Louis Malle

Edited by Christopher Beach
Categories: Film Studies
Series: Conversations with Filmmakers Series

A filmmaker whose work exhibits a wide range of styles and approaches, Louis Malle (1932–1995) was the only French director of his generation to enjoy a significant career in both France and the United ...

Open at the Close

Edited by Cecilia Konchar Farr
Categories: Literature

Contributions by Lauren R. Carmacci, Keridiana Chez, Kate Glassman, John Granger, Marie Schilling Grogan, Beatrice Groves, Tolonda Henderson, Nusaiba Imady, Cecilia Konchar Farr, Juliana Valadão Lopes, ...

Songs of Slavery and Emancipation

By Mat Callahan
Introduction by Robin D. G. Kelley
Afterword by Kali Akuno
Categories: African American Studies
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

Throughout the history of slavery, enslaved people organized resistance, escape, and rebellion. Sustaining them in this struggle was their music, some examples of which are sung to this day. While the ...

The South Strikes Back

By Hodding Carter III
Introduction by Stephanie R. Rolph
Categories: Civil Rights
Series: Civil Rights in Mississippi Series

In The South Strikes Back, Hodding Carter III describes the birth of the white Citizens’ Council in the Mississippi Delta and its spread throughout the South. Originally published in 1959, this book ...

The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books

By Jennifer Miller
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

In The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books, Jennifer Miller identifies an archive of over 150 English-language children’s picture books ...

Love, Daddy

By David Rae Morris & Willie Morris
Foreword by Kaylie Jones
Categories: Biography And Memoir

Winner of the 2023 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letter Award for Photography

Love, Daddy: Letters from My Father examines the complexities of father-and-son relationships through letters and photographs. ...

Confessions of a Southern Beauty Queen

By Julie Hines Mabus
Categories: Biography And Memoir

In the late 1960s, Patsy Channing, a stunningly beautiful young woman, was suspended from the venerable Mississippi State College for Women for breach of conduct. The resulting scandal reached all the ...

Equipping Space Cadets

By Emily Midkiff
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Winner of the 2023 Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) Book Award
2022 Longlist Nominee for the Best Non-Fiction Award from the British Science Fiction Association

Equipping Space Cadets: Primary ...

Hearing Brazil

By Jonathon Grasse
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology

Minas Gerais is a state in southeastern Brazil deeply connected to the nation’s slave past and home to many traditions related to the African diaspora. Addressing a wide range of traditions helping ...

Jeff Lemire

Edited by Dale Jacobs
Categories: Comics Studies
Series: Conversations with Comic Artists Series

In a 2019 interview with the webzine DC in the 80s, Jeff Lemire (b. 1976) discusses the comics he read as a child growing up in Essex County, Ontario—his early exposure to reprints of Silver Age DC ...