University Press Of Mississippi imprint: 979 books
Overseas American
Growing Up Gringo in the Tropics
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Born in 1941 of a Hawaiian mother and a white father, Gene H. Bell-Villada, grew up an overseas American citizen. An outsider wherever he landed, he never had a ready answer to the innocuous question "Where are you from?"
By the time Bell-Villada was a teenager, he had lived in Puerto...
Kathryn Bigelow
Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
With her gripping film The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow (b. 1951) made history in 2010 by becoming the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Director. Since then she has also filmed history with her latest movie, which is about the mission to kill Osama Bin Laden. She is one of Hollywood's brightest...
Merchant-Ivory
Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Merchant-Ivory: Interviews gathers together for the first time interviews made over the past five decades with director James Ivory (b. 1928), producer Ismail Merchant (1936-2005), and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (b. 1927). Beginning with their earliest work in India, and ending with James Ivory's...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Percival Everett writes novels, short stories, poetry, and essays, and is one of the most prolific, acclaimed, yet under-examined African American writers working today. Although to date Everett has published eighteen novels, three collections of short fiction, three poetry collections, and one children's...
Steven Soderbergh
Interviews, Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
The long and prolific career of Steven Soderbergh (b. 1963) defies easy categorization. From his breakout beginnings in 1989 with sex, lies, and videotape to 2013, when he retired from big-screen studio movie-making to focus on other pursuits including television, the director's output resembles nothing...
Black Intellectual Thought in Modern America
A Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Contributions by Tunde Adeleke, Brian D. Behnken, Minkah Makalani, Benita Roth, Gregory D. Smithers, Simon Wendt, and Danielle L. Wiggins
Black intellectualism has been misunderstood by the American public and by scholars for generations. Historically maligned by their peers and by the lay...
Ragged but Right
Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2007
The commercial explosion of ragtime in the early twentieth century created previously unimagined opportunities for black performers. However, every prospect was mitigated by systemic racism. The biggest hits of the ragtime era weren't Scott Joplin's stately piano rags. "Coon songs," with their ugly...
Searching for the New Black Man
Black Masculinity and Women's Bodies
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Using the slave narratives of Henry Bibb and Frederick Douglass, as well as the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Walter Mosley, and Barack Obama, Ronda C. Henry Anthony examines how women's bodies are used in African American literature to fund the production of black masculine ideality and...
Minority Relations
Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2016
The question of how relations between marginalized groups are impacted by their common and sometimes competing search for equal rights has become acutely important. Demographic projections make it easy now to imagine a future majority population of color in the United States. Minority Relations sets...
Walt before Mickey
Disney's Early Years, 1919-1928
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
For ten years before the creation of Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney struggled with, failed at, and eventually mastered the art and business of animation. Most biographies of his career begin in 1928, when Steamboat Willie was released. That first Disney Studio cartoon with synchronized sound made its main...
Alan Ball
Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Alan Ball: Conversations features interviews that span Alan Ball's entire career and include detailed observations and insights into his Academy Award-winning film American Beauty and Emmy Award-winning television shows Six Feet Under and True Blood. Ball began his career as a playwright in New York,...
Teaching the Works of Eudora Welty
Twenty-First-Century Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Contributions by Jacob Agner, Sharon Deykin Baris, Carolyn J. Brown, Lee Anne Bryan, Keith Cartwright, Stuart Christie, Mae Miller Claxton, Virginia Ottley Craighill, David A. Davis, Susan V. Donaldson, Julia Eichelberger, Kevin Eyster, Dolores Flores-Silva, Sarah Gilbreath Ford, Stephen M. Fuller,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
Contributions by Tina Bucuvalas, Anna Caraveli, Aydin Chaloupka, Sotirios (Sam) Chianis, Frank Desby, Stavros K. Frangos, Stathis Gauntlett, Joseph G. Graziosi, Gail Holst-Warhaft, Michael G. Kaloyanides, Panayotis League, Roderick Conway Morris, National Endowment for the Arts/National Heritage Fellows,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Contributions by Hena Ahmad, Linda Pierce Allen, Mary J. Henderson Couzelis, Sarah Park Dahlen, Lan Dong, Tomo Hattori, Jennifer Ho, Ymitri Mathison, Leah Milne, Joy Takako Taylor, and Traise Yamamoto
Often referred to as the model minority, Asian American children and adolescents feel pressured...