LIVE EVENT: Nov 14, 2024 | In this conversation between Chris McAuley, Black Studies Collection Editor at Lived Places Publishing and Maurice Tyree, author of The Darkest Parts of my Blackness: A Journey of Remorse, Reform, Reconciliation, and (R)evolution (co-authored with Katie Singer), they examine the numerous problems and possible solutions to the disaster that is the American carceral state.
Black Americans are uniquely placed within the phenomenon of American elections. In this conversation between Chris McAuley, Black Studies Collection Editor at Lived Places Publishing and Stephen Graves, author of At War With Politics: A Journey from Traditional Political Science to Black Politics, they examine the upcoming U.S. presidential election through the lens of Black politics.
In this conversation between Chris McAuley, Black Studies Collection Editor at Lived Places Publishing and Paul Reck, author of How Interpersonal Interactions with Young Black People Forever Altered a White Man’s Understanding of Race, they explore anti-Black racism, the assumptions that uphold it, and why it is often difficult for people to identify and challenge these racist practices.
David Parker leads a discussion about the potential for developing more robust catalog records and searchable fields in publishers' online catalogs – with author-generated and author-approved identity metadata.
In this conversation between Chris McAuley, Black Studies Collection Editor at Lived Places Publishing and Deirdre Foreman, author of My Cultural Legacy: Slave Culture and the American South, they explore the cultural legacy of enslaved Africans in the American South through an ethnoautobiographical reflection of Deirdre's own African American identity and family heritage.
David Parker (LPP) and Bill Maltarich (NYU) talk about new models that are sustainable, equitable, and most importanly – do not rely on book processing charges (BPC).
This free seminar features LPP author Ike Onyema Obi, a Nigerian entrepreneur whose path to business success reflects the challenges many emergent entrepreneurs face. He has mastered being resilient and agile in an African context – taking risks and seizing opportunities, filling knowledge voids by learning persistently, and shaping his networks to help grow his businesses.
David Parker, Co-Founder of Lived Places Publishing will be participating in a panel on Publishing in Latinx Studies at this year’s Latina/o Studies Association Conference in Tempe, AZ on April 20.
Family advocacy varies widely in relation to a family’s social identity and, as educators, we need to walk into the world of family advocacy directly and deliberately. Certain types of "unproductive" advocacy can pull resources and attention away from other forms of meaningful family advocacy.
David Parker, Co-Founder of Lived Places Publishing and Kadian Pow, Birmingham City University, will be presenting on Author Identity Metadata at this year’s UKSG Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, April 8-10.
by Cindy Horst
How do we remain hopeful to maintain ‘the energy to act’ when confronted with a daily onslaught of visual evidence of the worst in mankind? This requires a shift from an individual to a relational ethics that strengthens our response-ability.
While women own more than 40% of all businesses in the US, female founders receive significantly less in funding. There are steps we can take to close this funding gap for women in business.
Older people who live with combined hearing and vision loss (also called dual sensory impairment) are not being recognised, diagnosed and supported due to low levels of awareness among community and staff. A donate-a-book program to a care home is one innovative way to get information into care facilities.
by Sarah Eisner
White Americans have largely been silent or ignorant about the cognitive dissonance we live with, both today and passed down through our DNA, and the way it causes so much shame. Unprocessed and misunderstood, this white shame can show up as depression and paralyzing pain. Moving through it can be a powerful step toward antiracism, and is critical to our mental health.
Invisible disabilities have long been viewed as being less severe than their visible counterparts, and this issue persists to this day. There is still the outdated notion that your disability must cause you physical pain or infirmity to be believed, accepted, and supported.
LIVE EVENT: Nov 14, 2024 | In this conversation between Chris McAuley, Black Studies Collection Editor at Lived Places Publishing and Maurice Tyree, author of The Darkest Parts of my Blackness: A Journey of Remorse, Reform, Reconciliation, and (R)evolution (co-authored with Katie Singer), they examine the numerous problems and possible solutions to the disaster that is the American carceral state.