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CONTENTS

10 AlanLomax,AssistantinCharge:TheLibraryofCongress

Letters,19351945

14 AndOneWasaPriest:TheLifeandTimesofDuncanM.GrayJr.

21 ArtfortheMiddleClasses:AmericasIllustratedMagazines

ofthe1840s

24 Backinprint

1 BlackVelvetArt

6 Brother-Souls:JohnClellonHolmes,JackKerouac, andtheBeatGeneration

12 ChristmasMemoriesfromMississippi

5 CivilWarHumor

4 TheCivilWarinMississippi:MajorCampaignsandBattles

4 TheConfederateandNeo-ConfederateReader:

TheGreatTruthabouttheLostCause

8 ConversationswithPauleMarshall

8 ConversationswithRussellBanks

9 ConversationswithTomRobbins

18 CountThemOnebyOne:BlackMississippians

FightingfortheRighttoVote

17 DangerousCurves:ActionHeroines,Gender, Fetishism,andPopularCulture

6 DannyBoyle:Interviews

11 DownhomeGospel:AfricanAmericanSpiritual

ActivisminWiregrassCountry

16 DrawnandDangerous:ItalianComicsofthe1970sand1980s

13 TheEggBowl:MississippiStatevs.OleMiss,SecondEdition

20 FametoInfamy:Race,Sport,andtheFallfromGrace

3 FrankCapra:TheCatastropheofSuccess

23 GermansandAfricanAmericans:TwoCenturiesofExchange

10 GloriousDaysandNights:AJazzMemoir

22 IntheLionsMouth:BlackPopulismintheNewSouth,

1886190019 KingCottoninModernAmerica:ACultural,Political,and

EconomicHistorysince1945

12 TheLegsMurderScandal

13 LostMansionsofMississippi,VolumeII

19 MadeinMexico:Tradition,Tourism,andPolitical

FermentinOaxaca

7 MichaelWinterbottom:Interviews

15 MississippiinAfrica:TheSagaoftheSlavesof

ProspectHillPlantationandTheirLegacyinLiberia

24 Newinpaperback

14 NewOrleansSketches

22 ThePoliticsofPaulRobesonsOthello20 RecessBattles

16 TheRiseoftheAmericanComicsArtist:CreatorsandContexts

2 SacredLight:HolyPlacesinLouisiana

3 SearchingforJohnFord

18 TheSpeechesofFannieLouHamer:ToTellItLikeItIs

11 TheStardayStory:TheHouseThatCountryMusicBuilt

3 StevenSpielberg:ABiography,SecondEdition

21 TheSurvivalofSoapOpera:Transformations

foraNewMediaEra

CALENDAROFPUBLICATIONDATES

AVAILABLE: Mississippi in Africa: Te Saga of the Saes of Prospect Hi Pantation a

Teir Legacy in LiberiaNew Oreans Setches SEPTEMBER: Christmas Memori

from Mississippi Cii War Humor Te Confederate and Neo-Confedera

Reader: Te Great ruth about the Lost CauseTe Egg Bow: Mississippi Sta

s. Oe Miss, Second EditionTe Legs Murder ScandaSacred Light: Hoy Pac

in Louisiana OCTOBER: Art for the Midde Casses: Americas Iustrated Magazin

of the 1840sConersations with Russe BansDrawn and Dangerous: Itai

Comics of the 1970s and 1980s Lost Mansions of Mississippi, Voume II

Made in Mexico: radition, ourism, and Poitica Ferment in Oaxaca Rece

Battes NOVEMBER: Brother-Sous: John Ceon Homes, Jac Kerouac, and the Be

Generation Conersations with Paue Marsha Count Tem One by On

Bac Mississippians Fighting for the Right to VoteDownhome Gospe: Afric

American Spiritua Actiism in Wiregrass CountryFame to Infamy: Race, Spo

and the Fa from GraceIn the Lions Mouth: Bac Popuism in the New Sout

18861900 DECEMBER:Bac Veet ArtKing Cotton in Modern America: A Cutur

Poitica, and Economic History since 1945Michae Winterbottom: Interiews

Te Poitics of Pau Robesons OtheoTe Rise of the American Comics Arti

Creators and ContextsTe Suria of Soap Opera: ransformations for a Ne

Media Era JANUARY: Aan Lomax, Assistant in Charge: Te Library of Congre

Letters, 19351945Conersations with om RobbinsDanny Boye: Interiew

Germans and African Americans: wo Centuries of ExchangeTe Speeches

Fannie Lou Hamer: o e It Lie It Is Te Starday Story: Te House Tat Count

Music Buit FEBRUARY: And One Was a Priest: Te Life and imes of Duncan M

Gray Jr.Te Cii War in Mississippi: Major Campaigns and BattesDangero

Cures: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popuar CutureFran Cap

Te Catastrophe of SuccessGorious Days and Nights: A Jazz MemoirSearchi

for John FordSteen Spieberg: A Biography, Second Edition

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FOLK ART POPULAR CULTURE

Bk Vevet At

E A. ElP S S

Jesus, matadors, panthers, bandits, Indians, moie

stars, waifs, and, of course, Eis are recognized

icons of the oft-despised, ber-itsch art form ofbac eet painting. Black Velvet Artpresents acomprehensie oeriew of this coerty oed and

oerty reied tradition.

In cooperation with a networ of artists, coec-

tors, importers, and gaery owners in ijuana, Los

Angees, Seatte, and Cagary, author Eric A. Eia-son and photographer Scott Squire draw from the

argest surey of eet painting eer undertaen.

Te boo traces eets historica deeopment as

a fo art shaped by both indigenous traditions aswe as Western consumer expectations in such

marets as the South Pacic, Southeast Asia, and

particuary the U.S./Mexico border and the baceet capita of ijuana. In bac eet, cass and

taste chaenge art as a consumer phenomenon,democratic spirit faces down eitism, reproduc-

tion questions originaity, and sensuaity seduces

and prooes reigiosity.

What is most signicant about bac eet art to many Americans is its roeas the ery nadir of bad taste. Bac eet is in many ways the anti-art. Tis boo

sees to expore how and why

bac eet seres this func-

tion and to examine ways it

speas to indiiduas aroundthe word.

Eric A. Eliason, Proo,

Utah, is professor of Engishat Brigham Young Uniersity.

His boos incude Te J.

Golden Kimball Stories and

Te Fruit of Her Hands: Saba

Lace History and Patterns.

Sco Squir, Seatte, Washington, is a photographer and mmaer whose

rst boo, Edges of Bounty: Adventures in the Edible Valley (with Wiiam Emery),

was pubished in 2008. His wor has appeared in Mother Jones, Seattes Art Frye

Museum, and PBSsFrontline.

DECEMBER, 144 pages (approx.), 9 x 9 inches, 150 color photographs

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Photographs by Scott Squire

Anappreciationand

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beautyinapopularbutundervaluedartform

r e L A t e D

FormsofTraditioninContemporarySpain

Jo Farb Hernndez

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OntheWall

Four Decades of Community Murals in New York City

Janet Braun-Reinitz and Jane Weissman

Foreword by Amy Goodman and Denis MoynihanIntroduction by Timothy W. Drescher

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Se LghtHoly Places in Louisiana

A. J. MkE M B. Mk

Renowned photographer A. J. Mee taes the

noitiate on an inspired isua journey witheighty-eight coor photographs of the interiors of

churches and synagogues ocated in south Loui-

siana, mosty aong the ower Mississippi Rieraey. ourists may crowd the famous European

cathedras such as Notre Dame in Paris and West-

minster Abbey in London. Yet the spendors of

oca churches in America a too often remaincoistered and unheraded. Mees beautifu

photographs correct this oersight for Louisiana,

a state that features a great many beautifu and

ong-standing hoy paces.

Often incorporating ong exposures and seect

framing, the images in the rst section ofSacredLightencompass atars, chances, and sanctuaries.

Te second section contains photographs of stat-

ues representing deities, anges, madonnas, andsaints, often seen with intense coor deried from

stained-gass windows or articia ight. Light

itsef is the subject of the third and ast section.

In seera photographs, ight is transformed by a

window into a aeidoscope of coor on a wooden pew or pupit chair. Othertimes the ight seems to radiate a iing presence of its own. Additionay, the

boo incudes an essay by Louisiana State Uniersity art historian and iturgica

space consutant Marchita B. Mauc.

Sacred Light aso contains photographs of some of the church and syna-

gogue restoration projects after Hurricane Katrina. Mee reates that the stormwas the shadow he was ooing for that denes bessed ight. He paces emphasis

on restoration, not destruction, as a testimony to the resiience of the human

spirit.

A. J. M, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is professor emeritus of photography in

the Schoo of Art at Louisiana State Uniersity. He currenty hods the Garrey

Carruthers Chair in the Uniersity Honors Program at the Uniersity of New

Mexico. He is the author ofGettysburg to Vicksburg: Te Five Original Civil War

Battleeld Parks and Te Gardens of Louisiana:Places of Work and Wonder.

