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Author Identity Metadata: Establishing Top-Level Categories [SURVEY]

by David Parker

We invite you to participate in our brief survey to help establishing an author-led set standards for identity metadata. Please feel free to share this survey with authors, librarians, and publishing professionals – we will be publishing the results of our research. 

Funding Open Access Book Publishing: A Different Approach

by David Parker

New models are emerging for funding open access, which may serve to alleviate one of the publishing industry’s most problematic practices: Levying book processing charges on authors.

Losing My Religion: How Organized Religion Continues to Control and Shape Black Women’s Identity

by Michael Boezi

In this conversation between Chris McAuley, Black Studies Collection Editor at Lived Places Publishing and Dr. Kadian Pow, author of Stories of Black Female Identity in the Making: Queering the Love in Blackness, they discuss how religious institutions have maintained their power to shape and control Black women's identities, despite a statistical decline in church attendance.  

How a Book is Made

by Rebecca

How does a book go from a bunch of Word documents to a printed and bound volume? The LPP team outline the stages of the book production process.

The Lens of Lived Experience: Music and Black Community in Segregated North Carolina

by Michael Boezi

In this conversation between Chris McAuley, Black Studies Collection Editor at Lived Places Publishing and Gregory Freeland, author of Music and Black Community in Segregated North Carolina, they discussed the pivotal role that music played in keeping a community together during one of the most legally segregated times in U.S. history. 

Ending Educational Inequities

by Rebecca

The COVID-19 pandemic reproduced forms of educational exclusions by reiterating a “grammar of schooling”, yet it also offered an opportunity for teaching professionals to use their creativity and brilliance to rewrite it. Pushing back on educational inequities, these stories offer hope of more just and inclusive classrooms now and in the future. 

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