Jan Whitt: 3 books
Rain on a Strange Roof
A Southern Literary Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
A scholar of Southern literature and culture, Jan Whitt has written a personal narrative about adoption, childhood abuse, and fifty years of searching for her family in rural Appalachia. A testament to the power of love and the resilience of the human spirit, Rain on a Strange Roof unflinchingly explores...
Burning Crosses and Activist Journalism
Hazel Brannon Smith and the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Burning Crosses and Activist Journalism: Hazel Brannon Smith and the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement celebrates the contributions of the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing (1964). Owner and publisher of four weekly newspapers in Mississippi, Smith began her journalism career...
Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community
Everything I Know about Relationships I Learned from Television
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community analyzes how television narratives form the first decade of the twenty-first century are powerful socializing agents which both define and limit the types of acceptable interpersonal relationships between co-workers, friends, romantic partners, family members,...