SEPTEMBER, 112 pages (approx.), 9 x 11 inches, 88 color photographs

Cloth$35.00T, 978-1-60473-741-7Ebook$35.00, 978-1-60473-742-4

Photographs (bottom then counterclockwise)St. Catherine of Siena,

St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church, Donaldsville, Louisiana; Light

Effect on Pews, Church of the Ascension, Lafayette, Louisiana; Bible

on Table, Grace Episcopal Church, Hammond, Louisiana

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Prophet without Honor

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B IOGRAPHY F I LM

Steve SpebegA Biography, Second Edition

J MB

Unti the rst edition of Steven Spielberg: A Biography was pubished in 1997,much about Spiebergs personaity andthe forces that shaped it had remainedenigmatic, in arge part because of his

tendency to obscure and mythoogizehis own past. But in this rst fu-scae,in-depth biography of Spieberg, JosephMcBride reeas hidden dimensions of themmaers personaity and shows howdeepy persona een his most commerciawor has been.

Tis new edition adds four chaptersto Spiebergs ife story, chronicing hisextraordinariy actie and creatie periodfrom 1997 to the present, a period in whichhe has baanced his executie duties as oneof the partners in the m studio Dream-

Wors SKG with a remarabe string ofms as a director. Spiebergs ambitiousrecent worincuding Amistad, Saving

Private Ryan, A.I. Articial Intelligence, Minority Report, Te erminal, and Mu-nichhas continuay expanded his rangeboth styisticay and in terms of adentur-ous, often controersia, subject matter. Steven Spielberg: A Biography broughtabout a reeauation of the great m-maers ife and wor by those who iewedhim as merey a facie entertainer. Tis newedition guides readers through the matureartistry of Spiebergs ater period in which

he manages, against considerabe odds, torun a successfu studio whie maintainingand enarging his high artistic standards asone of Americas most thoughtfu, sophis-ticated, and popuar mmaers.

FEBRUARY, 640 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 68 b&w

illustrations, filmography, videography, index

Paper$30.00T, 978-1-60473-836-0

Ebook$30.00, 978-1-60473-837-7

PhotographSteven Spielberg, courtesy AP/Wide World

Photos

Sehg fJh F

J MB

John Fords cassic mssuch as Stage-coach, Te Grapes of Wrath, How GreenWas My Valley, Te Quiet Man, and TeSearchershae earned him wordwideadmiration as Americas foremost m-

maer, a director whose rich isuaimagination conjures up indeibe, deepymoing images of our coectie past.

Joseph McBrides Searching for JohnFord, described as denitie by both theNew York imes and theIrish imes, sur-passes a other biographies of the m-maer in its depth, originaity, and insight.Encompassing and iuminating Fordsmyriad compexities and contradictions,McBride traces the trajectory of Fords ifefrom his beginnings as Bu Feeney, thenearsighted, footba-paying son of Irish

immigrants in Portand, Maine, to hisrecognition, after a ong, controersia,and much-honored career, as Americasnationa mythmaer. Bending iey andpenetrating anayses of Fords ms withan impeccaby documented narratie ofthe historica and psychoogica contextsin which those ms were created, Mc-Bride has at ong ast gien John Ford thebiography his stature demands.

FEBRUARY, 848 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 60 b&w illustrations,

filmography, index

Paper$40.00S , 978-1-60473-467-6

Ebook$40.00, 978-1-60473-468-3

PhotographJohn Ford, courtesy Joseph McBride

Fk Cpe Catastrophe of Success

J MB

Moiegoers often assume Fran Caprasife resembed his beoed ms (such as

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Itsa Wonderful Life). A man of the peopefaces tremendous odds and, by doing

the right thing, triumphs. But as JosephMcBride reeas in this meticuousyresearched, denitie biography, thereaity was far more compex, a trueAmerican tragedy. Using decassied U.S.goernment documents about Caprasresponse to being considered a possibesubersie during the postWord WarII Red Scare, McBride adds a na chapterto his unforgettabe portrait of the manwho gae usIt Happened One Night, Mr.

Deeds Goes to own, andMeet John Doe.

FEBRUARY, 800 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 55 b&w illustrations,appendix, filmography, index

Paper$40.00S , 978-1-60473-838-4

Ebook$40.00, 978-1-60473-839-1

PhotographFrank Capra, courtesy Joseph McBride

Mastery, comprehensie, and frequentysurprising. Barry Gewen, theNew Yorkimes Book Review

Easiy the bestcertainy the mostreaisticbiography of a m director inthe age of theAuteur, to which this is a

counterbaance. Gore Vida

Anextensive

updatingofthemajorcritical

biographyofan

acclaimeddirector

Thedefinitive

biographyofoneofHollywoods

masterdirectors

Thestoryofa

lifetragicallyatoddswith

theidealism

ofCapras

Americana

Jos McBrid, Bereey, Caifornia, is a m historian and associateprofessor in the cinema department at San Francisco State Uniersity. Hismany boos aso incude Hawks on Hawks and What Ever Happened toOrson Welles? A Portrait of an Independent Career.


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e Cfeete

Ne-Cfeete Reee Great Truth about the Lost Cause

E J W. L E H. S

Most Americans hod basic misconceptionsabout the Confederacy, the Cii War, and the

actions of subsequent neo-Confederates. Forexampe, two-thirds of Americansincuding

most history teachersthin the Confederate

States seceded for states rights. Tis error

persists because most hae neer read the eydocuments about the Confederacy.

Te 150th anniersary of secession and

cii war proides a moment for a Americans

to read these documents, propery set in

context by award-winning socioogist andhistorian James W. Loewen and coeditor

Edward H. Sebesta, to put in perspectie themythoogy of the Od South.

When South Caroina seceded, it pub-ished Decaration of the Immediate Causes

Which Induce and Justify the Secession of

South Caroina from the Federa Union. Te

document actuay opposes states rights. Its

authors argue that Northern states were ignor-ing the rights of sae owners as identied by

Congress and in the Constitution. Simiary,

Mississippis Decaration of the Immediate

Causes . . . says, Our position is thoroughyidentied with the institution of saerythe

greatest materia interest of the word.

Later documents in this coection show how neo-Confederates

obfuscated this truth, starting around 1890. Te eidence aso points to

the centraity of race in neo-Confederate thought een today and to thecontinuing importance of neo-Confederate ideas in American poitica ife.

Jams W. Lown, Washington, D.C., is the best-seing author ofLies My

eacher old Me: Everything Your American History extbook Got Wrongand Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong. He is aso

the author ofeaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the yranny

of extbooks; Sundown owns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism;

Social Science in the Classroom; and Mississippi: Conict and Change. He

is professor emeritus at the Uniersity of Vermont. Edward H. Ssa,Daas, exas, is a coeditor ofNeo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction. His

artices hae appeared in numerous journas.

SEPTEMBER, 368 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 19 b&w illustrations, 2 maps, index

Printedcasebinding$55.00S, 978-1-60473-218-4

Paper$25.00S, 978-1-60473-219-1

Ebook$25.00 , 978-1-60473-788-2

r e L A t e D

Mississippi

A Documentary History

Edited by Bradley G. Bond

Paper$25.00D, 978-1-57806-843-2

AMER ICANH ISTORY C IV IL WAR

Resoundingdocumentary

proofthattheoriginal

reasoningbehind

secessionandsubse-

quentmyth-makingwas

indefenseofslaveryand

whitesupremacy


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MppMajor Campaigns and Battles

Ml B. Bll

From the rst Union attac on Vicsbuin the spring of 1862 through Benjam

Griersons ast raids through Mississippi

ate 1864 and eary 1865, this boo trac

the campaigns, ghting, and causes aneects of armed conict in centra and nor

Mississippi, where major campaigns we

waged and ghting occurred.

Te Civil War in Mississippi: MajCampaigns and Battles is a must-read for an

Mississippian or Cii War bu who wants t

compete story of the Cii War in Mississipp

It discusses the ey miitary engagements

chronoogica order. Te oume begins wia proogue coering mobiization and oth

eents eading up to the rst miitary actio

within the states borders. Te boo then coe

a of the major miitary operations, incudithe campaign for and siege of Vicsburg, an

battes at Iua and Corinth, Meridian, Brice

Crossroads, and upeo. Te coorfu cast

characters incudes such househod nam

as Sherman, Grant, Pemberton, and Forreas we as a host of other commanders an

sodiers. Author Michae B. Baard discuss

at ength minority troops and others gosse

oer or ost in studies of the Mississip

miitary during the war.

