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UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI
Books for Spring–Summer 2010
Celebrating 40 Years
Oraien Catledge: Photographs, Page 1
CONTENTS
CALENDAR OF PUBLICATION DATES
20 African American Preachers and Politics: The Careys
of Chicago
7 American Horror Film: The Genre at the Turn
of the Millennium
4 Atom Egoyan: Interviews
25 Back in print
9 Banjo on the Mountain: Wade Mainer’s First Hundred Years
6 Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro
2 The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking
10 Conversations with Ian McEwan
10 Conversations with Yusef Komunyakaa
21 Crusades for Freedom: Memphis and the Political
Transformation of the American South
19 Culture after the Hurricanes: Rhetoric and Reinvention
on the Gulf Coast
3 Daniel Clowes: Conversations
17 Down on the Batture
3 Drawing France: French Comics and the Republic
14 Dreaming in Clay on the Coast of Mississippi:
Love and Art at Shearwater
18 Fabergé: The Hodges Family Collection
24 Faulkner’s Sexualities
4 Guy Maddin: Interviews
5 Hal Ashby: Interviews
22 The High-Kilted Muse: Peter Buchan and His Secret
Songs of Silence
6 Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine: A History of
Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers
8 The Jazz Image: Seeing Music through Herman
Leonard’s Photography
18 Jean Seidenberg: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture
15 Legend of the Free State of Jones
16 Losing Ground: Identity and Land Loss in Coastal
Louisiana
12 Lost Churches of Mississippi
16 Louisiana Governors: Rulers, Rascals, and Reformers
17 Missing New Orleans
13 Mississippi in the Civil War: The Home Front
8 MuzikMafia: From the Local Nashville Scene to the
National Mainstream
2 My Life with Charlie Brown
11 My Two Oxfords
25 New in paperback
21 On the Ground: The Black Panther Party in
Communities across America
1 Oraien Catledge: Photographs
23 Passing in the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt
20 Raymond Pace Alexander: A New Negro Lawyer Fights
for Civil Rights in Philadelphia
24 Reading Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom!
22 The Story-Time of the British Empire: Colonial and
Postcolonial Folkloristics
14 Tennessee Williams and the South
15 Treasured Past, Golden Future: The Centennial
History of The University of Southern Mississippi
13 Under Surge, Under Siege: The Odyssey of Bay St. Louis
and Katrina
12 Weapons of Mississippi
Available: Fabergé: The Hodges Family Collection • Jean Seidenberg: Paintings,
Drawings, Sculpture • Legend of the Free State of Jones • Louisiana Governors:
Rulers, Rascals, and Reformers • Missing New Orleans • My Two Oxfords •
Tennessee Williams and the South March: Conversations with Ian McEwan •
Conversations with Yusef Komunyakaa • Crusades for Freedom: Memphis and
the Political Transformation of the American South • Passing in the Works of
Charles W. Chesnutt • Reading Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom! • Treasured Past, Golden
Future: The Centennial History of The University of Southern Mississippi April:
The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking • Dreaming in Clay
on the Coast of Mississippi: Love and Art at Shearwater • Inside the Hollywood
Fan Magazine: A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers
• Mississippi in the Civil War: The Home Front • My Life with Charlie Brown
May: Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro • Down on the Batture • The
High-Kilted Muse: Peter Buchan and His Secret Songs of Silence • Lost Churches
of Mississippi • MuzikMafia: From the Local Nashville Scene to the National
Mainstream • Raymond Pace Alexander: A New Negro Lawyer Fights for Civil
Rights in Philadelphia June: Atom Egoyan: Interviews • Drawing France: French
Comics and the Republic • Faulkner’s Sexualities • The Jazz Image: Seeing Music
through Herman Leonard’s Photography • Losing Ground: Identity and Land
Loss in Coastal Louisiana • The Story-Time of the British Empire: Colonial and
Postcolonial Folkloristics July: African American Preachers and Politics: The
Careys of Chicago • American Horror Film: The Genre at the Turn of the Millennium • Culture after the Hurricanes: Rhetoric and Reinvention on the Gulf
Coast • On the Ground: The Black Panther Party in Communities across America
• Weapons of Mississippi August: Banjo on the Mountain: Wade Mainer’s First
Hundred Years • Daniel Clowes: Conversations • Guy Maddin: Interviews • Hal
Ashby: Interviews • Oraien Catledge: Photographs • Under Surge, Under Siege:
The Odyssey of Bay St. Louis and Katrina
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Front cover
Photograph—“Four Children at My Window,” courtesy Oraien Catledge
Back cover
Illustration—Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, © United Features Syndicate, Inc.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Oraien Catledge
Photographs
Oraien Catledge
Edited by Constance Lewis and Richard Ford
Introduction by Richard Ford
The
celebration
of a life’s work
in fine art
photography
Oraien Catledge, a Mississippian born in 1928, was
entirely self-taught as a photographer and came to his
vocation near the end of his
career as an advocate for the
blind. His black and white
photographs—mostly portraits—take as their subjects the working
poor. These are singularly arresting images—celebratory and inquiring of the human condition and tolerant without resort to staginess,
sentimentality, or sociological intrusiveness. At heart, Catledge’s photographs strike a balance between documentary and artistic impulses.
Catledge’s photographs happen to be “southern” in their locales
and inhabitants, focused often on Atlanta’s Cabbagetown slum, and on
Mississippi and Louisiana. But as with the best work of any artist, the
photographs do not dote on the regional, reaffirm convention, or rest
comfortably in known character types.
His gritty, everyman subject matter and direct approach recall the
work of Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Margaret Bourke-White,
photographers who documented the people and hardships of the
Great Depression across America. His memories of the hardscrabble
Mississippi Delta, another distinctly southern area beset with poverty,
furnished him with the understanding and sympathy to engage his
subjects without exploitation or judgment. With the publication of
Oraien Catledge: Photographs, he joins the ranks of great photographers
with Mississippi roots, such as Eudora Welty, William Eggleston, and
Birney Imes, who have made enduring contributions to the history of
American photography.
Oraien Catledge, Decatur, Georgia, published Cabbagetown in 1985.
He was once a Southeast Regional Consultant for the American Foundation for the Blind. Richard Ford is a Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist.
Constance Lewis, Atlanta, Georgia, founded Opal Gallery and has
curated exhibitions in Paris, San Francisco, and Atlanta.
R E L AT E D
AUGUST, 120 pages (approx.), 11 x 12 inches, 70 b&w illustrations, Q&A with
photographer, introduction
Cloth $35.00T, 978-1-60473-500-0
Photographs—Untitled by Oraien Catledge
O r d e r o n l i n e a t w w w . upr e s s . s t a t e . m s . u s
Eudora Welty as Photographer
Edited by Pearl Amelia McHaney
With contributions by Deborah Willis and Sandra S. Phillips
Cloth $35.00T, 978-1-60473-232-0
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U n i v e r s i ty pr e s s o f m i s s i s s i pp i
C O MI C S S T U DIES • a uto b i o g r a phy
C O MI C S S T U DIES • P O P U LA R C U L T U R E
My Life with Charlie Brown
The Comics of Chris Ware
Charles M. Schulz
Edited and with an introduction by M. Thomas Inge
Edited by David M. Ball and Martha B. Kuhlman
Drawing Is a Way of Thinking
Autobiographical essays,
introductions, articles,
reviews, and lectures
With contributions by David M. Ball, Georgiana Banita, Margaret
Fink Berman, James Brogan, Isaac Cates, Joanna David-McElligatt,
Shawn Gilmore, Matt Godbey, Jeet Heer, Martha B. Kuhlman,
Katherine Roeder, Peter R. Sattler, Marc Singer, Benjamin Widiss,
and Daniel Worden
that tell the personal
Peanuts
Ball/kuhlMan
tale of the
creator
the comics of chris ware
Drawing is a way of thinking
While best known as the creator of
Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000)
was also a thoughtful and precise prose
writer who knew how to explain his craft
in clear and engaging ways. My Life with Charlie Brown brings together his
major prose writings, many published here for the first time.
Schulz’s autobiographical articles, book introductions, magazine
pieces, lectures, and commentary elucidate his life and his art, and
clarify themes of modern life, philosophy, and religion that are interwoven into his beloved, groundbreaking comic strip. Edited and with
an introduction by comics scholar M. Thomas Inge, this volume will
serve as the touchstone for Schulz’s thoughts and convictions and as
a wide-ranging, unique autobiography in the absence of a traditional,
extended memoir.
Inge and the Schulz estate have chosen a number of illustrations to
include. With the approval and cooperation of the Schulz family, Inge
draws on the cartoonist’s entire archives, papers, and correspondence
to allow Schulz full voice to speak his mind. The project includes his
comics criticism, his introductions to Peanuts volumes, his essays about
philanthropy, his commentary on Christianity, his newspaper articles
about the creation of his characters, and more. My Life with Charlie
Brown will reveal new dimensions of this legendary cartoonist.
An
assessment of
the achievement and
aesthetic of one of
America’s
brightest
comics innovators
The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing
Is a Way of Thinking brings together
contributions from established and
The comics of chris Ware
Drawing is a way of thinking
emerging scholars about the comics
Edited by David M. Ball and Martha B. kuhlman
of Chicago-based cartoonist Chris
Ware (b. 1967). Both inside and
outside academic circles, Ware’s work is rapidly being distinguished as
essential to the developing canon of the graphic novel. Winner of the
2001 Guardian First Book Prize for the genre-defining Jimmy Corrigan:
The Smartest Kid on Earth, Ware has received numerous accolades from
both the literary and comics establishment. This collection addresses
the range of Ware’s work from his earliest drawings in the 1990s in
The ACME Novelty Library and his acclaimed Jimmy Corrigan, to his most
recent works-in-progress, “Building Stories” and “Rusty Brown.”
David M. Ball, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, is assistant professor of
English at Dickinson College. His essays have appeared in ESQ: A
Journal of the American Renaissance and Critical Matrix. Martha B.
Kuhlman, Providence, Rhode Island, is associate professor of
comparative literature at Bryant University. She has published in
the Journal of Popular Culture, European Journal of Comic Art, and the
International Journal of Comic Art.
Charles M. Schulz created the popular comic strip Peanuts, which
appeared in over 2,600 newspapers and in over seventy-five countries.
M. Thomas Inge, Ashland, Virginia, is Robert Emory Blackwell
Professor of the Humanities at Randolph-Macon College. He has
edited or authored over sixty volumes, including books on Schulz, the
comics, William Faulkner, and Oliver W. Harrington. Inge is the general editor of two UPM series, Conversations with Comics Artists
and Great Comics Artists.
APRIL, 288 pages (approx.), 7 x 10 inches, 20 color illustrations, 30 b&w illustrations, introduction, bibliography, index
Printed casebinding $55.00S, 978-1-60473-442-3
Paper $28.00T, 978-1-60473-443-0
Ebook $28.00, 978-1-60473-446-1
APRIL, 144 pages (approx.), 5½ x 8½ inches, 25 b&w illustrations, introduction,
appendix
Cloth $25.00T, 978-1-60473-447-8
Ebook $25.00, 978-1-60473-448-5
R E L AT E D
Charles M. Schulz
Conversations
Edited by M. Thomas Inge
Paper $20.00T, 978-1-57806-305-5
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C O MI C S S T U DIES • E U R O P EAN H IS T O R Y
C O MI C S S T U DIES • P O P U LA R C U L T U R E
Drawing France
Daniel Clowes
Joel E. Vessels
Edited by Ken Parille and Isaac Cates
French Comics and the Republic
A
Conversations
sophisticated
Daniel Clowes
Interviews
account of the evolving role of comics in
recent
French
Edited by Ken Parille and Isaac Cates
history
“If
your thought
process could take
you to knowing
exactly what you’re
doing and why, there
In France, Belgium, and other Francophone countries, comic strips—called
bande dessinée or “BD” in French—
have long been considered a major art
form capable of addressing a host of
contemporary issues. Among Frenchspeaking intelligentsia, graphic narratives were deemed worthy of canonization and critical study decades
before the academy and the press in the United States embraced comics.
The place that BD holds today, however, belies the contentious political route the art form has traveled. In Drawing France: French Comics
and the Republic, author Joel E. Vessels examines the trek of BD from its
being considered a fomenter of rebellion, to a medium suitable only for
semi-literates, to an impediment to education, and most recently to an
art capable of addressing social concerns in mainstream culture.
In the mid-1800s, alarmists feared political caricatures might incite
the ire of an illiterate working class. To counter this notion, proponents
yoked the art to a particular articulation of “Frenchness” based on
literacy and reason. With the post–World War II economic upswing,
French consumers saw BD as a way to navigate the changes brought by
modernization. After bande dessinée came to be understood as a compass for the masses, the government, especially François Mitterand’s
administration, brought comics increasingly into “official” culture. Vessels argues that BD are central to the formation of France’s self-image
and a self-awareness of what it means to be French.
would be no point in
making the art.
It
would become like
propaganda.”
Daniel Clowes (b. 1961) emerged from the “alternative comics” boom
of the 1980s as one of the most significant cartoonists and most distinctive voices in the development of the graphic novel. His serialized
Eightball comics, collected in such books as David Boring, Ice Haven, and
Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, helped to set the standards of sophistication and complexity for the medium. The screenplay for Ghost World,
which Clowes co-adapted (with Terry Zwigoff) from his graphic novel
of the same name, was nominated for an Academy Award.
Since his early, edgy Lloyd Llewellyn and Eightball comics, Clowes has
developed along with the medium, from a satirical and sometimes
vituperative surrealist to an unmatched observer of psychological and
social subtleties. In this collection of interviews reaching from 1988 to
2009, the cartoonist discusses his earliest experiences reading superhero
comics, his time at the Pratt Institute, his groundbreaking comics
career, and his screenplays for Ghost World and Art School Confidential.
Several of these pieces are drawn from rare small-press or self-published
zines, including Clowes’s first published interview. He talks at length
about the creative process, from the earliest traces of a story, to his
technical approaches to layout, drawing, inking, lettering, and coloring.
