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6 ACTING MY FACE: A MEMOIR 17 ALAN LOMAX, ASSISTANT IN CHARGE: THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LETTERS, 19351945 31 B LACK BASEBALL, BLACK BUSINESS: RACE ENTERPRISE AND THE FATE OF THE SEGREGATED DOLLAR 33 BUILDING THE BELOVED COMMUNITY: PHILADELPHIAS INTERRACIAL CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS AND RACE RELATIONS, 19301970 9 CARROLL CLOAR: IN HIS STUDIO 24 CONVERSATIONS WITH JAY PARINI 24 CONVERSATIONS WITH KEN KESEY 25 CONVERSATIONS WITH WILLIAM GIBSON 14 COUNT THEM ONE BY ONE: BLACK MISSISSIPPIANS FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT TO VOTE 16 CREATING JAZZ COUNTERPOINT: NEW ORLEANS, BARBERSHOP HARMONY, AND THE BLUES 21 DAVID FINCHER: INTERVIEWS 10 DAVID L. JORDAN: FROM THE MISSISSIPPI COTTON FIELDS TO THE STATE SENATE, A MEMOIR 2-3 DELTA DOGS 23 DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS AND THE AMERICAN CENTURY 26 EMBROIDERED STORIES: INTERPRETING WOMENS DOMESTIC NEEDLEWORK FROM THE ITALIAN DIASPORA 35 FAULKNER AND FORMALISM: RETURNS OF THE TEXT 35 FAULKNER AND MYSTERY 11 FISH AND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT: A HANDBOOK FOR MISSISSIPPI LANDOWNERS 26 FOLKLORE THEORY IN POSTWAR GERMANY 22 FRED ZINNEMANN AND THE CINEMA OF RESISTANCE 8 HAPPY CLOUDS, HAPPY TREES: THE BOB ROSS PHENOMENON 13 THE HOUSE THAT SUGARCANE BUILT: THE LOUISIANA BURGUIRES 15 JAMES Z. GEORGE: MISSISSIPPIS GREAT COMMONER 17 THE JAZZ IMAGE: SEEING MUSIC THROUGH HERMAN LEONARDS PHOTOGRAPHY 19 KOMIKS: COMIC ART IN RUSSIA 27 LEGEND-TRIPPING ONLINE: SUPERNATURAL FOLKLORE AND THE SEARCH FOR ONGS HAT 18 LITTLE RED READINGS: HISTORICAL MATERIALIST PERSPECTIVES ON CHILDRENS LITERATURE 13 LIVESTOCK BRANDS AND MARKS: AN UNEXPECTED BAYOU COUNTRY HISTORY 18221946: PIONEER FAMILIES TERREBONNE PARISH, LOUISIANA 16 LONESOME MELODIES: THE LIVES AND MUSIC OF THE STANLEY BROTHERS 22 MAKING AND REMAKING HORROR IN THE 1970S AND 2000S: WHY DONT THEY DO IT LIKE THEY USED TO? 6 MARILYN MONROE: A LIFE OF THE ACTRESS, REVISED AND UPDATED 12 MAYOR VICTOR H. SCHIRO: NEW ORLEANS IN TRANSITION, 19611970 15 THE MIND OF THE SOUTH: FIFTY YEARS LATER 10 MISSISSIPPI ENTREPRENEURS 1 A NEW HISTORY OF MISSISSIPPI 28 OIL AND WATER: MEDIA LESSONS FROM HURRICANE KATRINA AND THE DEEPWATER HORIZON DISASTER 32 POST-SOUL SATIRE: BLACK IDENTITY AFTER CIVIL RIGHTS 7 THE PRESIDENTS LADIES: JANE WYMAN AND NANCY DAVIS 32 RACE AND THE OBAMA PHENOMENON: THE VISION OF A MORE PERFECT MULTIRACIAL UNION 21 RAVISHED ARMENIA AND THE STORY OF AURORA MARDIGANIAN 12 RUSSELL LONG: A LIFE IN POLITICS 7 THE SEARCH FOR SAM GOLDWYN 30 THE SOUTHERN MANIFESTO: MASSIVE RESISTANCE AND THE FIGHT TO PRESERVE SEGREGATION 29 THE STRUGGLE FOR AMERICAS PROMISE: EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AT THE DAWN OF CORPORATE CAPITAL 20 TODD HAYNES: INTERVIEWS 34 TONI MORRISON: MEMORY AND MEANING 28 TROUBLE IN GOSHEN: PLAIN FOLK, ROOSEVELT, JESUS, AND MARX IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION SOUTH 4-5 THE TRUE GOSPEL PREACHED HERE 30 A VOICE THAT COULD STIR AN ARMY: FANNIE LOU HAMER AND THE RHETORIC OF THE BLACK FREEDOM MOVEMENT 14 WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED: THE JACKSON WOOLWORTHS SIT-IN AND THE MOVEMENT IT INSPIRED 20 WERNER HERZOG: INTERVIEWS 18 WIDE AWAKE IN SLUMBERLAND: FANTASY, MASS CULTURE, AND MODERNISM IN THE ART OF WINSOR MCCAY 29 WOMEN ARTISTS OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE 34 WRITING IN THE KITCHEN: ESSAYS ON SOUTHERN LITERATURE AND FOODWAYS
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HISTORY MISSISSIPPI
PhotographsTop: Choctaw warrior and leader Pushmataha, courtesy of Mississippi Department of Archives and History from the Pushmataha Collection; below (left, then clockwise): Ellen Douglas by Kay Holloway; Amzie Moore by Harvey Richards, courtesy of Paul Richards and the Harvey Richards Media Archive. Canton Nissan Automotive Plant, courtesy of the author.
PHOTOGRAPHY MISSISSIPPI
DELTA DOGS
Maude Schuyler Clay Introduction by Brad Watson Essay by Beth Ann Fennelly
The Mississippi Delta is known for many things. It is a land of stark contrast, in which rich soil produces an agricultural bounty as well as fearsome economic want. The Delta has compelled generations of writers, musicians, and artists to chronicle and engage its harsh and mysterious beauty. Seen through the penetrating lens of noted photographer Maude Schuyler Clay, the nearly deserted buildings and landscapes of the Delta are brought to life by the dogs that roam the wide fields and swamp-soaked shadows. For the past fifteen years, Clay has been driving the back roads photographing her native Delta. In the darkroom of her hundred-year-old family homestead in Sumner, she has developed hundreds of images of eroding architecture, misty bayous, small stands of woods, endless rows of crops. And dogs. Maude has spotted and captured the elemental spirit of dogs eking out existences from this majestic landscape. In her iconic book Delta Land, Clay introduced the Dog in the Fog, the muscular lab standing watch in the mist and trees of Cassidy Bayou. This photo became widely recognized, and Clay wanted to further explore the relationship between the land and the numerous dogs populating its fields, bayous, and abandoned spaces. This new book, Delta Dogs, celebrates the canines who roam this most storied corner of Mississippi. Some of Clays photographs feature lone dogs dwarfed by kudzu-choked trees and hidden among the brambles next to plowed fields. In others, dogs travel in amiable packs, trotting toward a shared but mysterious adventure. Her Delta dogs are by turns soulful, eager, wary, resigned, menacing, and contented. Writers Brad Watson and Beth Ann Fennelly ponder Clays dogs and their connections to the Delta, speculating about their role in the drama of everyday life and about their relationships to the humans who share this landscape with them. In a photographers afterword, Clay writes about discovering the beauty of her native land from within. She finds that the ubiquitous presence of the Delta dog gives scale, life, and sometimes even whimsy and intent to her Mississippi landscape.
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MAUDE SCHUYLER CLAY, Sumner, Mississippi, was born in Greenwood and assisted photographer William Eggleston. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the National Museum for Women in the Arts, among others. In 1999 University Press of Mississippi published Delta Land, which received the Mississippi Arts and Letters Award and the Mississippi Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant. Clay was also the photography editor of the Oxford American from 1998 to 2002. She continues to reside in the Mississippi Delta.
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THE DOCUMENTARY OF REVEREND DENNISS LOST, ONE-OF-A-KIND, NONDENOMINATIONAL CHURCH AND TREASURE OF FOLK ART
University. His photographs have appeared in numerous exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe and are included in museum collections such as the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Library of Congress, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. His photographs have appeared in American Photography 14; The Next Generation: Contemporary Expressions of Faith; and For, From, About James T. Whitehead: Poems, Stories, Photographs, and Recollections.
Photographs ( from left, then clockwise)The True Gospel Preached Here, 2007; Reverend H. D. Dennis with Ear Trumpet, #2, 2005; Altar, Inside Bus / Church, 2007; The Reverend and Margaret Dennis, #2, 2002.
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ACTING MY FACE
A MEMOIR
MARILYN MONROE
A LIFE OF THE ACTRESS, REVISED AND UPDATED
Anthony James
THE REVEALING STORY OF A HOLLYWOOD BAD GUY WITH A GOOD GUYS HEART 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 Awardwinning Best Picture, In the Heat of the Night. His role in the 1992 Academy Awardwinning Best Picture, Unforgiven, culminated a unique, twenty-eight year career. Behind his menacing and memorable face, however, is a thoughtful, gentle man, one who muses deeply on the nature of art and creativity and on the family ties that have sustained him. Jamess Acting My Face renders Hollywood through the eyes and experience of an established character actor. James appeared on screen with such legendary stars as Clint Eastwood, Bette Davis, Gene Hackman, and Sidney Poitier, and in such classic television shows as Gunsmoke, The Big Valley, Starsky and Hutch, Charlies Angels, and The A-Team. Yet, it is his mothers heroic story that captures his imagination. In an odyssey which in 1940 took her and her newly wedded husband from Greece to a small southern town in America where she bore her only child, Jamess mother suffered the early death of her husband when James was only eight years old. In the blink of an eye, she went from grand hostess of her husbands lavish parties to hotel maid. But like the lioness she was, she fought with great ferocity and outrageous will in her relentless devotion to Jamess future. And so it was, that on an August morning in 1960, eighteen-year-old James and his mother took a train from South Carolina three thousand miles to Hollywood, California, to realize his dream of an acting career. They possessed only two hundred dollars, their courage, and an astonishing degree of naivet. After his retirement in 1994, James and his mother moved to Arlington, Massachusetts, where he concentrated on his painting and poetry. His mother died in 2008 at the age of ninety-four, still a lioness protecting her beloved son. Acting My Face is an unusual memoir, one that explores the true nature of a working life in Hollywood and how aspirations and personal devotion are forged into a career.
ANTHONY JAMES, Arlington, Massachusetts, has appeared in nearly thirty motion pictures and sixty television shows.
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Carl Rollyson
THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY TO FOCUS ON THE AMERICAN ICONS ACTING CRAFT In American popular culture, Marilyn Monroe(1926-1962) has evolved in stature from movie superstar to American icon. Monroes own understanding of her place in the American imagination and her effort to perfect her talent as an actress are explored with great sensitivity in Carl Rollysons engaging narrative. He shows how movies became crucial events in the shaping of Monroes identity. He regards her enduring gifts as a creative artist, discussing how her smaller roles in The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve established the context for her career, while in-depth chapters on her more important roles in Bus Stop, Some Like It Hot, and The Misfits provide the centerpiece of his examination of her life and career. Through extensive interviews with many of Monroes colleagues, close friends, and other biographers, and a careful rethinking of the literature written about her, Rollyson is able to describe her use of Method acting and her studies with Michael Chekhov and Lee Strasberg, head of the Actors Studio in New York. The author also analyzes several of Monroes own drawings, diary notes, and letters that have recently become available. With over thirty black and white photographs (some published for the first time), a new foreword, and a new afterword, this volume brings Rollysons 1986 book up to date. From this comprehensive, yet critically measured wealth of material, Rollyson offers a distinctive and insightful portrait of Marilyn Monroe, highlighted by new perspectives that depict the central importance of acting to the authentic aspects of her being.
CARL ROLLYSON, Cape May County, New Jersey, is the advisory
editor of the Hollywood Legends series, University Press of Mississippi, and the author of several biographies, including Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews (published by University Press of Mississippi); American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath; and Amy Lowell Anew: A Biography. He is a professor of journalism at Baruch College, the City University of New York.
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BACK IN PRINT
Bernard F. Dick
A FASCINATING STORY OF JANE WYMAN, RONALD REAGAN, AND NANCY DAVIS Ronald Reagan, a former actor and one of Americas most popular presidents, married not one but two Hollywood actresses. This book is three biographies in one, discovering fascinating connections among Jane Wyman (19172007), Ronald Reagan (19112004), and Nancy Davis (b. 1921). Jane Wyman, who married Reagan in 1940 and divorced him seven years later, knew an early life of privation. She gravitated to the movies and made her debut at fifteen as an unbilled member of the chorus, then toiled as an extra for four years until she finally received billing. She proved herself as a dramatic actress in The Lost Weekend, and the following year, she was nominated for an Oscar for The Yearling and soon won for her performance in Johnny Belinda, in which she did not speak a single line. Other Oscar nominations followed, along with a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Angela Channing in Falcon Crest. Conversely, Nancy Davis led a relatively charmed life, the daughter of an actress and the stepdaughter of a neurosurgeon. Surrounded by her mothers friendsWalter Huston, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Lillian Gish, and Alla Nazimova, her godmotherDavis started in the theater, then moved on to Hollywood, where she enjoyed modest success, and finally began working in television. When she married Reagan in 1952, she unwittingly married into politics, eventually leaving acting to concentrate on being the wife of the governor of California, and then the wife of the president of the United States. In her way, Davis played her greatest role as Reagans friend, confidante, and adviser in life and in politics. This book considers three actors who left an indelible mark on both popular and political culture for more than fifty years. communication and English at Fairleigh Dickinson University and is the author of Forever Mame: The Life of Rosalind Russell; Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty; Hollywood Madonna: Loretta Young (all published by University Press of Mississippi); and several other books.
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A BIOGRAPHY THAT PARTS THE CURTAIN ON THE TRUE STORY BEHIND HOLLYWOODS ORIGINAL MOVIE MOGUL Sam Goldwyns career spanned almost the entire history of Hollywood. He made his first film, The Squaw Man, in 1913, and he died in 1974 at the age of ninety-one. In the many years between, he produced an enormous number of filmsincluding such classics as Wuthering Heights, Street Scene, Arrowsmith, Dodsworth, The Little Foxes, and The Best Years of Our Livesand worked with many luminariesGary Cooper, Ronald Colman, Laurence Olivier, George Balanchine, Lillian Hellman, Howard Hawks, John Ford, Eddie Cantor, Busby Berkeley, Danny Kaye, Merle Oberon, and Bob Hope among them. When Samuel Goldfisch was born in the Warsaw ghetto, he was penniless; when Sam Goldwyn died in Los Angeles, he was worth an estimated $19 million. The Search for Sam Goldwyn locates the real Sam Goldwyn and shatters the hostile conspiracy of silence that protected his legend. In writing Goldwyns story, Carol Easton has given us a fine examination of the civilization known as Hollywood and how Goldwyn himself shaped that culture.
CAROL EASTON, Venice, California, has published the biographies
Straight Ahead: The Story of Stan Kenton; Jacqueline du Pre: A Life; and No Intermissions: The Life of Agnes de Mille, a New York Times Notable Book of 1996.
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PhotographsPortrait of Bob Ross in 30 Minutes Using His Techniques, by Danny Coeyman; Mountains Renewed, oil on canvas, September 2012, by Davy T. Painterman
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CARROLL CLOAR
IN HIS STUDIO
AN INTIMATE GLIMPSE INTO THE GREAT ART AND THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT OF A RENOWNED PAINTER
ART MUSEUM OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS was founded in 1981. Its collections include
DAVID L. JORDAN
FROM THE MISSISSIPPI COTTON FIELDS TO THE STATE SENATE, A MEMOIR
MISSISSIPPI ENTREPRENEURS
Polly Dement
The seventy stories in Mississippi Entrepreneurs collectively draw attention to the tenacious and courageous journeys of Mississippi men and women who risk fortune and futures to create successful enterprises. Most tell how they did it uniquely and in their own words, bringing to life their entrepreneurial spirits. Family members and former colleagues pick up the storyline for legendary entrepreneurs who have passed on, recalling vividly the characteristics that set them apart from the competition. Usually a passion for creation inspired these go-getterswhether casting red-hot liquid steel into industrial products (Fred Wile, Meridian); constructing buildings (Roy Anderson III, Gulfport; Bill Yates Jr., Philadelphia; and William Yates III, Biloxi); making agricultural products grow ( Janice and Allen Eubanks, Lucedale; and Mike Sanders, Cleveland); delivering and installing furniture ( Johnnie Terry, Jackson); using technology to improve systems ( John Palmer and Joel Bomgar, and Toni and Bill Cooley, Jackson; and Billy and Linda Howard, Laurel); expanding food operations (Dr. S. L. Sethi, Jackson; and Don Newcomb, Oxford); or sharing the sheer love of music (Hartley Peavey, Meridian), food (Robert St. John, Hattiesburg), art (Erin Hayne and Nuno Gonalves Ferreira, Jackson), or books ( John Evans, Jackson; and Richard Howorth, Oxford). Social and cultural entrepreneurs made their marks as well, including those focused on social justice (Martha Bergmark, Jackson); access to health care (Aaron Shirley, Jackson); and public education ( Jack Reed, Tupelo). Few if any books have focused exclusively on this aspect of the states history. Altogether the stories, accompanied by seventy black and white photographs, illustrate common traits, including plentiful vision, fierce drive, willingness to take risks and change for a better way, the ability to innovate, solve problems, and turn luck (both good and bad) to advantage. Most of these entrepreneurs generously share the rewards of their hard work and ingenuity with their communities.
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AND MAXIMUM ENJOYMENT OF RESOURCES Featuring over five hundred illustrations and forty tables, this book is a collection of in-depth discussions by a tremendous range of experts on topics related to wildlife and fisheries management in Mississippi. Beginning with foundational chapters on natural resource history and conservation planning, the authors discuss the delicate balance between profit and land stewardship. A series of chapters about the various habitat types and the associated fish and wildlife populations that dominate them follow. Several chapters expand on the natural history and specific management techniques of popular species of wildlife, including white-tailed deer, eastern wild turkey, and other species. Experts discuss such special management topics as supplemental, wildlife-food planting, farm pond management, backyard habitat, nuisance animal control, and invasive plant species control. Leading professionals who work every day in Mississippi with landowners on wildlife and fisheries management created this indispensible book. The up-to-date and applicable management techniques discussed here can be employed by private landowners throughout the state. For those who do not own rural lands but have an interest in the wildlife and natural resources, this book also has much to offer. Residents of urban communities interested in creating a wildlife-friendly yard will delight in the backyard habitat chapter specifically written for them. Whether responsible for one-fourth of an acre or two thousand, landowners will find this handbook to be an incalculable aid on their journey to good stewardship of their Mississippi lands. sissippi State University Extension Service and works with the general public on wildlife management issues, including enterprise development, wildlife damage, and conservation education. JAMES L. CUMMINS, Stoneville, Mississippi, is a Certified Wildlife Biologist and a Certified Fisheries Professional. He is executive director of Wildlife Mississippi, a statewide conservation organization working with private landowners and community leaders on common sense natural resource conservation.
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RUSSELL LONG
A LIFE IN POLITICS
Michael S. Martin
THE STORY OF HUEY LONGS SON, THE POWERFUL UNITED STATES SENATOR Russell Long (1918-2003) occupies a unique niche in twentieth-century United States history. Born into Louisianas most influential political family, and son of perhaps the most famous Louisianan of all time, Long extended the political power generated by other members of his family and attained heights of power unknown to his predecessors, including his father Huey. The Long family and its followers pervaded Louisiana politics from the late 1920s through the 1980s. Being a Longespecially a son of Huey Longpreordained Russell for a political life. His fathers assassination set the wheels in motion for his eventual political career. In 1948, Russell followed his father and his mother to a seat in the United States Senate. In due course, he rose to the politically eminent positions of majority whip and chair of the Senate Finance Committee. Russell Long: A Life in Politics examines Longs public life and places it within the context of twentieth-century Louisiana, southern, and national politics. In Louisiana, Longs politics arose out of the Longite/Anti-Longite period of history. Yet he transcended many of those two groups factional squabbles. In the national realm, Longs politics exhibited a working philosophy that straddled the boundaries between New Deal liberalism and southern conservatism. By the time of his retirement in early 1987, he had witnessed the demise of one political paradigmthe New Deal liberal consensusand the creation of one dominated by a new style of conservatism.
