University Press Of Mississippi imprint: 979 books
Black-Jewish Relations on Trial
Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
An analysis of the Leo Frank case as a measure of the complexities characterizing the relationship between African Americans and Jews in America In 1915 Leo Frank, a Northern Jew, was lynched in Georgia. He had been convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan, a young white woman who worked in the Atlanta...
by Carl A. Brasseaux, Claude F. Oubre, Keith P. Fontenot
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
Creoles of Color are rightfully among the first families of south-western Louisiana. Yet in both antebellum and postbellum periods they remained a people considered apart from the rest of the population. Historians, demographers, sociologists, and anthropologists have given them only scant attention.This...
Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
The Life and Times of Henry Louis Rey
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Modern American Spiritualism blossomed in the 1850s and continued as a viable faith into the 1870s. Because of its diversity and openness to new cultures and religions, New Orleans provided fertile ground to nurture Spiritualism, and many séance circles flourished in the Creole Faubourgs of Tremé...
Bodies
Sex, Violence, Disease, and Death in Contemporary Legend
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2005
Because they are so often told as news, contemporary legends force us to reevaluate life as we know it. They confront us with macabre, fantastic, horrific, or hilarious characters and events that seem to come straight out of myths and folktales, but are presented as present day events. The difficulty...
Making a Way out of No Way
African American Women and the Second Great Migration
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2009
The Second Great Migration, the movement of African Americans between the South and the North that began in the early 1940s and tapered off in the late 1960s, transformed America. This migration of approximately five million people helped improve the financial prospects of black Americans, who, in...
The Films of Douglas Sirk
Exquisite Ironies and Magnificent Obsessions
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
Best known for powerful 1950s melodramas like All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind, The Tarnished Angels, and Imitation of Life, Douglas Sirk (1897–1987) brought to all his work a distinctive style that led to his reputation as one of twentieth-century film’s great directors. Sirk worked...
Inventing New Orleans
Writings of Lafcadio Hearn
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) prowled the streets of New Orleans from 1877 to 1888 before moving on to a new life and global fame as a chronicler of Japan. Hearn's influence on our perceptions of New Orleans, however, has unjustly remained unknown. In ten years of serving as a correspondent and selling...
Country Boys and Redneck Women
New Essays in Gender and Country Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Country music boasts a long tradition of rich, contradictory gender dynamics, creating a world where Kitty Wells could play the demure housewife and the honky-tonk angel simultaneously, Dolly Parton could move from traditionalist "girl singer" to outspoken trans rights advocate, and current...
Geographies of Cubanidad
Place, Race, and Musical Performance in Contemporary Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Derived from the nationalist writings of José Martí, the concept of Cubanidad (Cubanness) has always imagined a unified hybrid nation where racial difference is nonexistent and nationality trumps all other axes identities. Scholars have critiqued this celebration of racial mixture, highlighting...
What She Go Do
Women in Afro-Trinidadian Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
In the 1990s, expressive culture in the Caribbean was becoming noticeably more feminine. At the annual Carnival of Trinidad and Tobago, thousands of female masqueraders dominated the street festival on Carnival Monday and Tuesday. Women had become significant contributors to the performance of calypso...
This Light of Ours
Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement is a paradigm-shifting publication that presents the Civil Rights Movement through the work of nine activist photographers-men and women who chose to document the national struggle against segregation and other forms of race-based...
Second Line Rescue
Improvised Responses to Katrina and Rita
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Second Line Rescue: Improvised Responses to Katrina and Rita chronicles the brave and creative acts through which Gulf Coast people rescued their neighbors during the chaotic aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Ordinary citizens joined in with whatever resources they had. Unlike many of the...
Desegregating Dixie
The Catholic Church in the South and Desegregation, 1945-1992
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
Mark Newman draws on a vast range of archives and many interviews to uncover for the first time the complex response of African American and white Catholics across the South to desegregation. In the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, the southern Catholic Church contributed to...
The Canadian Alternative
Cartoonists, Comics, and Graphic Novels
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Contributions by Jordan Bolay, Ian Brodie, Jocelyn Sakal Froese, Dominick Grace, Eric Hoffman, Paddy Johnston, Ivan Kocmarek, Jessica Langston, Judith Leggatt, Daniel Marrone, Mark J. McLaughlin, Joan Ormrod, Laura A. Pearson, Annick Pellegrin, Mihaela Precup, Jason Sacks, and Ruth-Ellen St. Onge
This...