M B. B, Starie, Miss

sippi, is author of Civil War Mississippi:

Guide and many other boos. He is a profesor and Uniersity Archiist and Coordinat

of the Congressiona and Poitica Resear

Center at Mississippi State Uniersity Libra

ies. He is aso associate editor of the UyssesGrant Papers, a Library of Congress coectio

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FEBRUARY, 320 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 25 b&w illustrations,

12 maps, appendix, index

Cloth$40.00R, 978-1-60473-842-1

Ebook$40.00, 978-1-60473-843-8

HeritageofMississippiSeries

A L s o b y m i C H A e L b . b A L L A r D

Pemberton

The General Who Lost Vicksburg

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A L s o i n t H e s e r i e s

ArtinMississippi,17201980Patti Carr Black

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MississippiintheCivilWar

The Home Front

Timothy B. Smith

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Rednecks,Redeemers,andRace

Mississippi after Reconstruction, 18771917

Stephen Cresswell

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ReligioninMississippi

Randy J. SparksCloth$45.00S, 978-1-57806-361-1

Theonlyvolume

dedicatedentirelyto

themilitaryhistory

ofanembattledDeep

Southstate

Cv W H

C C. Nkl

In Civil War Humor, author Cameron C. Nic-

es examines the arious forms of comedicpopuar artifacts produced in America from

1861 to 1865 and oos at how wartime humorwas created, disseminated, and receied

by both sides of the conict. Broadsides,

newspaper journaism, sheet music coers,ithographs, poitica cartoons, ight erse,

printed eneopes, comic aentines, humor

magazines, and penny dreadfusfrom and

for the Union and the Confederacyare ana-yzed at ength.

Nices argues that the war coincided

with the rise of inexpensie mass printing in

the United States and thus subsequenty with

the rise of the countrys widey distributedpopuar cuture. As such, the war was as

much a paper warinoing the use of

pubications to disseminate propaganda and

ideas about the Unions and the Confederacyspositionsas one taing pace on batteeds.

For both sides humor deated pretensions,

coped with the sobering reaities of war, and

estabished poitica stances and strategies of

critiquing them. Civil War Humorexpores how the combatants portrayedJeerson Dais and Abraham Lincon, ife on the home front, battes, and

African Americans.

Civil War Humorreproduces oer sixty iustrations and texts created

during the war and proides cose readings of these materias. At the same

time, it paces this corpus of comedy in the context of wartime history,

economies, and tactics. Tis comprehensie oeriew examines humorsroe in shaping and reecting the cutura imagination of the nation during

its most tumutuous period.

C C. , Staunton, Virginia, is professor emeritus of Engish

at James Madison Uniersity and is the author ofNew England Humor:

From the Revolutionary War to the Civil War.

SEPTEMBER, 160 pages (approx.), 8 x 8 inches, introduction, 54 b&w illustrations, 8 color illustrations, index

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r e L A t e D

DefiningNew YorkerHumor

Judith Yaross Lee

Paper$22.00S,978-1-57806-198-3

RedressingtheBalance

American Womens Literary Humor from Colonial Times to the 1980s

Edited by Nancy Walker and Zita Dresner

Paper$25.00D,978-0-87805-364-3

C IV IL WAR HUMOR POPULAR CULTURE

Athoroughaccount

oftheextraordinarybreadthofcomedic

outputduringAmericas

CivilWar


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Bthe-SJohn Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac,

and the Beat Generation

A C Sl C

John Ceon Homes met Jac Kerouac on a hot

New Yor City weeend in 1948, and unti the

end of Kerouacs ife they werein Homess

wordsBrother-Sous. Both were neophyte

noeists, hungry for iterary fame but just ashungry to nd a new way of responding to their

experiences in a postwar American society that

for them had ost its direction. Late one night as

they sat taing, Kerouac spontaneousy createdthe term Beat Generation to describe this new

attitude they fet stirring around them. Brother-

Souls is the remarabe chronice of this corner-

stone friendship and the ife of John Ceon

Homes.

From 1948 to 1951, when Kerouacswanderings too him bac to New Yor, he and

Homes met amost daiy. Strugging to nd a

form for the noe he intended to write, Kerouaccimbed the stairs to the apartment in midtown

Manhattan where Homes ied with his wife to

read the pages of Homess manuscript for the

noe Go as they eft the typewriter. With the

pages of Homess na chapter sti in his mind,he was at ast abe to crac his own writing diemma. In a burst of creation

in Apri 1951 he drew a the materias he had been gathering into the scro

manuscript ofOn the Road.

Biographer Ann Charters was cose to John Ceon Homes for

more than a decade. At his death in 1988 she was one of a handfu ofschoars aowed access to the ouminous archie of etters, journas, and

manuscripts Homes had been eeping for twenty-e years. In that mass

of materia waited an untod story. Tese two ambitious writers, Homes

and Kerouac, shared days and nights arguing oer what writing shoud be,wandering from one exposie party to the next, and hanging on the new

sounds of bebop. Trough the pages of Homess journas, often written the

morning after the eents they recount, Charters discoered and mined an

unparaeed troe describing the semina gures of the Beat Generation:Homes, Kerouac, Nea Cassady, Aen Ginsberg, Wiiam Burroughs, and

their friends and oers.

Ann Carrs,Storrs, Connecticut, is professor emerita of Engish at the

Uniersity of Connecticut, where she taught for more than thirty years. She isthe author and editor of numerous boos on writers of the Beat Generation,

incuding Beat Down to Your Soul: What Was the Beat Generation?; Te

Portable Beat Reader; andKerouac: A Biography. Samul Carrs, the

eminent historian of jazz and bues music, is the author ofA rumpet aroundthe Corner: Te Story of New Orleans Jazz (Uniersity Press of Mississippi),

the award-winning Te Roots of the Blues, and numerous other tites.

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L ITERATURE B IOGRAPHY

Abiographyofthetwocomradeswhose

friendshipdefined

whatitmeanttobe

oneofTheBeats


Dy ByeInterviews

E B D

A humbe man from humbe beginning

Danny Boye (b. 1956) became a popu

cinema daring when Slumdog Millionaiwon big at the 2009 Academy Awards. Pri

to this achieement, this former theater an

teeision director heped the British

industry pu itsef out of a decades-onsump. With rainspotting, he proed Briti

ms coud be more than stuy, perio

dramas; they coud be iacious and thriin

with dynamic characters and an infectiosoundtrac. Tis coection of interiew

traces Boyes reatiey short fteen-ye

m career, from his outstanding ow-budg

debut Shallow Grave, to his Hoywood stud

ms, his brief return to teeision, and hdecade-in-the-maing renaissance.

aen from a ariety of sources incudin

academic journas, mainstream newspape

and independent boggers, Danny Bo

Interviews is one of the rst boos aaiabon this emerging director. As an interiewe

Boye dispays an engaging honesty an

openness.

He tas about his ms 28 Days LatMillions, and others. His success pro

that storyteing artists sti resonate wi

audiences.

Brn Dunam, Chino His, Caifornis an independent m schoar. His wor h

been pubished in theInternational Journal

echnology, Knowledge and Society.

F I LM B IOGRAPHY6



JANUARY, 176 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction,

chronology, filmography, index


Ebook$40.00, 978-1-60473-835-3

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MikeLeigh

Interviews

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MichaelPowell

InterviewsEdited by David Lazar

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Mhe WtebttInterviews

E D S

Proic British director Michae Winterbottom

(b. 1961) might be hard to pin down and een

harder to categorize. Oer sixteen years, hehas created feature ms as disparate and

styisticay dierse as Welcome to Sarajevo,24 Hour Party People, In Tis World,

Buttery Kiss, and Te Killer Inside Me. But

in this coection, the rst Engish-anguage

oume to gather internationa proes and

substantie interiews with the Bacburnnatie, Winterbottom reeas how woring

with sma crews, aaiabe ight, handhed

digita cameras, radio mics, and minuscue

budgets aows him fewer constraints thanmost mmaers, and the abiity to capture

the specicity of the ocations where heshoots.

In this boo Winterbottom emerges as

an industrious mmaer committed to astripped-down approach whose concern with

outsiders and docu-reaist authenticity hae

remained constant throughout his career.

Coecting pieces from news periodicasas we as schoary journas, incuding preiousy unpubished interiews

and the rst-eer transation of a engthy, iuminating exchange with the

French editors ofPositif, this oume spans the fu breadth of Winterbottoms

notaby ecectic feature-m career.

Damon Smi, Brooyn, New Yor, is a m programmer and editor forBabegum. His wor has appeared in Reverse Shot, Boston Globe, ime Out

New York, Cinema Scope, and seera other pubications.

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StevenSoderbergh

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F I LM B IOGRAPHY

Ifyouhavedreamsas

adirector,youdont

wanttobeworried

abouthowyourdreams

willbeinterpreted.


10/36

AFR ICANAMER ICANL ITERATURE B IOGRAPHY C AR IBBEAN STUD I ES

Historytellsusin

averydramaticway

wherewevecome

from,whatwevehad

toendure,andhow

wehaveovercomeit.


Cvet th

Re Bk

E Dv R

If Russe Bans (b. 1940) says he doesnthin about [his] reader at a when [he

writing, he ceary enjoys taing with h

actua readers, whether they be studen

writers or academics, deighting in thdiersity of his audience and in the great

democratization of commentary proided b

aternatie media.

