Race and Radio
Pioneering Black Broadcasters in New Orleans
An invaluable history of the first African American radio voices and their influence in segregated New Orleans
Peculiar Rhetoric
Slavery, Freedom, and the African Colonization Movement
A new engagement with the tangled, fraught antebellum debate surrounding black resettlement
Blasian Invasion
Racial Mixing in the Celebrity Industrial Complex
An exposition of a dynamic, multiracial-racial identity
Promises of Citizenship
Film Recruitment of African Americans in World War II
The first take on America’s outstanding film reel appeals to African American dignity and service
Carter G. Woodson
History, the Black Press, and Public Relations
A new recognition of how the Father of Black History harnessed publicity power
Consuming Identity
The Role of Food in Redefining the South
How food serves as a rhetorical catalyst for discussion in a culture that loves to eat, share, and talk
Full Court Press
Mississippi State University, the Press, and the Battle to Integrate College Basketball
How basketball loosened the grip of segregation and its proponents in the media
Alternate Roots
Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Genealogy Media
How popular media cultivates genealogy but buries its cultural context
Emmett Till
The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement
A gripping reexamination of the abduction and murder that galvanized the civil rights movement