Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Free JazzBlack Power
Book SynopsisIn 1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli co-wrote Free Jazz/Black Power, a treatise on the racial and political implications of jazz and jazz criticism. Here, for the first time in English is the classic volume that developed a radical new understanding of free jazz and African American culture.
£26.78
University Press of Mississippi Musical Life in Guyana
Book SynopsisA study of how Caribbean music and identity evolve when the government controls all mediaMusical Life in Guyana is the first in-depth study of Guyanese musical life. It is also a richly detailed description of the social, economic, and political conditions that have encouraged and sometimes discouraged musical and cultural creativity in Guyana. The book contributes to the study of the interactions between the policies and practices by national governments and musical communities in the Caribbean.Vibert C. Cambridge explores these interactions in Guyana during the three political eras that the society experienced as it moved from being a British colony to an independent nation. The first era to be considered is the period of mature colonial governance, guided by the dictates of new imperialism, which extended from 1900 to 1953. The second era, the period of internal self-government and the preparation for independence, extends from 1953, the year of the first general elections under uniTrade ReviewThis book unquestionably breaks new ground. To my knowledge, this is the first in-depth study of Guyanese musical life. It provides richly detailed descriptions of the socioeconomic and political conditions that have encouraged and, at other times, discouraged musical activities at different historical moments in Guyana. It illuminates how the issues of race, class, gender, and ideology have deeply influenced who in Guyanese multicultural society had access to musical instruction and media outlets and have received recognition. The author maps how the lively musical network in Guyana nurtured unique aesthetics and sensibilities in the country, for musicians and the public alike. This is a study that celebrates Guyanese national heroes. In a postcolonial society, this is an important and needed gesture."" - Peter Manuel, author of Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae
£27.96
University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Edwidge Danticat
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£77.35
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Emmett Till The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement
Trade ReviewDrawing on new evidence and interviews with Till’s family members, witnesses to the murder, and reporters who covered the trial that exonerated the accused killers, Anderson offers a very detailed examination of the murder and its significance in the long history of racial abuses in the South under Jim Crow. He details the lives of Emmett and Mamie Till, his mother, in Chicago; the fateful trip to Mississippi; and the aftermath. In a separate section, Anderson looks at how the story of Till’s death reemerged after 50 years and sparked an intense investigation, including the exhumation of Till’s body. He concludes with his own theory about the case and its legacy, a fund to investigate cold cases of civil rights murders prior to 1970. Photographs enhance this very thorough and compelling look at the murder that galvanized the civil rights movement and continues to act as a rallying call for racial justice."" - Vanessa Bush, Booklist""Devery S. Anderson’s Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement provides a full and detailed picture of the murder of Emmett Till and its legacy. While there have been numerous books and several documentaries on Till’s murder, trial, and its aftermath—including the posthumously published Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America by Till’s mother—Mr. Anderson’s book takes readers deep inside the political psyche and cultural mindset of Mississippi at the time. Emmett Till is masterfully researched, drawing on public archives and public collections to present the most detailed account of this horrific story."" - W. Ralph Eubanks, Wall Street Journal""Devery S. Anderson has written the definitive account of the heinous lynching of Emmett Till in 1955, a crime that galvanized the American civil rights movement. Emmett Till explores the case inside and out, presenting information, evidence, and testimonies that have never been acknowledged publicly in sixty years. With over a decade of industrious research into the case, Anderson leaves no stone unturned. Thanks to him, this unforgettable book will allow readers of all generations to reflect on and learn of the true story of a fourteen-year-old youth from Chicago, murdered in Mississippi over a wolf whistle. Just when you thought you knew everything about the case, this book will unequivocally change your mind."" - Ryan M. Jones, museum historian, National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel""You may think, as I did, that you know the totality of this tale, but you