University Press of Mississippi

Angela Davis, Assata Shakur (a.k.a. JoAnne Chesimard), and Elaine Brown are the only women activists of the Black Power movement who have published book-length autobiographies. In bearing witness to...

"The first lick from Mr. Peterkin laid my back open. I writhed, I wrestled; but blow after blow descended, each harder than the preceding one. I shrieked, I screamed, I pleaded, I prayed, but here no...

With a career spanning more than forty years, Barbara Kopple (b. 1946) long ago established herself as one of the most prolific and award-winning American filmmakers of her generation. Her projects...

Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990) rose from the ranks of chorus girl to become one of Hollywood's most talented leading women--and America's highest-paid woman in the mid-1940s. Shuttled among foster...

A thematic tour of the complete works from this exceptional southern writerAuthor: Ruth D. WestonPublisher: University Press of MississippiPublication Date: Jul 15, 2005Number of Pages: 164...

Powerful perspectives on the historical and present-day challenges facing the state of LouisianaAuthor: Samuel C HydePublisher: University Press of MississippiPublication Date: Oct 04, 2024Number of...

An in-depth study of the power and pride of cooking, hunting, harvesting, foraging, and thriving in coastal LouisianaAuthor: Helen A. Regis, Shana WaltonPublisher: University Press of...

Though he has made only five films in two decades--Strictly Ballroom, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, and the Oscar-nominated films Moulin Rouge!, Australia, and The Great Gatsby--Australian...

This book, the first to focus on the integration of the Gulf Coast, is Dr. Gilbert R. Mason's eyewitness account of harrowing episodes that occurred there during the civil rights movement. Newly...

After several years of silence and seclusion in Beetlecreek's black quarter, a carnival worker named Bill Trapp befriends Johnny Johnson, a Pittsburgh teenager living with relatives in Beetlecreek...

The thirteen chapters of this book comprise an intriguing and informative entry into the world of proverb scholarship, illustrating that proverbs have always been and continue to be wisdom's...

"Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound . . . It's Superman!" Bending Steel examines the historical origins and cultural...

"We have to teach people how to read films because when it comes to the cinema there is unbelievable illiteracy. . . especially among intellectuals." Collected here are forty years of the thoughts of...

For centuries, Spain and the South have stood out as the exceptional "other" within U.S. and European nationalisms. During Franco's regime and the Jim Crow era both violently asserted a haunting...

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...

A detailed chronicle of how the wild Mississippi will eventually deliver a cataclysmAuthor: James F. Barnett, Jr.Publisher: University Press of MississippiPublication Date: Mar 26, 2024Number of...

The first Latin American actor to become a superstar, Ramon Novarro was for years one of Hollywood's top actors. Born Ramon Samaniego to a prominent Mexican family, he arrived in America in 1916, a...

In Beyond "The Chinese Connection," Crystal S. Anderson explores the cultural and political exchanges between African Americans, Asian Americans, and Asians over the last four decades. To do so,...

In Beyond "The Chinese Connection," Crystal S. Anderson explores the cultural and political exchanges between African Americans, Asian Americans, and Asians over the last four decades. To do so,...

This edited collection challenges a long sacrosanct paradigm. Since the establishment of Caribbean literary studies, scholars have exalted an elite cohort of ?migr? novelists based in postwar London,...

Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for ExcellenceBest Research in Recorded Jazz Music-Certificate of Merit (2013) The coal fields of West Virginia would seem an unlikely market for big...

Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for ExcellenceBest Research in Recorded Jazz Music-Certificate of Merit (2013) The coal fields of West Virginia would seem an unlikely market for big...

Billy Wilder: Interviews edited by Robert Horton Always daring Hollywood censors' limits on content, Billy Wilder directed such greats as Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Ginger Rogers, Marlene Dietrich,...

If you are a birdwatcher, this book will be a delight. If you can already identify the bird but wish to know where else to sight it, then this quick-reference book will be a friend and companion...

There was a time when birth was treated as a natural process rather than a medical condition. Before 1800, women gave birth seated in birth chairs or on stools and were helped along by midwives. Then...

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...

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...

With essays and commentaries by Sylvia R. Frey, Elliott J. Gorn, Robert L. Hall, Charles Joyner, Lawrence T. McDonnell, Bill C. Malone, Leslie Howard Owens, Mechal Sobel, Brenda Stevenson, and John...

Winner of the 2014 Robert W. Peterson Award for Excellence in Negro League Research from the Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference, sponsored by Negro Leagues Committee of the Society for American...

Winner of the 2014 Robert W. Peterson Award for Excellence in Negro League Research from the Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference, sponsored by Negro Leagues Committee of the Society for American...