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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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Authenticating Whiteness

Karens, Selfies, and Pop Stars

University Press of Mississippi

A critical examination of authenticity as a strategy of whiteness in popular media

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Black Bodies in the River

Searching for Freedom Summer

University Press of Mississippi

A rhetorical interrogation of the pervasive claim that unidentified Black bodies were discovered during investigations into one of Freedom Summer’s most widely known events

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Fear, Hate, and Victimhood

How George Wallace Wrote the Donald Trump Playbook

University Press of Mississippi

A blistering critique of the rhetoric of two candidates and how President Trump succeeded

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Curious about George

Curious George, Cultural Icons, Colonialism, and US Exceptionalism

University Press of Mississippi

The first book-length study of one of literature’s most valuable, ubiquitous children’s characters

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Reconstructing Southern Rhetoric

University Press of Mississippi

A collection of new essays that redefine and restructure how communication scholars study the South

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Rebirthing a Nation

White Women, Identity Politics, and the Internet

University Press of Mississippi

A timely exploration of the role white women play in supporting systems of racism

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Racial Terrorism

A Rhetorical Investigation of Lynching

University Press of Mississippi

How the Equal Justice Initiative, the Legacy Museum, and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice confront racial violence in America

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No Future in This Country

The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner

University Press of Mississippi

A critical study of the career of the nineteenth-century bishop

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Black Feelings

Race and Affect in the Long Sixties

University Press of Mississippi

How the black liberation movement confronted ideologies of progress and equality through emotional discourse

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The Bad Sixties

Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture, Antiwar, and Black Power Movements

University Press of Mississippi

An exposure of how mainstream film and television wilts flower power and diffuses the potency of protest

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