will learn much that is new, as I did. That is because Anderson has tracked down every source; read every testimony, description, and transcript; interviewed every living witness; and read the memories of the departed. He has searched every newspaper and magazine story, including the most obscure, and gathered every conflicting version. Where witnesses conflict, he offers the likeliest version and acknowledges the disagreement. He places this horrendous crime where it belongs: centrally in the civil rights movement. . . . This is a book that covers its subject magnificently."" - from the foreword by Julian Bond, chairman emeritus, NAACP""Anderson grapples with the Rashomon-like quality of Till’s murder through consistently careful research and thoughtful analysis. This compelling narrative will hold the attention of readers who are otherwise unfamiliar with the case, and it is likely to be the definitive work on this subject for decades to come."" - David T. Beito, professor of history, University of Alabama; coauthor of Black Maverick: T. R. M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power
£26.06
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Yoruba God of Drumming Transatlantic
Book SynopsisDespite the growing volume of literature about the orishas, surprisingly little has been published about the ubiquitous Yorùbá music spirit. This groundbreaking collection addresses the gap in the research with contributions from a cross-section of prestigious musicians, scholars, and priests from Nigeria, the Americas, and Europe who have dedicated themselves to studying Yorùbá sacred drums.Trade ReviewRecipient of the Commendation Book Prize 2016: ""The Yorùbá God of Drumming is a multifaceted book with an emphasis on collaboration, deeply immersed in Yorùbá studies. It shows meticulous attention to detail and is densely referenced, with a strong sense of passion for the subject. It supports writing from practitioners whose voices might otherwise not be heard, including them as the authors rather than informants, showing impressive editorial skill in making this a coherent book while retaining a diversity of experience and communication styles."" - British Forum for Ethnomusicology""This volume is a remarkable collection of essays, in which scholars of diverse disciplines, nationalities, and regional specializations study transatlantic Yorùbá music and religion through the lens of the spiritual power invested in its drums. The result is a uniquely broad and nuanced portrait of a powerful expressive tradition that has thrived vigorously in the New World, even as it struggles to survive in its ancestral homeland."" - Peter Manuel, professor of ethnomusicology, Graduate Center of the City University of New York""Far more than providing yet another addition to the genre of 'single orisha volumes,' Villepastour's collection raises the bar for such enterprises. In focusing on perhaps the most mysterious and ill-understood entity in the circum-Atlantic congeries of ritual practices that hark back to what, by the late nineteenth century, gradually became known as Yorùbá religion, The Yorùbá God of Drumming presents both a major empirical contribution and a model for integrating the voices and perspectives of scholars and practitioners/musicians alike."" - Stephan Palmié, professor of anthropology and social sciences, University of Chicago
£27.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Edwidge Danticat
Book SynopsisSheds a much-needed light on Edwidge Danticat and her ability to depict timely issues in sparkling prose that delves deep into the borderlands, an uncharted in-between space located outside fixed geographic, cultural, and ideological bounds. Prevalent throughout is Danticat's expressed determination to make Haiti’s nuanced culture and its vibrant traditions accessible to a wide audience.
£23.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi From Madea to Media Mogul Theorizing Tyler Perry
Book SynopsisFor over a decade, Tyler Perry has been a lightning rod for both criticism and praise. From Madea to Media Mogul makes the argument that Perry must be understood as a figure at the nexus of converging factors, cultural events, and historical traditions. These essays offer new insights on the industrial and formal qualities of Perry's work.
£27.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Direct Democracy Collective Power the Swarm and the Literatures of the Americas
Book SynopsisBeginning with the Haitian Revolution, Scott Henkel lays out a literary history of direct democracy in the Americas. Henkel reinterprets direct democracy as a type of collective power. In the representations of slaves, women, and workers, Henkel traces a history of power through the literatures of the Americas during the long nineteenth century.
£27.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conscripts of Migration Neoliberal Globalization
Book SynopsisProvides a substantial study of a new body of contemporary African diasporic literature called migritude literature. Migritude indicates the work and ideas of a disparate yet distinct group of younger African authors born after independence in the 1960s.
