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Though There Be Giants

The Ghetto Pastoral Mode in Black Migration Novels

University Press of Mississippi

A scholarly exploration of the tension of spaces in African American Great Migration novels

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Conjuring the Haint

The Haunting Poetics of Black Women

University Press of Mississippi

The first critical study of the interlocking relationship between haunting, Black women’s lives, and poetry

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Refusing to Be Made Whole

Disability in Black Women's Writing

University Press of Mississippi

A cross-disciplinary analysis on how Black women writers theorize disability and Black womanhood

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The Nine O'Clock Whistle

Stories of the Freedom Struggle for Civil Rights in Enfield, North Carolina

University Press of Mississippi

The untold history of a small town where a stand for civil rights had lasting, wide impacts

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Soul of the Court

The Trailblazing Life of Judge William Benson Bryant Sr.

University Press of Mississippi

The first full-length biography of a trailblazing DC attorney and judge

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Black Saturation

Selected Works of Stephen E. Henderson

University Press of Mississippi

The first full-length volume to showcase the critical corpus of an eminent scholar of Black literature

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From the Projects to the Presidencies

My Journey to Higher Education Leadership

University Press of Mississippi

The compelling story of a self-made, driven, and industrious higher education professional

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See Justice Done

The Problem of Law in the African American Literary Tradition

University Press of Mississippi

An analysis of the fraught relations between Black writing and the law

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Vibe

The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South

University Press of Mississippi

A journey into the inner lives of Black southerners through the reverberations of trap music

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Activism in the Name of God

Religion and Black Feminist Public Intellectuals from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

University Press of Mississippi

An extensive collection that highlights the contributions of often-forgotten Black women in the public sphere

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Path to Grace

Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement

University Press of Mississippi

Remarkable narratives from the heretofore unsung champions of the civil rights movement

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Pieces of Freedom

The Emancipation Sculptures of Edmonia Lewis and Meta Warrick Fuller

By Lee Ann Timreck; Afterword by Alex Bostic
University Press of Mississippi

A visual narrative of the Black emancipation experience, voiced through the sculptures of two nineteenth-century African American female artists

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Forging Freedom in W. E. B. Du Bois's Twilight Years

No Deed but Memory

University Press of Mississippi

An overdue engagement with the latter three decades of an abundant career

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The Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner

The Press, the Platform, and the Pulpit

University Press of Mississippi

An essential reader of the powerful orations of an African American religious leader

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Literacy in a Long Blues Note

Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

University Press of Mississippi

An analysis of the literary strategies wielded by Black women during the oppressive Jim Crow years

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