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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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Start a Riot!

Civil Unrest in Black Arts Movement Drama, Fiction, and Poetry

University Press of Mississippi

A scholarly exploration of the union of art, writing, and protest during the 1960s

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Songs of Slavery and Emancipation

By Mat Callahan; Introduction by Robin D. G. Kelley; Afterword by Kali Akuno
University Press of Mississippi

A critical study that highlights a new perspective of the long-buried and forgotten songs of resistance

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The Geographies of African American Short Fiction

University Press of Mississippi

A long-overdue history of short stories, place, and the significance of setting on racial representation

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Performing Racial Uplift

E. Azalia Hackley and African American Activism in the Postbellum to Pre-Harlem Era

University Press of Mississippi

A groundbreaking rediscovery of a classically trained innovator and powerful teacher who set milestones for African American singers and musicians

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Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought

University Press of Mississippi

A biography of a trailblazer for abolition, gender equality, and social justice

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Rediscovering Frank Yerby

Critical Essays

Edited by Matthew Teutsch
University Press of Mississippi

The first book-length sounding of the major contributions of the first black American novelist to sell more than a million copies

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Black Intellectual Thought in Modern America

A Historical Perspective

University Press of Mississippi

An inclusive survey from Frederick Douglass to the voices of Black Lives Matter

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Black and More than Black

African American Fiction in the Post Era

University Press of Mississippi

An impressive reading of recent writers who question the meaning of blackness while also embracing an elective racial identity

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Black and More than Black

African American Fiction in the Post Era

University Press of Mississippi

An impressive reading of recent writers who question the meaning of blackness while also embracing an elective racial identity

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Labor Pains

New Deal Fictions of Race, Work, and Sex in the South

University Press of Mississippi

A fresh consideration of the impact of black radicalism on black characters in southern modernism

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Can’t Stand Still

Taylor Gordon and the Harlem Renaissance

University Press of Mississippi

The first biography of a singer who was once one of the most significant African American male vocalists in America

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Aaron Henry

The Fire Ever Burning

By Aaron Henry and Constance Curry; Introduction by John Dittmer
University Press of Mississippi

The memoir of a fearless black leader in the civil rights struggle in Mississippi

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The African American Sonnet

A Literary History

University Press of Mississippi

A thoughtful survey of striking poems from the Civil War to the present

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This Woman's Work

The Writing and Activism of Bebe Moore Campbell

University Press of Mississippi

A critical biography of the novelist and champion for mental health issues

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No Small Thing

The 1963 Mississippi Freedom Vote

University Press of Mississippi

A history that redefines the beginning of the fight for black suffrage

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Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation

University Press of Mississippi

An examination of how nineteenth-century African American folklore studies became a site of national debate

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To Write in the Light of Freedom

The Newspapers of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools

University Press of Mississippi

A collection and examination of the creative literary work of Freedom School students discovering pathways to racial justice

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African American Haiku

Cultural Visions

Edited by John Zheng
University Press of Mississippi

The first study solely dedicated to exploring the power of African American haiku

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Raised Up Down Yonder

Growing Up Black in Rural Alabama

University Press of Mississippi

A classic ethnographic study of rural children, their community, and their school

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The Souls of White Folk

African American Writers Theorize Whiteness

University Press of Mississippi

The first book to examine whiteness as an intellectual tradition within African American literature

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The Black Cultural Front

Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation

University Press of Mississippi

How the aftermath of the Great Depression convinced several African American writers to adopt a leftist outlook

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Searching for the New Black Man

Black Masculinity and Women's Bodies

University Press of Mississippi

The role of women’s bodies in the productions of ideal and progressive black masculinities in African American literature

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Perspectives on Percival Everett

University Press of Mississippi

The first collection of essays to examine the breadth of Everett’s creative output

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Count Them One by One

Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote

University Press of Mississippi
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The Postwar African American Novel

Protest and Discontent, 1945-1950

University Press of Mississippi

A rediscovery of forgotten talent overshadowed in the heyday of the African American novel

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All Stories Are True

History, Myth, and Trauma in the Work of John Edgar Wideman

University Press of Mississippi

A mapping of the whole Wideman universe from novels to short stories to nonfiction

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The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer

To Tell It Like It Is

University Press of Mississippi

The first collection of speeches from one of the movement’s valiant firebrands

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Borders of Equality

The NAACP and the Baltimore Civil Rights Struggle, 1914-1970

University Press of Mississippi

A study of the Baltimore NAACP branch and its vanguard efforts including a detailed examination of its longtime president, Lillie M. Jackson

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Raymond Pace Alexander

A New Negro Lawyer Fights for Civil Rights in Philadelphia

University Press of Mississippi

The story of a nearly forgotten 1930s New Negro lawyer, whose contemporaries included Thurgood Marshall, Charles Hamilton Houston, and William Hastie

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In the Lion's Mouth

Black Populism in the New South, 1886-1900

University Press of Mississippi

A history of the alliance between black farmers, sharecroppers, and the People’s Party

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Visionary Women Writers of Chicago's Black Arts Movement

University Press of Mississippi

A study that highlights the central role African American women writers played in creating the lasting impact and image of the movement

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City Son

Andrew W. Cooper's Impact on Modern-Day Brooklyn

University Press of Mississippi

The story of an unforgettable African American journalist and his impact on New York City and America

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Passing in the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt

University Press of Mississippi

An exploration of a great American writer's abiding concern with the color line

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Daisy Bates

Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas

University Press of Mississippi

A biography of the courageous mentor to the Little Rock Nine

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Unexpected Places

Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature

University Press of Mississippi

An argument for a major remapping of the early African American literary landscape

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