In Proverb Masters: Shaping the Civil Rights Movement, author Raymond Summerville explores how proverbs and proverbial language played a significant role in the long civil rights era. Proverbs have been ...

Contributions by GerShun Avilez, Lola Boorman, Thomas Britt, John Brooks, Phillip James Martinez Cortes, Derek DiMatteo, Tikenya Foster-Singletary, Alexandra Glavanakova, Erica-Brittany Horhn, Matthias ...

Contributions by Yoshiko Akamatsu, Carol L. Beran, Rita Bode, Lesley D. Clement, Allison McBain Hudson, Kate Lawson, Jessica Wen Hui Lim, Lindsey McMaster, E. Holly Pike, Katharine Slater, Margaret Steffler, ...

My Memories of John Hartford is a memoir about author Bob Carlin's years working alongside singer, songwriter, banjoist, and fiddler John Hartford (1937-2001). Throughout his short life, Hartford was ...

Patricia A. Turner is professor of African American and African studies and vice provost of undergraduate studies at the University of California, Davis. She is author of Ceramic Uncles and Celluloid ...

Raymond Summerville is professor of English at Fayetteville State University. He has published in Proverbium, the Journal of Folklore and Education, and other publications.

The first book-length work of its kind, In Transition: Young Adult Literature and Transgender Representation examines the shift in the young adult book market towards increased representation of transgender ...

Evelyn L. Wilson is former Horatio C. Thompson Endowed Professor of Law at Southern University Law Center. She is author of The Justices of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, 1865–1880 and Laws, Customs ...

Troy D. Smith is associate professor of history at Tennessee Tech University, where he specializes in race and ethnic studies. He has won several national awards for his historical fiction.

Ezra Claverie writes for Washington University in St. Louis. His work has appeared in such publications as the Journal of Popular Culture, Journal of American Culture, and Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary ...