August 2009

“Racial Union” Wins American Political Science Association Award

by kris bishop August 31, 2009

CONGRATULATIONS to Julie Novkov, author of Racial Union: Law, Intimacy, and the White State in Alabama, 1865-1954, a stunning exploration of America’s attitudes toward interracial marriage and winner of this year’s Ralph J. Bunche Award given by the American Political Science Association. The Ralph J. Bunche Award is awarded for the best scholarly work in political science published in the previous calendar year that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism. Attending the American Political Science Association meeting in Toronto Sept 3-6? Check out Professor Novkov’s book and many others at the UMP Booths, #418-420.

Michigan Author Award goes to UMP writer

by Heather Newman August 26, 2009

The Michigan Center for the Book announced Monday that Dave Dempsey is the recipient of this year’s Michigan Author Award.

David Kairys on Law and Disorder Radio

by The University of Michigan Press August 17, 2009

A memoir that is also a compelling page-turner, Philadelphia Freedom is the poignant, informative, often inspiring account of renowned civil-rights lawyer David Kairys’s personal quest for achieving social justice during the turbulent 1960s and 70s. Philadelphia Freedom brings us intimately and directly into Kairys’s burgeoning law career and the struggles of the 60s as his professional and private life navigated the turmoil and promise of the civil rights and antiwar movements. Listen to an interview with Kairys on Law and Disorder radio. Learn more about Philadelphia Freedom: Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer.

Dave Dempsey in The Detroit News

by The University of Michigan Press August 7, 2009

Dave Dempsey, a senior policy adviser for the Michigan Environmental Council and author of several University of Michigan Press titles including Great Lakes for Sale: From Whitecaps to Bottlecaps, Ruin and Recovery: Michigan's Rise as a Conservation Leader, and William G. Milliken: Michigan's Passionate Moderate, was in The Detroit News yesterday with Despite Federal Protection, Great Lakes Remain Troubled Waters. From www.detnews.com: If there's one sure bipartisan thing in the environmental politics of Michigan, it's this: The message to anyone outside the state is "hands off" the waters of the Great Lakes. No Michigan politician would dare advocate exporting Great [...]

If Bricks Could Talk

by The University of Michigan Press August 5, 2009

by Mardi Link, author of the forthcoming Isadore's Secret and bestseller When Evil Came to Good Hart On Wednesday, July 29, the "Murder Takes a Road Trip" book tour made a stop in Benzonia at the Mills Community House, a stately and historic Northern Michigan landmark celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. What a setting in which to discuss our state's literary history and our own contributions to it! For a complete schedule of Mardi's upcoming events, visit the UMP Author Events page.

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