The volume concludes with a 2009 interview conducted specifically for
this book.
Joel E. Vessels, Astoria, New York, is instructor of history at
Nassau Community College. His work has appeared in International
Journal of Comic Art and Contemporary French Civilization.
An assistant professor of English at East Carolina University, Ken
Parille, Greenville, North Carolina, is the author of Boys at Home:
Discipline, Masculinity, and ‘The Boy-Problem’ in Nineteenth-Century American
Literature. A lecturer in English at the University of Vermont, Isaac
Cates, Burlington, Vermont, has published in Indy Magazine, International Journal of Comics Art, ImageText, and many other periodicals.
JUNE, 304 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 29 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index
Ebook $50.00, 978-1-60473-445-4
R E L AT E D
History and Politics in French-Language Comics
and Graphic Novels
AUGUST, 240 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 18 b&w illustrations, introduction,
chronology, index
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-60473-441-6
Conversations with Comics Artists Series
Edited by Mark McKinney
Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-60473-004-3
¡Viva la historieta!
Mexican Comics, NAFTA, and the Politics of Globalization
Bruce Campbell
al s o i n t h e s er i e s
Paper $25.00S, 978-1-60473-126-2
Harvey Pekar
Conversations
Edited by Michael G. Rhode
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-60473-086-9
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FILM • BI O G R A P H Y
Atom Egoyan
Guy Maddin
Edited by T. J. Morris
Edited by D. K. Holm
Interviews
Interviews
“We
make art to provide
order and purpose in a world
in which we feel deprived of
that in some way.”
Four-time winner at the Cannes Film Festival,
Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan (b. 1960)
began his career while still an undergraduate at
the University of Toronto. His first love was
playwriting, but he began to see that he could
investigate themes emotionally through film—
that the camera could play a role. He learned
his craft in his own independent films and by
directing television episodes before attempting his first feature film, Next of Kin
(1984). There he explored the themes of family and identity that continue to
interest him today.
A frequent winner at film festivals, Egoyan broke through to a general audience
with his film Exotica (1994). Since then such films as The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
and Felicia’s Journey (1999) have gained him wide acclaim. These interviews, collected from the last two decades, reveal Egoyan’s unique themes, and his individual, independent approach to filmmaking. He discusses his development as a
director, his interest in opera and museum installations, and the expectations he
has for his audience. He engages in open, forthright discussions of his work and
those who have worked with him.
T. J. Morris, Indianapolis, Indiana, is professor of English at the University of
Indianapolis and has published in Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Mystics Quarterly,
and Independent Film and Video Monthly.
JUNE, 224 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology, filmography, index
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-60473-487-4
Conversations with Filmmakers Series
A l s o i n t h e s er i e s
Jim Jarmusch
Interviews
One of Canada’s premier cinematic exports, Guy
Maddin (b. 1956) is an award-winning filmmaker
with a rising reputation. Known for his autobiographical tales—hidden deeply within comical,
absurd, and surrealistic narratives—Maddin has
earned international acclaim, including a lifetime
achievement award at the Telluride Film Festival at
the age of thirty-nine.
Possessing a deep knowledge of silent cinema,
modernist artists, and novelists, Maddin’s seemingly amateurish visual style and unusual subjects
(patriphagia in The Dead Father, incest in Careful)
obscure the surprisingly literate sources for his
films. These include novelists Knut Hamsun
(Twilight of the Ice Nymphs) and Kazuo Ishiguro (The
Saddest Music in the World), the Royal Winnipeg Ballet (Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary), and the films
of Erich von Stroheim (Archangel).
Guy Maddin: Interviews collects pieces published
between 1990 and 2009 and offers the reader a
whirlwind tour of Maddin’s offbeat career in his
own words, as solicited by a range of journalists,
scholars, and fellow filmmakers. Maddin is a
charming, erudite, and candid conversationalist
who is frank about his own perceived drawbacks,
his good fortune, and the often high art culture
that motivates his cinematic explorations.
D. K. Holm, Portland, Oregon, is a movie reviewer
for the Vancouver Voice. He has published books on
Quentin Tarrantino and R. Crumb. He has also
written articles for the New York Times Book Review,
Film Quarterly, and Sight and Sound. He is the editor
of R.Crumb: Conversations (University Press of Mississippi).
AUGUST, 208 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction,
chronology, filmography, index
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-60473-563-5
Edited by Ludvig Hertzberg
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-57806-379-6
Lars von Trier
Interviews
Edited by Jan Lumholdt
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-57806-532-5
Peter Greenaway
Interviews
Edited by Vernon Gras and Marguerite Gras
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-57806-255-3
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Hal Ashby
Interviews
Edited by Nick Dawson
“I
believe one of the best
things a director can do
for his film is to get as
many others as possible to
become part of the film.”
“All
the elements have to
evolve simultaneously.
You
have to make a film that
has just the right number
of flippers and fins and
gills to survive.”
For a complete listing of our
Conversations with Filmmakers
Series, see page 30 or
http://www.upress.state.ms.us/
search/series/6
Hal Ashby (1929–1988) is considered to be
the lost genius of the New Hollywood generation. While his name does not bear the familiarity of, say, Robert Altman or Martin Scorsese,
his diverse films are among the best known and
most beloved of the era. From the cult classic
Harold and Maude (1971) to the iconic political satire Being There (1979), from the
subversive sex comedy Shampoo (1975) to the anti-Vietnam romance Coming Home
(1979), Ashby rejected mainstream conventions while his films attracted both
popular and critical praise.
A true actors’ director, Ashby drew A-list stars and elicited powerful performances from Jack Nicholson in The Last Detail (1973), Warren Beatty and Julie
Christie in Shampoo, Jon Voight and Jane Fonda in Coming Home, and Peter Sellers
in Being There.
Hal Ashby: Interviews for the first time brings together the best interviews
conducted over the course of Ashby’s career. Ashby discusses his filmmaking
philosophy, memories of working his way up the Hollywood ladder in the 1950s,
and his troubled productions in the 1980s.
Nick Dawson, Brooklyn, New York, is a contributing editor for Filmmaker
magazine. He is also the associate editor for the FilminFocus website, a freelance
film journalist, and author of Being Hal Ashby: Life of a Hollywood Rebel, the first
biography of the director.
AUGUST, 128 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology, filmography, index
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-60473-565-9
Robert Altman
Interviews
Edited by David Sterritt
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-57806-187-7
Martin Scorsese
Interviews
Edited by Peter Brunette
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-57806-072-6
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P O P U LA R C U L T U R E • FILM S T U DIES • R EFE R EN C E
Inside the Hollywood
Fan Magazine
Beyond Paradise
The Life of Ramon Novarro
A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers
Anthony Slide
“For anyone who equates ‘fan magazines’ with supermarket tabloids, this book
should come as a revelation. Tony Slide has done a formidable job of research
to chart the birth, rise, and fall of Hollywood fan magazines in the twentieth
century, their relationship to the industry they covered, and the readers they
served. It’s a colorful, well-told history that’s full of surprises.”
—Leonard Maltin
The
definitive source for
the movie fan magazine
and how it espoused hoopla and
fashioned stardom
The fan magazine has often been viewed simply as
a publicity tool, a fluffy exercise in self-promotion
by the film industry. But as an arbiter of good and
bad taste, as a source of knowledge, and as a gateway
to the fabled land of Hollywood and its stars, the
American fan magazine represents a fascinating and indispensable chapter in
journalism and popular culture.
Anthony Slide’s Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine provides the definitive history
of this artifact. It charts the development of the fan magazine from the golden
years when Motion Picture Story Magazine and Photoplay first appeared in 1911 to its
decline into provocative headlines and titillation in the 1960s and afterward. Slide
discusses how the fan magazines dealt with gossip and innuendo, and how they
handled nationwide issues such as Hollywood scandals of the 1920s, World War
II, the blacklist, and the death of President Kennedy. Fan magazines thrived in
the twentieth century, and they presented the history of an industry in a unique,
sometimes accurate, and always entertaining style.
This major cultural history includes a new interview with 1970s media personality Rona Barrett, as well as original commentary from a dozen editors and
writers. Also included is a chapter on contributions to the fan magazines from
well-known writers such as Theodore Dreiser and e. e. cummings. The book is
enhanced by an appendix documenting some 268 American fan magazines and
includes detailed publication histories.
Anthony Slide, Studio City, California, is an independent scholar who has
published more than seventy-two books on popular entertainment. He has been
a specialist appraiser of entertainment memorabilia for more than thirty years, an
associate archivist for the American Film Institute, and the resident film historian
of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
André Soares
Foreword by Anthony Slide
The first Latin American actor to become a
superstar, Ramon Novarro was for years one of
Hollywood’s top actors. Born Ramón Samaniego
to a prominent Mexican family, he arrived in
America in 1916, a refugee from civil wars. By the
mid-1920s, he had become one of MGM’s biggest
box office attractions, starring in now-classic films,
including The Student Prince, Mata Hari, and the
original version of Ben-Hur. He shared the screen
with the era’s top leading ladies, such as Greta
Garbo, Myrna Loy, Joan Crawford, and Norma
Shearer, and became Rudolph Valentino’s main
rival in the “Latin Lover” category. Yet, despite
his considerable professional accomplishments,
Novarro’s enduring hold on fame stems from his
tragic death—his bloodied corpse was found in his
house on Halloween 1968 in what has become one
of Hollywood’s most infamous scandals.
A lifelong bachelor, Novarro carefully cultivated
his image as a man deeply devoted to his family and
to Catholicism. His murder shattered that persona.
News reports revealed that the dashing screen hero
had not only been gay, but was dead at the hands
of two young male hustlers. Since then, details of
his murder have achieved near mythic proportions,
obscuring Novarro’s professional legacy. Beyond
Paradise presents a full picture of the man who
made motion picture history. Including original
interviews with Novarro’s surviving friends, family, co-workers, and the two men convicted of his
murder, this biography provides unique insights
into an early Hollywood star—a man whose heart
was forever in conflict with his image and whose
myth continues to fascinate today.
André Soares, Los Angeles, California, currently operates a translation business, working for
numerous major American corporations. He is the
author of several screenplays and is the chief editor
of Alternative Film Guide.
APRIL, 288 pages (approx.), 7 x 10 inches, 75 b&w illustrations, appendix, bibliography, index
Cloth $40.00S, 978-1-60473-413-3
Ebook $40.00, 978-1-60473-414-0
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FILM • P O P U LA R C U L T U R E
American Horror Film
The Genre at the Turn of the Millennium
Edited by Steffen Hantke
Essays by Craig Bernardini, David Church, Pamela Craig, Blair Davis,
Martin Fradley, Steffen Hantke, Reynold Humphries, James Kendrick,
Christina Klein, Ben Kooyman, Jay McRoy, Kial Natale, Andrew Patrick
Nelson, Tony Perrello, and Philip L. Simpson
Essays
that assault the
conviction that horror film
is a genre on its deathbed
A
biography of the religious
and deeply closeted rival to
Rudolph Valentino
MAY, 416 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 27 b&w
illustrations, foreword, filmography, chronology, index
Paper $25.00T, 978-1-60473-457-7
Ebook $25.00, 978-1-60473-458-4
Hollywood Legends Series
Forever Mame
The Life of Rosalind Russell
Bernard F. Dick
Cloth $30.00T, 978-1-57806-890-6
Van Johnson
MGM’s Golden Boy
Ronald L. Davis
Cloth $30.00T, 978-1-57806-377-2
Creatively spent and politically irrelevant, the
American horror film is a mere ghost of its
former self—or so goes the old saw from fans
and scholars alike. Taking on this undeserved
reputation, the contributors to this collection
provide a comprehensive look at a decade of
cinematic production, covering a wide variety
of material from the last ten years with a clear
critical eye.
Individual essays profile the work of
up-and-coming director Alexandre Aja and reassess William Malone’s muchmaligned Feardotcom in the light of the torture debate at the end of President
George W. Bush’s administration. Other essays look at the economic, social, and
formal aspects of the genre; the globalization of the U.S. film industry; the alleged
escalation of cinematic violence; and the massive commercial popularity of the
remake. Some essays examine specific subgenres—from the teenage horror flick
to the serial killer film and the spiritual horror film—as well as the continuing
relevance of classic directors such as George A. Romero, David Cronenberg, John
Landis, and Stuart Gordon.
Essays deliberate on the marketing of nostalgia and its concomitant aesthetic,
and the curiously schizophrenic perspective of fans who happen to be scholars
as well. Taken together, the contributors to this collection make a compelling
case that American horror cinema is as vital, creative, and thought-provoking as
it ever was.
Steffen Hantke, Seoul, South Korea, is associate professor of English at
Sogang University in South Korea. He has published Conspiracy and Paranoia in
Contemporary American Literature: The Works of Don DeLillo and Joseph McElroy, has
edited several anthologies, and has had work published in several journals.
JULY, 275 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, bibliography, index
Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-60473-453-9
Ebook $50.00, 978-1-60473-454-6
Photograph—Movie still from The Hills Have Eyes, courtesy Steffen Hantke
R E L AT E D
Horror Film
Creating and Marketing Fear
Edited by Steffen Hantke
Paper, $25.00D, 978-1-60473-376-1
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M U SI C
M U SI C • MEDIA S T U DIES
MuzikMafia
The Jazz Image
From the Local Nashville Scene to the National Mainstream
David B. Pruett
Seeing Music through Herman
Leonard’s Photography
K. Heather Pinson
In October 2001, an unlikely gathering of
How a group of
musicians calling itself the MuzikMafia took
place at the Pub of Love in Nashville, Tennes- industry outsiders
see. “We had all been beat up pretty good by the
became popular
‘industry’ and we told ourselves, if nothing else,
we might as well be playing muzik,” explains music sensations
Big Kenny of Big and Rich. For the next year
and a half, the MuzikMafia performed each week and garnered an ever-growing,
dedicated fan base.
