The Beautiful Mysterious

By University of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses
Edited by Ann J. Abadie
Categories: Photography
Series: University of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses Series

Contributions by Megan Abbott, Michael Almereyda, Kris Belden-Adams, Maude Schuyler Clay, William Dunlap, W. Ralph Eubanks, William Ferris, Marti A. Funke, Lisa Howorth, Amanda Malloy, Richard McCabe, ...

Labor Pains

By Christin Marie Taylor
Categories: Literature
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

From the 1930s to the 1960s, the Popular Front produced a significant era in African American literary radicalism. While scholars have long associated the black radicalism of the Popular Front with the ...

Between Distant Modernities

By Brittany Powell Kennedy
Categories: Southern Studies

For centuries, Spain and the South have stood out as the exceptional "other" within US and European nationalisms. During Franco's regime and the Jim Crow era both violently asserted a haunting brand of ...

Leaving the South

By Mary Weaks-Baxter
Categories: Literature

Millions of Southerners left the South in the twentieth century in a mass migration that has, in many ways, rewoven the fabric of American society on cultural, political, and economic levels. Because ...

Blues Traveling

By Steve Cheseborough
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology

This acclaimed travel guide, hailed as the bible of blues travelers throughout the world, will shepherd the faithful to such shrines as the intersection where Robert Johnson might have made his deal with ...

Consuming Identity

By Ashli Quesinberry Stokes & Wendy Atkins-Sayre
Categories: Cooking And Foodways
Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series

Southerners love to talk food, quickly revealing likes and dislikes, regional preferences, and their own delicious stories. Because the topic often crosses lines of race, class, gender, and region, food ...

Occasions

By Eudora Welty
Edited by Pearl Amelia McHaney
Categories: Literature

Occasions is a celebration of the short works of one of America’s most beloved writers. To mark the centennial of Eudora Welty’s birth, Pearl Amelia McHaney collected more than sixty pieces by Welty ...

Realizing Our Place

By Catherine Egley Waggoner & Laura Egley Taylor
Categories: Mississippi

What does it mean to be from somewhere? Does place seep into one's very being like roots making their way through rich soil, shaping a sense of self? In particular, what does it mean to be from a place ...

Contesting Post-Racialism

Edited by R. Drew Smith, William Ackah, Anthony G. Reddie, and Rothney S. Tshaka
Categories: African American Studies

Contributions by William Ackah, Allan Boesak, Ebony Joy Fitchue, Leah Gaskin Fitchue, Walter Earl Fluker, Forrest E. Harris Sr. , Nico Koopman, AnneMarie Mingo, Reggie Nel, Chabo Freddy Pilusa, Anthony ...

Southern Writers on Writing

Edited by Susan Cushman
Foreword by Alan Lightman
Categories: Literature

Contributions by Julie Cantrell, Katherine Clark, Susan Cushman, Jim Dees, Clyde Edgerton, W. Ralph Eubanks, John M. Floyd, Joe Formichella, Patti Callahan Henry, Jennifer Horne, Ravi Howard, Suzanne ...