Tese conersations span a period of o

thirty years, from 1976 with the pubicatioof his rst noe, Family Life, and his r

coection of short stories, to 2008 with T

Reserve. Most date from the ate 1990s o

when the pubication of Puitzer-na

Cloudsplitterin conjunction with the bac-t

bac reease of m adaptations of his noeTe Sweet Hereafter and Aiction sudden

put Bans in the spotight as Hoywood

Hottest New Property.Bans has aways beieed that th

writer pays the roe of the storytee

fuing ery basic and uniersa hum

needs: to ta about the human conditioto te us something about oursees. Ye

for him, writing is not a one-way proces

It is an exchange where the ey is to tune

and istento the oices of the characte

engaging the writers imagination and

the oices of the readers sharing their owexperiences of his boos and of the word.

Daid Roc, Dijon, France, is assistaprofessor at the Uniersit de Bourgogn

He is the author of LImagination malsain

Russell Banks, Raymond Carver, Da

Cronenberg, Bret Easton Ellis, David Lynch.

L ITERATURE B IOGRAPHY8

Cvet th Pe Mh

E J C. Hll H H

Paue Marsha (b. 1929) is a major contributor to

the canons of African American and Caribbean

American iterature. In 1959, she pubished her

rst noe, Brown Girl, Brownstones, and wasquicy recognized as a writer of great taent and

insight on important questions about gender,

race, and immigration in American society. In1981, the Feminist Press rediscoered her noe

and reprinted it, earning Marsha the informa

tite of mother of the renaissance of African

American womens writing that emerged in the

eary 1970s.Oer the course of her fty-year career,

Marsha has pubished e noes, two coec-

tions of short stories, numerous essays, and a

memoir. In recognition of her wor, she has

receied grants from the Guggenheim Founda-tion, the Nationa Endowment for the Arts and,

in 1992, the prestigious MacArthur Feowship.

Conversations with Paule Marshall is the

rst coection of her interiews, and as suchit proides the rst comprehensie account of

the stages of this writers ife. Te most recent

conersation too pace in 2009 foowing the

pubication of her memoir, riangular Road;the odest taes readers bac to 1971, just after the pubication of her second

noe, Te Chosen Place, the imeless People. In this coection of interiews,

Marsha discusses the sources of her writing, her inoement in the cii

rights moement, her understanding of the reationship between art and

poitics (as framed, in part, by her discussions with Maya Angeou and

Macom X), and her eoing understanding of the reationship betweenthe wide wings of the African diaspora.

Jams C. Hall, uscaoosa, Aabama, is director of the New Coege atthe Uniersity of Aabama. He is the author ofMercy, Mercy Me: African-

American Culture and the American Sixties. Har Haawa,

Miwauee, Wisconsin, is associate professor of Engish at Marquette

Uniersity and the author of Caribbean Waves: Relocating Claude McKay

and Paule Marshall.

NOVEMBER,240 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology, index

Printedcasebinding$40.00S,978-1-60473-743-1

LiteraryConversationsSeries


ConversationswithCarylPhillips

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ConversationswithMargaretWalker

Edited by Maryemma Graham

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OCTOBER, 240 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction,

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ConversationswithDonDeLillo

Edited by Thomas DePietro

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ConversationswithThomasMcGuane

Edited by Beef Torrey

Paper$22.00T, 978-1-57806-887-6

Itsalwaysbeeneasier

formetoletacharacter

speakifIcouldfirst

imaginemyselfasa

listener.

Cvet th T Rbb

E L O. P B

Since the pubication of Another Roadside

Attraction in 1971, om Robbins (b. 1932)has become nown as the principa oice of

American countercutura ction. His cutceebrity was further soidied by the success

ofEven Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976) and Still

Life With Woodpecker(1980). Robbinss mix

of iid anguage, ribad humor, phiosophi-

ca musings, controersia commentary on

reigion and sexuaity, and concentration on

femae protagonists and feminine conscious-ness has mared amost a of his ction, as

we as his short writings.

Despite his undesered reputation as

1960s hippie icon, a of Robbinss worremains popuar and in print, and his ater

noesincuding Jitterbug Perfume (1984),Skinny Legs and All(1990),Half Asleep in Frog

Pajamas (1994), Fierce Invalids Home From

Hot Climates (2000), Villa Incognito (2003),and B Is for Beer(2009)engage thoroughy

with current poitics, mores, and trends.

Conversations with om Robbins brings

together more than twenty interiews with

the accaimed author, from the mid-1970s tothe present. Troughout the oume, Robbins

discusses his woring methods, his fusion of

Eastern and Western phiosophica traditions,

the need for wit and humor in serious ction,and the ways iing in the Pacic Northwest

has fueed his wor.

Liam O. Purdon, Crete, Nebrasa, is professor of Engish at Doane Coege.His wor has been pubished in Studies in Philology, Philological Quarterly,

Medievalia et Humanistica, Papers on Language and Literature, English

Language Notes, and other periodicas. B Torr, Crete, Nebrasa, has

edited Conversations with Tomas McGuane, Conversations with Hunter

S. Tompson (with Kein Simonson), and Jim Harrison: A ComprehensiveBibliography, 19642008 (with Gregg Orr).

JANUARY, 240 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology, index


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ConversationswithHunterS.Thompson

Edited by Beef Torrey and Kevin Simonson

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ConversationswithKurtVonnegut

Edited by William Rodney Allen

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L ITERATURE B IOGRAPHY

Isupposemygoalhas

beentotwineideas

andimagesintobig

subversivepretzels

oflife,death,and

goofinessonthechance

thattheymighthelp

keeptheworldlively

andgiveittheflexibility

toendure.


12/36

G Dy NghtA Jazz Memoir

H SA D M

Glorious Days and Nights is apersona account of the fty-

year career of jazz photographer

Herb Snitzer, with a specia

focus on his years in New YorCity from 1957 to 1964. A

photojournaist for Life, Look,

and Fortune, Snitzer was the

photo editor and ater associate

editor of the inuentia jazzmagazine Metronome. During

the 1960s, poitics, race, and

socia strife swired in Snitzers

ife as a woring artist. But

throughout the bus boycotts,demonstrations, cii and racia

unrest, what remained constant

for him was jazz.

Snitzer recas what it wasie to go on the road with these

musicians. His reections run

the gamut from serious meditations on his deeopment as a

young photographer woring with musicians aready of greatstature to more conersationa recoections of casua moments

spent haing fun with the jazz artists many of whom became

cose friends.

Tis boo incudes Snitzers ery best jazz photographs.

He reeas the essences of the artists, their strugges, joys, andpains. A number of Snitzers jazz images hae become iconic,

incuding Louis Armstrong with the Star of Daid, Lester Young

at the Fie Spot Caf in New Yor City, John Cotrane reected

in a mirror, Teonious Mon with piano eys reected in hissungasses, and Mies Dais at Newport. With eighty-e bac

and white images of jazz giants, Glorious Days and Nights

proides a ong-awaited testimony to the friendships and

artistry that Snitzer deeoped oer his remarabe career.

Hr Snizr, St. Petersburg, Forida, has been a ne art pho-

tographer for more than fty years. His wor has been featured

in numerous museums, magazines, exhibitions, and boos.

FEBRUARY, 176 pages, 8 x 10 inches, 85 b&w photographs

Cloth$35.00T, 978-1-60473-844-5

Ebook$35.00,978-1-60473-845-2

PhotographLouis Armstrong, On the Road, copyright Herb Snitzer

r e L A t e D

TheJazzImage

Seeing Music through Herman Leonards Photography

K. Heather Pinson

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PHOTOGRAPHY MUS I C

Photographsof

jazzgreatsandthe

memoriesofagreat

photographer


MUS IC FOLKLORE0

A Lx, Att Chgee Library of Congress Letters, 19351945

E Rl D. C

Aan Lomax (1915200was one of the most stim

ating and inuentia cutur

worers of the twentie

century. He began worin

for the Archie of AmericaFo Song at the Library

Congress in 1936, rst as

specia and temporary assi

tant, then as the permane

Assistant in Charge, startinin June 1937, unti he e

in ate 1942. He record

such important musicia

as Woody Guthrie, MudWaters, Aunt Moy Jacso

and Jey Ro Morton.

reading and examination

his etters from 1935 to 194

reea someone who ed aextremey compex, fascinating, and creatie ife, mosty as

pubic empoyee.

Whie Lomax is noted for his ed recordings, the

coected etters, many signed Aan Lomax, Assistant Charge, are a troe of information unti now aaiabe on

at the Library of Congress. Tey mae it cear that Loma

was ery interested in the commercia hibiy, race, and ee

popuar recordings of the 1920s and after. Tese etters sere a way of understanding Lomaxs pubic and priate ife durinsome of his most productie and signicant years. Here

speas for himsef through his ouminous correspondence.

An award-winning and Grammy-nominated producer, RonalD. Con, Gary, Indiana, is the author of seera booincuding Work and Sing: A History of Occupational and LabUnion Songs in the United States; Chicago Folk: Images of t

Sixties Music Scene: Te Photographs of Raeburn Flerlage ;

History of Folk Music Festivals in the United States: Feasts

Musical Celebration; and Alan Lomax: Selected Writin19341997.

