University of California Press Blog» American Studies http://www.ucpress.edu/blog Blog Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:48:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Phil Tiemeyer on Plane Queer and the History of Male Flight Attendants http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15630/phil-tiemeyer-on-plane-queer-and-the-history-of-male-flight-attendants/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15630/phil-tiemeyer-on-plane-queer-and-the-history-of-male-flight-attendants/#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:41:02 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=15630 Phil Tiemeyer, author of Plane Queer: Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants recently spoke about the history of the profession and how it came to be identified with gay men on the Michelangelo Signorile Show.

Listen now:

Tiemeyer will be at the GLBT History Museum in San Francisco on Thursday, April 11 to [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15630/phil-tiemeyer-on-plane-queer-and-the-history-of-male-flight-attendants/feed/ 0 New Orleans Suite Authors Talk Post-Katrina Music with UC Santa Cruz http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15559/new-orleans-suite-authors-talk-post-katrina-music-with-uc-santa-cruz/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15559/new-orleans-suite-authors-talk-post-katrina-music-with-uc-santa-cruz/#comments Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:00:48 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=15559 UC Santa Cruz recently interviewed Eric Porter, Professor of History and American Studies, and Lewis Watts, professor of Art, about their new book, New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition. Using both visual evidence and the written word, Watts and Porter pay homage to the city, its region, and its residents, by mapping recent and often contradictory social [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15559/new-orleans-suite-authors-talk-post-katrina-music-with-uc-santa-cruz/feed/ 0 UC Press Podcast: Joshua Bloom on the Rise of the Black Panther Party http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15436/uc-press-podcast-joshua-bloom-on-the-rise-of-the-black-panther-party/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15436/uc-press-podcast-joshua-bloom-on-the-rise-of-the-black-panther-party/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2013 02:18:18 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=15436 In the latest episode of the UC Press Podcast, Black Against Empire co-author Joshua Bloom talks about the political and cultural dynamics that gave birth to the Black Panther Party, why Oakland in particular was the perfect setting for a dawning revolutionary movement, and the lasting historical impacts of what the Panthers fought for.

Bloom is [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15436/uc-press-podcast-joshua-bloom-on-the-rise-of-the-black-panther-party/feed/ 0 Hilary Hallett on the Women Who Made Hollywood http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15424/hilary-hallett-on-the-women-who-made-hollywood/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15424/hilary-hallett-on-the-women-who-made-hollywood/#comments Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:42:24 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=15424 Columbia history professor Hilary Hallett has been getting some wonderful advance praise for her new book, Go West, Young Women!, which explores the influx of women in early Hollywood and their role in the development of Los Angeles and the nascent film industry. The Huffington Post included Go West, Young Women! in their list of 10 [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15424/hilary-hallett-on-the-women-who-made-hollywood/feed/ 0 W. Joseph Campbell’s Top Mythbusting Posts of 2012 http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15417/w-joseph-campbells-top-mythbusting-posts-of-2012/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15417/w-joseph-campbells-top-mythbusting-posts-of-2012/#comments Thu, 03 Jan 2013 02:28:39 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=15417 The author of Getting It Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism, W. Joseph Campbell, has rounded up 2012′s most prominent media-driven myths and errors. Visit Campbell’s blog, Media Myth Alert, for the year’s five top writeups, the first of which is excerpted below:

Calling out the New York Times on ‘napalm girl’ photo error (posted June 3)

The 40th anniversary of the [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15417/w-joseph-campbells-top-mythbusting-posts-of-2012/feed/ 0 LARB’s Guide to A People’s Guide to Los Angeles http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15201/larbs-guide-to-a-peoples-guide-to-los-angeles/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15201/larbs-guide-to-a-peoples-guide-to-los-angeles/#comments Fri, 17 Aug 2012 01:34:36 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=15201 Mondays in August, the Los Angeles Review of Books is running a series of excerpts and photos from A People’s Guide to Los Angeles—a look at eye-opening alternatives to L.A.’s usual tourist destinations by Laura Pulido, Laura Barraclough, and Wendy Cheng.

The book documents 115 little-known sites in the City of Angels where struggles related to race, class, gender, [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15201/larbs-guide-to-a-peoples-guide-to-los-angeles/feed/ 0 UC Press Author Discovers Oldest Known Woody Guthrie Recordings http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15167/uc-press-author-discovers-oldest-known-woody-guthrie-recordings/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15167/uc-press-author-discovers-oldest-known-woody-guthrie-recordings/#comments Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:40:33 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=15167 Guest Post by Peter La Chapelle

Woody Guthrie would have been 100 years old this month and there have been a number of academic conferences and celebrations across the country.

There has also been a parade of press coverage about the hard travelling Woody, a singer-songwriter, an activist, and author of such prototypically American songs as “This [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15167/uc-press-author-discovers-oldest-known-woody-guthrie-recordings/feed/ 0 Take a Trip to the World of Mark Twain http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/14982/take-a-trip-to-the-world-of-mark-twain/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/14982/take-a-trip-to-the-world-of-mark-twain/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 16:32:00 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=14982

If you’re anything like me, you spend too many lunches at your desk catching up with the world while you finish that turkey wrap you picked up from People’s Cafe. But even if you’re having something other than turkey wrap for lunch, just because you’re sitting at your desk doesn’t mean that you’re [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/14982/take-a-trip-to-the-world-of-mark-twain/feed/ 0 Author Reflections: Remembering Don Cornelius and Black Television Pioneers http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/14119/author-reflections-remembering-don-cornelius-and-black-television-pioneers/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/14119/author-reflections-remembering-don-cornelius-and-black-television-pioneers/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:38:53 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=14119 The first entry in our Author Reflections series comes from Matt Delmont, author of The Nicest Kids in Town. In The Nicest Kids in Town, Matt deftly places the TV show American Bandstand squarely in the civil rights struggles going on in Philadelphia during the 1950s. Here, Matt shares his thoughts around the passing of [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/14119/author-reflections-remembering-don-cornelius-and-black-television-pioneers/feed/ 0 The Astonishing Afterlife of Everett Ruess http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/13722/the-astonishing-afterlife-of-everett-ruess/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/13722/the-astonishing-afterlife-of-everett-ruess/#comments Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:54:48 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=13722 This summer not one, but two books about Everett Ruess, the 20-year-old aspiring writer and wilderness explorer who disappeared without a trace in 1934, are being released. One is Philip Fradkin’s Everett Ruess (UC Press), which goes beyond the myth of a romantic desert wanderer to reveal the realities of Ruess’s short life and mysterious [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/13722/the-astonishing-afterlife-of-everett-ruess/feed/ 0