Bayou Dilemma

Edited by Samuel C. Hyde Jr.
Categories: History
Series: America's Third Coast Series

Contributions by Janet Allured, Craig E. Colten, Marcus Cox, Pearson Cross, John Bel Edwards, Adam Fairclough, Keith Finley, Samuel C. Hyde Jr., John Lopez, and Robert Mann

In the fall of 2022, a diverse ...

Soul of the Court

By Tonya Bolden
Categories: Biography And Memoir
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

Legal legend Judge Louis F. Oberdorfer once stated that there were “only two people in the world who really understood the Constitution” and its impact on American lives. One was Hugo Black, deceased ...

A Republican's Lament

By Bill Crawford
Foreword by Lloyd Gray & C.D. Smith
Categories: Politics

Bill Crawford thought his modern-day Republican Party would lift Mississippi off the bottom, a notion born of Gil Carmichael’s vision for good government conservatism. A Republican’s Lament tells of ...

Dream and Legacy, Volume II

Edited by Michael L. Clemons, Donathan L. Brown, and William H. L. Dorsey
Foreword by Robert Adams Jr.
Categories: African American Studies

Contributions by Robert Adams Jr., Shenita Brazelton, Donathan L. Brown, Owen Brown Jr., LaTasha Chaffin, Michael L. Clemons, Daphne Cooper, William H. L. Dorsey, Bertis D. English, Precious D. Hall, ...

Rupturing Rhetoric

Edited by Byron B Craig, Patricia G. Davis, and Stephen E. Rahko
Categories: African American Studies
Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series

Contributions by Maksim Bugrov, Byron B Craig, Patricia G. Davis, Peter Ehrenhaus, Whitney Gent, Christopher Gilbert, Oscar Giner, J. Scott Jordan, Euni Kim, Melanie Loehwing, Jaclyn S. Olson, A. Susan ...

The Summer of 2020

By Andre E. Johnson & Amanda Nell Edgar
Categories: African American Studies
Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series

In the wake of George Floyd’s murder in May 2020, protests broke out in Minneapolis and quickly spread across the United States. National unrest led to the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement ...

Conversations with Jimmy Carter

Edited by Tom Head
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

When Jimmy Carter (b. 1924) lost the presidency in 1980, it would have been reasonable to think his public life was coming to an end. The moderate, evangelical, blue-jeans-wearing peanut farmer made an ...

Forging Freedom in W. E. B. Du Bois's Twilight Years

Edited by Phillip Luke Sinitiere
Categories: African American Studies
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

Contributions by Murali Balaji, Charisse Burden-Stelly, Christopher Cameron, Carlton Dwayne Floyd, Robert Greene II, Andre E. Johnson, Werner Lange, Lisa J. McLeod, Jodi Melamed, Tyler Monson, Eric Porter, ...

The Rhetorical Road to Brown v. Board of Education

By Wanda Little Fenimore
Categories: Civil Rights
Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series

As early as 1947, Black parents in rural South Carolina began seeking equal educational opportunities for their children. After two unsuccessful lawsuits, these families directly challenged legally mandated ...

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 ...