Laurence Raw (1959–2018) was professor of English at Baskent University in Ankara, Turkey. He authored several books, including Adapting Henry James to the Screen: Gender, Fiction, and Film; The Ridley ...

Despite Hollywood’s recent efforts to appeal to more racially diverse audiences, mainstream movies routinely present a limited view of nonwhites generally, and Black women specifically, in stark contrast ...

Between 1937 and 1940 fieldworkers in the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Writers’ Project interviewed around 3,500 formerly enslaved people in North America, resulting in roughly 20,000 pages ...

Frederick W. Gooding Jr. is the Dr. Ronald E. Moore Endowed Professor in Humanities and associate professor of African American studies within the John V. Roach Honors College at Texas Christian University. ...

Booker “Bukka” White (1905–1977) was one of the most important blues musicians of the twentieth century. The twelve songs he recorded in Chicago in 1940 are considered to be among the finest in ...

A devout Catholic, a visionary—and some say prophetic—writer, Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) has gained a growing presence in contemporary popular culture. While O’Connor professed that she did ...

Irwin H. Streight is full professor in the Department of English, Culture, and Communication at the Royal Military College of Canada. He is coeditor of Flannery O’Connor: The Contemporary Reviews and ...

In Imperiled Whiteness, Penelope Ingram examines the role played by media in the resurgence of white nationalism and neo-Nazi movements in the Obama-to-Trump era. As politicians on the right stoked anxieties ...

Penelope Ingram is a Distinguished Teaching Professor and an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Arlington. She is author of The Signifying Body: Toward an Ethics ...

After graduating from Mississippi State University in 1976, Di Rushing and her husband, Sam, found themselves back on their family farm near Merigold, Mississippi, with 350 acres and no real clue what ...