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

How Black women practicing yoga create spaces that allow for bodies and experiences to be centered and celebrated

How Indigenous artists in Panama utilized urban art forms to assert their cultural presence and political agency

A stunning sketch of the life and career of the little-known American actress and socialite

A thoughtful compilation that chronicles a nearly fifty-year friendship with the renowned Mississippi writer

A thorough assessment of the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative and the scientific legacy it left behind

The first collection of conversations with the acclaimed filmmaker, and one that spans his career to date

A biography revealing as never before Poe’s southern gentility and his vast influence on literature and letters

An in-depth look at author Kiese Laymon as an educator, creative writer, activist, family member, and Mississippian

Collected interviews with the recipient of numerous major literary awards and fellowships, including two National Book Awards, for Salvage the Bones and Sing, Unburied, Sing

An exploration of why comics are so good at confronting the bad

An important and extensive addition to contemporary proverb studies

A thorough and much-needed volume of scholarship devoted to a trailblazing author of African American children’s literature

An exciting study that aims to trace the resurgence of the feminine archetype in literature and film

A comprehensive history of Mississippians struggling to define freedom after the Civil War