Five years, several national tours, six Grammy nominations, and eleven million
sold albums later, the MuzikMafia now includes a family of artists including
founding members Big and Rich, Jon Nicholson, and Cory Gierman along with
Gretchen Wilson, Cowboy Troy, James Otto, Shannon Lawson, Damien Horne
(Mista D), Two-Foot Fred, Rachel Kice, and several more in development.
This book explores how a set of shared beliefs created a bond that transformed
the MuzikMafia into a popular music phenomenon. David B. Pruett examines
the artists’ coalition from the inside perspective he gained in five years of working
with them. Looking at all aspects of the collective, MuzikMafia documents the
problems encountered along the ascent, including business difficulties, tensions
among members, disagreements with record labels, and miscalculations artists
inevitably made before the MuzikMafia unofficially dissolved in 2008. A final
section examines hope for the future: the birth of Mafia Nation in 2009.
David B. Pruett, Weymouth, Massachusetts, is an assistant professor of music
at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. A native of North Carolina, he has
been published in the Encyclopedia of Appalachia, Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the
World, Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, and the Country Music Annual.
MAY, 192 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 28 b&w illustrations, 6 maps,
discography, videography, index
Cloth $25.00T, 978-1-60473-438-6
Ebook $25.00, 978-1-60473-439-3
American Made Music Series
Photograph—The “godfathers”: Kenny Alphin, Jon Nicholson, Cory Gierman, and John
Rich, courtesy Deanna Kay
8
Typically a photograph of a jazz musician has
several formal prerequisites: black and white film,
an urban setting in the mid-twentieth century, and
a black man standing, playing, or sitting next to his
instrument. That’s the jazz archetype that photography created. Author K. Heather Pinson discovers
how such a steadfast script developed visually and
what this convention meant for the music.
Album covers, magazines, books, documentaries, art photographs, posters, and various other
visual extensions of popular culture formed the
commonly held image of the jazz player. Through
assimilation, there emerged a generalized composite of how mainstream jazz looked and sounded.
Pinson evaluates representations of jazz musicians
from 1945 to 1959, concentrating on the seminal
role played by Herman Leonard (b. 1923). Leonard’s photographic depictions of African American
jazz musicians in New York not only created a
visual template of a black musician of the 1950s,
but also became the standard configuration of the
music’s neoclassical sound today. To discover how
the image of the musician affected mainstream
jazz, Pinson examines readings from critics, musicians, and educators, as well as interviews, musical
scores, recordings, transcriptions, liner notes, and
oral narratives.
K. Heather Pinson, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
is assistant professor of communication and
media arts at Robert Morris University. She has
contributed to the Encyclopedia of African American
Music, Encyclopedia of the Blues, and Rock Brands: Selling
Sound in a Media Saturated Culture.
JUNE, 256 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 26 b&w
illustrations, bibliography, appendices, index
Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-60473-494-2
Ebook $50.00, 978-1-60473-495-9
Illustration—courtesy www.istockphoto.com
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M U SI C • S O U T H E R N S T A T ES
Banjo on the Mountain
Wade Mainer’s First Hundred Years
Dick Spottswood
Essay by Stephen Wade
The
tribute to a musician
whose career spans
hillbilly, bluegrass,
and sacred music
How photographer Herman
Leonard and others created
the icon of the sophisticated,
edgy jazz musician
A L SO IN T H E S E R I E S
Jazz and Death
Medical Profiles of Jazz Greats
Frederick J. Spencer, M.D.
Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-57806-453-3
A Trumpet around the Corner
The Story of New Orleans Jazz
Samuel Charters
Cloth $40.00T, 978-1-57806-898-2
Wade Mainer (b. 1907) is believed to be the
longest-lived country entertainer ever. His
banjo lessons began in childhood and he
played informally into his adult years, when
he joined his brother, fiddler J. E. Mainer
(1898–1971), in Mainer’s Mountaineers.
Music became their ticket out of the
cotton mills in 1934. At the time, country styles were swiftly evolving from
community-based performance into mass-market broadcast via radio, records,
and the silver screen. Mainer’s Mountaineers attracted radio sponsors and touring opportunities, allowing the brothers to become full-time musicians.
Eventually Wade Mainer formed his own band, the Sons of the Mountaineers. His success secured a permanent place for the fiddle and banjo sound in
country music, sustained that sound’s popularity throughout the 1930s, and
created the foundation upon which Bill Monroe and his disciples would spread
bluegrass music in the 1940s.
Banjo on the Mountain features Wade’s own words and recollections from a
lifetime in music and an exciting career that included a command performance
at the White House for President Franklin D. Roosevelt and a key role in The
Old Chisholm Trail, a 1944 BBC-sponsored radio play for American troops and
embattled English civilians. The volume is rich in photographs and documents,
thanks to Wade and Julia Mainer’s careful custodianship of letters, professional
photos and family snapshots, posters, songbooks, flyers, and other priceless curios.
Dick Spottswood, Naples, Florida, is a musicologist, historian, and the producer and on-line host of The Dick Spottswood Show, aka the Obsolete Music Hour.
AUGUST,128 pages (approx.), 8½ x 11 inches, 100 b&w illustrations, discography, index
Paper $30.00T, 978-1-60473-498-0
Ebook $30.00, 978-1-60473-499-7
Photograph—Wade Mainer, courtesy of Wade Mainer
Hank Williams, So Lonesome
Bill Koon
Paper $20.00T, 978-1-57806-283-6
In Close Harmony
The Story of the Louvin Brothers
Charles Wolfe
Paper $25.00D, 978-0-87805-892-1
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AME R I C AN LI T E R A T U R E • BI O G R A P H Y
LI T E R A T U R E • BI O G R A P H Y
Conversations with
Yusef Komunyakaa
Conversations
with Ian McEwan
Edited by Shirley A. James Hanshaw
Edited by Ryan Roberts
“A
poem seems to be more
embracing when it avoids
becoming an answer, and,
instead, poses an active
question.”
Conversations with Yusef Komunyakaa brings together over two decades of interviews and profiles with one of America’s most prolific and
acclaimed contemporary poets. Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947) describes his work alternately
as “word paintings” and as “music,” and his
affinity with the visual and aural arts is amply displayed in these conversations.
The volume also addresses the diversity and magnitude of Komunyakaa’s literary
output. His collaborations with artists in a variety of genres, including music,
dance, drama, opera, and painting have produced groundbreaking performance
pieces. Throughout the collection, Komunyakaa’s interest in finding and creating
poetry across the artistic spectrum is made manifest.
For his collection Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems, 1977–1989, Komunyakaa became the first African American male to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Through his work he provides keen insight into life’s mysteries from seemingly
inconsequential and insignificant life forms (“Ode to the Maggot”) to some of
the most compelling historical and life-altering events of our time, such as the
Vietnam War (“Facing It”). Influenced strongly by jazz, blues, and folklore, as
well as the classical poetic tradition, his poetry comprises a riveting chronicle of
the African American experience.
Shirley A. James Hanshaw, Starkville, Mississippi, is assistant professor of
English at Mississippi State University. Her work has been published in Thirty
Years After: New Essays on Vietnam War Literature, Film, and Other Arts, as well as The
Literary Griot: International Journal of Black Expressive Studies and Journal of the African
Literature Association.
Conversations with Ian McEwan collects sixteen
interviews, conducted over three decades, with
the British author of such highly praised novels
as Enduring Love, Atonement, Saturday, and On Chesil
Beach. McEwan (b. 1948) discusses his views on
authorship, the writing process, and major themes
found in his fiction, but he also expands upon his
interests in music, film, global politics, the sciences,
and the state of literature in contemporary society.
McEwan’s candid and forthcoming discussions
with notable contemporary writers—Martin Amis,
Zadie Smith, Ian Hamilton, David Remnick, and
Stephen Pinker—provide readers with the most
in-depth portrait available of the author and his
works.
Readers will find McEwan to be just as engaging, humorous, and intelligent as his writings
suggest. The volume includes interviews from
British, Spanish, French, and American sources,
two interviews previously available only in audio
format, and a new interview conducted with the
book’s editor.
Ryan Roberts, Springfield, Illinois, is a librarian
at Lincoln Land Community College and an editorial assistant for Between the Lines. He is the official
webmaster for Julian Barnes (www.julianbarnes
.com), Ian McEwan (www.ianmcewan.com), and
James Fenton (www.jamesfenton.com), among
others.
MARCH, 224 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction,
chronology, index
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-60473-420-1
Literary Conversations Series
MARCH, 224 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology, index
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-60473-422-5
Literary Conversations Series
Conversations with Audre Lorde
Edited by Joan Wylie Hall
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-57806-643-8
Conversations with Rita Dove
Edited by Earl G. Ingersoll
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-57806-550-9
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LI T E R A T U R E
My Two Oxfords
Willie Morris
Foreword by JoAnne Prichard Morris
Photograph by David Rae Morris
“I
think it is at the level
of empathy that moral
questions begin in fiction.”
Conversations with Julian Barnes
Edited by Vanessa Guignery and Ryan Roberts
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-60473-204-7
Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro
Edited by Brian W. Shaffer and Cynthia F. Wong
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-934110-62-1
One of America’s most beloved authors A special edition
and a master of the personal essay, Willie
Morris (1934–1999) wrote nineteen books honoring an adored
and hundreds of articles and reflections. To Mississippi writer
honor his memory on the seventy-fifth anniversary of his birth (November 29, 1934), on the 75th anniMy Two Oxfords is a special edition of one of versary of his birth
these choice essays.
In this piece, he addresses the quirky circumstance of having lived in “two of
the world’s most disparate places.” There were two Oxfords in his life—Oxford
University in England where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar in the 1950s and
Oxford, Mississippi, the home of University of Mississippi, where he was
writer in residence when he wrote the essay.
Among the obvious contrasts between the two places, Morris finds complexity: “The legendary beauty of the Ole Miss coed is not myth. The girls of
Oxford, England, so stringently screened by some of the world’s most demanding academic requirements, were often dour; yet the occasional warm-spirited
beauty among them was always worth the waiting . . . By the same token, the
intellectual Ole Miss sorority girl of good and gentle disposition is a joyous
song in the heart and will endure.”
This essay is quintessential Morris—lyrical and evocative, a blend of personal experience and memory, history, a strong sense of place, and a bit of
whimsy. A foreword by JoAnne Prichard Morris and a photograph by David
Rae Morris make this edition a must-have for Willie Morris’s many fans.
A native Mississippian, Willie Morris came to national prominence in the
early 1960s as the youngest-ever editor of Harper’s magazine. His first book,
North Toward Home, became an instant classic. Among his other notable books
are The Courting of Marcus Dupree, New York Days, My Dog Skip, Homecomings, and
My Mississippi.
AVAILABLE, 32 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 1 b&w photograph
Cloth $20.00T, 978-1-60473-570-3
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H IS T O R Y • A R C H I T E C T U R E • S O U T H E R N S T A T ES
H IS T O R Y • S O U T H E R N S T A T ES
Lost Churches
of Mississippi
Weapons of Mississippi
Kevin Dougherty
Richard J. Cawthon
A
A
richly illustrated
history of more than
history of
weaponry used to
defend, attack,
one hundred sacred
suppress, and stalk
structures lost to
disaster, demolition,
over the centuries
or abandonment
Mississippians have long found the
need for an arsenal of interesting,
lethal, and imaginative weapons.
Native Americans, frontier outlaws,
antebellum duelists, authorities and
protestors in the civil rights struggle, and present-day hunters have used weapons to survive, to advance
causes, or to levy societal control.
In Weapons of Mississippi, Kevin Dougherty examines the roles weapons have played in twelve phases of state history. Dougherty not only
offers technical background for these devices, but he also presents a
new way of understanding the state’s history—through the context and
development of its weapons. Chapters in the book bring the story of
Mississippi’s weapons up to date with a discussion of the modern naval
shipbuilders on the Coast and interviews with hunters keen to pass on
family traditions.
As Mississippi progressed from a sparsely populated wilderness to
a structured modern society, management of weaponry became one
of the main requirements for establishing centralized law and order.
Indians, outlaws, runaway slaves, secessionists, and night riders have all
posed challenges to the often better-armed authorities.
Today, weapons unite Mississippians in the popular pastime of hunting deer, turkey, dove, rabbit, and even bear. In the state’s social and
cultural character, a shared lore and knowledge of hunting crosses age,
racial, and economic lines. Weapons, once used for mere survival, have
transformed into instruments masterfully crafted for those harvesting
the state’s abundant game.
Lost Churches of Mississippi is a collection of archival photographs,
postcards, and drawings of
more than one hundred notable
churches and synagogues vanquished by fire, disaster, development, or
neglect. Constructed primarily from the mid-1800s through the early
1900s, these places of worship were often among the most visually
prominent and architecturally striking buildings in Mississippi. Storms,
floods, tornadoes, flames, bulldozers, or the disbandment of congregations razed what once was hallowed.
In Lost Churches of Mississippi, architectural historian Richard J. Cawthon
reclaims such noteworthy temples as the old St. Paul’s Catholic Church
in Vicksburg, Bethel Presbyterian Church near Columbus, the old Trinity Episcopal Church in Pass Christian, and the old First Presbyterian
Church in Yazoo City. Selections represent over fifty towns and cities
throughout the state and are captured in 180 distinctive black-and-white
illustrations from several historical archives and other collections.
Cawthon discusses the architectural features and historical background of each house of worship and provides a brief introduction
that illuminates the study of lost buildings, as well as a glossary of
architectural terms and an annotated bibliography. Lost Churches of Mississippi rescues a cardinal legacy and recognizes a portion of the state’s
rich architectural and religious heritage.
Richard J. Cawthon, Jackson, Mississippi, former chief architectural
historian with the Mississippi Department of Archives and History,
is currently a historic preservation specialist for FEMA’s Mississippi
Recovery Office and works on the state’s Gulf Coast. He wrote the
text for Victorian Houses of Mississippi and Historic Churches of Mississippi
(University Press of Mississippi).
Kevin Dougherty, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, is a history professor
at University of Southern Mississippi and has previously published a
number of books in military history.
