University Press Of Mississippi imprint: 979 books
The 10 Cent War
Comic Books, Propaganda, and World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Contributions by Derek T. Buescher, Travis L. Cox, Trischa Goodnow, Jon Judy, John R. Katsion, James J. Kimble, Christina M. Knopf, Steven E. Martin, Brad Palmer, Elliott Sawyer, Deborah Clark Vance, David E. Wilt, and Zou Yizheng
One of the most overlooked aspects of the Allied war effort...
Lynda Barry
Girlhood through the Looking Glass
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Best known for her long-running comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek, illustrated fiction (Cruddy, The Good Times Are Killing Me), and graphic novels (One! Hundred! Demons!), the art of Lynda Barry (b. 1956) has branched out to incorporate plays, paintings, radio commentary, and lectures. With a combination...
Beyond Bombshells
The New Action Heroine in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Beyond Bombshells analyzes the cultural importance of strong women in a variety of current media forms. Action heroines are now more popular in movies, comic books, television, and literature than they have ever been. Their spectacular presence represents shifting ideas about female agency, power,...
Global Neorealism
The Transnational History of a Film Style
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Intellectual, cultural, and film historians have long considered neorealism the founding block of post-World War II Italian cinema. Neorealism, the traditional story goes, was an Italian film style born in the second postwar period and aimed at recovering the reality of Italy after the sugarcoated...
by Ted Olson
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1998
In the years immediately preceding the founding of the American nation the Blue Ridge region, which stretches through large sections of Virginia and North Carolina and parts of surrounding states along the Appalachian chain, was the American frontier. In colonial times, it was settled by hardy, independent...
He Slew the Dreamer
My Search for the Truth about James Earl Ray and the Murder of Martin Luther King
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Author William Bradford Huie was one of the most celebrated figures of twentieth-century journalism. A pioneer of "checkbook journalism," he sought the truth in controversial stories when the truth was hard to come by. In the case of James Earl Ray, Huie paid Ray and his original attorneys...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
"Ravished Armenia" and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian is the real-life tale of a teenage Armenian girl who was caught up in the 1915 Armenian genocide, the first genocide in modern history. Mardiganian (1901-1994) witnessed the murder of her family and the suffering of her people at the...
Booker T. Washington in Perspective
Essays of Louis R. Harlan
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
This book, an important companion volume to Louis R. Harlan's prize-winning biography of Booker T. Washington, makes available for the first time in one collection Harlan's essays on the life and career of the celebrated black leader.Written over a span of a quarter of a century, they present a remarkably...
Songs of Sorrow
Lucy McKim Garrison and Slave Songs of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
In the spring of 1862, Lucy McKim, the nineteen-year-old daughter of a Philadelphia abolitionist Quaker family, traveled with her father to the Sea Islands of South Carolina to aid him in his efforts to organize humanitarian aid for thousands of newly freed slaves. During her stay she heard the singing...
Visual Vitriol
The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generation
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Visual Vitriol: The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generation is a vibrant, in-depth, and visually appealing history of punk, which reveals punk concert flyers as urban folk art. David Ensminger exposes the movement's deeply participatory street art, including flyers, stencils,...
by Max Alvarez
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Anthony Mann (1906-1967) is renowned for his outstanding 1950s westerns starring James Stewart (Winchester '73, The Naked Spur, The Man from Laramie). But there is more to Mann's cinematic universe than those tough Wild West action dramas featuring conflicted and secretive heroes. This brilliant Hollywood...
Borders of Equality
The NAACP and the Baltimore Civil Rights Struggle, 1914-1970
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
As a border city Baltimore made an ideal arena to push for change during the civil rights movement. It was a city in which all forms of segregation and racism appeared vulnerable to attack by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's methods. If successful in Baltimore, the...
New York State Folklife Reader
Diverse Voices
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
New York and its folklore scholars hold an important place in the history of the discipline. In New York dialogue between folklore researchers in the academy and those working in the public arena has been highly productive. In this volume, the works of New York's academic and public folklorists are...
Race and the Obama Phenomenon
The Vision of a More Perfect Multiracial Union
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
The concept of a more perfect union remains a constant theme in the political rhetoric of Barack Obama. From his now-historic race speech to his second victory speech delivered on November 7, 2012, that striving is evident. "Tonight, more than two hundred years after a former colony won the right...