MICHAEL S. MARTIN, Lafayette, Louisiana, is the Cheryl Courrg
Edward F. Haas
A BIOGRAPHY OF THE LAST MAYOR OF NEW ORLEANS TO GET THINGS DONE During the turbulent 1960s, the city of New Orleans experienced unprecedented economic growth, racial tensions and desegregation, political realignment, and natural disaster. Presiding over this period of sweeping change was Mayor Victor H. Schiro (1904-1992), an unassuming, moderate Democrat who sought the best for his city and adhered strictly to the rule of law in a region where laissez faire was standard practice and hardened defiance was a social norm. Schiro sought fairness for all and navigated a gauntlet of conflicting pressures. African Americans sought their civil rights, and whites resisted the new racial environment. Despite vigorous opposition and an unfriendly press, Schiro won election twice. Under his direction, the city experienced numerous municipal reforms, the inclusion of African Americans in executive positions, and the broad extension of city services. The mayor, a businessman, recruited new corporations for his city, heralded the development of New Orleans East, and brought major professional sports to the Crescent City. He also initiated the plans for the construction of the Superdome. At the height of this activity, Hurricane Betsy devastated New Orleans. In response, Schiro coordinated with the federal government to initiate rescue and recovery at a rapid pace. In the aftermath, he lobbied Congress for relief funds that set the precedent for National Federal flood insurance.
EDWARD F . HAAS, Centerville, Ohio, is professor of history at Wright State University and the author of numerous books on Louisiana and New Orleans, including Delesseps S. Morrison and the Image of Reform: New Orleans Politics, 19461961 and Political Leadership in a Southern City: New Orleans in the Progressive Era. He received in 1999 the Garnie McGinty Lifetime Service Award from the Louisiana Historical Association and is a past president and fellow of the organization.
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Burguires/Board of Regents Professor of History and the director of the Center for Louisiana Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is also managing editor for Louisiana History. His articles have appeared in the Historian and Louisiana History, among others.
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Christopher Everette Cenac Sr., M.D., F.A.C.S., with Claire Domangue Joller Foreword by Clifton Theriot, C.A.
A RICHLY ILLUSTRATED AND INCOMPARABLE COLLECTION DOCUMENTING THE BRANDS AND MARKS OF THE PIONEERS OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA Researching the original brand registration of his great-grandfather Pierre Cenac for his book Eyes of an Eagle, Dr. Christopher Everette Cenac Sr. discovered a serendipitous trove of local history in the form of long-forgotten volumes in the Terrebonne Parish Courthouse in Houma, Louisiana. The three ledger books that emerged through the efforts of the local Clerk of Court became, in themselves, a series of capsulized glimpses into the citizenry of the areas early agrarian foundations. In extraordinary condition, these ledgers held an unprecedented set of the original livestock brands and marks of bustling bayou cattle country. Each registration entry furnished a record of the progression of settlement of the parish. The registration of a brand often served as the familys calling card upon making Terrebonne Parish their home. Livestock Brands and Marks: An Unexpected Bayou Country History is designed not only to share the actual registration treasures of all 1140 brands in the brand books themselves, but also to chronicle a short history of laws governing animal identification, to document advances in forms of ownership identification, and to familiarize the reader with both ancient and more recent livestock breeds that received brands and other marks recorded in those three ledger books. Three hundred black-and-white and color illustrations illuminate this fascinating history. Louisiana, is a practicing orthopedic surgeon and served as Terrebonne Parish coroner. He and his wife, Cindy, reside at Winter Quarters on Bayou Black. CLAIRE DOMANGUE JOLLER, Houma, Louisiana, has received awards from the National Catholic Press Association and the Louisiana Press Association for her newspaper and magazine columns.
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JAMES Z. GEORGE
MISSISSIPPIS GREAT COMMONER
NOW IN PAPERBACK
Timothy B. Smith
NOW IN PAPERBACK
SCHOLARLY DEBATE ABOUT ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS EVER WRITTEN ON THE AMERICAN SOUTH
A BIOGRAPHY OF THE DEMOCRATIC LEADER ONCE CONSIDERED THE MOST IMPORTANT MAN IN STATE POLITICS When the Mississippi school boy is asked who is called the Great Commoner of public life in his State, wrote Mississippis premier historian Dunbar Rowland in 1901, he will unhesitatingly answer James Z. George. While Georges prominence has decreased through the decades since then, many modern historians still view him as a supremely important Mississippian, with one writing that George (18261897) was Mississippis most important Democratic leader in the late nineteenth century. Certainly, the Mexican War veteran, prominent lawyer and planter, Civil War officer, Reconstruction leader, state Supreme Court chief justice, and Mississippis longest serving United States senator in his day deserves a full biography. And, Georges importance was greater than just on the state level as other Southerners copied his tactics to secure white supremacy in their own states. James Z. George: Mississippis Great Commoner seeks to rectify the lack of attention to Georges life. In doing so, this volume utilizes numerous sources never before or only slightly used, primarily a large collection of Georges letters held by his descendents and never used by historians. Such wonderful sources allow a glimpse not only into his times, but perhaps more importantly an exploration of the man himself, his traits, personality, and ideas. The result is a picture of an extremely commonplace individual on the surface but an exceptionally complicated man underneath. James Z. George: Mississippis Great Commoner will bring this important Mississippi leader of the nineteenth century back into the minds of twenty-first-century Mississippians.
TIMOTHY B. SMITH, Adamsville, Tennessee, is a lecturer of history at the University of Tennessee at Martin. He is the author of several books, including Mississippi in the Civil War: The Home Front, published by University Press of Mississippi; The Untold Story of Shiloh: The Battle and Battlefield; and Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg.
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This probing collection of essays assesses the wide influence of W. J. Cash and the profound effect of his classic dissection of southern history. Perhaps more than any other historian, W. J. Cash revolutionized the interpretation of southern identity. In 1941, when he published The Mind of the South, he exploded the correlated myths of the Cavalier South and the New South and gave historiography a new gauge for examining Dixie. In the half century since its publication, Cashs book has lain in the path of every historian of the South. Not all, however, have expressed unified opinions about him and his influence, though few can deny how in the past fifty years his indelible and authoritative work has shaped the writing of southern history. In The Mind of the South: Fifty Years Later eleven scholars examine this classic study and assess its enduring importance. Bruce Clayton begins by discussing the biography of Cash and tracing his sources. In the subsequent five essays Cash is praised, evaluated, criticized, defended, classified, and acknowledged to be the lion in the crossroads of southern historiography.
CHARLES W. EAGLES is a professor of history at the University of
Mississippi.
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LONESOME MELODIES
THE LIVES AND MUSIC OF THE STANLEY BROTHERS
NOW IN PAPERBACK
David W. Johnson
THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF TWO INTEGRAL BLUEGRASS INNOVATORS AND TOUCHSTONES OF OLD-TIME COUNTRY MUSICS AUTHENTICITY Carter and Ralph Stanleythe Stanley Brothersare comparable to Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs as important members of the earliest generation of bluegrass musicians. In this first biography of the brothers, author David W. Johnson documents that Carter (19251966) and Ralph (b 1927) were equally important contributors to the tradition of old-time country music. Together from 1946 to 1966, the Stanley Brothers began their careers performing in the schoolhouses of southwestern Virginia and expanded their popularity to the concert halls of Europe. In order to re-create this postWorld War II journey through the changing landscape of American music, the author interviewed Ralph Stanley, the family of Carter Stanley, former members of the Clinch Mountain Boys, and dozens of musicians and friends who knew the Stanley Brothers as musicians and men. The late Mike Seeger allowed Johnson to use his invaluable 1966 interviews with the brothers. Notable old-time country and bluegrass musicians such as George Shuffler, Lester Woodie, Larry Sparks, and the late Wade Mainer shared their recollections of Carter and Ralph. Lonesome Melodies begins and ends in the mountains of southwestern Virginia. Carter and Ralph were born there and had an early publicity photograph taken at the Cumberland Gap. In December 1966, pallbearers walked up Smith Ridge to bring Carter to his final resting place. In the intervening years, the brothers performed thousands of in-person and radio shows, recorded hundreds of songs and tunes for half a dozen record labels, and tried to keep pace with changing times while remaining true to the spirit of old-time country music. As a result of their accomplishments, they have become a standard of musical authenticity.
