R. Crumb

By David Stephen Calonne
Categories: Comics Studies

Robert Crumb (b. 1943) read widely and deeply a long roster of authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, J. D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg, as well ...

Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus!

By Robert L. Stone
Foreword by Eric Lewis Williams
Categories: Photography

Folklorist Robert L. Stone presents a rare collection of high-quality documentary photos of the sacred steel guitar musical tradition and the community that supports it. The introductory text and extended ...

No Future in This Country

By Andre E. Johnson
Categories: History
Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series

Winner of the 2021 Book of the Year Award from the Religious Communication Association
Winner of the 2021 Top Book Award from the National Communication Association's African American Communication and ...

Southern Religion, Southern Culture

Edited by Darren E. Grem, Ted Ownby, and James G. Thomas Jr.
Categories: History
Series: Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History Series

Contributions by Ryan L. Fletcher, Darren E. Grem, Paul Harvey, Alicia Jackson, Ted Ownby, Otis W. Pickett, Arthur Remillard, Chad Seales, and Randall J. Stephens

Over more than three decades of teaching ...

Ms. Marvel's America

Edited by Jessica Baldanzi & Hussein Rashid
Categories: Comics Studies

Contributions by José Alaniz, Jessica Baldanzi, Eric Berlatsky, Peter E. Carlson, Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins, Antero Garcia, Aaron Kashtan, Winona Landis, A. David Lewis, Martin Lund, Shabana Mir, Kristin ...

Animating the Spirited

Edited by Tze-yue G. Hu, Masao Yokota, and Gyongyi Horvath
Categories: Popular Culture

Contributions by Graham Barton, Raz Greenberg, Gyongyi Horvath, Birgitta Hosea, Tze-yue G. Hu, Yin Ker, M. Javad Khajavi, Richard J. Leskosky, Yuk Lan Ng, Giryung Park, Eileen Anastasia Reynolds, Akiko ...

Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection

By Matthew Pettway
Categories: Caribbean Studies
Series: Caribbean Studies Series

Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés (Plácido) were perhaps the most important and innovative Cuban writers of African descent during the Spanish colonial era. Both nineteenth-century ...

The Gaithers and Southern Gospel

By Ryan P. Harper
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology
Series: American Made Music Series

In The Gaithers and Southern Gospel, Ryan P. Harper examines songwriters Bill and Gloria Gaither's Homecoming video and concert series--a gospel music franchise that, since its beginning in 1991, has ...

Comics and Sacred Texts

Edited by Assaf Gamzou & Ken Koltun-Fromm
Categories: Comics Studies

Contributions by Ofra Amihay, Madeline Backus, Samantha Baskind, Elizabeth Rae Coody, Scott S. Elliott, Assaf Gamzou, Susan Handelman, Leah Hochman, Leonard V. Kaplan, Ken Koltun-Fromm, Shiamin Kwa, Samantha ...

Desegregating Dixie

By Mark Newman
Categories: History

Winner of the 2020 American Studies Network Book Prize from the European Association for American Studies

Mark Newman draws on a vast range of archives and many interviews to uncover for the first time ...