JANUARY,480 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 4 b&w illustrations, index

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AmericanMadeMusicSeries

PhotographAlan Lomax and Jerome Weisner in 1941, photo by Bernard Hoffman,

courtesy Time Life Pictures/Getty Images


ProphetSinger

The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthrie

Mark Allan Jackson

Paper$25.00D, 978-1-60473-102-6

Collectedcorrespondence

fromarguablythemost

importantfolkloristofthe

twentiethcentury



AFR I CAN AMER I CAN STUD I ES MUS I C

e Sty Stye House at Country Music Built

N D. G D P

Te Starday Story: Te House

Tat Country Music Builtis the

rst boo entirey dedicatedto one of the most inuentiamusic abes of the twentieth

century. In addition to creating

the argest buegrass cataogue

throughout the 1950s and60s, Starday was aso nown

for its egendary rocabiy

cataogue, an extensie exas

hony-ton outpouring, cassic

gospe and sacred recordings,and as a Nashie independent

powerhouse studio and abe.

Written with abe presidentand co-founder Don Pierce(19152005), this boo traces

the abes origins in 1953

through the 1968 Starday-King merger. Interiews with artists

and their famiies, empoyees, and Pierce contribute to the

stories behind famous hit songs, incuding Ya Come, ASatised Mind, Why Baby Why, Giddy-up Go, Aabam,

and many others. Gibsons research and interiews aso shed

new ight on the musica careers of George Jones, Arie Du,

Wiie Neson, Roger Mier, the Staney Brothers, Cowboy

Copas, Red Soine, and countess other Starday artists.Conersations with the chidren of Pappy Daiy and Jac Starns

proide a unique perspectie on the eary days of Starday, andextensie interiews with Pierce oer an insider gance at the

country music industry during its goden era.Weathering through the storm of roc and ro and, ater,

the Nashie Sound, Starday was a home to traditiona country

musicians and became one of the most successfu independent

abes in American history. Utimatey, Te Starday Story is

the denitie record of a country music abe that payed anintegra roe in presering our nations musica heritage.

Naan D. Gison, Boomington, Indiana, is a graduate

student in the department of foore and ethnomusicoogy atIndiana Uniersity in Boomington and a performing musician.

He is the ead singer of Nate Gibson and the Gashouse Gang,

a xture of the New Engand hony-ton scene from 2001 to

2009.

JANUARY, 272 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 60 b&w illustrations, bibliography,

discography, index


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AmericanMadeMusicSeries

PhotographLefty Frizzell, courtesy of Joyce Kelley and Darlena Blackwell

MUS IC COUNTRY MUS I C

Thefullstoryofoneof

countrymusicsmostinfluentialrecordlabels

Dhe GpeAfrican American Spiritual Activism in

Wiregrass Country

Jl MG

Jerriyn McGregory exporessacred music and spirituaactiism in a itte-nown

region of the Souththe Wire-

grass Country of Georgia, Aa-

bama, and north Forida. She

examines African Americansacred music outside of Sunday

church-reated actiities, show-

ing that singing conentions

and anniersary programs for-tify spiritua as we as socia

needs. In this region African

Americans maintain a socia

word of their own creation.

Teir cutura performancesembrace some of the most per-

asie forms of African Ameri-

can sacred musicspirituas,

common meter, Sacred Harp,shape-note, traditiona, and

contemporary gospe. More-

oer, the contexts in which they sing incude present-day

obserations such as the wentieth of May (Emancipation

Day), Buria League urnouts, and Fifth Sunday.Rather than tracing the eoution of African American

sacred music, this ethnographic study focuses on contem-

porary cutura performances, amost a by women, whichembrace a forms. Tese women promote a womanist theo-ogy to ensure the suria of their communities and persona

networs. Tey function in eadership roes that withstand the

test of time. Teir spiritua actiism presents itsef as a way of

ife.

In Wiregrass Country, You dont hae to sing ie anange is a frequenty expressed sentiment. o oca adherents,

good music is Gods music regardess of the manner

deiered. Terefore,Downhome Gospelpresents gospe music

as being more than a transcendent sound. It is oca spirituaactiism that is writ arge and the good news that maes the

sou gad.

Jrriln McGror, aahassee, Forida, is associateprofessor of Engish at Forida State Uniersity.

NOVEMBER,224 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 30 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index


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PhotographThe Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers in 1993, courtesy the author

A L s o b y J e r r i L y n m c g r e g o r y

WiregrassCountry

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Astudyofgospelsinfluenceonsocial

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oftheSouththatlacked

aplantationeconomy


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Tis beautifu boo of thirty-eight

essays, iustrated by Mississippispremier watercoorist Wyatt Waters,

wi ring true with treasured recoec-

tions of Christmases past. Remember

the Christmas it snowed on the Mis-

sissippi Coast? Gen Aison recasthat mirace. Richard Ford and Waters te exacty what they

fet when they rst aid eyes on a bicyce eft under the tree

by Santa Caus. Tese Mississippians ceebrate Christmas

pageants, the decorating, the famiy dinnerseen as theyrecognize war and oss as part of our ies and sometimes part

of our hoidays. Christmas Memories from Mississippi oos

at the hoidays from the eary twentieth century through the

present and oers the ceebrations from arious points of iew

both reigious and secuar. Tis boo maes an idea mementoof shared traditions and oingy extends the spirit of the sea-

son across the states diersity.

Carlin R. McCord, Cinton, Mississippi, is a freeanceeditor and a training/technica assistance coordinator with the

Education Deeopment Center. Jud H. Tucr, Jacson,

Mississippi, wors as a freeance editor.

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A L s o b y C H A r L i n e r . m c C o r D

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ChristmasStoriesfromMississippi

Illustrated by Wyatt Waters

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e Leg Me S

H ClP El S

In Laure, Mississippi, in 1935, adaughter in a weathy and troubed

famiy stood accused of murderingher mother. On her testimony,authorities arrested an equayprominent and we-to-do busi-nessman, her reputed oer andaccompice. Ouida Keeton appar-enty shot her mother, choppedher up, and disposed of most of thecorpse down the toiet and in therepace, burning a but the peicregion and the thighs. Attemptingto dispose of these remains on aone-ane, isoated road, Ouida efta trai of eidence that ended in

her arrest. Witnesses had seen herdriing there, and within hours,a hunter and his dogs found thebody parts and the coth in whichshe had wrapped them.

outed as the most sensationacrime in Mississippi history at thetime, the Legs Murder of 1935 isamost entirey forgotten today.

Te controersia outcome, decided by an unsophisticated jury,has been eft mudded by ambiguity. Te Legs Murder Scandalpresents an intricatey detaied description of the separatetrias of Ouida Keeton and W. M. Carter. Haing researched

tria transcripts, courthouse records, medica es, and astnewspaper coerage, the author reeas new facts preiousydistorted by hearsay, hushed reports, and misinformation. Hepursues many unanswered questions such as what, reay, didOuida Keeton do with the rest of her mother? Te Legs MurderScandalattempts to proide the reader with carity in this story,which at once is outandish, harrowing, and intriguing.

Hunr Col, Brandon, Mississippi, was associate directorand mareting manager of the Uniersity Press of Mississippiat the time of his retirement in 2003.

SEPTEMBER,384 pages (approx.), 61/8 x 9 inches, 12 b&w images, 3 maps, chronology,

postscript

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r e L A t e D

Deadhouse

Life in a Coroners Office

John Temple

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TheLastLawyer

The Fight to Save Death Row Inmates

John Temple

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TRUE CR IME MISS ISS IPP I

Thefullstoryof

MississippisLizzieBordenandthe

sensationalmatricide

thatmystifiedthe

nation


CHR ISTMAS AUTOBIOGRAPHYMISS ISS IPP I2

Warmrecollections

oftheunique

Yuletideexperience

inMississippi


15/36

e Egg BMississippi State vs. Ole Miss

Second Edition

Wll G. B D MK

From the contentious deay of the

rst cash in 1901 to the batte in

2009, Te Egg Bowlcoers the Oe

MissMississippi State riary in

depth. For each game the narratiedescribes eery scoring drie,

eery payer who crossed the goa

ine, and eery na score. More

than 150 photos iustrate theintensity of action on the ed and

capture the payers and expoits

faithfu fans wi aways remember.

Tis new paperbac edition

features fu accounts of the games

in 2007, 2008, and 2009, incudingnew photos and updated statistics.

For the booster who demands

to now eery statistic, Te Egg

Bowl is the utimate reference.

Which payer has scored the

most touchdowns? Who rushed for the ongest run or threw

the ongest touchdown pass? How many icos hae been

returned for touchdowns? Why does Noember 30 matterso much? Which two men hae coached at both schoos?

And surprisingy, which three payers hae ettered both at

Mississippi State and Oe Miss?

Te intensity of the riary cannot be oerstated. Student

eaders created the treasured Goden Egg, trophy of theyeary contest, to que frequent sticus in the stands. Whie

intended to coo the feror, the Egg has been controersiay

remodeed, refurbished, and een idnapped. Te story

continuay simmers. Tis idea gift for the footba fanatic wiony stoe those passions.

