University Press Of Mississippi imprint: 979 books
Queen of the Virgins
Pageantry and Black Womanhood in the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Beauty pageants are wildly popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands, outnumbering any other single performance event and capturing the attention of the local people from toddlers to seniors. Local beauty contests provide women opportunities to demonstrate talent, style, the values of black womanhood, and...
Black and Brown Planets
The Politics of Race in Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Black and Brown Planets embarks on a timely exploration of the American obsession with color in its look at the sometimes contrary intersections of politics and race in science fiction. The contributors, including De Witt D. Kilgore, Edward James, Lisa Yaszek, and Marleen S. Barr, among others, explore...
by Josephine Metcalf
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
The publication of Sanyika Shakur's Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member in 1993 generated a huge amount of excitement in literary circles--New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani deemed it a "shocking and galvanic book"--and set off a new publishing trend of gang memoirs in the 1990s....
The Jim Dilemma
Reading Race in Huckleberry Finn
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
Especially in academia, controversy rages over the merits or evils of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in particular its portrayal of Jim, the runaway slave. Opponents disrupt classes and carry picket signs, objecting with strong emotion that Jim is no fit model for African-American youth...
Southern Frontier Humor
New Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Since its inception in the early 1830s, southern frontier humor (also known as the humor of the Old Southwest) has had enduring appeal. The onset of the new millennium precipitated an impressive rejuvenation of scholarly interest. Beyond Southern Frontier Humor: Prospects and Possibilities represents...
by Shirley Moody-Turner
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2013
Before the innovative work of Zora Neale Hurston, folklorists from the Hampton Institute collected, studied, and wrote about African American folklore. Like Hurston, these folklorists worked within but also beyond the bounds of white mainstream institutions. They often called into question the meaning...
Tearing the World Apart
Bob Dylan and the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Contributions by Alberto Brodesco, James Cody, Andrea Cossu, Anne Margaret Daniel, Jesper Doolard, Nina Goss, Jonathan Hodgers, Jamie Lorentzen, Fahri "z, Nick Smart, and Thad Williamson
Bob Dylan is many things to many people. Folk prodigy. Rock poet. Quiet gentleman. Dionysian impresario....
The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo
The Forgotten History of America's Dutch-Owned Slaves
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo presents the history of the nation's forgotten Dutch slave community and free Dutch-speaking African Americans from seventeenth-century New Amsterdam to nineteenth-century New York and New Jersey. It also develops a provocative new interpretation of one of America's...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Haiti has long played an important role in global perception of the western hemisphere, but ideas about Haiti often appear paradoxical. Is it a land of tyranny and oppression or a beacon of freedom as site of the world's only successful slave revolution? A bastion of devilish practices or a devoutly...
The Grenada Revolution
Reflections and Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Grenada experienced much turmoil in the 1970s and 1980s, culminating in an armed Marxist revolution, a bloody military coup, and finally in 1983 Operation Urgent Fury, a United States-led invasion. Wendy C. Grenade combines various perspectives to tell a Caribbean story about this revolution, weaving...
Decolonization in St. Lucia
Politics and Global Neoliberalism, 1945–2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Tennyson S. D. Joseph builds upon current research on the anticolonial and nationalist experience in the Caribbean. He explores the impact of global transformation upon the independent experience of St. Lucia and argues that the island's formal decolonization roughly coincided with the period of the...
Connecting Histories
Francophone Caribbean Writers Interrogating Their Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
The Francophone Caribbean boasts a trove of literary gems. Distinguished by innovative, elegant writing and thought-provoking questions of history and identity, this exciting body of work demands scholarly attention. Its authors treat the traumatic legacies of shared and personal histories pervading...
Agnès Varda
Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Over nearly sixty years, Agnès Varda (b. 1928) has given interviews that are revealing not only of her work, but of her remarkably ambiguous status. She has been called the "Mother of the New Wave" but suffered for many years for never having been completely accepted by the cinematic establishment...
Bertrand Tavernier
Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Bertrand Tavernier (b. 1941) is widely considered to be the leading light in a generation of French filmmakers who launched their careers in the 1970s, in the wake of the New Wave. In just over forty years, he has directed twenty-two feature films in an eclectic range of genres, from intimate family...