William Faulkner Day by Day

By Carl Rollyson
Categories: Biography And Memoir

William Faulkner has been the topic of numerous biographies, papers, and international attention. Yet there are no collected resources providing a comprehensive scope of Faulkner’s life and work before ...

Going Up the Country

By Marina Bokelman & David Evans
Foreword by Stephen Wade
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology
Series: American Made Music Series

At the height of the blues revival, Marina Bokelman and David Evans, young graduate students from California, made two trips to Louisiana and Mississippi and short trips in their home state to do fieldwork ...

Literacy in a Long Blues Note

By Coretta M. Pittman
Categories: Literature
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries traces the evolution of Black women’s literacy practices from 1892 to 1934. A ...

Reproducing Domination

Edited by Percy C. Hintzen, Charisse Burden-Stelly, and Aaron Kamugisha
Categories: Caribbean Studies
Series: Caribbean Studies Series

Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State collects thirteen key essays on the Caribbean by Percy C. Hintzen, the foremost political sociologist in Anglophone Caribbean studies. For the ...

Conversations with Joe R. Lansdale

Edited by Andrew J. Rausch & Mark Slade
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Joe R. Lansdale (b. 1951), the award-winning author of such novels as Cold in July (1989) and The Bottoms (2000), as well as the popular Hap and Leonard series, has been publishing novels since 1981. Lansdale ...

Rags and Bones

Edited by Jeff Sellars & Kevin C. Neece
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology
Series: American Made Music Series

Contributions by Joshua Coleman, Christine Hand Jones, Kevin C. Neece, Charlotte Pence, George Plasketes, Jeffrey Scholes, Jeff Sellars, Toby Thompson, and Jude Warne

After performing with Ronnie Hawkins ...

Containing Childhood

Edited by Danielle Russell
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Contributions by Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Kathleen Kellett, Andrew McInnes, Joyce McPherson, Rebecca Mills, Cristina Rivera, Wendy Rountree, Danielle Russell, Anah-Jayne Samuelson, Sonya Sawyer Fritz, ...

Authenticating Whiteness

By Rachel E. Dubrofsky
Categories: Media Studies
Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series

In Authenticating Whiteness: Karens, Selfies, and Pop Stars, Rachel E. Dubrofsky explores the idea that popular media implicitly portrays whiteness as credible, trustworthy, familiar, and honest, and ...

Jazz à la Creole

By Caroline Vézina
Categories: African American Studies
Series: American Made Music Series

During the formative years of jazz (1890–1917), the Creoles of Color—as they were then called—played a significant role in the development of jazz as teachers, bandleaders, instrumentalists, singers, ...

Our Portion of Hell

By Robert Hamburger
Categories: History

Our Portion of Hell: Fayette County, Tennessee: An Oral History of the Struggle for Civil Rights offers an unrivalled account of how a rural Black community drew together to combat the immense forces ...