University Press Of Mississippi imprint: 979 books
Urbane Revolutionary
C. L. R. James and the Struggle for a New Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
In Urbane Revolutionary: C.L.R. James and the Struggle for a New Society, Frank Rosengarten traces the intellectual and political development of C.L.R. James (1901-1989), one of the most significant Caribbean intellectuals of the twentieth century. In his political and philosophical commentary, his...
by Charles W. Chesnutt
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2009
The critique of white male society that Charles W. Chesnutt launched in A Marrow of Tradition continues in Evelyn's Husband, one of six manuscripts left unpublished when this highly regarded African American innovator died. Set in Boston society, on a deserted Caribbean island, and in Brazil,...
Louisiana Voyages
The Travel Writings of Catharine Cole
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2006
When nature exudes in a swamp in Louisiana it is rich, tropical, juicy, dark, verminy, repellant and lovely all in one," wrote Catharine Cole in 1889. "It is like a coffin crowned with flowers; a death trap baited with roses." Writing under the pseudonym Catharine Cole, Martha R. Field (1855-1898)...
Life on the Press
The Popular Art and Illustrations of George Benjamin Luks
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2009
George Benjamin Luks (1867-1933) is renowned for the oil paintings, watercolors, and pastel drawings he created as an acclaimed member of the artists' collective known as the Ashcan School. His professional development came, however, from his apprenticeship as a newspaper and magazine artist. Luks...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2003
Why would a punk band popular only in Indonesia cut songs in no other language than English? If you're rapping in Tanzania and Malawi, where hip hop has a growing audience, what do you rhyme in? Swahili? Chichewa? English? Some combination of these? Global Pop, Local Language examines how performers...
I Am Because We Are
African Wisdom in Image and Proverb
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
I Am Because We Are features 125 black and white photographs by Betty Press taken all over East and West Africa since 1987, combined with related African proverbs compiled by Annetta Miller, an American born in Tanzania.The book highlights the importance of proverbs in educating members of African...
W. E. B. Du Bois on Asia
Crossing the World Color Line
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2005
After Japan's defeat of Russia in the 1904 territorial war, W. E. B. Du Bois declared, "The Color Line in civilization has been crossed in modern times as it was in the great past. The awakening of the yellow races is certain. That the awakening of the brown and black races will follow in time, no...
Mardi Gras, Gumbo, and Zydeco
Readings in Louisiana Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2003
The detectable identity of southern Louisiana's one-of-a-kind culture has been expressed in numerous descriptive phrases--"south of the South," "the northern tip of the Caribbean," "this folklore land." A strange, piquant, and savory mixture, it also has been likened to one of the region's signature...
Whitewashing America
Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
Even before mass marketing, American consumers bought products that gentrified their households and broadcast their sense of "the good things in life."
Bridging literary scholarship, archaeology, history, and art history, Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum...
Woke Me Up This Morning
Black Gospel Singers and the Gospel Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
The Beatles
Image and the Media
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2007
The Beatles: Image and the Media charts the transformation of the Beatles from teen idols to leaders of the youth movement and powerful cultural agents. Drawing upon American mainstream print media, broadcasts, albums, films, and videos, the study covers the band's career in the United States. Michael...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
"Who's Afraid of Edna O'Brien?" asks an early interviewer in Conversations with Edna O'Brien. With over fifty years of published novels, biographies, plays, telecasts, short stories, and more, it is hard not to be intimidated by her. An acclaimed and controversial Irish writer, O'Brien (b....
Reading Faulkner
Light in August
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1994