MAY, 240 pages (approx.), 8 x 10 inches, 180 b&w illustrations, bibliography,
appendix, index
Cloth $35.00T, 978-1-60473-436-2
Ebook $35.00, 978-1-60473-437-9
JULY, 192 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 44 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index
Cloth $25.00T, 978-1-60473-451-5
Ebook $25.00, 978-1-60473-452-2
R E L AT E D
R E L AT E D
Lost Landmarks of Mississippi
Civil War Leadership and Mexican War Experience
Cloth $35.00T, 978-1-57806-475-5
Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-57806-968-2
Kevin Dougherty
Mary Carol Miller
Lost Mansions of Mississippi
Mary Carol Miller
Cloth $37.00T, 978-0-87805-888-4
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S O U T H E R N S T A T ES • MEM O I R • DISAS T E R S
C IVIL WA R • S O U T H E R N S T A T ES • H IS T O R Y
Under Surge, Under Siege
Mississippi in the Civil War
Ellis Anderson
Timothy B. Smith
The Odyssey of Bay St. Louis and Katrina
A
The Home Front
survivor’s tale
A
of the hurricane’s
full examination
of a population’s
destruction and a
passion and defeat
community’s enduring
In Mississippi in the Civil War: The Home
Front, Timothy B. Smith examines
Mississippi’s Civil War defeat by
both outside and inside forces. The
invading Union army dismantled
the state’s political system, infrastructure, economy, and fighting
capability. The state saw extensive
military operations, destruction, and
bloodshed within her borders. One of the most frightful and extended
sieges of the war ended in a crucial Confederate defeat at Vicksburg, the
capstone to a tremendous Union campaign.
As Confederate forces and Mississippi became overwhelmed militarily, the populace’s morale began to crumble. Realizing that the enemy
could roll unchecked over the state, civilians, Smith argues, began to lose
the will to continue the struggle. Many white Confederates chose to
return to the Union rather than see continued destruction in the name
of a victory that seemed ever more improbable. When the tide turned,
Unionists and African Americans boldly stepped up their endeavors.
The result, Smith finds, was a state vanquished and destined to endure
suffering far into its future.
The first examination of the state’s Civil War home front in seventy
years, this book tells the story of all classes of Mississippians during
the war, focusing new light on previously neglected groups such as
women and African Americans. The result is a revelation of the heart
of a populace facing the devastating impact of total war.
determination
Hurricane Katrina tore into Bay
St. Louis, Mississippi, raking away
lives, buildings, and livelihoods
in a place known for its picturesque, coastal views; its laid-back,
artsy downtown; and its deep-dyed
southern cordiality. The tragedy also revealed the inner workings of
a community with an indomitable heart and profound neighborly
bonds. Those connections often brought out the best in people
under the worst of circumstances. In Under Surge, Under Siege, Ellis
Anderson, who rode out the storm in her Bay St. Louis home and
sheltered many neighbors afterwards, offers stories of generosity,
heroism, and laughter in the midst of terror and desperate uncertainty.
Divided into two parts, this book invites readers into the intimate
enclave before, during, and after the storm. “Under Surge” focuses
on connections between residents, then demonstrates how those
bonds sustained them through the worst hurricane in U.S. history.
“Under Siege” documents the first three years of the grinding aftermath, detailing the unforeseen burdens of stress and depression,
insurance scandals, and opportunists that threatened to complete
the annihilation of the plucky town.
A blend of memoir, personal diary, and firsthand reportage, Under Surge, Under Siege creates a compelling American testament to the
strength of the human spirit.
Timothy B. Smith, Adamsville, Tennessee, teaches history at the
University of Tennessee at Martin. He is the author of several books,
including The Untold Story of Shiloh: The Battle and Battlefield and Champion
Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg.
Ellis Anderson, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, received a Mississippi
Arts Commission Literary Fellowship for portions of this book. An
excerpt appeared in Southern Cultures.
APRIL, 304 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 15 b&w illustrations, 2 maps,
bibliography, index
Cloth $40.00S, 978-1-60473-429-4
Ebook $40.00, 978-1-60473-430-0
Heritage of Mississippi Series
AUGUST, 240 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 50 b&w illustrations
Cloth $25.00T, 978-1-60473-502-4
Ebook $25.00, 978-1-60473-503-1
R E L AT E D
Katrina
Mississippi Women Remember
A l s o i n t h e Ser i e s
Photography by Melody Golding
Edited by Sally Pfister
Patti Carr Black
Art in Mississippi, 1720—1980
Cloth $60.00T, 978-1-57806-084-9
Cloth $32.00T, 978-1-57806-956-9
A Season of Night
Rednecks, Redeemers, and Race
Mississippi after Reconstruction, 1877–1917
New Orleans Life after Katrina
Stephen Cresswell
Ian McNulty
Cloth $45.00S, 978-1-57806-847-0
Cloth $25.00T, 978-1-934110-91-1
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BI O G R A P H Y • AME R I C AN LI T E R A T U R E
A R T • S O U T H E R N S T A T ES
Tennessee Williams
and the South
Dreaming in Clay on the
Coast of Mississippi
New in
paperback
Love and Art at Shearwater
Kenneth Holditch and Richard Freeman Leavitt
Christopher Maurer with Maria Estrella Iglesias
Words
and
The story of Shearwater
Pottery and the
Anderson family’s
pictures that show
the
South’s
imprint
on the life and
artful enterprise
works of the great
playwright
“An involving, often moving narrative.”
—Booklist
Tennessee Williams (1911–1983)
remarked on several occasions
that the farther south one went in America, the more congenial life
became. Though he sojourned elsewhere, he embraced the South, the
region of his birth, as his creative homeland. Few writers have been
more closely connected with it than he.
Combining his words with photographs, this biographical album
reveals Williams’s closeness with the American South, and especially
with his beloved New Orleans. Williams was born in Mississippi and
lived there with his family until he was seven. Thomas Lanier Williams,
who became “Tennessee,” absorbed much of his creative material from
this Mississippi home place. Many of his ancestors were distinguished
Tennesseans, a fact in which he took considerable pride. Although he
grew to maturity in St. Louis, it was to the South that he continually
returned in his memory and in his imagination. It was in New Orleans
and Key West that he chose to spend a large part of his later years.
This book underscores that intimate connection by featuring photographs of people and places that influenced him. Enhanced with
a long essay and captioned with quotations from Williams’s plays,
memoirs, and letters, more than one hundred pictures document the
keen sense of place that he felt throughout his life and career.
Almost a century ago, Annette McConnell
Anderson, a New Orleans society woman,
vowed that her three sons would become
artists. Turning her back on bourgeois life and abetted by her skeptical
husband—a grain merchant—she bought twenty-eight acres of woodland on the Mississippi Sound. Beside a sleepy bayou, in the shade of
towering pines and magnolias, she opened an art colony, one of the first
of its kind in the South.
Backed by his mother’s passion for art, her oldest son Peter Anderson
founded Shearwater Pottery. Yearning “to make Shearwater synonymous with perfection,” he drew the entire family into his adventure. His
brothers, “Mac” and Walter, made strange, wonderful pieces, though
Walter Anderson eventually left the pottery studio to search for his own
artistic path.
Drawn by the exquisite work of Shearwater Pottery, the authors discover that painting, poetry, and storytelling—much of it by strong,
unforgettable women—are still an essential part of the family’s daily
life. Intimate diaries, letters, and poems lead the reader into a stormy,
passionate, sometimes heartbreaking past. Meticulously researched and
compassionately written, Dreaming in Clay on the Coast of Mississippi gathers one family’s eternal legacy of wisdom and beauty, the healing power
of art, the consolations of writing and of memory, and the spiritual
treasures given us by the natural world.
Kenneth Holditch, New Orleans, Louisiana, is professor emeritus
at the University of New Orleans, the editor of the Tennessee Williams Journal, and the coeditor (with Mel Gussow) of the Library of
America edition of Williams’s works. Richard Freeman Leavitt
(1929–2003) was the editor and compiler of The World of Tennessee
Williams and the compiler of the photographs and the genealogical
chart for Lyle Leverich’s Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams.
Christopher Maurer, Boston, Massachusetts, professor of Spanish and chair of Romance Studies at Boston University, is the author
of eight books, including the award-winning Fortune’s Favorite Child: The
Uneasy Life of Walter Anderson. Maria Estrella Iglesias, Boston, has
taught at Harvard University and the University of Illinois–Chicago.
Her collection of American art pottery was featured on Home and
Garden TV and her jewelry on Sundays with Liz Walker (Boston CBS4)
and Chronicle.
AVAILABLE, 128 pages, 8 x 8½ inches, 125 b&w illustrations
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-60473-465-2
Ebook $22.00, 978-1-60473-466-9
R E L AT E D
APRIL, 358 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 20 b&w illustrations
Paper $25.00R, 978-1-60473-459-1
Ebook $25.00, 978-1-60473-460-7
Photograph—Peter Anderson, courtesy Marjorie Ashley Anderson/The Anderson Family
Conversations with Tennessee Williams
Edited by Albert J. Devlin
Paper $22.00T, 978-0-87805-263-9
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C IVIL WA R • S O U T H E R N S T A T ES
MISSISSI P P I • H IG H E R ED U C A T I O N
Legend of the Free
State of Jones
Treasured Past,
Golden Future
BACK IN
PRINT
The Centennial History of The University
of Southern Mississippi
Rudy H. Leverett
The
Chester M. Morgan
Foreword by Martha Dunagin Saunders
original, full
accounting of a
Originally established March 30, A celebration
1910, as Mississippi Normal College, The University of Southern of a Deep South
Mississippi was built on 120 acres institution that
of cutover timber land and created
to provide training for public school has prospered and
teachers. Chester M. Morgan outlines grown
the evolution of the institution and
tells the story of a gracious heritage born of adversity and nurtured
by a century of perseverance and determination. From the success of
its graduates and the passion of its faculty to its ability to meet and
conquer challenges brought by scarce state funding, world wars, social
movements, and natural disasters, the author captures the persistent
spirit and strength that is the unchanging force behind the university’s
success.
Following the institution’s transition from Mississippi Normal
College (1912–1924), to State Teachers College (1924–1940), to
Mississippi Southern College (1940–1962), to its current designation
as The University of Southern Mississippi (1962–present), the story
captures every element and facet of campus life. From academics and
arts to athletics and administration, the author presents a rich and
varied look at how Southern Miss became the modern comprehensive
university it is today.
rebellion in the
heart of
Dixie
A maverick, unionist district in the heart
of the Old South? A notorious county
that seceded from the Confederacy? This
is how Jones County, Mississippi, is
known in myth and legend.
Since 1864 the legend has persisted. Differing versions give
the name of this new nation as Republic of Jones, Jones County
Confederacy, and Free State of Jones. Over the years this story
has captured the imaginations of journalists, historians, essayists,
novelists, short story writers, and Hollywood filmmakers, although
serious scholars long ago questioned the accuracy of local history
accounts about a secessionist county led by Newt Knight and a
band of renegades.
Legend of the Free State of Jones was the first authoritative explanation
of just what did happen in Jones County in 1864 to give rise to the
legend. This book surveys the facts, the records, and the history of
the “Free State of Jones” and well may provide the whole story.
Rudy H. Leverett was born in an unplumbed cabin in the woods
outside of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He had a doctoral degree in
education and spent his life writing extensively on the subjects of
philosophy, the American South, and the McLemore family. He
died on his birthday in 1999.
Chester M. Morgan, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, is University Professor at The University of Southern Mississippi. He is the author of
Redneck Liberal: Theodore G. Bilbo and the New Deal; Dearly Bought, Deeply
Treasured: The University of Southern Mississippi, 1912–1987 (University
Press of Mississippi); and A Priceless Heritage: A History of the Mississippi
Power Company (with Donald Dana).
AVAILABLE,143 pages, 5½ x 8½ inches, 3 maps, 7 b&w illustrations
Paper $25.00R, 978-1-60473-571-0
Ebook $25.00, 978-1-60473-572-7
MARCH, 288 pages (approx.), 12 x 9 inches, 200 color and b&w illustrations
(approx.), foreword, index
Cloth $50.00R, 978-1-60473-463-8
Ebook $50.00, 978-1-60473-464-5
Copublished with The University of Southern Mississippi
B a c k i n p r i n t o r n e w i n p a p erba c k
Mule Trader
Ray Lum’s Tales of Horses, Mules, and Men
William R. Ferris
Paper $25.00R, 978-1-57806-086-3
Ebook $25.00, 978-1-60473-555-0
R elated
Rock Solid
Southern Miss Football
Natchez before 1830
Edited by Noel Polk
John W. Cox and Gregg Bennett
Foreword by Brett Favre
Paper $25.00R, 978-1-60473-535-2
Ebook $25.00, 978-1-60473-536-9
Cloth $40.00T, 978-1-57806-709-1
The Peninsula Campaign of 1862
A Military Analysis
Kevin Dougherty with J. Michael Moore
Paper $25.00R, 978-1-60473-512-3
Ebook $25.00, 978-1-60473-061-6
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S O U T H E R N S T A T ES • P O LI T I C S • L O U ISIANA
L O U ISIANA • ENVI R O NMEN T • S O C I O L O G Y
Louisiana Governors
Losing Ground
Rulers, Rascals, and Reformers
New in
paperback
Identity and Land Loss in Coastal Louisiana
Walter Greaves Cowan and Jack B. McGuire
Louisiana
Governors
rulers, rascals,
and reformers
A
David M. Burley
Foreword by Sara Crosby
Afterword by T. Mayheart Dardar
revelation of the
wild, wily, and
How
well-meaning chief
residents of
a changing coast-
executives of a
line reconcile sense
colorful state
of place with the
Gulf’s
Walter Greaves Cowan and Jack B. McGuire, veteran authorities on the Louisiana political scene, trace the history
of the state’s leaders from the French
Walter Greaves Cowan and Jack B. McGuire
and Spanish colonial eras to the present day. Using a variety of sources, including personal interviews with
the recent governors, they describe unforgettable personalities in Louisiana Governors: Rulers, Rascals, and Reformers, now available in paperback.
