University of North Carolina Press Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/university-of-north-carolina-press/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:18:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png University of North Carolina Press Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/university-of-north-carolina-press/ 32 32 “I Am the Face of AIDS”: Ryan White and the Politics of Innocence in the History of HIV/AIDS https://www.publicbooks.org/i-am-the-face-of-aids-ryan-white-and-the-politics-of-innocence-in-the-history-of-hiv-aids/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 15:00:52 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=57897 Ryan White helped challenge existing understandings of the 1980s–1990s AIDS epidemic. But his story also reinforced artificial and arbitrary divisions between the guilty and the innocent.

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]]> Sarah McNamara on “Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South” https://www.publicbooks.org/sarah-mcnamara-on-ybor-city-crucible-of-the-latina-south/ Wed, 26 Jun 2024 15:00:04 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56611 Sarah McNamara’s new book Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South is a deeply personal history of the Florida city where she grew up. In this episode of Writing Latinos, we talk about her Cuban grandmother, the family storyteller and archivist of Ybor City’s Latino community. When McNamara was a little girl, her grandma brought […]

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]]> Cecilia Márquez on “Making the Latino South” https://www.publicbooks.org/cecilia-marquez-on-making-the-latino-south/ Wed, 08 May 2024 15:00:26 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56129 “Using non-Black as opposed to white is acknowledging that Latinos can be both nonwhite and benefit profoundly from white supremacy.”

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]]> D.A.R.E. Is More Than Just Antidrug Education—It Is Police Propaganda https://www.publicbooks.org/dare-is-more-than-just-anti-drug-education-it-is-police-propaganda/ Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:00:06 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=55803 DARE lost its once hegemonic influence over drug education, but it had long-lasting effects on American policing, politics, and culture.

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]]> Counter-Plantation Nation https://www.publicbooks.org/counter-plantation-nation/ Wed, 17 Jan 2024 16:00:40 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=54609 The language and culture of Kreyòl, as well as the Vodou religion, reveal a vision of Haitian sovereignty on behalf of those formerly enslaved.

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]]> Tracing Women: Haitian and Black Cuban Women Archivists https://www.publicbooks.org/tracing-women-haitian-and-black-cuban-women-archivists/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 16:00:53 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=54194 “On the roadside, in homes, or at the marketplaces, Haitian women studied women’s history, culture, and politics—all without formal education.”

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]]> How to Be a Prophet? https://www.publicbooks.org/white-evangelical-racism-and-faith-based-social-justice/ Tue, 15 Mar 2022 15:00:47 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=47734 The US Religious Right wins elections, but advances nationalism and white supremacy. Why, then, should the Religious Left seek to emulate them?

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]]> “There’s No There There”: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the Future of the Left https://www.publicbooks.org/theres-no-there-there-keeanga-yamahtta-taylor-on-the-future-of-the-left/ Wed, 06 Oct 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=45834 “We don't have a party. That doesn't mean we need one big organization. We may need a few big organizations. But we need organizations!”

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]]> Who’s Afraid of Antiracism? https://www.publicbooks.org/whos-afraid-of-antiracism/ Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:00:52 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=42126 By France’s twisted logic, acknowledging race equals attacking the Republic.

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]]> Public Picks 2020 https://www.publicbooks.org/public-picks-2020/ Fri, 22 May 2020 15:00:10 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=36167 Each year around this time we send our readers into summer with a thoughtfully curated list of the titles appearing over the past 12 months that dazzled, moved, and challenged us most.

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