The Lincoln Journal Star recently published a travel article by Randy Moody detailing his recent trip to San Miguel de Allende to celebrate Dia de Los Muertos. Moody describes face painting for the night parade, visiting Biblioteca Publica, and the … Continue reading Honoring the dead in San Miguel de Allende
Awards Black Jesus and Other Super Heroes Venita Blackburn Longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction The Modoc War Robert A. McNally Finalist in the NCIBA Book Awards Ila Borders Ila Borders is nominated for … Continue reading News and Reviews
Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in tweets, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to Should I Still Wish: A Memoir (Nebraska, 2017) by John W. Evans. Evans is the Draper Lecturer of Creative Nonfiction at … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Should I Still Wish!
C. Richard King is a professor of comparative ethnic studies at Washington State University. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including Redskins: Insult and Brand (Nebraska, 2016), Team Spirits: The Native American Mascots Controversy (Nebraska, 2001), … Continue reading From the Desk of C. Richard King: Go Redhawks!
The following is an excerpt from Courage and Grief: Women and Sweden’s Thirty Years’ War (January 2018) by Mary Elizabeth Ailes. Ailes is a professor of history at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. She is the author of Military Migration and State Formation: The British … Continue reading Excerpt: Courage and Grief
The Moroccan Soul: French Education, Colonial Ethnology, and Muslim Resistance, 1912-1956 (Nebraska, 2009) by Spencer D. Segalla was the eleventh book published in the France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization Series. It was an innovative study of the French education system … Continue reading New in paperback
Author Michelle H. Raheja is an assistant professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. Her articles have appeared in American Indian Culture and Research Journal, American Quarterly, and edited volumes. Reservation Reelism: Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in … Continue reading Depp’s Tonto Recycles Stereotypes for New Audience
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