Such early figures as Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville and Jean Baptiste
Le Moyne de Bienville set the tone for later colonial governors. They
had their troubles, fending off protesting Indians and other French
and Spanish leaders vying for power. Following the Louisiana Purchase, American politics took hold. The Whigs, Know Nothings, Republicans, and Democrats have all waxed and waned through times
of slavery, secession, suffrage, and segregation. The early twentieth
century saw the rise of Huey P. Long, who established himself as a
virtual dictator. An assassin’s bullet ended Long’s life in 1935, but his
followers managed to hold on to the governorship until 1940. In 1948
his brother, Earl Long, brought the family back into power.
Over the years, two governors were impeached but were not removed
from office, and two governors were jailed in federal prison. The experiences, decisions, and conflicts of Louisiana governors have reflected and
influenced the history of the state, often in dramatic and fascinating ways.
encroachment
What is it like to lose your front
porch to the ocean? To watch saltwater destroy your favorite fishing holes?
To see playgrounds and churches
subside and succumb to brackish and
rising water? The residents of coastal Louisiana know. For them hurricanes are but exclamation points in an incessant loss of coastal land
now estimated to occur at a rate of at least twenty-four square miles
per year.
In Losing Ground, coastal Louisianans communicate the significance
of place and environment. During interviews taken just before the 2005
hurricanes, they send out a plea to alleviate the damage. They speak
with an urgency that exemplifies a fear of losing not just property and
familiar surroundings, but their identity as well.
People along Louisiana’s southeastern coast hold a deep attachment to
place, and this shows in the urgency of the narratives David M. Burley
collects here. The meanings that residents attribute to coastal land loss
reflect a tenuous and uprooted sense of self. The process of coastal land
loss and all of its social components, from the familial to the political, impacts these residents’ concepts of history and the future. Burley
updates many of his subjects’ narratives to reveal what has happened in
the wake of the back-to-back disasters of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
In forty years of journalism, Walter Greaves Cowan, New Orleans, Louisiana, was reporter and editor of the New Orleans States-Item
and also vice-president of the Times-Picayune Publishing Corporation.
He is the coauthor of New Orleans Yesterday and Today and Louisiana
Yesterday and Today. Jack B. McGuire, Mandeville, Louisiana, public
relations director for the city of New Orleans from 1964 to 1970,
is vice president of Union Savings and Loan Association. He is the
author of Uncle Earl Deserved Better.
David M. Burley, Hammond, Louisiana, is an assistant professor of
sociology at Southeastern Louisiana University. His work has been published in Organization and Environment, Contexts, and Humanity and Society.
JUNE, 176 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 11 b&w illustrations, 1 map, foreword,
aferword, appendix, bibliography, index
Ebook $40.00, 978-1-60473-489-8
R E L AT E D
AVAILABLE, 328 pages, 61/8 x 9¼ inches, 43 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index
Paper $25.00R, 978-1-60473-501-7
Saving Louisiana?
The Battle for Coastal Wetlands
Bill Streever
R E L AT E D
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-57806-348-2
Leander Perez
Boss of the Delta
The Lakes of Pontchartrain
Their History and Environments
Glen Jeansonne
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-57806-917-0
Robert W. Hastings
Cloth $40.00S, 978-1-60473-271-9
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L O U ISIANA • NA T U R AL H IS T O R Y • A U T O BI O G R A P H Y
L O U ISIANA • H IS T O R Y • S O U T H E R N S T A T ES
Down on the Batture
Missing New Orleans
Oliver A. Houck
Compiled and edited by Phillip Collier
Text by J. Richard Gruber, Jim Rapier,
and Mary Beth Romig
With a Hurricane Katrina epilogue featuring
photography by David Rae Morris
An
extended
meditation on a
lively slip of river
wilderness abutting
the
A
Mississippi
visual and
historical love
letter for all
The lower Mississippi River winds
past the City of New Orleans between enormous levees and a rim
of sand, mud, and trees called “the
batture.” On this remote and ignored
piece of land thrives a humanity
unique to the region—ramblers, artists, drinkers, fishers, rabbit hunters,
dog walkers, sunset watchers, and refugees from Immigration, alimony,
and other aspects of modern life.
Author Oliver A. Houck has frequented this place for the past twentyfive years. Down on the Batture describes a life, pastoral, at times marginal,
but remarkably fecund and surprising. From this place he meditates
on Louisiana, the state of the waterway, and its larger environs. He
describes all the actors that have played lead roles on the edge of the
mightiest river of the continent, and includes in his narrative plantations, pollution, murder, land grabs, keelboat brawlers, slave rebellions,
the Corps of Engineers, and the oil industry.
Houck draws from his experience in New Orleans since the early
1970s in the practice and teaching of law. He has been a player in many
of the issues he describes, although he does not undertake to argue
them here. Instead, story by story, he uses the batture to explore the
forces that have shaped and spell out the future of the region. The picture emerges of a place that—for all its tangle of undergrowth, drifting
humanity, shifting dimensions in the rise and fall of floodwater—provides respite and sanctuary for values that are original to America and
ever at risk from the homogenizing forces of civilization.
those who know
what it means to
miss
New Orleans
Though thirty years in the
making, Phillip Collier’s Missing
New Orleans was almost another
treasure lost to Hurricane Katrina. Final proof was due at the New
Orleans printer August 31, 2005, just days after floodwaters breached
the levees. To the principals of the book, “missing New Orleans” took
on personal, devastating meanings.
This pictorial history of New Orleans from the early 1700s to the
present offers over 250 images as well as stories of places, entities, and
events that were at one time a vital part of the city. Each lost gem
tells a unique narrative: the Claiborne Avenue Oaks, the French Opera
House, Pontchartrain and Lincoln Beaches, the Gypsy Tea Room,
Tulane and Pelican Stadiums, Mr. Bingle, and D. H. Holmes. Images
celebrate grand historic structures that once stood along New Orleans
thoroughfares, including the St. Louis and St. Charles Hotels from the
mid-nineteenth century and the five downtown railroad stations and the
Rivergate from the twentieth century.
Through the photographs, postcards, posters, maps, and line drawings gathered by New Orleans graphic designer Phillip Collier, those
enamored of the Crescent City can explore a time when West End Park
and Spanish Fort were lakefront resort destinations, when boxing and
horse racing ruled the city’s sporting world, when street vendors plied
their wares, and steamboats packed the wharves.
Oliver A. Houck, New Orleans, Louisiana, a professor of law at
Tulane University, received the Distinguished Achievement Award from
the Environmental Section of the American Bar Association and has
been named Louisiana’s Conservationist of the Year, among other honors. He is the author of a book on the Clean Water Act and another
called Taking Back Eden: Eight Environmental Cases That Changed the World.
Phillip Collier, New Orleans, Louisiana, is the owner of Phillip
Collier Designs. He also works as a freelance illustrator and, with Jennifer Adams, has published Mixing New Orleans.
MAY, 144 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 24 b&w illustrations, 2 maps
Cloth $25.00T, 978-1-60473-461-4
Ebook $25.00, 978-1-60473-462-1
AVAILABLE, 224 pages, 8¾ x 9 inches, 250 b&w and color illustrations, 2 maps,
bibliography, index
Paper with dust jacket, $39.95T, 978-0-9772544-0-8
Distributed for the Ogden Museum of Southern Art
R elated
Inventing New Orleans
Writings of Lafcadio Hearn
Edited and with an introduction by S. Frederick Starr
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-57806-353-6
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A R T H IS T O R Y
A R T • L O U ISIANA
Fabergé
Jean Seidenberg
John Webster Keefe
Edited by Wanda O’Shello
Jean Seidenberg
Foreword by Michael Sartisky, PhD
With an essay by Chris Waddington
The Hodges Family Collection
Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture
With contributions by Géza von Habsburg, Daniel L. Hodges,
Christel L. McCanless, and Kieran McCarthy
The
record of an extensive
collection including
pieces from all the firm’s
workmasters and outside
suppliers
This full-color catalog covers the extraordinary
range of objects produced by the great Russian self-described “artist-jeweler” Peter Carl
Fabergé (1846–1920). Smoker’s accessories,
photograph frames, clocks, desk pieces, boxes, cases, cabinet objects, jewels and
costume accessories, table silver, hardstone animals, flowers, and Easter eggs appear in lustrous full-color photographs. All of these pictured are part of the
Hodges Family Collection of masterworks by Fabergé, which is the first significant American group of Fabergé works assembled in decades. The Hodges Collection’s inclusion of work by all of the workmasters and outside suppliers of the
Fabergé firm further raises its significance. The collection is on extended loan to
the New Orleans Museum of Art.
Written by the museum’s curator of decorative arts and recognized Fabergé
authority, John Webster Keefe, the book includes valuable essays by collector Daniel L. Hodges; by preeminent Fabergé scholar Dr. Géza von Habsburg discussing the astonishing rise of the Fabergé market; by Kieran McCarthy, specialist
in Fabergé’s work in wood; and by prominent Fabergé bibliographer Christel L.
McCanless. A chronology for the House of Fabergé from 1814 to 2007 is also
included. Each piece in the Hodges Family Collection is illustrated in color and
accompanied by a full description, an essay on its place in the Fabergé oeuvre, its
relevant history, its provenance, and its specific bibliography.
John Webster Keefe, New Orleans, Louisiana, is a well-known author in the
art history field, particularly on the work of Fabergé. He has published papers in
Arts Quarterly and has worked with the New Orleans Museum of Art on art from
many other jewelers as well.
AVAILABLE, 310 pages (approx.), 9 x 12 inches, 143 color illustrations, bibliography,
chronology, index
Cloth $65.00T, 978-0-89494-108-5
Distributed for the New Orleans Museum of Art
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Born in 1930 in a working-class Brooklyn family,
Jean Seidenberg quickly made art his livelihood.
As a teenager, he worked in galleries and learned
framing and the craft of silkscreen printing.
Through those years, Seidenberg educated his eye
in New York’s museums. His work is filled with
references—to the incisive line of Edgar Degas, to
Willem de Kooning’s freedom with gesture, to the
sensuality of Gustave Courbet.
Working in New Orleans since 1951, Seidenberg practiced in one of the few American cities
disposed to support a full-time figure painter. In
the late 1950s, he developed a gesturally charged
style. Later, he produced tightly delineated egg
tempera works. In the past twenty years, he has
cultivated two manners, shifting between densely
worked oils executed from life and luminous pencil
drawings often based on photographic composites.
This book evolved in response to an invitation
from the Ogden Museum of Southern Art for an
exhibition of work from Seidenberg’s sixty-year
career as a practicing fine artist. It became part of
the Ogden’s continuing Southern Masters Series.
With the support of the Louisiana Endowment
for the Humanities, the exhibit ran from January
3 to April 13, 2008, and is now being presented in
book form.
Jean Seidenberg, New Orleans, Louisiana, has
exhibited artwork at the Museum of Modern Art
in New York City, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts,
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Baltimore
Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Art,
New Orleans Museum of Art, Ogden Museum of
Southern Art, and many other locations.
AVAILABLE, 144 pages, 9 x 12 inches, 112 color illustrations, 47 b&w illustrations, foreword, chronology, notes
Printed casebinding with dust jacket $40.00T,
978-0-9627757-1-0
Distributed for Silkmont & Count and the Louisiana
Endowment for the Humanities
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S O U T H E R N S T A T ES • S O C I O L O G Y
Culture after the Hurricanes
Rhetoric and Reinvention on the Gulf Coast
Edited by M. B. Hackler
Essays by Jay D. Edwards, Keagan LeJeune, Benjamin Morris, Jeffrey
Schwartz, Peter G. Stillman, Adelaide H. Villmoare, and W. D. Wilkerson
Essays
examining
the fraught
negotiations
between official
agencies and
local communities
A retrospective of a defiant
New Orleans realist artist
R elated
Dunlap
William Dunlap
Essay by J. Richard Gruber
Foreword by Julia Reed
Cloth $45.00T, 978-1-57806-904-0
American Masters of the
Mississippi Gulf Coast
George Ohr, Dusti Bongé, Walter Anderson, Richmond Barthé
Patti Carr Black
Cloth $35.00T, 978-1-60473-205-4
Pleasant Journeys and Good Eats
Along the Way
The Paintings of John Baeder
Edited and with an essay by Jay Williams
Preface by Kevin Grogan
Introduction by Donald Kuspit
Paper $30.00T, 978-1-934110-22-5
in the aftermath
Rebuilding in Louisiana and Mississippi after
of disasters
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita presented some
very thorny issues. Certain cultural projects
benefited from immediate attention and funding while others, with equal cases
for assistance but with less attraction to future tourist dollars, languished.
New Orleans and its surroundings contain a diverse mixture of Native
Americans, African Americans, Creoles, Cajuns, Isleños with roots in the
Canary Islands, and the descendants of Italian, Irish, English, Croatian, and
German immigrants, among others. Since 2005 much is now different for the
people of the Gulf Coast, and much more stands to change as governments,
national and international nonprofit organizations, churches, and community
groups determine how and even where life will continue. This collection elucidates how this process occurs and seeks to understand the cultures that may be
saved through assistance or may be allowed to fade away through neglect.
Essays in Culture after the Hurricanes examine the ways in which a wide variety
of stakeholders—community activists, elected officials, artists, and policy
administrators—describe, quantify, and understand the unique assets of the
region. Contributors question the process of cultural planning by analyzing
the language employed in decision making. They attempt to navigate between
rhetoric and the actual experience of ordinary citizens, examining the long-term
implications for those who call the Gulf Coast home.
M. B. Hackler, Lafayette, Louisiana, is the Board of Regents Ph.D. Fellow
in Folklore at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is the editor of On
and Off the Page: Mapping Place in Text and Culture.
