When Hurricane Katrina hit Mississippi on August 29, 2005, it unleashed the costliest natural disaster in American history, and the third deadliest. Haley Barbour had been Mississippi's governor for only ...

The Black Cultural Front describes how the social and political movements that grew out of the Depression facilitated the left turn of several African American artists and writers. The Communist-led John ...

Boys Love Manga and Beyond looks at a range of literary, artistic and other cultural products that celebrate the beauty of adolescent boys and young men. In Japan, depiction of the “beautiful boy” ...

The Magic Behind the Voices is a fascinating package of biographies, anecdotes, credit listings, and photographs of the actors who have created the unmistakable voices for some of the most popular and ...

In Contemporary Southern Identity, Rebecca Bridges Watts explores the implications of four public controversies about southern identity—debates about the Confederate flag in South Carolina, the gender ...

Jere Nash, Jackson, Mississippi, is coauthor of Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2008 (published by University Press of Mississippi) and Mississippi Fried Politics: Tall Tales from the ...

Haley Barbour served as Mississippi's governor from 2004 to 2012 and is founding partner of the Washington, DC, firm BGR Group.

Kazumi Nagaike is associate professor in the Center for International Education and Research at Oita University.

Rebecca Bridges Watts is visiting assistant professor of communication studies at Stetson University.

James Welker is associate professor of cross-cultural studies at Kanagawa University.