DAVID W. JOHNSON, Stratham, New Hampshire, has written about popular and traditional music for fifty years. His article on the Carter Family was included in Best Music Writing 2004.
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Vic Hobson
A FULL STUDY OF BUDDY BOLDEN AND BUNK JOHNSON CONFIRMING THEIR ROLES IN THE REAL BLUES ROOTS OF NEW ORLEANS JAZZ The book Jazzmen (1939) claimed New Orleans as the birthplace of jazz and introduced the legend of Buddy Bolden as the First Man of Jazz. Much of the information that the book relied on came from a highly controversial source: Bunk Johnson. He claimed to have played with Bolden and that together they had pioneered jazz. Johnson made many recordings talking about and playing the music of the Bolden era. These recordings have been treated with skepticism because of doubts about Johnsons credibility. Using oral histories, the Jazzmen interview notes, and unpublished archive material, this book confirms that Bunk Johnson did play with Bolden. This confirmation, in turn, has profound implications for Johnsons recorded legacy in describing the music of the early years of New Orleans jazz. New Orleans jazz was different from ragtime in a number of ways. It was a music that was collectively improvised, and it carried a new tonalitythe tonality of the blues. How early jazz musicians improvised together and how the blues became a part of jazz has until now been a mystery. Part of the reason New Orleans jazz developed as it did is that all the prominent jazz pioneers, including Buddy Bolden, Bunk Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Johnny Dodds, and Kid Ory, sang in barbershop (or barroom) quartets. This book describes in both historical and musical terms how the practices of quartet singing were converted to the instruments of a jazz band, and how this, in turn, produced collectively improvised, blues-inflected jazz, that unique sound of New Orleans.
VIC HOBSON, Essex, England, was awarded a Kluge Scholarship to the
Library of Congress in 2007 and a Woest Fellowship to the Historic New Orleans Collection in 2009. A trustee for the National Jazz Archive, he is active in promoting jazz scholarship and research, and his own work has appeared in American Music, Jazz Perspectives, and the Jazz Archivist.
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MUSIC FOLKLORE
K. Heather Pinson
HOW PHOTOGRAPHER HERMAN LEONARD AND OTHERS CREATED THE ICON OF THE DUSKY, SOPHISTICATED, EDGY JAZZ MUSICIAN Typically a photograph of a jazz musician has several formal prerequisites: black and white film, an urban setting in the mid-twentieth century, and a black man standing, playing, or sitting next to his instrument. Thats the jazz archetype that photography created. Author K. Heather Pinson discovers how such a steadfast script developed visually and what this convention meant for the music. Album covers, magazines, books, documentaries, art photographs, posters, and various other visual extensions of popular culture formed the commonly held image of the jazz player. Through assimilation, there emerged a generalized composite of how mainstream jazz looked and sounded. Pinson evaluates representations of jazz musicians from 1945 to 1959, concentrating on the seminal role played by Herman Leonard. Leonards photographic depictions of African American jazz musicians in New York not only created a visual template of a black musician of the 1950s, but also became the standard configuration of the musics neoclassical sound today. To discover how the image of the musician affected mainstream jazz, Pinson examines readings from critics, musicians, and educators, as well as interviews, musical scores, recordings, transcriptions, liner notes, and oral narratives.
K. HEATHER PINSON, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is assistant profes-
sor of communication and media arts at Robert Morris University. She has contributed to the Encyclopedia of African American Music, the Encyclopedia of the Blues, and Rock Brands: Selling Sound in a Media Saturated Culture.
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CHILDRENS LITERATURE
Katherine Roeder
THE FIRST STUDY TO PLACE THIS GENIUS OF MODERN COMICS CREATION IN HIS HISTORICAL CONTEXT Cartoonist Winsor McCay (18691934) is rightfully celebrated for the skillful draftmanship and inventive design sense he displayed in the comic strips Little Nemo in Slumberland and Dream of the Rarebit Fiend. McCay crafted narratives of anticipation, abundance, and unfulfilled longing. This book explores McCays interest in dream imagery in relation to the larger preoccupation with fantasy that dominated the popular culture of early twentieth-century urban America. McCays role as a pioneer of early comics has been documented; yet, no existing study approaches him and his work from an art historical perspective, giving close readings of individual artworks while situating his output within the larger visual culture and the rise of modernism. From circus posters and vaudeville skits to department store window displays and amusement park rides, McCay found fantastical inspiration in New York Citys burgeoning entertainment and retail districts. Wide Awake in Slumberland connects McCays work to relevant childrens literature, advertising, architecture, and motion pictures in order to demonstrate the artists sophisticated blending and remixing of multiple forms from mass culture. Studying this interconnection in McCays work and, by extension, the work of other early twentieth-century cartoonists, Roeder traces the web of relationships connecting fantasy, leisure, and consumption. Readings of McCays drawings and the eighty-one black and white and color illustrations reveal a man who was both a ready participant and an incisive critic of the rising culture of fantasy and consumerism.
KATHERINE ROEDER, Fairfax, Virginia, teaches courses at George Mason University. She
is a contributor to The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking (University Press of Mississippi) and A New Literary History of America. She is also a contributor to the Comics Journal and American Art.
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KOMIKS
COMIC ART IN RUSSIA
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Jos Alaniz
THE FIRST STUDY TO TRACE THE EVOLUTION OF RUSSIAN COMICS FROM SOVIET BTE
Essays by Ian Andrews Roland Boer Heidi Brush Angela Hubler Cynthia Anne McLeod Carl F. Miller
Jana Mikota Mervyn Nicholson Jane Rosen Sharon Smulders Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak Anastasia Ulanowicz Naomi Wood
ANGELA E. HUBLER, Manhattan, Kansas, is an associate professor of womens studies at Kansas State University. She has published essays in the Lion and the Unicorn, ChLA Quarterly, Critical Survey, Papers on Language and Literature, NWSA Journal, Womens Studies Quarterly, and Against the Current.
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literature at the University of Washington, Seattle. His work has appeared in the International Journal of Comic Art, Comics Journal, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, Ulbandus, and other periodicals.
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INTERVIEWS
TODD HAYNES
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studies at Oakton Community College. He is the author of Directed by Clint Eastwood and the editor of Brian De Palma: Interviews and Ridley Scott: Interviews (published by University Press of Mississippi) and has published in Jump Cut and other publications.