JULY, 224 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 50 b&w illustrations, 7 maps, index
Ebook $50.00, 978-1-60473-491-1
Photograph—A double camelback house in New Orleans, courtesy Jay D. Edwards
R elated
Perilous Place, Powerful Storms
Hurricane Protection in Coastal Louisiana
Craig E. Colten
Cloth $40.00S, 978-1-60473-238-2
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AME R I C AN H IS T O R Y • C IVIL R IG H T S •
AF R I C AN AME R I C AN S T U DIES
R ELIGI O N • C IVIL R IG H T S •
AF R I C AN AME R I C AN S T U DIES
Raymond Pace Alexander
African American
Preachers and politics
A New Negro Lawyer Fights for Civil Rights
in Philadelphia
The Careys of Chicago
David A. Canton
Dennis C. Dickerson
The
During most of the twentieth
The story of two
century, Archibald J. Carey, Sr.
(1868–1931) and Archibald J. African American
Carey, Jr. (1908–1981), father and
ministers and their
son, exemplified a blend of ministry and politics that many African struggle to balance
American religious leaders pursued.
both sacred and
Their sacred and secular concerns
merged in efforts to improve the secular worlds
spiritual and material well-being of
their congregations. But as political alliances became necessary, both
wrestled with moral consequences and varied outcomes. Both were ministers to Chicago’s largest African Methodist Episcopal Church congregations—the senior Carey as a bishop, and the junior Carey as a pastor
and an attorney.
Bishop Carey associated himself mainly with Chicago mayor William Hale Thompson, a Republican, whom he presented to black voters
as an ally. When the mayor appointed Carey to the city’s civil service
commission, Carey helped in the hiring and promotion of local blacks.
But alleged impropriety for selling jobs marred the bishop’s tenure. The
junior Carey, also a Republican and an alderman, became head of the
panel on anti-discrimination in employment for the Eisenhower administration. He aided innumerable black federal employees. Although
an influential benefactor of CORE and SCLC, Carey associated with
notorious FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and compromised support for
Martin Luther King, Jr. Both Careys believed politics offered clergy the
best opportunities to empower the black population. Their imperfect
alliances and mixed results, however, proved the complexity of combining the realms of spirituality and politics.
story of a nearly
forgotten lawyer
fighting for justice
Raymond Pace Alexander (1897–1974)
was a prominent black attorney in Philadelphia and a distinguished member of
the National Bar Association, the oldest and largest association of African
American lawyers and judges. A contemporary of such nationally known
black attorneys as Charles Hamilton
Houston, William Hastie, and Thurgood Marshall, Alexander litigated
civil rights cases and became well known in Philadelphia. Yet his legacy
to the civil rights struggle has received little national recognition.
As a New Negro lawyer during the 1930s, Alexander worked with
left-wing organizations to desegregate an all-white elementary school
in Berwin, Pennsylvania. After World War II, he became an anti-communist liberal and formed coalitions with like-minded whites. In the
sixties, Alexander criticized Black Power rhetoric, but shared some philosophies with Black Power such as black political empowerment and
studying black history. By the late sixties, he focused on economic justice by advocating a Marshall Plan for poor Americans and supporting
affirmative action.
Alexander was a major contributor to the northern civil rights
struggle and was committed to improving the status of black lawyers.
He was representative of a generation who created opportunities for
African Americans but was later often ignored or castigated by younger
leaders who did not support the tactics of the old guard’s pioneers.
Dennis C. Dickerson, Nashville, Tennessee, is James M. Lawson, Jr.
Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. His previous books are
Out of the Crucible: Black Steelworkers in Western Pennsylvania, 1875–1980
and Militant Mediator: Whitney M. Young Jr.
David A. Canton, Hamden, Connecticut, is associate professor of
history at Connecticut College. His work has appeared in Western Journal of Black Studies, Journal of Urban History, Reviews in American History,
and Pennsylvania History.
JULY, 304 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 19 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index
Ebook $50.00, 978-1-60473-428-7
Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
MAY, 272 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 16 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index
Ebook $50.00, 978-1-60473-426-3
Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
Photograph—Raymond Pace Alexander, courtesy Collections of the University of
Pennsylvania Archives
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African American Religion and the Civil Rights
Movement in Arkansas
Johnny E. Williams
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-186-6
Daisy Bates
Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas
Grif Stockley
Cloth $35.00T, 978-1-57806-801-2
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AF R I C AN AME R I C AN S T U DIES • AME R I C AN H IS T O R Y
P O LI T I C S • S O U T H E R N S T A T ES
On the Ground
Crusades for Freedom
Edited by Judson L. Jeffries
G. Wayne Dowdy
The Black Panther Party in Communities
across America
Memphis and the Political Transformation
of the American South
How Republicans
and African
Americans took
Essays by Reynaldo Anderson, Orissa Arend, Omari Dyson,
Bruce Fehn, Robert Jefferson, Judson L. Jeffries, Charles E. Jones,
Ryan Nissim-Sabat, Joel P. Rhodes, and Jeffrey Zane
The Black Panther Party sufEssays revising the
fers from a distorted image
largely framed by television Panthers’ image,
and print media, including
emphasizing tireless
the Panthers’ own newspaper. These sources frequently community organizing
reduced the entire organizaand assistance to the
tion to the Bay Area where
the Panthers were founded, underprivileged
emphasizing the Panthers’
militant rhetoric and actions rather than their community survival programs. This image, however, does not mesh with reality.
The Panthers worked tirelessly at improving the life chances of the
downtrodden regardless of race, gender, creed, or sexual orientation.
In order to chronicle the rich history of the Black Panther Party, this
anthology examines local Panther activities throughout the United
States—in Seattle, Washington; Kansas City, Missouri; New Orleans, Louisiana; Houston, Texas; Des Moines, Iowa; and Detroit,
Michigan.
This approach features the voices of people who served on the
ground—those who kept the offices in order, prepared breakfasts
for school children, administered sickle cell anemia tests, set up
health clinics, and launched free clothing drives. The essays shed new
light on the Black Panther Party, re-evaluating its legacy in American
cultural and political history. Just as important, this volume gives
voice to those unsung Panthers whose valiant efforts have heretofore
gone unnoticed, unheard, or ignored.
the stage after
the fall of a
great southern
political machine
During the first half of the twentieth century, the city of Memphis
was governed by the Shelby County Democratic Party controlled by
Edward Hull Crump, described by Time magazine as “the most absolute
political boss in the U.S.” Crusades for Freedom chronicles the demise of
the Crump political machine and the corresponding rise to power of
the South’s two minorities, African Americans and Republicans.
Between the years 1948 and 1968, Memphis emerged as a battleground in the struggle to create a strong two-party South. For the first
time in its history, both Republican and Democratic presidential candidates campaigned vigorously for the Bluff City’s votes. Closely tied to
these changing political fortunes was the struggle of African Americans
to overturn two centuries of discrimination. At the same time, many
believed that the city needed a more modern political structure to meet
the challenges of the 1950s and 1960s, preferably a mayor–city council
governmental structure. By 1968 the segregated social order had collapsed, black politicians were firmly entrenched within the Democratic
party, southern whites had swelled the ranks of the GOP, and Memphis
had adopted a new city charter.
G. Wayne Dowdy, Memphis, Tennessee, is a senior librarian and
archivist at the Memphis Public Library and Information Center. His
work has appeared in the Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies,
CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual, Journal of Negro History, Tennessee
Historical Quarterly, and other publications.
Judson L. Jeffries, Columbus, Ohio, is professor of African
American and African studies and the director of the African American and African Studies Community Extension Center at the Ohio
State University–Columbus. He is the editor of Comrades: A Local
History of the Black Panther Party and Black Power in the Belly of the Beast and
the author of Urban America and Its Police: From the Postcolonial Era through
the Turbulent 1960s (with Harlan Hahn).
JULY, 304 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, index
Ebook $50.00, 978-1-60473-493-5
MARCH,176 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 10 b&w illustrations, 2 appendices,
bibliography, index
Cloth $45.00S, 978-1-60473-423-2
Ebook $45.00, 978-1-60473-424-9
Photograph—A. W. Willis, Benjamin L. Hooks, Ben Jones, Russell Sugarman,
and H. T. Lockard, courtesy A. W. Willis Collection, Memphis Public Library and
Information Center
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Mayor Crump Don’t Like It
Machine Politics in Memphis
Huey P. Newton
The Radical Theorist
G. Wayne Dowdy
Judson L. Jeffries
Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-57806-859-3
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-113-2
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-57806-877-7
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F O L K L O R E • po s tco l o n i a l s tu d i e s • G R EA T B R I T AIN
f o l k m u s i c • BALLADS
The Story-Time of the
British Empire
The High-Kilted Muse
Peter Buchan and His Secret Songs of Silence
Colonial and Postcolonial Folkloristics
Edited by Murray Shoolbraid
Foreword by Ed Cray
Sadhana Naithani
In 1832 the Scottish ballad collector
A never-before
Peter Buchan of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, presented an anthology of published
risqué and convivial songs and ballads
collection of
to a Highland laird. When Professor
Francis James Child of Harvard was infamous Scottish
preparing his magisterial edition of
bawdy ballads
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, he
made enquiries about it, but it was not
made available in time to be considered for his work. On his death it
was presented to the Child Memorial Library at Harvard. Because of
its unseemly materials, the manuscript has languished there ever since,
unprinted, though referred to now and again, and a few items have from
time to time made an appearance.
The manuscript has now been transcribed with full annotation and
with an introduction on the compiler, his times, and the Scottish bawdy
tradition. It contains the texts (without tunes) of seventy-six bawdy
songs and ballads, along with a long-lost scatological poem attributed
to the Edinburgh writer James “Balloon” Tytler. Appendices give details
of Buchan’s two published collections of ballads. Additionally, there is
a list of tale types and motifs, a glossary of Scots and archaic words, a
bibliography, and an index. The High-Kilted Muse brings to light a longsuppressed volume and fills in a great gap in published bawdy songs and
ballads.
In The Story-Time of the British Empire,
An analysis of the
author Sadhana Naithani examines
folklore collections compiled by folklore collected
British colonial administrators, miliby imperials and
tary men, missionaries, and women
in the British colonies of Africa, colonials during
Asia, and Australia between 1860
the second empire
and 1950. Much of this work was
accomplished in the context of colonial relations and done by non-folklorists, yet these oral narratives
and poetic expressions of non-Europeans were transcribed, translated,
published, and discussed internationally. Naithani analyzes the role of
folklore scholarship in the construction of colonial cultural politics as
well as in the conception of international folklore studies.
Since most folklore scholarship and cultural history focuses exclusively on specific nations, there is little study of cross-cultural phenomena about empire and/or postcoloniality. Naithani argues that connecting cultural histories, especially in relation to previously colonized
countries, is essential to understanding those countries’ folklore, as
these folk traditions result from both internal and European influence.
The author also makes clear the role folklore and its study played in
shaping intercultural perceptions that continue to exist in the academic
and popular realms today. The Story-Time of the British Empire is a bold
argument for a twenty-first-century vision of folklore studies that is
international in scope and that understands folklore as a transnational
entity.
Murray Shoolbraid, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada,
is a retired professor of linguistics and Russian. He is the author of The
Oral Epic of Siberia and Central Asia, and his work has been published in
several folklore journals.
Sadhana Naithani, New Delhi, India, is an associate professor at
Jawaharlal Nehru University. She is the author of In Quest of Indian Folktales: Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William Crooke and editor of Folktales
from Northern India.
JUNE, 160 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, bibliography, index
Ebook $50.00, 978-1-60473-456-0
MAY, 336 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, foreword, introduction, glossary,
appendices, bibliography, index
Cloth $55.00S, 978-1-60473-417-1
Ebook $55.00, 978-1-60473-431-7
Published in association with the Elphinstone Institute, University of
Aberdeen, Scotland
R elated
R elated
Postcolonial Cultures
The Glenbuchat Ballads
Paper $22.00S, 978-1-57806-771-8
Cloth $60.00S, 978-1-57806-972-9
Recentering Anglo/American Folksong
Sea Crabs and Wicked Youths
Scottish Traveller Tales
Lives Shaped through Stories
Edited by David Buchan and James Moreira
Simon Featherstone
Donald Braid
Roger deV. Renwick
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-934110-98-0
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-254-2
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AME R I C AN LI T E R A T U R E • AF R I C AN AME R I C AN LI T E R A T U R E
Passing in the Works of
Charles W. Chesnutt
Edited by Susan Prothro Wright and
Ernestine Pickens Glass
Essays by Margaret D. Bauer, Keith Byerman, Martha J. Cutter,
SallyAnn H. Ferguson, Donald B. Gibson, Scott Thomas Gibson,
Aaron Ritzenberg,Werner Sollors, and Susan Prothro Wright
R elated
Passing in the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt is a colAn exploration of
lection that reevaluates Chesnutt’s deft manipulation of the “passing” theme to expand a great American
understanding of the author’s fiction and nonwriter’s abiding
fiction. Nine contributors apply a variety of
theories—including intertextual, signifying/dis- concern with the
course analysis, narratological, formal, psychocolor line
analytical, new historical, reader response, and
performative frameworks—to add richness to
readings of Chesnutt’s works. Together the essays provide convincing evidence
that “passing” is an intricate, essential part of Chesnutt’s writing, and that it
appears in all the genres he wielded: journal entries, speeches, essays, and short
and long fiction.
The essays engage with each other to display the continuum in Chesnutt’s
thinking as he began his writing career and established his sense of social
activism, as evidenced in his early journal entries. Collectively, the essays follow
Chesnutt’s works as he proceeded through the Jim Crow era, honing his ability
to manipulate his mostly white audience through the astute, though apparently
self-effacing, narrator, Uncle Julius, of his popular conjure tales. Chesnutt’s
ability to subvert audience expectations is equally noticeable in the subtle irony
of his short stories. Several of the collection’s essays address Chesnutt’s novels,
including Paul Marchand, F.M.C., Mandy Oxendine, The House Behind the Cedars,
and Evelyn’s Husband. The volume opens up new paths of inquiry into a major
African American writer’s oeuvre.
B y C h arle s W . C h e s n u tt
Whiteness in the Novels of Charles W. Chesnutt
Matthew Wilson
Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-57806-667-4
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-248-1
A Business Career
Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-57806-761-9
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-257-3
Evelyn’s Husband
Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-57806-760-2
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-258-0
Paul Marchand, F.M.C.