£81.75
University Press of Mississippi Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection
Book SynopsisCuban debates about freedom and selfhood were never the exclusive domain of the white Creole elite. Pettway argues black Latin American authors did not abandon their African religious heritage to assimilate wholesale to the Catholic Church. By recognising the wisdom of African ancestors, they procured power in the struggle for black liberation.
£26.78
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Reading Testimony Witnessing Trauma Confronting
Book SynopsisTheorists emphasize the necessity of writing about - or witnessing - trauma in order to overcome it. To this critical conversation, Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma treats reader response to traumatic and testimonial literature written by and about African American women and adds insight into the engagement of testimonial literature.
£77.35
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Stone Motel Memoirs of a Cajun Boy
Book SynopsisTells the story of a gay preteen, his seven siblings, their violent father, overwhelmed mother, unstoppable grandmother, and the sordid array of customers they encounter at their family's roadside motel, situated in the hot, prairie town of Eunice, Louisiana.Trade ReviewIts details impressive, Stone Motel is a layered memoir, both nostalgic and forthright in recalling family struggles. One of the three best gay biography books of all time
£31.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Short Stories of Frank Yerby
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking collection that gives readers access to an intriguingly diverse selection of Frank Yerby's short fiction. These collected stories, eleven of which have not previously been published, paint a picture of Yerby as an intellectual who thought deeply about philosophical questions at the centre of understanding what it means to be human.
£26.06
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Sacred Language of the Abaku225
Book SynopsisIn 1988, Lydia Cabrera published an Abakuá phrasebook that is still the largest work available on any African diaspora community in the Americas. Now translated into English, Cabrera's lexicon documents phrases vital to the creation of a specific African-derived identity in Cuba and presents the first “insider's” view of this African heritage.
£41.25
University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Angela Davis
Book SynopsisAn outspoken advocate for the oppressed and exploited, Angela Davis has written extensively about the intersections between race, class, and gender; Black liberation; and the US prison system. This volume explores Davis's role as an educator, scholar, and activist who continues to engage in important and significant social justice work.
£78.30
University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Angela Davis
Book SynopsisAn outspoken advocate for the oppressed and exploited, Angela Davis has written extensively about the intersections between race, class, and gender; Black liberation; and the US prison system. This volume explores Davis's role as an educator, scholar, and activist who continues to engage in important and significant social justice work.
£18.86
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry
Book SynopsisSpanning from the debut of A Raisin in the Sun on Broadway in 1959 to her early death from cancer in January 1965, Lorraine Hansberry's short stint in the public eye changed the landscape of American theatre. Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry is the first volume to collect all of her substantive interviews in one place.
£22.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Groove Theory The Blues Foundation of Funk
Book SynopsisPresents an innovative history of funk music focused on the performers, regarding them as intellectuals who fashioned a new aesthetic. Utilizing musicology, literary studies, performance studies, and African American intellectual history, Tony Bolden explores what it means for music, or any cultural artifact, to be funky.
£81.75
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Chocolate Surrealism Music Movement Memory and
Book SynopsisHighlights connections among the production, performance, and reception of popular music at critical historical junctures in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Njoroge M. Njoroge sifts different origins and styles to place socio-musical movements into a larger historical framework.
£27.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Visionary Women Writers of Chicagos Black Arts Movement
Book SynopsisExamines the work of several women artists working in Chicago, a key focal point for the energy and production of the Black Art Movement. Angela Jackson, Johari Amini, and Carolyn Rodgers reflect in their writing specific cultural, local, and regional insights, and demonstrate the capaciousness of Black Art rather than its constraints.
£27.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Damaged Musicality and Race in Early American
Book SynopsisOffers the first book-length portrait of punk as a musical style with an emphasis on how punk developed in relation to changing ideas of race in American society from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. The book provides fresh interpretations of race and American society during this period and illuminates the contemporary importance of that era.