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seventy books on popular entertainment, including Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine: A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers and Hollywood Unknowns: A History of Extras, Bit Players, and Stand-Ins (both published by University Press of Mississippi).
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David Roche
AN EXPANSIVE TREATMENT OF THE MEANINGS AND QUALITIES OF ORIGINAL AND REMADE AMERICAN HORROR MOVIES
In Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s author David Roche takes up the assumption shared by many fans and scholars that original horror movies are more disturbing, and thus better than the remakes. He assesses the qualities of movies, old and recast, according to criteria that include subtext, originality, and cohesion. With a methodology that combines a formalist and cultural studies approach, Roche sifts aspects of the American horror movie that have been widely addressed (class, the patriarchal family, gender, and the opposition between terror and horror) and those that have been somewhat neglected (race, the Gothic, style, and verisimilitude). Containing seventy-eight black and white illustrations, the book is grounded in a close comparative analysis of the politics and aesthetics of four of the most significant independent American horror movies of the 1970sThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes, Dawn of the Dead, and Halloweenand their twenty-first-century remakes. To what extent can the politics of these films be described as disturbing insomuch as they promote subversive subtexts that undermine essentialist perspectives? Do the politics of the film lie on the surface or are they wedded to the films aesthetics? Early in the book, Roche explores historical contexts, aspects of identity (race, ethnicity, and class), and the structuring role played by the motif of the American nuclear family. He then asks to what extent these films disrupt genre expectations and attempt to provoke emotions of dread, terror, and horror through their representations of the monstrous and the formal strategies employed? In this inquiry, he examines definitions of the genre and its metafictional nature. Roche ends with a meditation on the extent to which the technical limitations of the horror films of the 1970s actually contribute to this disturbing quality. Moving far beyond the genre itself, Making and Remaking Horror studies the redux as a form of adaptation and enables a more complete discussion of the evolution of horror in contemporary American cinema.
DAVID ROCHE, Toulouse, France, is professor at the Universit Le Mirail. He is the editor of Conversations with Russell Banks (published by University Press of Mississippi), coeditor of Approaches to Film and Reception Theories, and author of LImagination malsaine: Russell Banks, Raymond Carver, David Cronenberg, Bret Easton Ellis, David Lynch.
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J. E. SMYTH is associate professor of history and comparative American studies at the University of Warwick (United Kingdom). She is the author of Reconstructing American Historical Cinema from Cimarron to Citizen Kane and Edna Ferbers Hollywood: American Fictions of Gender, Race, and History and is the editor of Hollywood and the American Historical Film.
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at the University of Kansas and author of twenty books on a variety of subjects, the most recent being The Gothic Imagination: Conversations on Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction in the Media. JAMES M. WELSH, Salisbury, Maryland, professor emeritus at Salisbury University, cofounded Literature/Film Quarterly, which he edited for thirty-three years, and is the author of over twenty books, the most recent being The Oliver Stone Encyclopedia.
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BIOGRAPHY LITERATURE
Ken Kesey (19352001) is the author of several works of well-known fiction and other hard-to-classify material. His debut novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, was a critical and commercial sensation that was followed soon after by his most substantial and ambitious book, Sometimes a Great Notion. His other books, including Demon Box, Sailor Song, and two childrens books, appeared amidst a life of astounding influence. He is maybe best known for his role as the charismatic and proto-hippie leader of the West Coast LSD movement that sparked The Sixties, as iconically recounted in Tom Wolfes The Electric KoolAid Acid Test. In the introduction to An Impolite Interview with Ken Kesey, Paul Krassner writes, For a man who says he doesnt like to do interviews, Kesey certainly does a lot of them. Whats most surprising about this statement is not the incongruity between disliking and doing interviews but the idea that Kesey could possibly have been less than enthusiastic about being the center of attention. Though after his two great triumphs writing played a lesser role in Keseys life, his interviews reveal a thoughtful and generous artist and citizen, who sometimes regrets the books that were sacrificed for the sake of his other pursuits. Interviews trace his arc through success, fame, prison, farming, and tragedythe death of his son in a car accident profoundly altered his life. These conversations make clear Keseys central place in American culture and offer his enduring lesson that the freedom exists to create lives as wildly as can be imagined.
SCOTT F . PARKER, Minneapolis, Minnesota, is the author of Running
After Prefontaine: A Memoir and Revisited: Notes on Bob Dylan and coeditor of CoffeePhilosophy for Everyone: Grounds for Debate. His work has appeared in Philosophy Now, Oregon Quarterly, Oregon Humanities, the Oregonian, the Star Tribune, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Fiction Writers Review, and others.
the University of Minnesota, Morris. He is the author of African American Atheists and Political Liberation: A Study of the Socio-Cultural Dynamics of Faith and The Modernist God State: A Literary Study of the Nazis Christian Reich as well as numerous articles in journals.
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bridge State College in Bainbridge, Georgia. His previous books and edited collections include The true bones of my life: Essays on the Fiction of Jim Harrison; Tim OBrien: A Critical Companion; and Conversations with Tim OBrien (published by University Press of Mississippi), among others.
CONVERSATIONS WITH NATASHA TRETHEWEY Edited by Joan Wylie Hall
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EMBROIDERED STORIES
INTERPRETING WOMENS DOMESTIC NEEDLEWORK FROM THE ITALIAN DIASPORA
Contributions by B. Amore Mary Jo Bona Phyllis Capello Rosette Capotorto Jo Ann Cavallo Hwei-Fen Cheah Paola Corso Peter Covino Barbara Crooker Elisa DArrigo Louise DeSalvo Bettina Favero Marisa Frasca Donna R. Gabaccia Sandra M. Gilbert, Maria Mazziotti Gillan Lucia Grillo Maria Grillo Karen Guancione Jennifer Guglielmo Joanna Clapps Herman Joseph Inguanti Annie Rachele Lanzillotto Anne Marie Macari Giuliana Mammucari Giovanna Miceli Jeffries Denise Calvetti Michaels Lia Ottaviano Gianna Patriarca Joan L. Saverino Maria Terrone Tiziana Rinaldi Castro Angela Valeria Ilaria Vann Lisa Venditelli Paul Zarzyski Christine F. Zinni
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LEGEND-TRIPPING ONLINE
SUPERNATURAL FOLKLORE AND THE SEARCH FOR ONGS HAT
NOW IN PAPERBACK
Michael Kinsella
HOW THE INTERNET CRYSTALLIZES FRINGE THEORIES INTO AMAZING REALITIES A STUDY OF LUTZ RHRICH, THE KEY FOLKLORIST WHO REDEEMED AND CONTEXTUALIZED GERMAN FOLKLORE AFTER HORRIFIC MISUSES BY THE NAZIS
SADHANA NAITHANI, New Delhi, India, is a professor at the Centre of German Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. She is the author ofIn Quest of Indian Folktales: Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William Crookeand The Story-Time of the British Empire: Colonial and Postcolonial Folkloristics (University Press of Mississippi).