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-57806-798-5
Susan Prothro Wright, Marietta, Georgia, associate professor of American
and British literature at Clark Atlanta University, has published on Chesnutt and
other American authors in a variety of scholarly venues. Ernestine Pickens
Glass, Atlanta, Georgia, is professor emerita of English at Clark Atlanta
University. She is the author of Charles W. Chesnutt and the Progressive Movement
and editor of Frederick Douglass by Charles W. Chesnutt: A Centenary Edition.
MARCH, 160 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, index
Ebook $50.00, 978-1-60473-418-8
Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African Amerian Studies
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AME R I C AN LI T E R A T U R E • R EFE R EN C E
AME R I C AN LI T E R A T U R E
Reading Faulkner
Faulkner’s Sexualities
Absalom, Absalom!
Edited by Annette Trefzer and Ann J. Abadie
Joseph R. Urgo and Noel Polk
With contributions from John N. Duvall, Kristin Fujie,
Caroline Garnier, Jamie Harker, Catherine Gunther Kodat,
Peter Lurie, Deborah E. McDowell, Gary Richards,
Michael Wainwright, and Michael Zeitlin
Absalom, Absalom! has long been
For teachers and
regarded as one of William Faulkner’s
most difficult, dense, and multilayered students, a guide
novels. It is, on one level, the story
to understanding
of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic
stranger who came to Jefferson in the one of Faulkner’s
early 1830s to wrest his mansion out
masterpieces
of the muddy bottoms of the north
Mississippi wilderness. He was a man,
Faulkner said, “who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him.” On
another level, the book narrates the tragedy that befalls the entire Sutpen
family and that tragedy’s legacy that continues well into the twentieth
century and beyond. The novel’s intricate, demanding prose style, and
its haunting dramatization of the South’s intricate, demanding history
make it a masterpiece of twentieth-century American literature.
Reading Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom! offers a close examination and
interpretation of the novel. Here difficult words and cultural terms that
might prove to be a problem for general readers are explained and keyed
to page numbers in the definitive Faulkner text (Library of America and
Vintage editions). The authors place Faulkner’s novel in its historical
context, while also connecting it to his other works.
William Faulkner grew up and
Essays that tackle
began his writing career during a
time of great cultural upheaval, the complex sexual
especially in the realm of sexualtensions and
ity, where every normative notion
of identity and relationship was trappings in the
being re-examined. Not only does
Nobel Laureate’s
Faulkner explore multiple versions
of sexuality throughout his work, work
but he also studies the sexual dimension of various social, economic, and aesthetic concerns.
In Faulkner’s Sexualities, contributors query Faulkner’s life and fiction
in terms of sexual identity, sexual politics, and the ways in which such
concerns affect his aesthetics. Given the frequent play with sexual
norms and practices, how does Faulkner’s fiction constitute the sexual
subject in relation to the dynamics of the body, language, and culture?
In what ways does Faulkner participate in discourses of masculinity and
femininity, desire and reproduction, heterosexuality and homosexuality?
In what ways are these discourses bound up with representations of race
and ethnicity, modernity and ideology, region and nation? In what ways
do his texts touch on questions concerning the racialization of categories of gender within colonial and dominant metropolitan discourses
and power relations? Is there a Southern sexuality? This volume wrestles
with these questions and relates them to theories of race, gender, and
sexuality.
Joseph R. Urgo, Clinton, New York, is dean of faculty at Hamilton College. With Ann Abadie, he has coedited several books in
the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha series, all available from University
Press of Mississippi. Noel Polk, Starkville, Mississippi, is professor
emeritus of English at Mississippi State University and editor of The
Mississippi Quarterly. He is the author, most recently, of Faulkner and Welty
and the Southern Literary Tradition (University Press of Mississippi). From
1981 to 2006, he edited the Library of America’s complete edition of
William Faulkner’s novels.
Annette Trefzer, Oxford, Mississippi, is associate professor of
English at the University of Mississippi and the author of Disturbing
Indians: The Archaeology of Southern Fiction. Ann J. Abadie, Oxford, Mississippi, is associate director of the Center for the Study of Southern
Culture at the University of Mississippi, and she has coedited many
volumes in the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha series.
MARCH, 224 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, index
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-578-9
Ebook $25.00, 978-1-60473-435-5
Reading Faulkner Series
Reading Faulkner
JUNE, 224 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 3 line illustrations, introduction, index
Ebook $55.00, 978-1-60473-561-1
Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series
Collected Stories
Theresa M. Towner and James B. Carothers
Paper $25.00S, 978-1-57806-813-5
Reading Faulkner
A L SO IN T H E S E R I E S
Faulkner and Gender
Edited by Donald M. Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie
The Sound and the Fury
Stephen Ross and Noel Polk
Paper $25.00D, 978-0-87805-936-2
Paper $25.00S, 978-0-87805-922-5
Faulkner and Women
Edited by Doreen Fowler and Ann J. Abadie
Paper $25.00D, 978-0-87805-312-4
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BACK IN PRINT
Claiming the Heritage
African-American Women Novelists
and History
Missy Dehn Kubitschek
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-574-1
A Culture of Confidence
Politics, Performance and the Idea
of America
Richard Nelson
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-575-8
Drawing a Circle
in the Square
Street Performing in New York’s
Washington Square Park
Sally Harrison-Pepper
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Feminist Alternatives
Irony and Fantasy in the Contemporary
Novel by Women
Nancy A. Walker
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Administrative
Reorganization of
Mississippi Government
A Study of Politics
Thomas E. Kynerd
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-523-9
Aesthetic Frontiers
The Machiavellian Tradition and
the Southern Imagination
Richard Nelson
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-530-7
At Home Abroad
Mark Twain in Australasia
Miriam Jones Shillingsburg
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Black Writers,
White Publishers
Marketplace Politics in TwentiethCentury African American Literature
John K. Young
Jennie Carter
A Black Journalist of the Early West
Edited by Eric Gardner
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Ebook $25.00, 978-1-60473-313-6
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Letters from Forest Place
A Plantation Family’s Correspondence,
1846–1881
Edited by E. Grey Dimond and
Herman Hattaway
Charles Johnson
The Novelist as Philosopher
Edited by Marc C. Conner and
William R. Nash
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-506-2
Ebook $25.00, 978-1-60473-507-9
Comedy in Context
Essays on Molière
H. Gaston Hall
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Plunging into Haiti
Clinton, Aristide, and the Defeat
of Diplomacy
Ralph Pezzullo
Metapop
Self-referentiality in Contemporary
American Popular Culture
Michael Dunne
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-550-5
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-513-0
Faulkner and His
Contemporaries
Edited by Joseph R. Urgo and
Ann J. Abadie
Models of
Misrepresentation
On the Fiction of E. L. Doctorow
Christopher Morris
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-544-4
Ebook $25.00, 978-1-60473-058-6
FDR’s Utopian
Arthur Morgan of the TVA
Roy Talbert, Jr.
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Freedom Walk
Mississippi or Bust
Mary Stanton
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-522-2
Ebook $25.00, 978-1-60473-150-7
Shadowing Ralph Ellison
John S. Wright
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-545-1
Ebook $25.00, 978-1-60473-075-3
Tillie Olsen and a
Feminist Spiritual Vision
Elaine Neil Orr
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-412-6
Urbane Revolutionary
C. L. R. James and the Struggle
for a New Society
Frank Rosengarten
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-537-6
Ebook $25.00, 978-1-60473-306-8
The Mulatta and the
Politics of Race
Teresa C. Zackodnik
Voice of a Native Son
The Poetics of Richard Wright
Eugene E. Miller
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-554-3
Ebook $25.00, 978-1-60473-057-9
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-525-3
The Works of the
Gawain-Poet
Charles Moorman
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Ebook $35.00, 978-1-60473-527-7
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Ebook $25.00, 978-1-60473-521-5
James K. Humphrey and the
Sabbath-Day Adventists
R. Clifford Jones
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Ebook $25.00, 978-1-60473-534-5
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-528-4
Music and History
Bridging the Disciplines
Edited by Jeffrey H. Jackson
and Stanley C. Pelkey
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The Lytle-Tate Letters
The Correspondence of
Andrew Lytle and Allen Tate
Edited by Thomas Daniel Young
and Elizabeth Sarcone
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-518-5
Fabulous Provinces
A Memoir
Thomas Daniel Young
Perspectives on
Barry Hannah
Edited by Martyn Bone
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-504-8
Ebook $25.00, 978-1-60473-505-5
The Mechanical Feature
100 Years of Engineering at
Mississippi State University
C. James Haug
Cross the Water Blues
African American Music in Europe
Edited by Neil A. Wynn
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-415-7
Ebook $25.00, 978-1-60473-314-3
Paper $30.00D, 978-1-60473-508-6
Paper $30.00D, 978-1-60473-552-9
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Not Just Child’s Play
Emerging Tradition and the
Lost Boys of Sudan
Felicia R. McMahon
The Years of Our
Friendship
Robert Lowell and Allen Tate
William Doreski
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Albert and David Maysles
Interviews
Edited by Keith Beattie
Printed casebinding $50.00S,
978-1-60473-364-8
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-60473-365-5
The Berimbau
Soul of Brazilian Music
Eric A. Galm
978-1-60473-405-8
Calling Out Liberty
The Stono Slave Rebellion
and the Universal Struggle for
Human Rights
Jack Shuler
Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-60473-273-3
Conversations with
Kingsley Amis
Edited by Thomas DePietro
978-1-60473-290-0
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-60473-291-7
978-1-60473-372-3
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-60473-373-0
Conversations with
Octavia Butler
Edited by Conseula Francis
Komiks
Comic Art in Russia
José Alaniz
978-1-60473-275-7
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-60473-276-4
Conversations with
Samuel R. Delany
Edited by Carl Freedman
Unjacketed cloth $50.00S, 978-1-60473-277-1
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-60473-278-8
Carl Gutherz
Poetic Vision and Academic Ideals
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
Edited by Marilyn Masler and
Marina Pacini
With contributions from Sally Webster,
Kristin Schwain, and Stanton Thomas
Conversations with
Sherman Alexie
Edited by Nancy J. Peterson
Paper $39.95T, 978-0-915525-11-9
Dictionary of
Louisiana French
As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and
American Indian Communities
Edited by senior editor Albert Valdman
and associate editor Kevin J. Rottet,
with assistant editors: Barry Jean
Ancelet, Richard Guidry, Thomas A.
Klingler, Amanda LaFleur, Tamara
Lindner, Michael D. Picone, and
Dominique Ryon
The Case against
Afrocentrism
Tunde Adeleke
978-1-60473-293-1
Errol Morris
Interviews
Edited by Livia Bloom
978-1-60473-279-5
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-60473-280-1
Cloth $38.00T, 978-1-60473-366-2
The Lakes of
Pontchartrain
Their History and Environments
Robert W. Hastings
Louisiana Fiddlers
Ron Yule, with contributions from
Bill Burge, Mary Evans,
Kevin S. Fontenot, Shawn Martin,
and Billy McGee
Cloth $40.00S, 978-1-60473-295-5
Madame Vieux Carré
The French Quarter in the
Twentieth Century
Scott S. Ellis
Cloth $28.00T, 978-1-60473-358-7
Memphis Boys
The Story of American Studios
Roben Jones
Cloth $40.00S, 978-1-60473-271-9
Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-60473-401-0
The Last Lawyer
The Fight to Save Death
Row Inmates
John Temple
Mississippi
The WPA Guide to the Magnolia State
Works Progress Administration
Introduction by Robert S. McElvaine
Cloth $25.00T, 978-1-60473-355-6
Paper $30.00S, 978-1-60473-292-4
Lewis Hine as
Social Critic
Kate Sampsell-Willmann
With a foreword by
Alan Trachtenberg
Mississippi Harvest
Lumbering in the Longleaf Pine Belt,
1840–1915
Nollie W. Hickman
Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-60473-368-6
Lost Plantations
of the South
Marc R. Matrana
Cloth $40.00T, 978-1-57806-942-2
Paper $30.00D, 978-1-60473-287-0
Mississippi Politics
The Struggle for Power, 1976–2008,
Second Edition
Jere Nash and Andy Taggart
Foreword by John Grisham
Cloth $35.00T, 978-1-60473-266-5
Cloth $38.00S, 978-1-60473-403-4
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Art/Folk Art/Photography
On Floods and Photo Ops
How Herbert Hoover and
George W. Bush Exploited
Catastrophes
Paul Martin Lester
Stories of Oprah
The Oprahfication of
American Culture
Edited by Trystan T. Cotten and
Kimberly Springer
978-1-60473-286-3
978-1-60473-407-2
People Get Ready
African American and Caribbean
Cultural Exchange
Kevin Meehan
That’s Got ’Em!
The Life and Music of
Wilbur C. Sweatman
Mark Berresford
978-1-60473-281-8
978-1-60473-099-09
Richard Dyer-Bennet
The Last Minstrel
Paul O. Jenkins
Foreword by Bonnie Dyer-Bennet
Thomas Jefferson
on Wine
John Hailman
978-1-60473-360-0
Seventh-day Adventists
and the Civil Rights
Movement
Samuel G. London, Jr.