William G. Barnr (19262009), a graduate of Uniersity

of Mississippi, retired as an adertising writer and ied inAtanta, Georgia. Dann McKnzi, upeo, Mississippi,

saw his rst Egg Bow in 1955 and has witnessed many more.

Te former and eteran Mississippi newspaperman is the

author of Matters of the Spirit: Human, Holy, and Otherwise

andA ime to Speak: Speeches by Jack Reed(Uniersity Pressof Mississippi).

SEPTEMBER, 416 pages (approx.), 61/8 x 9 inches, 150 b&w illustrations, appendix, index

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r e L A t e D

RockSolid

Southern Miss Football

John W. Cox and Gregg Bennett

Foreword by Brett Favre

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ARCH ITECTURE M ISS ISS IPP IMISS ISS IPP I SPORTS

Theupdatedsagaofthestatesmonster

footballrivalry

Lt M f Mpp,Ve II

M Cl Mll

As preserationist Mary Caro

Mier taed with Mississippians

about her boos on ost man-

sions and andmars, enthusiastsbrought her more stories of great

architecture raaged by time. Te

twenty-seen houses incuded in

her new boo are among the most

memorabe of Mississippis an-ished antebeum and Victorian

mansions. Te ist ranges from the

odest house in the Natchez region,

ost in a 1966 re, to a Reconstruc-tion-era home that found new ife

as a schoo for freed saes. From

two Guf Coast andmars bothost to Hurricane Katrina, to the

mysteriousy mispaced facadesof Hernandos White House and

Coumbuss Fynnwood, these homes mar high points in the

broad sweep of Mississippi history and the states architectura

egacy.Mier tes the stories of these homes through accounts

from the famiies who buit and maintained them. Tese

structures run the styistic gamut from Gree Reia to

Second Empire, and their owners incude eeryone from

Reoutionary-era sodiers to goernors and scoundres.

Mar Carol Millr, Greenwood, Mississippi, is the authorof numerous boos on historica homes, andmars, and sites

throughout Mississippi. For Lost Mansions of Mississippi,she won the Non-Fiction Boo of the Year award from the

Mississippi Library Association in 1997. She is a physician

with North Centra Mississippi Neuroogica Surgery Center

in Greenwood.

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Ne Oe Skethe

Wll FlkE Cvl Cll

In 1925 Wiiam Fauner began his profes-siona writing career in earnest whie iing in

the French Quarter of New Oreans. He hadpubished a oume of poetry (Te Marble

Faun), had written a few boo reiews, andhad contributed setches to the Uniersity

of Mississippi student newspaper. He had

sered a stint in the Roya Canadian Air

Corps and whie woring in a New Haen

boostore had become acquainted with thewife of the writer Sherwood Anderson.

In his rst six months in New Oreans,

where the Andersons were iing, Fauner

made his initia foray into serious ction

writing. Here in one oume are the pieces

he wrote whie in the French Quarter. Tesewere pubished ocay in the imes-Picayune

and in theDouble Dealer.

Te pieces inNew Orleans Sketches broad-cast seeds that woud tae root in ater wors.

In their themes and motifs these setches

and stories foreshadow the intense persona

ision and stye that woud characterize

Fauners mature ction. As his setches tae on paraes with Christianiturgy and as they portray such characters as an idiot boy simiar to Benjy

Compson, they reea eidence of his eary iterary sophistication.

William Faulnr (18971962)is considered one of the greatest writersof the twentieth century. His noes incude Te Sound and the Fury; Light in

August; Absalom, Absalom!; Sanctuary;andAs I Lay Dying. He was awarded

the Nobe Prize for Literature in 1950. Carl Collins (19121990),

one of the foremost authorities on Fauners ife and wors, sered on thefacuties of Harard Uniersity, Massachusetts Institute of echnoogy,

Swarthmore Coege, and the Uniersity of Notre Dame, where he was the

rst to teach a course deoted to Fauners writing.

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OnWilliamFaulkner

Eudora Welty

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F I CT ION L ITERATURE

Faulknersearlyfictionalforaysthatforeshadow

aNobellaureateinthe

making


A Oe W Pete Life and Times of

Duncan M. Gray Jr.

A S J

Te story of the cii rights moement is nsimpy the history of its major payers but

aso the stories of a host of esser-nown ind

iduas whose actions were essentia to t

moements successes. Duncan M. Gray Jr., aEpiscopa priest who sered arious Missi

sippi parishes between 1953 and 1974, whe

he was eected bishop of Mississippi, is one

those indiiduas.And One Was a Priestis h

remarabe story.From one perspectie, Gray (b. 192

woud seem an uniey spoesman for rac

equaity and reconciiation. He coud ha

been content simpy to become a member

the white, mae Mississippi cub. Gray couhae embraced a comfortabe ife and ignor

the burning reaities around him. But

chose instead to use his priesthood to spe

in unpopuar but prophetic support of justiand equaity for African Americans. From h

student days at the seminary at the Uniers

of the South, to his rst church in Ceean

Mississippi, and most famousy to St. PeteParish in Oxford, where he confronted riote

in 1962, Gray steadfasty and fearessy foug

the status quo. He continued to wor f

racia reconciiation, inside and outside of t

church, throughout his ife.Tis biography tes not ony Grays sto

but aso reeas the times and peope th

heped mae him. Te authors question

What maes a good person? And One W

a Priestsuggests there is much to earn froGrays choices and his strugge.

Aramina Son Jonson, Charot

North Caroina, is assistant professor of phosophy and reigion at Queens Uniersity

Charotte in North Caroina. She grew up

Oxford, Mississippi, where she was a memb

of St. Peters Episcopa Church.

B IOGRAPHY C I V I L R IGHTS R EL IG ION4



Thestoryofacivilrights

crusaderandEpiscopalpriest

Mpp Afe Saga of the Slaves of Prospect Hill Plantation and

eir Legacy in Liberia

Al H

A superior historica and journaistic inestigation, tracing the ies and

egacies of freed saes in America and Africa . . . Tought-prooing and

experty tod. Kirkus Reviews

A great story. In the journey from Mississippi to Liberia, Human has

uncoered a fascinating tae thats spent too ong in obscurity. San Fran-

cisco Chronicle (Best Boos of 2004)

Aan Human is a briiant storyteer who pus o a dicut story with

breathtaing si, taing us from the antebeum South to war-torn Liberia.

An absoute peasure to read. Sebastian Junger, author of Te Perfect

Storm

When weathy Mississippi cotton panter

Isaac Ross died in 1836, his wi decreed thathis pantation, Prospect Hi, shoud be iqui-

dated and the proceeds from the sae be usedto pay for his saes passage to the newy

estabished coony of Liberia in West Africa.

Rosss heirs contested the wi for more than a

decade, prompting a deady reot in which agroup of saes burned Rosss mansion to the

ground. But the wi was utimatey uphed.

Te saes then emigrated to their new home, where they batted the oca

tribes and buit ast pantations with Gree Reiastye mansions in a

region the Americo-Africans renamed Mississippi in Africa. In the atetwentieth century, the seeds of resentment sown oer a century of cutura

conict between the coonists and triba peope expoded, begetting twodecades of cii war that ended in 2003. racing down Prospect His i-

ing descendants, deciphering a history rued by rumor, and deiering thecompete chronice in rieting prose, journaist Aan Human has rescued a

ost chapter of American history whose aftermath is far from oer.

Alan Human, Boton, Mississippi, is the author of Sultana: Surviving

the Civil War, Prison, and the Worst Maritime Disaster in American History.

He has written for numerous newspapers and magazines, incuding the

Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Los Angeles imes, New York imes, Smithso-

nian, Oxford American, and National Wildlife. For more information or to

contact the author, go to www.aanhuman.com.

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TenPoint

Deer Camp in the Mississippi Delta

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AFR I CA AMER ICANH ISTORY

Theastonishingstory

ofaplanterswill,a

slaverevolt,andhis

freedslavesquerulous

anddeadlylegacyin

war-tornLiberia

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PhotographGray in St. Peters Episcopal Church, Oxford,

Mississippi, in 1962, courtesy Duncan M. Gray Jr.

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TheMeasureofOurDays

Writings of William F. Winter

Edited by Andrew P. Mullins Jr.

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RobertG.ClarksJourneytotheHouse

A Black Politicians Story

Will D. Campbell

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ATimetoSpeak

Speeches by Jack Reed

Danny McKenzie

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D DgeItalian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s

S Cl

Exporing an oerooed era of Itaian his-tory roied by domestic terrorism, poitica

assassination, and student protests, Drawn

and Dangerous: Italian Comics of the 1970s

and 1980s shines a new ight on what was adar decade, but an unexpectedy proic and

innoatie period among artists of comics

intended for aduts.

Burring the ines between high art and

popuar consumption, artists of the Itaiancomics scene went beyond passiey docu-

menting history and began actiey shaping

it through the creation of ctiona words

where history, cutura data, and pop-reaism

interacted freey. Featuring bruta Stainist

supermen, gay space traeers, suburban juenie deinquents, and student actiists,

these comics utimatey reeaed a oatie era

more precisey than any mainstream press.Itaian comics deeoped a journaistic,

ideoogy-free, and sardonic approach in

representing the ey eents of their times.

