University Press Of Mississippi imprint: 979 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Published in 1981, The Great American Writers Cookbook was a treasure trove of recipes submitted by the country's most celebrated authors. This all-new collection, a fine follow-up for a new era, features recipes that range from peanut butter sandwiches to eggplant caviar, with dishes-and anecdotes-offered...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1986
The Civil Rights Movement warrants continuing and extensive examination. The six papers in this collection, each supplemented by a follow-up assessment, contribute to a clearer perception of what caused and motivated the movement, of how it functioned, of the changes that occurred within it, and of its...
Arrowheads and Spear Points in the Prehistoric Southeast
A Guide to Understanding Cultural Artifacts
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1993
The Native American tribes of what is now the Southeastern United States left intriguing relics of their ancient cultural life. Arrowheads, spearpoints, stone tools, and other artifacts are found in newly plowed fields, on hillsides after a fresh rain, or in washed-out creekbeds. These are tangible...
Mobilizing for the Common Good
The Lived Theology of John M. Perkins
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Born into a sharecropping family in New Hebron, Mississippi, in 1930, and only receiving a third-grade education, John M. Perkins has been a pioneering prophetic African American voice for reconciliation and social justice to America's white evangelical churches. Often an unwelcome voice and always...
by Willie Morris
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1992
At the time of Marcus Dupree's birth, when Deep South racism was about to crest and shatter against the Civil Rights Movement, Willie Morris journeyed north in a circular transit peculiar to southern writers. His memoir of those years, North Toward Home, became a modern classic. In The Courting of Marcus...
by Jerry Clower
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Brimming with his rich humor, Jerry Clower's book manifests the unsurpassed southern art of yarn spinning. It shows as well the nature of the man for whom good storytelling is more than just show business.Nashville's funniest man had a serious side. Deep in the merry heart of this comic entertainer...
Across the Creek
Faulkner Family Stories
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Across the Creek, a collection of affectionate reminiscences, adds to the common lore about William Faulkner and his community. Jim Faulkner recounts stories abounding in folklore, humor, family history, and fictionalized history, and these offer an insider's view of the Faulkner family's life in the...
by Elizabeth Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Admirers of Elizabeth Spencer's writing will welcome back into print her first novel, and her new readers will discover the sources of her notable talent in this book. Published in 1948 to extraordinary attention from such eminent writers as Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, and Katherine Anne Porter,...
The Land of Rowan Oak
An Exploration of Faulkner's Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
The plants and landscape at Rowan Oak are the "little postage stamp of soil" that William Faulkner owned, walked, and tended for over thirty years during the writing of many of his short stories and novels. Faulkner saw and smelled the earth and listened to sounds from the cultivated grounds...
Writings of Frank Marshall Davis
A Voice of the Black Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2006
Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987) was a central figure in the black press, working as reporter and editor for the Atlanta World, the Associated Negro Press, the Chicago Star, and the Honolulu Record. Writings of Frank Marshall Davis presents a selection of Davis's nonfiction, providing an unprecedented...
Realizing Our Place
Real Southern Women in a Mythologized Land
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
What does it mean to be from somewhere? Does place seep into one's very being like roots making their way through rich soil, shaping a sense of self? In particular, what does it mean to be from a place with a storied past, one mythologized as the very best and worst of our nation? Such questions inspired...
A Voice That Could Stir an Army
Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
A sharecropper, a warrior, and a truth-telling prophet, Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) stands as a powerful symbol not only of the 1960s black freedom movement, but also of the enduring human struggle against oppression. A Voice That Could Stir an Army is a rhetorical biography that tells the story...
Sanctuaries of Segregation
The Story of the Jackson Church Visit Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Winner of the 2017 Eudora Welty Prize
Sanctuaries of Segregation provides the first comprehensive analysis of the Jackson, Mississippi, church visit campaign of 1963-1964 and the efforts by segregationists to protect one of their last refuges. For ten months, integrated groups of ministers...
by Oliver A. Houck
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
The lower Mississippi River winds past the City of New Orleans between enormous levees and a rim of sand, mud, and trees called "the batture." On this remote and ignored piece of land thrives a humanity unique to the region-ramblers, artists, drinkers, fishers, rabbit hunters, dog walkers,...