£81.75
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Improvising Sabor Cuban Dance Music in New York
Book SynopsisExamines in rich detail the playing styles and international influence of important figures in US Latin music. Sue Miller focuses on the Cuban flute style in light of its transformations in the US after the 1959 revolution and within the vibrant context of 1960s New York
£81.75
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Rough Tactics Black Performance in Political Spectacles 18771932
Book SynopsisExamines three notable cases of Black participation in the spectacles of politics. Through these case studies, Johnson explains how white politicians and Black performers wielded and manipulated racist stereotypes and Lost Cause mythology to achieve their respective goals.
£81.75
University Press of Mississippi Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction
Book SynopsisContributions by Malin Alkestrand, Joshua Yu Burnett, Sean P. Connors, Jill Coste, Meghan Gilbert-Hickey, Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Sierra Hale, Kathryn Strong Hansen, Elizabeth Ho, Esther L. Jones, Sarah Olutola, Alex Polish, Zara Rix, Susan Tan, and Roberta Seelinger Trites Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction offers a sustained analysis of race and representation in young adult speculative fiction (YASF). The collection considers how characters of color are represented in YASF, how they contribute to and participate in speculative worlds, how race affects or influences the structures of speculative worlds, and how race and racial ideologies are implicated in YASF. This collection also examines how race and racism are discussed in YASF or if, indeed, race and racism are discussed at all. Essays explore such notable and popular works as the Divergent series, The Red Queen, The Lunar Chronicles, and the Infernal Devices trilogy. They consider the effects of colorblind ideolo
£79.20
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Toni Morrison and the Natural World An Ecology
Book SynopsisOffers the first full-length ecocritical investigation of the Nobel Laureate's novels and brings to the fore an unequalled engagement between race and nature. By providing a racially inflected reading of nature, this volume makes an important contribution to the field of environmental studies and provides a landmark for Morrison scholarship.
£22.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Instruments of Empire Filipino Musicians Black
Book SynopsisThe untold story of the Philippine Constabulary Band offers a unique opportunity to examine the limits and porousness of America's racial ideologies, exploring musical pleasure at the intersection of Euro-American cultural hegemony, racialization, and US colonization of the Philippines.
£81.75
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Instruments of Empire Filipino Musicians Black
Book SynopsisThe untold story of the Philippine Constabulary Band offers a unique opportunity to examine the limits and porousness of America's racial ideologies, exploring musical pleasure at the intersection of Euro-American cultural hegemony, racialization, and US colonization of the Philippines.Trade ReviewInstruments of Empire is the first book-length study of the historic Philippine Constabulary Band, a military band (and, in their later years, an orchestra) led by African American US military officer and bandleader Lt. Walter H. Loving. Through close readings of archival documents, oral histories and interviews, secondary sources, and reimaginings of prior performances, Talusan brings music—its performers and performances—to the forefront. Her work beautifully lays out for us how these Filipino musicians and their work teach us to listen against the ‘imperial ear’ and, in the process, apprehend the deep significance of the Philippine Constabulary Band’s early twentieth-century musical and everyday performances until today.
£23.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Drum Is a Wild Woman Jazz and Gender in
Book SynopsisBreaks new ground by comparing the politics of resistance alongside moments of improvisation by examining recurring literary motifs - cry-and-response, the Wild Woman, and the jazz moment - in jazz novels, short stories, and poetry.
£27.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Black Panther Interrogating a Cultural
Book SynopsisBlack Panther is one of the most successful and culturally impactful films to emerge from the American film industry in recent years. Terence McSweeney explores the film from a range of perspectives, seeing it not only as a comic book adaptation and a superhero film, but also a dynamic contribution to African and African American studies.
£81.75
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political
Book SynopsisExamines the roots of Black political activism in the petition movement; Prince Hall and the creation of the first Black masonic lodges; the Black Baptist movement; writings; sermons; and the practices of festival days, through the story of a remarkable but largely unheralded woman and pioneering public intellectual.
