“If I had the pen of a ready writer,” Clayton wrote, “enabling me to give a pen-picture of the appearance of the virgin forests in these olden times, covered with the upstretching trees, with occasional ...

As a cultural critic, biographer, essayist, and novelist, Albert Murray has had a wide-ranging and profound influence on American art in the decades since the Second World War. Artists as diverse as Walker ...

Minrose Gwin is author of The Accidentals, Promise, The Queen of Palmyra, Wishing for Snow, and Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement. She has been a professor at universities ...

Washington Lafayette (W. L.) Clayton (1836-1921) was a Civil War veteran, a noted lawyer, and a historian in Tupelo, Mississippi. And although his highest official military rank was that of captain, he ...

Justin A. Joyce is a doctoral candidate in the department of English at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

Lockstep and Dance: Images of Black Men in Popular Culture examines popular culture's reliance on long-standing stereotypes of black men as animalistic, hypersexual, dangerous criminals, whose bodies, ...

Troubling Violence: A Performance Project follows the collaboration between performance studies professor M. Heather Carver and ethnographic folklorist Elaine J. Lawless. The book traces the creative development ...

Elaine J. Lawless is professor emerita at University of Missouri. She is author of six books and coauthor (with David Todd Lawrence) of When They Blew the Levee: Race, Politics, and Community in Pinhook, ...

M. Heather Carver is associate professor of performance studies and theatre at the University of Missouri. She is coeditor of Voices Made Flesh: Performing Women's Autobiography.

With essays by Alan Brinkley, Harvard Sitkoff, Frank Freidel, Pete Daniel, J. Wayne Flynt, and Numan V. Bartley

The New Deal and the South represents the first comprehensive treatment of the impact of the ...