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On the Internet, seekers investigate anonymous manifestos that focus on the findings of brilliant scientists said to have discovered pathways into alternate realities. Gathering on web forums, researchers not only share their observations, but also report having anomalous experiences, which they believe come from their online involvement with these veiled documents. Seeming logic combines with wild twists of lost Moorish science and pseudo-string theory. Enthusiasts insist any obstacle to revelation is a sure sign of great and wide-reaching efforts by consensus powers wishing to suppress all the liberating truths in the Incunabula Papers (included here in complete form). In Legend-Tripping Online, Michael Kinsella explores these and other extraordinary pursuits. This is the first book dedicated to legend-tripping, ritual quests in which people strive to explore and find manifest the very events described by supernatural legends. Through collective performances, legend-trippers harness the interpretive frameworks these stories provide and often claim incredible, out-of-this-world experiences that in turn perpetuate supernatural legends. Legends and legend-tripping are assuming tremendous prominence in a world confronting new speeds of diversification, connection, and increasing cognitive load. As guardians of tradition as well as agents of change, legends and the ordeals they inspire contextualize ancient and emergent ideas, behaviors, and technologies that challenge familiar realities. This book analyzes supernatural legends and the ways in which the sharing spirit of the Internet collectivizes, codifies, and makes folklore of fantastic speculation.
MICHAEL KINSELLA, Columbus, Ohio, is pursuing a doctorate in religious studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He holds a masters degree in folk studies from Western Kentucky University.
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TROUBLE IN GOSHEN
PLAIN FOLK, ROOSEVELT, JESUS, AND MARX IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION SOUTH
Fred C. Smith
THE UNTOLD STORY OF THREE NEW DEAL COOPERATIVE FARMS IN THE MOST ECONOMICALLY CHALLENGED PLACES IN THE SOUTH The Great Depression emboldened Americans to tolerate radical experimentation in search of solutions to seemingly overwhelming economic problems. Amongst the thorniest of those was rural southern poverty. In Trouble in Goshen, Fred C. Smith focuses on three communities designed and implemented to meet that challenge. This book examines the economic and social theoriesand their historiesthat resulted in the creation and operation of the most aggressive and radical experiments in the United States. Trouble in Goshen chronicles three communitarian experiments, both the administrative details and the struggles and reactions of the clients. Smith covers the Tupelo Homesteads in Mississippi, the Dyess Colony in Arkansas, and the Delta Cooperative Farm, also in Mississippi. The Tupelo Homesteads were created under the aegis of the tiny Division of Subsistence Homesteads, a short-lived, first New Deal agency. Dyess Colony was the largest of the Resettlement Administrations efforts to transform failed farmers into Jeffersonian yeoman farmers. The third community, the Delta Cooperative Farm, a product of the active cooperation between the Socialist Party of America and a cadre of liberal churchmen led by Reinhold Niebuhr, attempted to meld the pieties, passions, propaganda, and theories of Jesus and Marx. The equipment, facilities, and management styles of the projects reveal a clearly delineated class order among the poor. Trouble in Goshen demonstrates the class-conscious angst that enveloped three distinct levels of poverty and the struggles of plain folk to preserve their tenuous status and avoid overt peasantry.
FRED C. SMITH, Tupelo, Mississippi, is visiting assistant professor of
history at the University of Southern Mississippi and adjunct at Jackson State Community College in Jackson, Tennessee. He is a contributor to Justice and Violence: Political Violence, Pacifism, and Cultural Transformation, and his work has appeared in the Journal of Mississippi History, Agricultural History, Florida Historical Quarterly, Southern Historian, and Mississippi History Now.
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Claire Goldstene
AN EXAMINATION OF THE EXTRAORDINARY USES AND ABUSES OF AN AMERICAN IDEAL DURING A TIME OF PERCEIVED PROSPERITY In The Struggle for Americas 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 opportunity seek to promote upward financial mobility by permitting more people to participate in the economic sphere thereby rewarding merit over inherited wealth. Others use opportunity as a mechanism to maintain economic inequality. This tension, embedded with the idea of equal opportunity itself and continually reaffirmed by immigrant populations, animated social dissent among urban workers while simultaneously serving efforts by business elites to counter such dissent. Goldstene uses a biographical approach to focus on key figures along a spectrum of political belief as they struggled to reconcile the inherent contradictions of equal opportunity. She considers the efforts of Booker T. Washington in a postCivil War South to ground opportunity in landownership as an attempt to confront the intersection of race and class. She also explores the determination of the Knights of Labor to define opportunity in terms of controlling ones own labor. She looks at the attempts by Samuel Gompers through the American Federation of Labor as well as by business elites through the National Association of Manufacturers and the National Civic Federation to shift the focus of opportunity to leisure and consumption. The Struggle for Americas Promise also includes such radical figures as Edward Bellamy and Emma Goldman, who were more willing to step beyond the boundaries of the discourse about opportunity and question economic competition itself.
CLAIRE GOLDSTENE, Davis, California, has taught United States
HOW A SYSTEM OF PATRONAGE AND SEXISM MARGINALIZED SOME REMARKABLE VISUAL ARTISTS Women artists of the Harlem Renaissance dealt with issues that were unique to both their gender and their race. They experienced racial prejudice, which limited their ability to obtain Contributions from training and to be taken seriously as Rene Ater working artists. They also encountered Kirsten Pai Buick prevailing sexism, often an even more Susan Earle serious barrier. Lisa Farrington Including seventy-two black and Melanie Herzog white illustrations, this book chronicles Amy Helene Kirschke the challenges of women artists, who are Theresa Leininger-Miller in some cases unknown to the general Cary D. Wintz public, and places their achievements in the artistic and cultural context of early twentieth-century America. Contributors to this first book on the women artists of the Harlem Renaissance proclaim the legacy of Edmonia Lewis, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Augusta Savage, Selma Burke, Elizabeth Prophet, Lois Maillou Jones, Elizabeth Catlett, and many other painters, sculptors, and printmakers. In a time of more rigid gender roles, women artists faced the added struggle of raising families and attempting to gain support and encouragement from their often-reluctant spouses in order to pursue their art. They also confronted the challenge of convincing their fellow male artists that they, too, should be seen as important contributors to the artistic innovation of the era.
AMY HELENE KIRSCHKE, Wilmington, North Carolina, is a pro-
history at the University of Maryland, the University of North Flordia, and American University. Her work has been published in numerous journals including Thought and Action, Journal of Third-World Studies, and Southern Historian, among others.
fessor and chair at University of North Carolina, Wilmington, in the Department of Art and Art History. She is the author of Aaron Douglas: Art, Race, and the Harlem Renaissance (published by University Press of Mississippi) and Art in Crisis: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Struggle for African American Identity and Memory (winner of the 2007 SECAC award for excellence in writing and research), and coeditor of Protest and Propaganda: W. E. B. Du Bois, the Crisis, and American History.
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Hamer Statue and Education Fund Committee. She is a lead researcher on a forthcoming documentary about Hamer, and she recently coedited, with Davis W. Houck, The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is (published by University Press of Mississippi).