£81.75
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Narrating History Home and Dyaspora Critical
Book SynopsisPresents fifteen essays addressing how Edwidge Danticat’s writing, anthologizing, and storytelling trace, (re)construct, and develop alternate histories, narratives of nation building, and conceptions of home and belonging.
£78.40
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Songs of Slavery and Emancipation
Book SynopsisFeatures the lyrics of fifteen slave songs and fifteen abolitionist songs, placing them in proper historical context and making them available again to the general public. These songs not only express outrage at slavery but call for militant resistance and destruction of the slave system.
£77.35
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Webspinner Songs Stories and Reflections of
Book SynopsisBorn in 1928 in a tent on the shore of Loch Fyne, Argyll, Duncan Williamson (d. 2007) came to be recognised as one of the foremost storytellers in Scotland and the world. Webspinner is based on more than a hundred hours of tape-recorded interviews undertaken with him in the 1980s.
£87.20
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Webspinner Songs Stories and Reflections of
Book SynopsisBorn in 1928 in a tent on the shore of Loch Fyne, Argyll, Duncan Williamson (d. 2007) came to be recognised as one of the foremost storytellers in Scotland and the world. Webspinner is based on more than a hundred hours of tape-recorded interviews undertaken with him in the 1980s.
£26.06
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi At Risk Black Youth and the Creative Imperative
Book SynopsisFocuses on literary representations of adolescent artists as they develop strategies to intervene against the stereotypes that threaten to limit their horizons. The authors of the analysed works capture and convey the complex experience of the generation of young people growing up in the era after the civil rights movement.
£999.99
University Press of Mississippi Creole Soul Zydeco Lives
Book SynopsisAn exquisitely photographed volume of interviews with contemporary zydeco musicians. Featuring the voices of zydeco’s venerable senior generation and its current agents of change, this book celebrates a musical world full of passion, energy, cowboy hats and boots, banging bass, horse trailers, joy, and dazzling dance moves.
£32.25
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Literacy in a Long Blues Note
Book SynopsisTraces the evolution of Black women’s literacy practices from 1892 to 1934. A dynamic chronological study, the book explores how Black women public intellectuals, creative writers, and classic blues singers sometimes utilize singular but other times overlapping forms of literacies to engage in debates on race.
£20.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Emmas Postcard Album Black Lives in the Early
Book SynopsisAs snippets of lived experience, eye-catching visual images, and reflections of historical moments, the cards in the collection become sources for understanding not only African American life, but also broader American history and culture.
£31.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson
Book SynopsisIn twenty-one interviews ranging from 1999 to 2021, Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson reveals a writer of fierce intelligence and humour in love with ideas and concerned with issues of identity. She provides powerful insights on code-switching, race, Afrofuturism, queer identities, sexuality, and Caribbean folklore, among other things.
£78.40
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson
Book SynopsisIn twenty-one interviews ranging from 1999 to 2021, Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson reveals a writer of fierce intelligence and humour in love with ideas and concerned with issues of identity. She provides powerful insights on code-switching, race, Afrofuturism, queer identities, sexuality, and Caribbean folklore, among other things.
£19.90
University Press of Mississippi Feel My Big Guitar
Book SynopsisWith his signature blend of genres and lyrics that touch on myriad societal issues, the artist Prince has challenged and captivated the minds and hearts of countless listeners. This book is a wide-ranging collection that places Prince at the centre of contemporary musical scholarship, putting him in proper cultural and political context.
£999.99
University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Jerry W. Ward Jr.
