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Black Cloud, White Cloud

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Black Diva of the Thirties: The Life of Ruby Elzy

Black Exodus: The Great Migration from the American South

Black Greek-Letter Organizations 2.0: New Directions in the Study of African American Fraternities and Sororities

A Black Physician's Story: Bringing Hope in Mississippi

Black Power, Yellow Power, and the Making of Revolutionary Identities

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Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans

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Black-Jewish Relations on Trial: Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South

Bloody Mary in the Mirror: Essays in Psychoanalytic Folkloristics

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Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues, Third Edition

Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues

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Booker T. Washington in Perspective: Essays of Louis R. Harlan

Boomerang and Never Die

Borders of Equality: The NAACP and the Baltimore Civil Rights Struggle, 1914-1970

Born in the U.S.A.: The Myth of American Popular Music from Colonial Times to the Present

A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music

Breaking the Rule of Cool: Interviewing and Reading Women Beat Writers

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Brierfield: Plantation Home of Jefferson Davis

Bringing the World to Mississippi: The University of Southern Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, 1919-2010

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Building Louisiana: The Legacy of the Public Works Administration

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Film Friday: Mary Wickes

This is first installment of Film Friday, a new feature that will appear in this space on a semi-weekly basis and will highlight UPM's growing list of film studies books. Today's post focuses on the latest addition to the Hollywood Legends Series - Steve Taravella's: Mary Wickes: I Know I’ve Seen That Face Before.  Moviegoers will remember Mary Wickes as the housekeeper in White Christmas, the

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