Drawn and Dangerous maes a case for the

importance of the adut comics of the 1970sand 1980s. During those years comic produc-

tion reached its pea in maturity, compexity, and weath of cutura refer-

ences. Te comic artists anayses of the poitica and reigious andscape

reea fresh perspecties on a transformatie period in Itaian history.

Simon Casaldi, Brooyn, New Yor, is assistant professor of Romance

anguages and cutures at Hofstra Uniersity. His wor has been pubished

in Word and Image, Italica, Italian Quarterly, and Italian Culture.

OCTOBER, 160 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 49 line illustrations, bibliography


Ebook$40.00,978-1-60473-777-6

Illustration Angela Giussani and Giuliana Giussani, Diabolik, courtesy the author

r e L A t e D

HistoryandPoliticsinFrench-LanguageComicsandGraphicNovels

Edited by Mark McKinney

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Vivalahistorieta!

Mexican Comics, NAFTA, and the Politics of Globalization

Bruce Campbell

Paper$25.00S,978-1-60473-126-2

COM ICS STUD I ES ITALY

Arecordofturbulenttimesinwhichthe

comicsbecamethe

trustedplatformto

attackthestatusquo

inItaly


e Re f the

Ae C

AttCreators and Contexts

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Starting in the mid-1980s, a taented set

comics creators changed the American comiboo industry foreer by introducing adu

sensibiities and aesthetic considerations inpopuar genres such as superhero comi

and the newspaper strip. Fran Miers Ba

man: Te Dark Knight Returns (1986) an

Aan Moore and Dae Gibbonss Watchm

(1987) reoutionized the former genre particuar. During this same period, unde

ground and aternatie genres began to garn

critica accaim and media attention beyon

comics-specic outets, as best represented

Art Spiegemans Maus. Pubishers began coect, bind, and maret comics as graph

noes, and these appeared in mainstrea

boostores and in magazine reiews.

Te Rise of the American Comics ArtiCreators and Contexts brings together ne

schoarship sureying the production, di

tribution, and reception of American comi

from this piota decade to the present. T

coection specicay expores the gure the comics creatoreither as writer, as ar

ist, or as writer and artistin contempora

U.S. comics, using creators as foca points

eauate changes to the industry, its aestheics, and its critica reception. Te boo a

incudes essays on andmar creators sucas Joe Sacco, Art Spiegeman, and Chr

Ware, as we as insightfu interiews wi

Je Smith (Bone), Jim Woodring (Frank), an

COM ICS STUD I ES POPULAR CULTURE6



Anexplorationofanartforms

transformationfromadolescent

charmstoadultaesthetics

Dge CveAction Heroines, Gender, Fetishism,

and Popular Culture

J A. B

Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture addresses the

conicted meanings associated with the gure

of the action heroine as she has eoed in ari-

ous media forms since the ate 1980s. Jerey

A. Brown discusses this immensey popuarcharacter type as an exampe of, and chaenge

to, existing theories about gender as a per-

formance identity. Her assumption of heroic

mascuine traits combined with her sexuaizedphysica depiction demonstrates the ambigu-

ous nature of traditiona gender expectations

and indicates a growing awareness of more

aggressie and ioent roes for women.

Te excessie sexua fetishization ofaction heroines is a centra theme through-

out. Te topic is anayzed as an insight into

the transgressie image of the dominatrix, as

a reection of the shift in popuar feminismfrom second-wae poitics to third-wae and

post-feminist peasures, and as a form of patriarcha bacash that faciitates

a mascuine fantasy of controing strong femae characters. Brown inter-

prets the action heroine as a representation of changing gender dynamics

that baances the sexua objectication of women with progressie modes offemae strength. Whie the primary focus of this study is the action heroine

as represented in Hoywood m and teeision, the boo aso incudes

the action heroines emergence in contemporary popuar iterature, comic

boos, cartoons, and ideo games.

Jr A. Brown, Bowing Green, Ohio, is an associate professor of

popuar cuture at Bowing Green State Uniersity. He is the author of

Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Teir Fans (Uniersity Press ofMississippi).

FEBRUARY,288 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 13 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index


Ebook$50.00,978-1-60473-715-8

r e L A t e D

BlackSuperheroes,MilestoneComics,andTheirFans

Jeffrey A. Brown

Paper$22.00T,978-1-57806-282-9

FilmandComicBooks

Edited by Ian Gordon, Mark Jancovich, and Matthew P. McAllister

Paper$25.00S,978-1-57806-978-1

POPULAR CULTURE WOMEN S STUD I ES

Aconsiderationofthe

manymanifestationsof

theactionheroine

Scott McCoud (Understanding Comics). As

comics hae reached new audiences throughdierent materia and eectronic forms, the

pubics broad perception of what comics arehas changed. Te Rise of the American Comics

Artist sureys the ways in which the gure

of the creator has been at the heart of these

eoutions.

Paul Williams, Exeter, United Kingdom,

is teaching feow in Engish at the Uniersity

of Exeter. His wor has been pubished in

European Journal of American Culture, Sci-ence Fiction Studies, Journal of ransatlantic

Studies, European Journal of American Stud-

ies, and Science Fiction Film and elevision.

Jams Lons, Exeter, United Kingdom, issenior ecturer in m at the Uniersity of

Exeter. He is the author of Selling Seattle:

Representing Contemporary Urban America

and coeditor of Multimedia Histories: From

the Magic Lantern to the Internet (with JohnPunett) and Quality Popular elevision

(with Marc Jancoich).

DECEMBER,256 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 40 line illustrations,

index

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Ct e Oe by OeBlack Mississippians Fighting

for the Right to Vote

G A. M, J.

In 1961, Forrest County, Mississippi,became a foca point of the cii

rights moement when the United

States Justice Department ed a

awsuit against its oting registrar

Teron Lynd. Whie 30 percent of

the countys residents were bac,

ony twee African Americans were

on its oting ros. United States v.

Lyndwas the rst tria that resuted

in the coniction of a southern

registrar for contempt of court. Te

case sered as a mode for other chaenges to oter discrimination

in the South and was an important inuence in shaping the Voting

Rights Act of 1965.

Count Tem One by One is a comprehensie account of the

groundbreaing case written by one of the Justice Departments

tria attorneys. Gordon A. Martin, Jr., then a newy minted awyer

traeed to Hattiesburg from Washington to hep shape the federa

case against Lynd. He met with and prepared the goernments

sixteen courageous bac witnesses who had been refused

registration, found white witnesses, and was one of the awyers

during the tria.

Decades ater, Martin returned to Mississippi to nd these

brae men and women he had neer forgotten. He interiewed

the sti-iing witnesseses, their chidren, and friends. Martin

intertwines these current reections with iid commentary

about the case itsef. Te resut is an impassioned, cogent fusion ofreportage, ora history, and memoir about a tria that fundamentay

reshaped iberty and the South.

Gordon A. Marin, Jr., Boston, Massachusetts, is a retired tria

judge and an adjunct professor at New Engand Schoo of Law. His

wor has been pubished in theBoston Globe, Commonwealth, the

Jacson Clarion-Ledger, the Encyclopedia of African-American

Culture and History, arious aw reiews, and other periodicas.

NOVEMBER,272 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 20 b&w photographs, bibliography, index

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MargaretWalkerAlexanderSeriesinAfricanAmericanStudies

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Beaches,Blood,andBallots

A Black Doctors Civil Rights Struggle

Gilbert R. Mason, M.D., with James Patterson Smith

Paper$22.00T, 978-1-934110-28-7

JusticeOlderthantheLaw

The Life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree

Katie McCabe and Dovey Johnson Roundtree

Cloth$30.00T,978-1-60473-132-3

e Speehe fFe L HeTo Tell It Like It Is

E M Pk Bk Dv W. Hk

Most peope who hae heard ofFannie Lou Hamer (19171977) areaware of the impassioned testimonythat this Mississippi sharecropperand cii rights actiist deiered atthe 1964 Democratic Nationa Con-ention. Far fewer peope are famiiarwith the speeches Hamer deiered atthe 1968 and 1972 conentions, to say

nothing of addresses she gae coser to home, or with MacomX in Harem, or een at the founding of the Nationa WomensPoitica Caucus. Unti now, dozens of Hamers speeches hae

been buried in archia coections and in the basements ofmoement eterans. After years of combing ibrary archies,goernment documents, and priate coections across thecountry, Maegan Parer Broos and Dais W. Houc haeseected twenty-one of Hamers most important speeches andtestimonies.

As the rst oume to excusiey showcase Hamers ta-ents as an orator, this boo incudes speeches from the betterpart of her fteen-year actiist career deiered in response tooccasions as distinct as a Vietnam War Moratorium Ray inBereey, Caifornia, and a summons to testify in a Mississippicourtroom.