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Roberta J. Newman and Joel Nathan Rosen With introductory essays by Monte Irvin and Earl Smith
AN EXTRAORDINARY HISTORY OF THE NEGRO HOW ONE DOCUMENT MARKED THE NADIR OF AMERICAN RACIAL POLITICS AND UNLEASHED A FIRE THAT RAGED ACROSS THE SEGREGATED SOUTH Roberta J. Newman and Joel Nathan Rosen have written an authoritative social history of the Negro Leagues. This book examines how the relationship between black baseball and black businesses functioned, particularly in urban areas with significant African American populationsChicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Newark, New York, Philadelphia, and more. Inextricably bound together by circumstance, these sports and business alliances faced destruction and upheaval. Once Jackie Robinson and a select handful of black baseballs elite gained acceptance in Major League Baseball and financial stability in the mainstream economy, shock waves traveled throughout the black business world. Though the economic impact on Negro League baseball is perhaps obvious due to its demise, the impact on other black-owned businesses and on segregated neighborhoods is often undervalued if not outright ignored in current accounts. There have been many books written on great individual players who played in the Negro Leagues and/or integrated the Major Leagues. But Newman and Rosen move beyond hagiography to analyze what happens when a community has its economic footing undermined while simultaneously being called upon to celebrate a larger social progress. In this regard, Black Baseball, Black Business moves beyond the diamond to explore baseballs desegregation narrative in a critical and wide-ranging fashion. Liberal Studies at New York University. Her work has appeared in the journals Cooperstown Symposium: 20092010 and NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture. JOEL NATHAN ROSEN, Allentown, Pennsylvania, is associate professor of sociology at Moravian College in Bethlehem. He is coeditor of A Locker Room of Her Own: Celebrity, Sexuality, and Female Athletes; Fame to Infamy: Race, Sport, and the Fall from Grace; and Reconstructing Fame: Sport, Race, and Evolving Reputations, all published by University Press of Mississippi.
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POST-SOUL SATIRE
BLACK IDENTITY AFTER CIVIL RIGHTS
Essays by Bertram D. Ashe Thomas R. Britt Darryl Dickson-Carr James J. Donahue Michael B. Gillespie Gillian Johns Luvena Kopp Jennifer Larson Cameron Leader-Picone Brandon Manning Marvin McAllister Danielle Fuentes Morgan Derek Conrad Murray Kinohi Nishikawa Keenan Norris Christian Schmidt Linda Furgerson Selzer Terrence T. Tucker Sam Vsquez Aimee Zygmonski
He is the author of Unvarnishing Reality: Subversive Russian and American Cold War Satire and coeditor of Finding a Way Home: A Critical Assessment of Walter Mosleys Fiction (published by University Press of Mississippi). JAMES J. DONAHUE, Potsdam, New York, is associate professor of English at SUNY Potsdam.
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DEREK C. MAUS, Potsdam, New York, is associate professor of English at SUNY Potsdam.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE
AND BECAME A BEACON FOR THE REST OF AMERICA Inspired by Quakerism, Progressivism, the Social Gospel movement, and the theories of scholars such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Charles S. Johnson, Franz Boas, and Ruth Benedict, a determined group of Philadelphia activists sought to transform race relations. This book concentrates on these organizations: Fellowship House, the Philadelphia Housing Association, and the Fellowship Commission. While they initially focused on community-level relations, these activists became increasingly involved in building coalitions for the passage of civil rights legislation on the local, state, and national level. This historical account examines their efforts in three distinct, yet closely related areas, education, housing, and labor. Perhaps the most important aspect of this movement was its utilization of education as a weapon in the struggle against racism. Martin Luther King credited Fellowship House with introducing him to the passive resistance principle of satygraha through a Sunday afternoon forum. Philadelphias activists influenced the southern civil rights movement through ideas and tactics. Borrowing from Philadelphia, similar organizations would rise in cities from Kansas City to Knoxville. Their impact would have long-lasting implications; the methods they pioneered would help shape contemporary multicultural education programs. Building the Beloved Community places this innovative northern civil rights struggle into a broader historical context. Through interviews, photographs, and rarely utilized primary sources, the author critically evaluates the contributions and shortcomings of this innovative approach to race relations.
STANLEY KEITH ARNOLD, Rockford, Illinois, is an assistant professor of history at
nia, teaches in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His previous publications include Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist; More Than Black? Multiracial Identity and the New Racial Order; and Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? HETTIE V. WILLIAMS, Long Branch, New Jersey, teaches in the Department of History and Anthropology at Monmouth University. Her previous works include We Shall Overcome to We Shall Overrun: The Black Power Revolt and the Collapse of the Civil Rights Movement, 19621968 and Color Struck: Essays on Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective.
Northern Illinois University. His work has appeared in the Journal of Sports History, Popular Music and Society, and the Historian.
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TONI MORRISON
MEMORY AND MEANING
Edited by Adrienne Lanier Seward and Justine Tally Foreword by Carolyn C. Denard
AN ANTHOLOGY THAT EXAMINES THE MANY ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE NOBEL LAUREATE Toni Morrison: Memory and Meaning boasts essays by well-known international scholars focusing on the authors literary production and including her very latest worksthe theatrical production Desdemona and her tenth and latest novel, Home. These original contributions are among the first scholarly analyses of these latest additions to her oeuvre and make the volume a valuable addition to potential readers and teachers eager to understand the position of Desdemona and Home within the wider scope of Morrisons career. Indeed, in Home, we find a reworking of many of the tropes and themes that run throughout Morrisons fiction, prompting the editors to organize the essays as they relate to themes prevalent in Home. In many ways, Morrison has actually initiated paradigm shifts that permeate the essays. They consistently reflect, in approach and interpretation, the revolutionary change in the study of American literature represented by Morrisons focus on the interior lives of enslaved Africans. This collection assumes black subjectivity, rather than argues for it, in order to reread and revise the horror of slavery and its consequences into our time. The analyses presented in this volume also attest to the broad range of interdisciplinary specializations and interests in novels that have now become classics in world literature. The essays are divided into five sections, each entitled with a direct quotation from Home, and framed by two poems: Rita Doves The Buckeye and Sonia Sanchezs Aaayeee Babo, Aaayeee Babo, Aaayeee Babo.
ADRIENNE LANIER SEWARD, Colorado Springs, Colorado, is a
professor in the English Department at Colorado College. She serves on the executive board of the Toni Morrison Society. JUSTINE TALLY, Tenerife, Spain, is a professor of American literature at the University of La Laguna. She is author of Paradise Reconsidered: Toni Morrisons (Hi)stories and Truths; The Story of Jazz: Toni Morrisons Dialogic Imagination; and Toni Morrisons Beloved: Origins. She is editor of The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison.
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EYES OF AN EAGLE
JEAN-PIERRE CENAC, PATRIARCH AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF EARLY HOUMA-TERREBONNE
Christopher Everette Cenac, Sr., M.D., F.A.C.S., With Claire Domangue Joller Foreward by Carl A. Brasseaux
Cloth $49.95T 978-0-615-47702-2
Edited by Michael Sartisky and J. Richard Gruber Associate Editor John R. Kemp
Cloth $120.00T 978-1-61703-690-3
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