Reckoning with Independence and Partition in India, 70 Years On
This week in North Philly Notes, Kavita Daiya, author of Violent Belongings, writes about participating in the inaugural panel of a landmark event held Aug 4-6, 2017 in Mumbai, India, called...
View ArticleCelebrating the life and times of the extraordinary Octavius Catto, and the...
This week, in North Philly Notes, we honor Octavius Valentine Catto, the subject of Daniel R. Biddle and Murray Dubin’s majestic biography, Tasting Freedom. Catto is being honored with a statue that...
View ArticleCelebrating Banned Book Week
This week in North Philly Notes, for Banned Book Week, we blog about Prison Masculinities, edited by Don Sabo, Terry A. Kupers, and Willie London. A passage on prisoner rape prompted the entire state...
View ArticleCelebrating LGBT History Month
This week in North Philly Notes, in celebration of LGBT History Month, we showcase eight Temple University Press titles that chronicle LGBT History. Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America...
View ArticleIs It McCarthyism Yet?
This week in North Philly Notes, Rachel Ida Buff, author of Against the Deportation Terror, writes about immigrant rights in this xenophobic era. Travel bans based on nations of origin; local law...
View ArticleAn interview with Richard Gilman-Opalsky co-editor of Against Capital in the...
Against Capital in the Twenty-First Century addresses present impasses in imagining a world ungoverned by capital, a world of different possibilities, both desirable and practical. It is a collection...
View ArticleHonoring Mexico on Cinco de Mayo
This week in North Philly Notes, we showcase books about Mexico in honor of Cinco de Mayo. Urban Leviathan: Mexica City in the Twentieth Century by Diane E. Davis Why, Diane Davis asks, has Mexico...
View ArticleBooks about Moms and Motherhood for Mother’s Day
This week in North Philly Notes, we showcase Temple University Press books about Moms and motherhood for Mother’s Day. The Paradox of Natural Mothering, by Chris Bobel Single or married, working...
View ArticleMagnus Hirschfeld at 150: Sexual Rights and Social Wrongs
This week in North Philly Notes, Heike Bauer, author of The Hirschfeld Archives, blogs about Magnus Hirschfeld’s impact as we celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth. This year marks the 150th...
View ArticleA sneak peek at the new issue of KALFOU
This week in North Philly Notes, we showcase the new issue of KALFOU, and the symposium on race and science, a highlight of Volume 5 issue 1. Volume 5 Issue 1 of KALFOU features a symposium on race and...
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Discovering How Student Activism Matters
This week in North Philly Notes, Matthew Williams, author of Strategizing against Sweatshops, writes about what he learned by studying college students engaged in strategically innovative activism to...
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Time to Remember French AIDS Activism
This week in North Philly Notes, Christophe Broqua, author of Action = Vie, writes about Act Up-Paris. Since the end of 2018, large-scale mobilizations in France by activist groups have challenged the...
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An interview with author Ryan Pettengill about Communists and Community
This week in North Philly Notes, we interview author Ryan Pettengill about his new book, Communists and Community, which enhances our understanding of the central role Communists played in the...
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What the American Irish faced in the nineteenth century
This week in North Philly Notes, Howard Lune, author of Transnational Nationalism and Collective Identity among the American Irish, writes about Irish immigrants in America. Before I got too far into...
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Activism by Parents of Children with Disabilities and the 30th Anniversary of...
This week in North Philly Notes, Allison Carey and Pamela Block, two of the coauthors of Allies and Obstacles, write about the accomplishments of parents in the disability rights movement as well as...
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Protesting Inequalities across America
This week in North Philly Notes, Heather McKee Hurwitz, author of Are We the 99%?, reveals her findings about the Occupy movement and lessons for contemporary activists: The nearly constant activism...
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Books that honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
This week, in North Philly Notes, in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, we focus our attention on our books, new and old, that speak to a dedication to civil rights and human struggles....
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The News of New York City’s Death is Greatly Exaggerated
This week in North Philly Notes, Francois Pierre-Louis Jr. and Michael Alan Krasner, two of the coauthors of Immigrant Crossroads, write about immigrant groups in Queens, New York. Since the advent of...
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Happy Pride!
This week in North Philly Notes, we celebrate Pride Month by showcasing a handful of our recent LGBTQ+ titles. You can check out all of our Sexuality Studies series titles here and all of our...
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Caring Beside: Metaphors of Solidarity at the Bedside
This week in North Philly Notes, James Kyung-Jin Lee, author of Pedagogies of Woundedness, writes about “the horizontal ethics of care and politics of resistance” as well as the power that can come...
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