Book SynopsisJerry W. Ward Jr. (b. 1943) has published nonfiction, literary criticism, encyclopedias, anthologies, and poetry. Ward is also a highly respected scholar with a specialty in African American literature and has been recognized internationally as one of the leading experts on Richard Wright. Ward was Lawrence Durgin Professor of Literature at Tougaloo College, served as a member of both the Mississippi Humanities Council and the Mississippi Advisory Committee for the US Commission on Civil Rights, and cofounded the Richard Wright Circle and the Richard Wright Newsletter. He has won numerous awards, and in 2001 he was inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent. Conversations with Jerry W. Ward Jr. aims to add an indispensable source to American literature and African American studies. It offers an account of Ward''s intelligent and thoughtful responses to questions about literature, literary criticism, teaching, writi
£73.80
University Press of Mississippi Pieces of Freedom
Book SynopsisThe history of racism in America is also the history of ordinary Black Americans who accomplished extraordinary things in their pursuit of freedom. Faced with oppression throughout their journey, they built vibrant communities and lived purposeful lives. Pieces of Freedom: The Emancipation Sculptures of Edmonia Lewis and Meta Warrick Fuller brings that history to life by analyzing the first fifty years of Black freedom through the emancipation sculptures of two nineteenth-century African American sculptors, Mary Edmonia Lewis (1844-1909) and Meta Warrick Fuller (1877-1968). Lewis''s and Fuller''s sculptures--and their visual narrative of a people''s strength and humanity in the face of oppression--present a textured historical diorama of Black life during an era of transformative, yet sorrowful, events. In this book, Lee Ann Timreck integrates Lewis''s and Fuller''s visual narrative with oral narratives of the newly emancipated, all set within the historical context of Recon
£79.20
University Press of Mississippi Forging Freedom in W. E. B. Du Boiss Twilight
Book SynopsisOverlooked and understudied, the closing three decades of W.E.B. Du Bois’s career reflect a generative period of his life in terms of teaching, travel, activism, and publications. This book narrates the political, social, and cultural significance of Du Bois’s career during the controversial closing three decades of his life.Trade ReviewA new and original perspective on W. E. B. Du Bois’s life and activism centering on his career from the early 1930s until his death in 1963. As the volume compellingly demonstrates, an examination of the last three decades of Du Bois’s life unveils the richness and complexity of his ideas and praxis, especially his engagement in Black internationalist and radical politics." —Keisha N. Blain, author of Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America"This book will no doubt draw much-needed attention to Du Bois’s thought and activism during the most radical yet most neglected period of his life." —Erik S. Gellman, author of Troublemakers: Chicago Freedom Struggles through the Lens of Art ShayTable of Contents ix Acknowledgments 3 Introduction: Du Bois Has Left Us, But He Has Not Died—Phillip Luke Sinitiere PART I: POLITICS AND PROTEST 17 Chapter 1. The Rational and the Irrational: W. E. B. Du Bois’sExcavation of Whiteness, 1935–1960—Lisa J. McLeod 39 Chapter 2. Politics, Poetry, and Prose: W. E. B. Du Bois,Black Reconstruction, and the Origins of Our Times—Carlton Dwayne Floyd and Thomas Ehrlich Reifer 62 Chapter 3. In Pursuit of Peace Where Freedom Chokes:W. E. B. Du Bois Confronts the Cold War—Werner Lange 80 Chapter 4. I Am Certainly Not a Conservative: W. E. B. Du Bois,Democratic Socialism, and Black Marxism—Reiland Rabaka PART II: IDENTITY AND CULTURE 105 Chapter 5. Democracy in America Is Impossible: The PessimisticProphecy of W. E. B. Du Bois in "Why I Won’t Vote"—Andre E. Johnson 119 Chapter 6. The Dharma of Socialism: How Hindu Thought InfluencedW. E. B. Du Bois’s Vision for Afro-Asian Solidarity—Murali Balaji 131 Chapter 7. W. E. B. Du Bois and African American Humanism—Christopher Cameron 147 Chapter 8. Blessed Are the Peacemakers, for They Shall Be CalledCommunists: W. E. B. Du Bois and American Religious Culture,1935–1963—Phillip Luke Sinitiere PART III: LITERATURE AND LEGACY 175 Chapter 9. The Mutual Comradeship of W. E. B. Du Bois and RadicalBlack Women, 1935–1963—Charisse Burden-Stelly 191 Chapter 10. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Legacy of W. E. B. Du Bois—Robert Greene II 207 Chapter 11. W. E. B. Du Bois’s UnAmerican End, Reconsidered—Jodi Melamed and Tyler Monson 231 Chapter 12. Geography of Freedom: Partnership in Preservation andPublic History at W. E. B. Du Bois’s Boyhood Homesite—Camesha Scruggs 245 Afterword—Eric Porter 251 About the Contributors 257 Index
£73.80
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Faulkner and Slavery
Book SynopsisThe first collection to address the myriad legacies of African chattel slavery in the writings and personal history of one of the twentieth century’s most incisive authors on US slavery and the long ordeal of race in the Americas.
