C. L. R. James and Creolization: Circles of Influence

C. L. R. James on the 'Negro Question'

C. L. R. James: A Critical Introduction

Cajun and Creole Folktales Collected and Annotated

Cajun and Creole Music Makers: Musiciens cadiens et créoles

Cajun and Zydeco Dance Music in Northern California: Modern Pleasures in a Postmodern World

Cajun Country

Cajun Foodways

Cajun Mardi Gras Masks

Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors: A Young Reader's History

The Cajuns: Americanization of a People

Calling Out Liberty: The Stono Slave Rebellion and the Universal Struggle for Human Rights

Campus Traditions: Folklore from the Old-Time College to the Modern Mega-University

Can Anything Beat White? A Black Family's Letters

Canadian Women Writing Fiction

Canoeing Louisiana

Canoeing Mississippi

The Capers Papers

Captivating Combinations: Color and Style in the Garden

The Caribbean Novel since 1945: Cultural Practice, Form, and the Nation-State

Caribbean Visionary: A. R. F. Webber and the Making of the Guyanese Nation

Carl Barks and the Disney Comic Book: Unmasking the Myth of Modernity

Carl Barks: Conversations

Carl Gutherz: Poetic Vision and Academic Ideals

Carlos Saura: Interviews

Carole Landis: A Most Beautiful Girl

Carolina Piedmont Country

Carville: Remembering Leprosy in America

The Case against Afrocentrism

Castle in the Gloom

The Catfish Book

Changing Channels: The Civil Rights Case that Transformed Television

Charles Burnett: Interviews

Charles Johnson: The Novelist as Philosopher

Charles M. Schulz: Conversations

Charlie Chaplin: Interviews

Chicano Graffiti and Murals: The Neighborhood Art of Peter Quezada

Children of the Dark House: Text and Context in Faulkner

Chita: A Memory of Last Island

The Choctaw before Removal

Choctaw Tales

The Choctaws: Cultural Evolution of a Native American Tribe

The Christ-Haunted Landscape: Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction

Christenberry: Reconstruction: The Art of William Christenberry

Christmas Memories from Mississippi

Christmas Stories from Georgia

Christmas Stories from Louisiana

Christmas Stories from Mississippi

Chronicle of a Camera: The Arriflex 35 in North America, 1945-1972

Chuck Jones: Conversations

Cinderella in America: A Book of Folk and Fairy Tales

The Circle of Guilt

City Son: Andrew W. Cooper's Impact on Modern-Day Brooklyn

Civil Rights Childhood

Civil Rights Chronicle: Letters from the South

Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination: Innocence by Association

The Civil Rights Movement in America

Civil War Humor

The Civil War in Mississippi: Major Campaigns and Battles

Civil War Leadership and Mexican War Experience

Civil War Mississippi: A Guide

Claiming the Heritage: African-American Women Novelists and History

Clarence John Laughlin: Prophet without Honor

Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty

Clint Eastwood: Interviews

Clint Eastwood: Interviews, Revised And Updated

The Coen Brothers: Interviews

The Color of Jazz: Race and Representation in Postwar American Culture

Come Retribution: The Confederate Secret Service and the Assassination of Lincoln

Comedy in Context: Essays on Moliere

Comic Book Culture: Fanboys and True Believers

Comic Books as History: The Narrative Art of Jack Johnson, Art Spiegelman, and Harvey Pekar

Comics and Language: Reimagining Critical Discourse on the Form

Comics and Narration

Comics and the U.S. South

Comics as Culture

Comics as Philosophy

The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking

A Comics Studies Reader

The Comics

Coming Home to Mississippi

Coming Home! Self-Taught Artists, the Bible, and the American South

Coming to Colorado: A Young Immigrant's Journey to Become an American Flyer

Coming to Term: A Father's Story of Birth, Loss, and Survival

The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth" about the "Lost Cause"

Confederate Industry: Manufacturers and Quartermasters in the Civil War

Confederates in the Tropics: Charles Swett's Travelogue of 1868

Confronting Modernity: Art and Society in Louisiana

Connecting Times: The Sixties in Afro-American Fiction

Contemporary Southern Identity: Community through Controversy

Conversations with Albert Murray

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Conversations with Christopher Isherwood

Conversations with Clarence Major

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Conversations with E. L. Doctorow

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Conversations with Jonathan Lethem

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Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro

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Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

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Conversations with Lee Smith

Conversations with Leon Forrest

Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko

Conversations with Lillian Hellman

Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris

Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher

Conversations with Malcolm Cowley

Conversations with Margaret Walker

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Conversations with Mary McCarthy

Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston

Conversations with May Sarton

Conversations with Maya Angelou

Conversations with Mexican American Writers: Languages and Literatures in the Borderlands

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Conversations with Pauline Kael

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Conversations with Rita Dove

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Conversations with Robert Graves

Conversations with Robert Penn Warren

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Conversations with Rudolfo Anaya

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Conversations with S. J. Perelman

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Conversations with Saul Bellow

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Conversations with William Maxwell

Conversations with William S. Burroughs

Conversations with William Styron

Conversations with Willie Morris

Conversations with Wole Soyinka

Conversations with: Yusef Komunyakaa

Cool Cars, High Art: The Rise of Kustom Kulture

A Cormac McCarthy Companion: The Border Trilogy

The Correspondence of Flannery O'Connor and the Brainard Cheneys

"A Cosmos of My Own": Faulkner and Yoknapatawtha, 1980

Count No 'Count: Flashbacks to Faulkner

Count Them One by One: Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote

Country Churchyards

Country Music Culture: From Hard Times to Heaven

The Courting of Marcus Dupree

Courtship and Love among the Enslaved in North Carolina

Covering for the Bosses: Labor and the Southern Press

The Crab Lover's Book: Recipes & More

Cradle and All: A Cultural and Psychoanalytic Study of Nursery Rhymes

Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African American Quilters

The Crawfish Book

Creole Trombone: Kid Ory and the Early Years of Jazz

Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country

Creolization as Cultural Creativity

Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an unlikely couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and transformed children's Literature

Cross the Water Blues: African American Music in Europe

Crusades for Freedom: Memphis and the Political Transformation of the American South

Cry Uncle

The Cry Was Unity: Communists and African Americans, 1917-1936

Cultural Orphans in America

Culture after the Hurricanes: Rhetoric and Reinvention on the Gulf Coast

The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs

A Culture of Confidence: Politics, Performance and the Idea of America

Curt Flood in the Media: Baseball, Race, and the Demise of the Activist Athlete

Czesław Miłosz: Conversations

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On the Horizon: Scotty and Elvis

When Elvis Presley first showed up at Sam Phillips’s Memphis-based Sun Records studio, he was a shy teenager in search of a sound. Phillips invited a local guitarist named Scotty Moore to stand in. Scotty listened carefully to the young singer and immediately realized that Elvis had something special.  Along with bass player Bill Black, the trio recorded an old blues number called “That’s All

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