Broos and Houc hae couped these heretofore unpub-ished speeches and testimonies with brief critica descriptions

that pace Hamers words in context. Te editors aso incudethe ast fu-ength ora history interiew Hamer granted, arecent ora history interiew Broos conducted with Hamersdaughter, as we as a bibiography of additiona primary andsecondary sources. Te Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer dem-onstrates that there is sti much to earn about and from thisaiant bac freedom moement actiist.

Maan Parr Broos, Mape Vaey, Washington, is afreeance writer, pubic speaing consutant, and instructorof communication studies at the Uniersity of Puget Sound.Dais W. Houc, aahassee, Forida, is professor of com-munication at Forida State Uniersity.

JANUARY, 288 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, appendix, index

Cloth$38.00S,978-1-60473-822-3

Ebook$38.00,978-1-60473-823-0

MargaretWalkerAlexanderSeriesinAfricanAmericanStudies

r e L A t e D

WomenandtheCivilRightsMovement,19541965

Edited by Davis W. Houck and David E. Dixon

Cloth$50.00S, 978-1-60473-107-1

C IV I L R IGHTS HISTORYWOMEN S STUD I ES

Thefirstcollection

ofspeechesfrom

oneofthe

movements

valiantfirebrands


C IV I L R IGHTS MISS ISS IPP I8

Thepersonalaccountofacommunityand

alawyerunitedto

battleoneofthemost

recalcitrantbastions

ofresistancetocivil

rights


21/36

Kg Ctt Me AeA Cultural, Political, and Economic

History since 1945

D. Cl B

King Cotton in Modern Amer-ica paces the once preemi-

nent southern crop in histori-

ca perspectie, showing how

cotton cuture was actuaypart of the arger cuture of

the United States despite the

widespread perception of its

cutiation and sources as

hopeessy bacward. Leadersin the industry, acting through

the Nationa Cotton Counci,

organized their arious andoften conicting segments tomae the commodity a iabe

part of the greater American

economy. Te industry faced

new chaenges, particuary

the rise of foreign competi-tion in production and the

increase of man-made bers

in the consumer maret.

Modernization and eciency became ey eements forcotton panters. Te proiferation of cotton eds in the western

states after 1945 enabed America to compete in the word

cotton maret, but interna dissension deeoped betweenthe traditiona regions of the South and the new areas in the

West, particuary oer the USDA cotton aotment program.Mechanization had profound socia and economic impacts.

Combining history with music and iterature, D. Cayton

Brown carries cottons story to the present with a specia

emphasis on the meaning of cotton in the ore of MemphissBeae Street, bues music, and African American migration.

D. Claon Brown, Fort Worth, exas, is professor of

history at exas Christian Uniersity in Fort Worth. He is the

author ofElectricity for Rural America: Te Fight for the REA,the chidrens booDwight D. Eisenhower: Te Space Race and

Cold War, and Globalization and America since 1945.

DECEMBER,432 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 60 b&w photographs, bibliography, index


Ebook$55.00,978-1-60473-799-8

PhotographCotton picker, courtesy Dr. Randal K. Boman, Texas Agrilife Extension

r e L A t e D

ConfederateIndustry

Manufacturers and Quartermasters in the Civil War

Harold S. Wilson

Paper$30.00S,978-1-57806-817-3

U n i v e r s i t y p r e s s o f m i s s i s s i pOrder online at www.upress.state.ms.us

FOLKLORE MEX I COAMER ICANH ISTORY AGR ICULTURAL H ISTORY

Howfarmingofthe

Southsroyalfiber

expandedandchanged

undermechanizationand

competition

Me MexTradition, Tourism, and PoliticalFerment in Oaxaca

C G

Made in Mexico examines the aes-

thetic, poitica, and sociopoiticaaspects of tourism in southern

Mexico, particuary in the state ofOaxaca. ourists seeing authen-

ticity buy crafts and festia

ticets and spend een more on

trae expenses. What does a craftobject or a festia moment need

to oo ie or sound ie to pease

both tradition bearers and tour-

ists in terms of aesthetics? Under

what conditions are transactionsbetween these parties psycho-

ogicay heathy and sustainabe?What poitica factors can inter-

fere with the success of this nego-tiation, and what happens when

the process breas down? With

Subcommandante Marcos and the

Zapatistas sti operating in neighboring Chiapas and unrest

on the rise in Oaxaca itsef, these are not merey theoreticaprobems.

Chris Goertzen anayzes the nature and meaning of a

singe craft object, a woen piowcase from Chiapas, thus

preiewing what the boo wi accompish in greater depth in

Oaxaca. He introduces the boos guiding concepts, especiay

concerning the types of aesthetic intensication that haerepaced fading cutura contexts, and the tragic partnership

between ethnic distinctieness and oppressie poitics. He

then brings these concepts to bear on crafts in Oaxaca and onOaxacas Guelaguetza, the anchor for tourism in the state and a

festia with an increasingy contested meaning.

Cris Gorzn, Side, Louisiana, is professor of musichistory and word music at the Uniersity of Southern Mis-

sissippi. He is the author ofFiddling for Norway: Revival and

Identity; Southern Fiddlers and Fiddle Contests (Uniersity

Press of Mississippi); and Alice Person: Good Medicine and

Good Music (with Daid Hursh).

OCTOBER,160 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 4 color and 47 b&w photographs,bibliography


Ebook$50.00,978-1-60473-797-4

PhotographTwo rugs woven in Teotiln de Valle, courtesy the author

r e L A t e D

Reggae.Rastafari,andtheRhetoricofSocialControl

Stephen A. King

With contributions by Barry T. Bays and P. Rene Foster

Paper$25.00D, 978-1-60473-003-6

Astudyofthe

interplaybetween

localproducersandconsumingtouristsin

avolatilestate


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Ree Btte

A R. BF B S-S

As chidren wreste with cuture

through their games, recess itsef

has become a batteground for thecontro of chidrens time. Based

on dozens of interiews and the

obseration of oer a thousand

chidren in a raciay integrated,

woring-cass pubic schoo, Recess

Battles is a moing reection of

urban chidhood at the turn of the

miennium. Te boo debuns

myths about recess ioence and chaenges the notion that

schooyard pay is a waste of time. Te author ideotaped and

recorded chidren of the Mi Schoo in Phiadephia from 1991 to

2004 and ased them to oer comments as they watched themsees

at pay. Tese sessions raise questions about adut power and thechanging frames of cass, race, ethnicity, and gender. Te grown-

ups cear misunderstanding of the compexity of chidrens pay is

contrasted with the richness of the chidrens fo traditions.

Recess Battles is an ethnographic study of ighthearted games, a

ceebratory presentation of chidrens foore and its conicts, and

a phiosophica text concerning the ironies of eeryday chidhood

Rooted in ideo micro-ethnography and the traditions of theorists

such as Bourdieu, Wiis, and Bateson,Recess Battles is written for

a ay audience with extensie academic footnotes. Foorist Brian

Sutton-Smith contributes a foreword, and the chidren themsees

iustrate the text with bac and white paintings.

Anna R. Brsin, Phiadephia, Pennsyania, is associate

professor of ibera arts at the Uniersity of the Arts. She has

contributed artices to seera boos, incuding Te Cultural

Shaping of Violence and Childrens Folklore: A Source Book. Her

artices hae aso appeared in the journas Anthropology and

Education Quarterly and Childrens Folklore Review.

OCTOBER, 144 pages (approx.), 5 x 8 inches, 12 b&w illustrations, 6 musical

transcriptions, foreword, bibliography, index


Ebook$50.00, 978-1-60473-740-0

r e L A t e D

AmericanIndianChildrenatSchool,18501930

Michael C. ColemanPaper$25.00D, 978-1-60473-009-8

NotJustChildsPlay

Emerging Tradition and the Lost Boys of Sudan

Felicia R. McMahon

Cloth$50.00S,978-1-57806-987-3

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Fe t IfyRace, Sport, and the Fall from Grace

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Fame to Infamy: Race, Sport, andthe Fall from Grace foows thepaths of sports gures who wereembraced by the genera popuacebut who, through a ariety ofcircumstances, rea or imagined,found themsees faing out of

faor. Te contributors focus onthe roes payed by athetes, themedia, and fans in describing howonce-esteemed popuar guresnd themsees scorned by thesame pubic that at one time iewed them as heroic, audabe,or otherwise respectabe.

Te boo examines a widerange of sports and eras, andincudes essays on Barry Bonds,Kirby Pucett, Mie yson, MarMcGwire and Sammy Sosa,Branch Ricey, Joe Louis and MaxSchmeing, Michae Jordan, Wit

Chamberain, and Jim Brown, as we as an afterword by notedschoar Jac Lue and an introduction by the editors. Fame to

Infamy is an interdiscipinary oume encompassing numerousapproaches in tracing the eoution of each subjects reputationand shifting pubic image.

Daid C. Odn, Pacic Junction, Iowa, is associate professorof communication at the Uniersity of Nebrasa at Omaha.Jol Naan Rosn, Bethehem, Pennsyania, is assistantprofessor of socioogy at Moraian Coege. He is the author ofTe Erosion of the American Sporting Ethos: Shifting Attitudestoward Competition.

NOVEMBER, 208 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 2 b&w photographs, index


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