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Double Crossed

Black Female Intersectionality in Hollywood

University Press of Mississippi

A concerning analysis of the distortions and pervasive stereotypes of Black female images within Hollywood

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Prophetic Peril

The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century African American Prophetic-Call Narratives

University Press of Mississippi

A study of the call narrative storytelling tradition centered on four influential Black leaders

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Memory Work

White Ignorance and Black Resistance in Popular Magazines, 1900-1910

University Press of Mississippi

How post-Reconstruction periodicals used opposing rhetorical strategies to shape public memory

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Rupturing Rhetoric

The Politics of Race and Popular Culture since Ferguson

University Press of Mississippi

How popular media reinforce and resist the false narrative of postracialism

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Superheroes in the Streets

Muslim Women Activists and Protest in the Digital Age

University Press of Mississippi

How Muslim women activists have heroically raised physical and digital protest banners

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The Summer of 2020

George Floyd and the Resurgence of the Black Lives Matter Movement

University Press of Mississippi

An in-depth look at a profound flashpoint in social movement history

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Terror and Truth

Civil Rights Tourism and the Mississippi Movement

University Press of Mississippi

The first critical examination of Mississippi’s civil rights tourism industry

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The Rhetorical Road to Brown v. Board of Education

Elizabeth and Waties Waring's Campaign

University Press of Mississippi

An illuminating look at the little-known rhetorical campaign that helped advance the cause of school desegregation

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A Slow, Calculated Lynching

The Story of Clyde Kennard

University Press of Mississippi

The harrowing, yet pivotal, story of a brilliant integration advocate

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Visions of Invasion

Alien Affects, Cinema, and Citizenship in Settler Colonies

University Press of Mississippi

An exploration of the ways migrants are coded as alien in popular film and public discourse

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