£27.00
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Sounding Our Way Home Japanese American
Book SynopsisA product of twenty-five years of archival and primary research, this volume narrates the efforts of three generations of Japanese Americans to reach home' through musicking. Emphasizing the notion of national identity and belonging, the book provokes a discussion about the challenges of nation-building in a democratic society.Trade ReviewBringing together decades of interviews and original archival work, Sounding Our Way Home is the first book to provide a true overview of the full range of the Japanese American musical experience." - W. Anthony Sheppard, author of Extreme Exoticism: Japan in the American Musical Imagination "In Sounding Our Way Home, Susan Miyo Asai weaves together historical and musical analysis, spotlighting the achievements of individual musicians within a broader narrative of Japanese American musicking across generations. This book is an admirable and important contribution to Asian American studies and music history." - Grace Wang, associate professor of American studies at the University of California, DavisTable of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Chapter 1: The Nexus of Music, Identity, and Politics Chapter 2: Dual Identities: Japanese Immigrant Community, Identity, and Music Chapter 3: Caught on the Cultural Cusp: Nisei Politics of Identity and Music Chapter 4: "Buddhahead Blues": Musical Communities in the US Concentration Camps of World War II Chapter 5: Sansei: The Political Advocacy of Music and a Turn toward the East Epilogue: The Promise of Interracial Music Coalitions Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
£77.35
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Sports and the Racial Divide Volume II A Legacy
Book SynopsisDraws together essays that examine evolving attitudes about race, sports, and athletic activism in the US. This anthology links post-World War II African American protest movements to a range of contemporary social justice interventions.Trade ReviewSports and the Racial Divide provides a rich sociohistorical account of the role sports and athletes play in contemporary political activism." - John N. Singer, associate professor of sport management in the School of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M UniversityTable of Contents Prologue: The Paradox of Race and Sport Michael E. Lomax 1. "No Colored Athletes Allowed": The Historically Black College Challenge to the NCAA Kurt Kemper 2. Revisiting the Revolt: Harry Edwards and the Revolt of the Black Athlete Michael E. Lomax 3. The Activist Athlete: Contextualizing the Collision of Politics and Sports in the Twenty-First Century Amy Bass 4. The Decompartmentalization of the Political Voice: The Conversion of Athletic Capital and Political Capital Billy Hawkins 5. Doomed: Colin Kaepernick’s Collusion Claim against the NFL Sarah K. Fields 6. Black Women Athletes, Protest, and Politics: An Interview with Amira Rose Davis Ashley Farmer 7. For the Movement and Not for the Moment: Harry Edwards’s Persistence, from the Revolt of the Black Athlete to Black Lives Matter Billy Hawkins Epilogue David K. Wiggins About the Contributors Index
£78.40
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Intersecting Aesthetics Literary Adaptations and
Book SynopsisIlluminates cultural and material trends that shaped Black film adaptations during the twentieth century. Contributors to this collection reveal how Black literary and filmic texts are sites of negotiation between dominant and resistant perspectives, exploring how race-inflected cultural norms have influenced studio and independent film depictions.Trade ReviewIntersecting Aesthetics is a pivotal work from leading scholars in African American film studies. The influence of this collection will reach long into the future." - Gerald Butters, coeditor of Beyond Blaxploitation
£81.75
