University Press Of Mississippi imprint: 979 books
Hearths of Darkness
The Family in the American Horror Film, Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Hearths of Darkness: The Family in the American Horror Film traces the origins of the 1970s family horror subgenre to certain aspects of American culture and classical Hollywood cinema. Far from being an ephemeral and short-lived genre, horror actually relates to many facets of American history from...
by Cameron C. Nickels
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
In Civil War Humor, author Cameron C. Nickels examines the various forms of comedic popular artifacts produced in America from 1861 to 1865, and looks at how wartime humor was created, disseminated, and received by both sides of the conflict. Song lyrics, newspaper columns, sheet music covers, illustrations,...
Acting My Face
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Actor Anthony James has played killers, psychopaths, and other twisted characters throughout his Hollywood career. In the summer of 1967, James made his motion picture debut as the murderer in the Academy Award-winning Best Picture, In the Heat of the Night. His role in the 1992 Academy Award-winning...
Black Boys Burning
The 1959 Fire at the Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
On the morning of March 5, 1959, Luvenia Long was listening to gospel music when a news bulletin interrupted her radio program. Fire had engulfed the Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School in Wrightsville, thirteen miles outside of Little Rock. Her son Lindsey had been confined there since January...
Builders of a New South
Merchants, Capital, and the Remaking of Natchez, 1865–1914
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Builders of a New South describes how, between 1865 and 1914, ten Natchez mercantile families emerged as leading purveyors in the wholesale plantation supply and cotton handling business, and soon became a dominant force in the social and economic Reconstruction of the Natchez District. They were...
Remaking Dixie
The Impact of World War II on the American South
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2007
Although the Civil War reconfigured Dixie, in the half century since the end of World War II the American South has been massively changed again. It is still an improbable mix of tradition and transition, but the stereotype of a region with one party politics, one crop agriculture, white supremacy, cultural...
Leander Perez
Boss of the Delta
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Leander Perez 1891-1969) was more than simply another Neanderthal segregationist. He was a political boss who held absolute power in Plaquemines Parish to an extent unsurpassed by any parish leader in Louisiana's history. Leander Perez: Boss of the Delta is his full history.A bit of a social reformer,...
Lincoln Apostate
The Matson Slave Case
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
In 1847, in a small rural courthouse in Coles County, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln represented a Kentucky slave owner named Robert Matson in his attempt to recover a runaway slave woman and her four children. Most Americans, even those with a penchant for the nation's history, have never heard of this...
City of Islands
Caribbean Intellectuals in New York
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Tammy L. Brown uses the life stories of Caribbean intellectuals as "windows" into the dynamic history of immigration to New York and the long battle for racial equality in modern America. The majority of the 150,000 black immigrants who arrived in the United States during the first-wave...
The Legacy of Eric Williams
Into the Postcolonial Moment
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
The Legacy of Eric Williams provides an indispensable and significant understanding of Eric Williams's contributions to the now independent nation of Trinidad and Tobago and his impact on the broader international understanding of the Caribbean. This book stands out because of its simultaneous investigation...
A Decade of Dark Humor
How Comedy, Irony, and Satire Shaped Post-9/11 America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
A Decade of Dark Humor analyzes ways in which popular and visual culture used humor-in a variety of forms-to confront the attacks of September 11, 2001 and, more specifically, the aftermath. This interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from four countries to discuss the impact of humor and...
Intimate Partner Violence in New Orleans
Gender, Race, and Reform, 1840-1900
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Ashley Baggett uncovers the voices of abused women who utilized the legal system in New Orleans to address their grievances from the antebellum era to the end of the nineteenth century. Poring over 26,000 records, Baggett analyzes 421 criminal cases involving intimate partner violence" physical...
Twain's Brand
Humor in Contemporary American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Samuel L. Clemens lost the 1882 lawsuit declaring his exclusive right to use "Mark Twain" as a commercial trademark, but he succeeded in the marketplace, where synergy among his comic journalism, live performances, authorship, and entrepreneurship made "Mark Twain" the premier...
Southern Splendor
Saving Architectural Treasures of the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Few things evoke thoughts and memories of the past more than a house from a bygone era, and few places are identified and symbolized more by historic dwellings than the American South. Plantation houses built with columned porticos and wide porches, stout chimneys, large rooms, and sweeping staircases...