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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 P P I
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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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Front coer: Veet Eis, photograph by Scott SquireBac coer: Ange with Lamp, Church of the Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ,Donadsie, Louisiana, photograph by A. J. Mee
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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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Ebook$35.00, 978-1-60473-795-0
Photographs by Scott Squire
Anappreciationand
discoveryofmeaningand
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
PHOTOGRAPHY LOUIS IANA R EL IG ION
Adecadesworthof
fineartphotographytakeninthemostdivine
spacesofanelegantly
devoutstate
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A L s o b y A . J . m e e k
ClarenceJohnLaughlin
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
Paper$22.00T, 978-1-57806-226-3
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
Cloth$40.00S, 978-1-60473-429-4
Rednecks,Redeemers,andRace
Mississippi after Reconstruction, 18771917
Stephen Cresswell
Cloth$45.00S, 978-1-57806-847-0
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.
NOVEMBER, 464 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 29 b&w images, bibliography, index
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L ITERATURE B IOGRAPHY
Abiographyofthetwocomradeswhose
friendshipdefined
whatitmeanttobe
oneofTheBeats
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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
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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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AFR ICANAMER ICANL ITERATURE B IOGRAPHY C AR IBBEAN STUD I ES
Historytellsusin
averydramaticway
wherewevecome
from,whatwevehad
toendure,andhow
wehaveovercomeit.
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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.
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chronology, index
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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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L ITERATURE B IOGRAPHY
Isupposemygoalhas
beentotwineideas
andimagesintobig
subversivepretzels
oflife,death,and
goofinessonthechance
thattheymighthelp
keeptheworldlively
andgiveittheflexibility
toendure.
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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
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TheJazzImage
Seeing Music through Herman Leonards Photography
K. Heather Pinson
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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
A L s o i n t H e s e r i e s
ProphetSinger
The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthrie
Mark Allan Jackson
Paper$25.00D, 978-1-60473-102-6
Collectedcorrespondence
fromarguablythemost
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twentiethcentury
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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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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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ChristmasStoriesfromMississippi
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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
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CHR ISTMAS AUTOBIOGRAPHYMISS ISS IPP I2
Warmrecollections
oftheunique
Yuletideexperience
inMississippi
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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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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
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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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losttowar,disaster,andneglect
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Ne Oe Skethe
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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
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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
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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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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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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
Printedcasebinding$40.00S,978-1-60473-749-3
Ebook$40.00,978-1-60473-777-6
Illustration Angela Giussani and Giuliana Giussani, Diabolik, courtesy the author
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HistoryandPoliticsinFrench-LanguageComicsandGraphicNovels
Edited by Mark McKinney
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Vivalahistorieta!
Mexican Comics, NAFTA, and the Politics of Globalization
Bruce Campbell
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COM ICS STUD I ES ITALY
Arecordofturbulenttimesinwhichthe
comicsbecamethe
trustedplatformto
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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
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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
Printedcasebinding$50.00S,978-1-60473-714-1
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BlackSuperheroes,MilestoneComics,andTheirFans
Jeffrey A. Brown
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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
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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
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WomenandtheCivilRightsMovement,19541965
Edited by Davis W. Houck and David E. Dixon
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C IV I L R IGHTS HISTORYWOMEN S STUD I ES
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Thepersonalaccountofacommunityand
alawyerunitedto
battleoneofthemost
recalcitrantbastions
ofresistancetocivil
rights
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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
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Ebook$55.00,978-1-60473-799-8
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ConfederateIndustry
Manufacturers and Quartermasters in the Civil War
Harold S. Wilson
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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
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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
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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
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Paper$25.00D,978-1-60473-415-7
Fe t IfyRace, Sport, and the Fall from Grace
E Dv C. O Jl N RF R F. FA Jk Ll
E L D Al, G J. Kl, J
L, L, R F. L II, Sll L,
R J. N, C. O Rk Jl N
R, S L. Wl
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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