978-1-60473-272-6
Shaping Memories
Reflections of African American
Women Writers
Edited by Joanne Veal Gabbin
Cloth $30.00T, 978-1-60473-274-0
Smart Ball
Marketing the Myth and Managing
the Reality of Major League Baseball
Robert F. Lewis, II
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American Masters of the
Mississippi Gulf Coast
George Ohr, Dusti Bongé,
Walter Anderson, Richmond Barthé
Patti Carr Black
Cloth $35.00T, 978-1-60473-205-4
It Happened by Design
The Life and Work of
Arthur Q. Davis
Arthur Q. Davis
Introductory essay by
J. Richard Gruber
Cloth $50.00T, 978-1-60473-265-8
Barthé
A Life in Sculpture
Margaret Rose Vendryes
Foreword by Jeffrey Stewart
Cloth $40.00T, 978-1-60473-092-0
Life on the Press
The Popular Art and Illustrations
of George Benjamin Luks
Robert L. Gambone
Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-60473-222-1
Paper $26.00T, 978-1-60473-370-9
Between God and Man
Angels in Italian Art
Francesco Buranelli
Edited by Robin C. Dietrick
With essays by Marco Bussagli,
Cecilia Sica, and Roberta Bernabei
Unexpected Places
Relocating Nineteenth-Century
African American Literature
Eric Gardner
Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-60473-283-2
Cloth $34.95T, 978-1-887422-15-4
William Wyler
Interviews
Edited by Gabriel Miller
Clarence John Laughlin
Prophet without Honor
A. J. Meek
Foreword by John H. Lawrence
978-1-60473-297-9
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-60473-298-6
Cloth $35.00T, 978-1-57806-909-5
Confronting Modernity
Art and Society in Louisiana
Richard Megraw
Working the Field
Accounts from French Louisiana
Jacques Henry and Sara Le Menestrel
Cloth $55.00S, 978-1-57806-417-5
Paper $25.00S, 978-1-60473-223-8
Dunlap
William Dunlap
Essay by J. Richard Gruber
Foreword by Julia Reed
978-1-60473-207-8
Cloth, $45.00T, 978-1-57806-904-0
Limited, signed, numbered edition in clamshell
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978-1-57806-911-8
Ed McGowin, Name Change
One Artist, Twelve Personas,
Thirty-five Years
Ed McGowin
Essays by J. Richard Gruber, Anders
Härm, and Thomas Sokolowski
Foreword by Paul Richelson
Cloth $30.00T, 978-1-57806-970-5
Eudora Welty as
Photographer
Photographs by Eudora Welty
Edited by Pearl Amelia McHaney
Contributions by Sandra S. Phillips
and Deborah Willis
Cloth $35.00T, 978-1-60473-232-0
Highway 51
Mississippi Hill Country
Photographs by Gloria Norris
Introduction by Rick Bass
Cloth $40.00T, 978-1-60473-098-2
Mildred Nungester Wolfe
Edited by Elizabeth Wolfe
With an introduction by
Ellen Douglas
Cloth $35.00T, 978-1-57806-809-8
The Mississippi Story
Patti Carr Black
Edited by Robin C. Dietrick
Cloth $29.95T, 978-1-887422-14-7
On the Wall
Four Decades of Community
Murals in New York City
Janet Braun-Reinitz and
Jane Weissman
Foreword by Amy Goodman
and Denis Moynihan
Introduction by
Timothy W. Drescher
Unjacketed cloth, $65.00S,
978-1-60473-111-8
Paper, $35.00T, 978-1-60473-112-5
Pleasant Journeys and
Good Eats along the Way
The Paintings of John Baeder
Edited and with an essay by
Jay Williams
Preface by Kevin Grogan
Introduction by Donald Kuspit
Paper $30.00T, 978-1-934110-22-5
The Reverend
Photographs by James Perry Walker
Foreword by Will D. Campbell
Cloth $35.00T, 978-1-57806-787-9
Sacred and Profane
Voice and Vision in Southern
Self-Taught Art
Edited by Carol Crown and
Charles Russell
Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-57806-916-3
The Treasure of
Ulysses Davis
Sculpture from a Savannah Barbershop
Susan Mitchell Crawley
Foreword by Michael E. Shapiro
Cloth $30.00T, 978-1-932543-27-8
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Robert Aldrich
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Woody Allen
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Pedro Almódovar
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Robert Altman
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Theo Angelopoulos
Atom Egoyan
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Federico Fellini
Peter Brunette, Series Editor
Sidney Lumet
John Ford
Guy Maddin
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978-1-934110-86-7, paper)
David Lynch
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Ousmane Sembène
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Steven Soderbergh
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Steven Spielberg
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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Peter Greenaway
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Albert and
David Maysles
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Howard Hawks
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Michelangelo Antonioni
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Ingmar Bergman
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Sam Peckinpah
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Spike Lee
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William Wyler
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Martin Scorsese
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Mike Leigh
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Lars von Trier
Roman Polanski
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Errol Morris
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Elia Kazan
Oliver Stone
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George Stevens
Zhang Yimou
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Fred Zinnemann
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MUSIC
For a complete listing of our Music titles, see
http://www.upress.state.ms.us/category/music
Accordion Dreams
A Journey into Cajun and
Creole Music
Blair Kilpatrick
Cloth $28.00T, 978-1-60473-101-9
The Beat!
Go-Go Music from Washington, D.C.
Kip Lornell and
Charles C. Stephenson Jr.
Paper $25.00T, 978-1-60473-241-2
The Guitar in America
Victorian Era to Jazz Age
Jeffrey J. Noonan
Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-934110-18-8
Jazz Diplomacy
Promoting America in the
Cold War Era
Lisa E. Davenport
Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-60473-268-9
The Beatles
Image and the Media
Michael R. Frontani
Jimmie Rodgers
The Life and Times of
America’s Blue Yodeler
Nolan Porterfield
Paper $22.00S, 978-1-57806-966-8
Paper $25.00T, 978-1-57806-982-8
The Berimbau
Soul of Brazilian Music
Eric A Galm
Kennedy’s Blues
African-American Blues and
Gospel Songs on JFK
Guido van Rijn
Foreword by Brian Ward
978-1-60473-405-8
Cajun and Zydeco
Dance Music in
Northern California
Modern Pleasures in a
Postmodern World
Mark F. DeWitt
Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-60473-090-6
Cross the Water Blues
African American Music in Europe
Edited by Neil A. Wynn
Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-57806-957-6
Let the World
Listen Right
The Mississippi Delta Hip-Hop Story
Ali Colleen Neff
Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-60473-229-0
Let’s Make Some Noise
Axé and the African Roots of
Brazilian Popular Music
Clarence Bernard Henry
Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-57806-960-6
Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-60473-082-1
Eddy Arnold
Pioneer of the Nashville Sound
Michael Streissguth
Memphis Boys
The Story of American Studios
Roben Jones
Paper $25.00T, 978-1-60473-269-6
Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-60473-401-0
The Glenbuchat Ballads
Edited by David Buchan and
James Moreira
Mouse Tracks
The Story of Walt Disney Records
Tim Hollis and Greg Ehrbar
Foreword by Leonard Maltin
Cloth $60.00S, 978-1-57806-972-9
Great Spirits
Portraits of Life-Changing
World Music Artists
Randall Grass
Unjacketed cloth, $50.00S,
978-1-60473-239-9
Paper $25.00T, 978-1-60473-240-5
Unjacketed cloth, $55.00S, 978-1-57806-848-7
Paper $28.00T, 978-1-57806-849-4
The New Blue Music
Changes in Rhythm & Blues, 1950–1999
Richard J. Ripani
Paper $22.00S, 978-1-57806-862-3
Nobody Knows Where
the Blues Come From
Lyrics and History
Edited by Robert Springer
A Trumpet around
the Corner
The Story of New Orleans Jazz
Samuel Charters
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-934110-29-4
Cloth $40.00T, 978-1-57806-898-2
Out of Sight
The Rise of African American
Popular Music, 1889–1895
Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff
That’s Got ’Em!
The Life and Music of
Wilbur C. Sweatman
Mark Berresford
Cloth $75.00S, 978-1-57806-499-1
Paper $40.00S, 978-1-60473-244-3
Pearl Harbor Jazz
Change in Popular Music
in the Early 1940s
Peter Townsend
Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-57806-924-8
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-243-6
Prophet Singer
The Voice and Vision
of Woody Guthrie
Mark Allan Jackson
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-102-6
Ragged but Right
Black Traveling Shows, “Coon Songs,”
and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz
Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff
Cloth $75.00S, 978-1-57806-901-9
Rare Birds
Conversations with Legends
of Jazz and Classical Music
Thomas Rain Crowe with
Nan Watkins
Paper $20.00T, 978-1-60473-110-1
Richard Dyer-Bennet
The Last Minstrel
Paul O. Jenkins
Foreword by Bonnie Dyer-Bennet
978-1-60473-360-0
Sam Myers
The Blues Is My Story
Sam Myers and Jeff Horton
Paper $25.00T, 978-1-57806-896-8
78 Blues
Folksongs and Phonographs
in the American South
John Minton
Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-934110-19-5
Shreveport Sounds in
Black and White
Edited by Kip Lornell and
Tracey E. W. Laird
Paper $25.00S, 978-1-934110-42-3
Southern Fiddlers and
Fiddle Contests
Chris Goertzen
Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-60473-122-4
Hollywood
Legends Series
Carl Rollyson, Series Editor
Professor of Journalism, Baruch College,
The City University of New York
Biographies of classic stars
from the silver screen
Alice Faye
A Life Beyond the Silver Screen
Jane Lenz Elder
Cloth $30.00T, 978-1-57806-210-2
Beyond Paradise
The Life of Ramon Novarro
Andre’ Soares
Foreword by Anthony Slide
Paper $25.00T, 978-1-60473-457-7
Ebook $2500, 978-1-60473-458-4
Carole Landis
A Most Beautiful Girl
Eric Gans
Cloth $30.00T, 978-1-60473-013-5
Claudette Colbert
She Walked in Beauty
Bernard F. Dick
Cloth $30.00T, 978-1-60473-087-6
Forever Mame
The Life of Rosalind Russell
Bernard F. Dick
Cloth $30.00T, 978-1-57806-890-6
Joan Blondell
A Life between Takes
Matthew Kennedy
Cloth $30.00T, 978-1-57806-961-3
The Life of Dick Haymes
No More Little White Lies
Ruth Prigozy
Cloth $30.00T, 978-1-57806-551-6
Van Johnson
MGM’s Golden Boy
Ronald L. Davis
Cloth $30.00T, 978-1-57806-377-2
Zachary Scott
Hollywood’s Sophisticated Cad
Ronald L. Davis
Cloth $30.00T, 978-1-57806-837-1
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Comics and Animation
For a complete listing of our Comics and Popular Culture titles, see
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Alan Moore
Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel
Annalisa Di Liddo
Garry Trudeau
Doonesbury and the Aesthetics of Satire
Kerry D. Soper
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-60473-213-9
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-934110-89-8
Art Spiegelman
Conversations
Edited by Joseph Witek
God of Comics
Osamu Tezuka and the Creation
of Post–World War II Manga
Natsu Onoda Power
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-934110-12-6
Carl Barks and the
Disney Comic Book
Unmasking the Myth of Modernity
Thomas Andrae
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-57806-858-6
Comics as Philosophy
Edited by Jeff McLaughlin
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-000-5
A Comics Studies Reader
Edited by Jeet Heer and
Kent Worcester
Paper $25.00T, 978-1-60473-221-4
Harvey Pekar
Conversations
Edited by Michael G. Rhode
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-60473-086-9
History and Politics in
French-Language Comics
and Graphic Novels
Edited by Mark McKinney
Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-60473-004-3
Father of the Comic Strip
Rodolphe Töpffer
David Kunzle
Iwao Takamoto
My Life with a Thousand
Characters
Iwao Takamoto
with Michael Mallory
Foreword by Willie Ito
Paper $25.00T, 978-1-57806-948-4
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-60473-194-1
Film and Comic Books
Edited by Ian Gordon, Mark Jancovich,
and Matthew P. McAllister
Komiks
Comic Art in Russia
José Alaniz
Paper $25.00S, 978-1-60473-109-5
Paper $25.00S, 978-1-57806-978-1
Living Life inside the Lines
Tales from the Golden Age of Animation
Martha Sigall
Foreword by Jerry Beck
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-57806-749-7
Of Comics and Men
A Cultural History of
American Comic Books
Jean-Paul Gabilliet
Translated by Bart Beaty and
Nick Nguyen
Super Heroes
A Modern Mythology
Richard Reynolds
Paper $25.00D, 978-0-87805-694-1
The System of Comics
Thierry Groensteen
Translated by Bart Beaty and
Nick Nguyen
Paper $25.00D, 978-1-60473-259-7
¡Viva la historieta!
Mexican Comics, NAFTA, and the
Politics of Globalization
Bruce Campbell
Cloth $55.00S, 978-1-60473-267-2
R. Crumb
Conversations
Edited by D. K. Holm
Paper $25.00S, 978-1-60473-126-2
Walt Disney
Conversations
Edited by Kathy Merlock Jackson
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-57806-637-7
Rodolphe Töpffer
The Complete Comic Strips
Compiled, translated, and annotated
by David Kunzle
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-57806-713-8
Working with Walt
Interviews with Disney Artists
Don Peri
Cloth $65.00S, 978-1-57806-946-0
Stan Lee
Conversations
Edited by Jeff McLaughlin
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-60473-023-4
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-57806-985-9
Stepping into the Picture
Cartoon Designer Maurice Noble
Robert J. McKinnon
Paper $22.00T, 978-1-934110-44-7
Cloth $38.00T, 978-1-60473-366-2
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African American Studies
Black Writers,
White Publishers
Marketplace Politics in
Twentieth-Century African
American Literature
John K. Young
Cloth $45.00S, 978-1-57806-846-3
For a complete listing of our African American Studies titles, see
http://www.upress.state.ms.us/category/african_american_studies
Crafted Lives
Stories and Studies of
African American Quilters
Patricia A. Turner
Foreword by Kyra E. Hicks
Cloth $35.00T, 978-1-60473-131-6
Calling Out Liberty
The Stono Rebellion and the Universal
Struggle for Human Rights
Jack Shuler
Emmett Till and the
Mississippi Press
Davis W. Houck and
Matthew A. Grindy
Foreword by Keith A. Beauchamp
Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-60473-273-3
Cloth $40.00S, 978-1-934110-15-7
The Case Against
Afrocentrism
Tunde Adeleke
Justice Older than
the Law
The Life of Dovey Johnson
Roundtree
Katie McCabe and
Dovey Johnson Roundtree
978-1-60473-293-1
Can Anything Beat White?
A Black Family’s Letters
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