterview, Part 2: Nicole Fabricant on “Mobilizing Bolivia’s Displaced”
Nicole Fabricant’s book, Mobilizing Bolivia’s Displaced: Indigenous Politics and the Struggle over Land, looks at how landless peasants politicized indigeneity to shape grassroots land politics, reform...
View ArticleNicole Fabricant: Santa Cruz Civic Leaders and New Strategic Alliances with...
[This article is crossposted at FirstPeoplesNewDirections.org.] In today’s guest post, Nicole Fabricant, author of Mobilizing Bolivia’s Displaced: Indigenous Politics and the Struggle Over Land,...
View ArticleVideo and Event Celebrate Paul Kwilecki’s “One Place”
Though artistic and ambitious, Paul Kwilecki (1928-2009) chose to remain in Bainbridge, Georgia, the small Decatur County town where he was born, raised, and ran the family’s hardware store. He had...
View ArticleInterview: Walt Wolfram and Jeffrey Reaser on the Dialects of North Carolina
Walt Wolfram (photo by Daniel Kim) Walt Wolfram and Jeffrey Reaser, authors of Talkin’ Tar Heel: How Our Voices Tell the Story of North Carolina, discuss why we should listen to how North Carolina...
View ArticleInterview: Shabana Mir on College Experiences of Muslim American Women
Shabana Mir, author of Muslim American Women on Campus: Undergraduate Social Life and Identity, discusses the everyday lives of these women on campus and the challenges and choices they face. Q: Your...
View ArticleExcerpt: Island Queens and Mission Wives, by Jennifer Thigpen
In the late eighteenth century, Hawai’i’s ruling elite employed sophisticated methods for resisting foreign intrusion. By the mid-nineteenth century, however, American missionaries had gained a...
View ArticleExcerpt: Muslim American Women on Campus, by Shabana Mir
Shabana Mir’s powerful ethnographic study of women on Washington, D.C., college campuses reveals that being a young female Muslim in post-9/11 America means experiencing double scrutiny—scrutiny from...
View ArticleShabana Mir: The Headscarf/Hijab Debate
New from UNC Press Blog We welcome to the blog a guest post by Shabana Mir, author of Muslim American Women on Campus: Undergraduate Social Life and Identity. Mir’s powerful ethnographic study of women...
View ArticleJean Dennison: Osage Nation Reform: From Colonial Entanglement to Citizen...
New from UNC Press Blog [This article is crossposted at FirstPeoplesNewDirections.org.] Jean Dennison’s new book, Colonial Entanglement: Constituting a Twenty-First-Century Osage Nation, is a grounded...
View ArticleInterview: Nicole Fabricant on Mobilizing Bolivia’s Displaced
New from UNC Press Blog [This article is crossposted at FirstPeoplesNewDirections.org.] Nicole Fabricant(photo by Luis Arauz) In her new book, Mobilizing Bolivia’s Displaced: Indigenous Politics and...
View ArticleExcerpt: Decolonizing Museums, by Amy Lonetree
New from UNC Press Blog [This article is crossposted at FirstPeoplesNewDirections.org.] Museum exhibitions focusing on Native American history have long been curator controlled. However, a shift is...
View ArticleInterview, Part 2: Nicole Fabricant on “Mobilizing Bolivia’s Displaced”
New from UNC Press Blog Nicole Fabricant’s book, Mobilizing Bolivia’s Displaced: Indigenous Politics and the Struggle over Land, looks at how landless peasants politicized indigeneity to shape...
View ArticleNicole Fabricant: Santa Cruz Civic Leaders and New Strategic Alliances with...
New from UNC Press Blog [This article is crossposted at FirstPeoplesNewDirections.org.] In today’s guest post, Nicole Fabricant, author of Mobilizing Bolivia’s Displaced: Indigenous Politics and the...
View ArticleVideo and Event Celebrate Paul Kwilecki’s “One Place”
New from UNC Press Blog Though artistic and ambitious, Paul Kwilecki (1928-2009) chose to remain in Bainbridge, Georgia, the small Decatur County town where he was born, raised, and ran the family’s...
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