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• On KJZZ (Phoenix, AZ)’s The Show, Ana Raquel Minian, author of Undocumented Lives, explained the changes, between the 1960s and 1980s, in how Americans viewed new immigrants from Mexico, and how immigrants viewed their own identities and long-term goals.
• At Boston Review, America’s Forgotten Constitutions author Robert Tsai, with Calvin Terbeek, analyzed the conservative populism and beliefs that formed the foundation for the Trump administration’s harsh immigration policies.
• On KUER’s RadioWest, Kathleen Belew, author of Bring the War Home, traced the history of the white power movement—including its roots in a feeling of betrayal among Vietnam vets—and how rhetoric turned into real violence.
• Mehrsa Baradaran, author of The Color of Money, spoke with Public Books about the problem with assuming that “racial capitalism” can be fixed simply by supporting black-owned banks.

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June 6: Ira Berlin (1941-2018)

Towering American historian Ira Berlin passed away yesterday at the age of 77. A preeminent scholar of slavery and African American social history, Berlin was the author of numerous field-shaping works, and founding editor of the pioneering Freedmen and Southern Society Project. We at HUP have had the great good fortune of working with Berlin for decades, and the honor of publishing his magisterial Many Thousands Gone, winner of the Bancroft and Frederick Douglass Prizes; Generations of Captivity, which demonstrated the dramatic making and remaking of slavery across the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries; and, most recently, The Long Emancipation, a slim volume that drew on his lifetime of thinking about slavery to present the story of its long demise. As evidenced b…