University Press Of Mississippi: 979 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2019
Contributions by Ted Atkinson, Gloria J. Burgess, David A. Davis, Sarah E. Gardner, Richard Godden, Ryan Heryford, Robert Jackson, Gavin Jones, Mary A. Knighton, Peter Lurie, John T. Matthews, Myka Tucker-Abramson, Michael Wainwright, Jay Watson, and Michael Zeitlin
The matter of money touches...
Direct Democracy
Collective Power, the Swarm, and the Literatures of the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Winner of a 2018 C. L. R. James Award for a Published Book for Academic or General Audiences from the Working-Class Studies Association
Beginning with the Haitian Revolution, Scott Henkel lays out a literary history of direct democracy in the Americas. Much research considers direct democracy...
by James Zeigler
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
During the early years of the Cold War, racial segregation in the American South became an embarrassing liability to the international reputation of the United States. For America to present itself as a model of democracy in contrast to the Soviet Union's totalitarianism, Jim Crow needed to end. While...
Autobiographical Comics
Life Writing in Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
A troubled childhood in Iran. Living with a disability. Grieving for a dead child. Over the last forty years the comic book has become an increasingly popular way of telling personal stories of considerable complexity and depth. In Autobiographical Comics: Life Writing in Pictures, Elisabeth...
The Black Carib Wars
Freedom, Survival, and the Making of the Garifuna
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
In The Black Carib Wars, Christopher Taylor offers the most thoroughly researched history of the struggle of the Garifuna people to preserve their freedom on the island of St. Vincent.
Today, thousands of Garifuna people live in Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua and the United States,...
The Black Carib Wars
Freedom, Survival, and the Making of the Garifuna
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
In The Black Carib Wars, Christopher Taylor offers the most thoroughly researched history of the struggle of the Garifuna people to preserve their freedom on the island of St. Vincent. Today, thousands of Garifuna people live in Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua and the United States,...
by Clarence Major
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
In the first volume to collect the paintings and drawings of Clarence Major, readers are offered six decades of unique, colorful, and compelling canvases and works on paper—works of singular beauty and social relevance. These works represent Major’s personal painterly journey of passionate commitment...
The Struggle for America's Promise
Equal Opportunity at the Dawn of Corporate Capital
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
In The Struggle for America's Promise, Claire Goldstene seeks to untangle one of the enduring ideals in American history, that of economic opportunity. She explores the varied discourses about its meaning during the upheavals and corporate consolidations of the Gilded Age. Some proponents of equal...
Promises of Citizenship
Film Recruitment of African Americans in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Since the earliest days of the nation, US citizenship has been linked to military service. Even though blacks fought and died in all American wars, their own freedom was usually restricted or denied. In many ways, World War II exposed this contradiction.
As demand for manpower grew during the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
The folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev represent the largest single collection of folktales in any European language and perhaps in the world. Widely regarded as the Russian Grimm, Afanas’ev collected folktales from throughout the Russian Empire in what are now regarded as the three East Slavic languages,...
Funny Girls
Guffaws, Guts, and Gender in Classic American Comics
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
For several generations, comics were regarded as a boys’ club—created by, for, and about men and boys. In the twenty-first century, however, comics have seen a rise of female creators, characters, and readers. While this sudden presence of women and girls in comics is being regarded as new and...
Bluebeard
A Reader's Guide to the English Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2009
Bluebeard is the main character in one of the grisliest and most enduring fairy tales of all time. A serial wife murderer, he keeps a horror chamber in which remains of all his previous matrimonial victims are secreted from his latest bride. She is given all the keys but forbidden to open one door...
Subversive Spirits
The Female Ghost in British and American Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
The supernatural has become extraordinarily popular in literature, television, and film. Vampires, zombies, werewolves, witches, and wizard have become staples of entertainment industries, and many of these figures have received extensive critical attention. But one figure has remained in the shadows--the...
The Indian Caribbean
Migration and Identity in the Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Winner of the 2018 Gordon K. and Sybil Farrell Lewis Award for the best book in Caribbean studies from the Caribbean Studies Association
This book tells a distinct story of Indians in the Caribbean--one concentrated not only on archival records and institutions, but also on the voices of the...