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Labor Pains

New Deal Fictions of Race, Work, and Sex in the South

University Press of Mississippi

A fresh consideration of the impact of black radicalism on black characters in southern modernism

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Can’t Stand Still

Taylor Gordon and the Harlem Renaissance

University Press of Mississippi

The first biography of a singer who was once one of the most significant African American male vocalists in America

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Aaron Henry

The Fire Ever Burning

By Aaron Henry and Constance Curry; Introduction by John Dittmer
University Press of Mississippi

The memoir of a fearless black leader in the civil rights struggle in Mississippi

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The African American Sonnet

A Literary History

University Press of Mississippi

A thoughtful survey of striking poems from the Civil War to the present

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This Woman's Work

The Writing and Activism of Bebe Moore Campbell

University Press of Mississippi

A critical biography of the novelist and champion for mental health issues

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No Small Thing

The 1963 Mississippi Freedom Vote

University Press of Mississippi

A history that redefines the beginning of the fight for black suffrage

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation

University Press of Mississippi

An examination of how nineteenth-century African American folklore studies became a site of national debate

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To Write in the Light of Freedom

The Newspapers of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools

University Press of Mississippi

A collection and examination of the creative literary work of Freedom School students discovering pathways to racial justice

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African American Haiku

Cultural Visions

Edited by John Zheng
University Press of Mississippi

The first study solely dedicated to exploring the power of African American haiku

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Raised Up Down Yonder

Growing Up Black in Rural Alabama

University Press of Mississippi

A classic ethnographic study of rural children, their community, and their school

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The Souls of White Folk

African American Writers Theorize Whiteness

University Press of Mississippi

The first book to examine whiteness as an intellectual tradition within African American literature

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The Black Cultural Front

Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation

University Press of Mississippi

How the aftermath of the Great Depression convinced several African American writers to adopt a leftist outlook

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Searching for the New Black Man

Black Masculinity and Women's Bodies

University Press of Mississippi

The role of women's bodies in the productions of ideal and progressive black masculinities in African American literature

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Perspectives on Percival Everett

University Press of Mississippi

The first collection of essays to examine the breadth of Everett’s creative output

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Count Them One by One

Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote

University Press of Mississippi
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Fame to Infamy

Race, Sport, and the Fall from Grace

Edited by David C. Ogden and Joel Nathan Rosen; Foreword by Roy F. Fox; Afterword by Jack Lule
University Press of Mississippi

Essays that reveal the public slide into disrepute of once-cherished male sports icons

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The Postwar African American Novel

Protest and Discontent, 1945-1950

University Press of Mississippi

A rediscovery of forgotten talent overshadowed in the heyday of the African American novel

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All Stories Are True

History, Myth, and Trauma in the Work of John Edgar Wideman

University Press of Mississippi

A mapping of the whole Wideman universe from novels to short stories to nonfiction

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The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer

To Tell It Like It Is

University Press of Mississippi

The first collection of speeches from one of the movement's valiant firebrands

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Borders of Equality

The NAACP and the Baltimore Civil Rights Struggle, 1914-1970

University Press of Mississippi

A study of the Baltimore NAACP branch and its vanguard efforts including a detailed examination of its longtime president, Lillie M. Jackson

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