The first comprehensive study of how Boxing Day is celebrated across the Caribbean

A lively and detailed exploration of the history of the blues from the 1940s to the 1990s in the City That Never Sleeps

A firsthand account of the secretive Egúngún society from a scholar who would become a priest in the religion

Collected interviews with an influential educator, scholar, and activist, who is one of the most recognizable and iconic figures of the twentieth century

A collection of twenty-one interviews with the French filmmaker of award-winning documentaries like Van Gogh and Night and Fog and groundbreaking dramas like Hiroshima mon amour, Last Year at Marienbad, and Muriel

The first ecocritical treatment of the entire range of the Nobel Laureate’s mighty works

The extraordinary struggle, achievement, loss and reclamation of three brilliant African American artists of the 1800s

A delightful journey into the heart of the many meanings behind that silly old bear

A thorough exploration of the political critiques found in a multigenre, historical cross-section of comic books and their transmedia adaptations

A thorough exploration of early pop ballads in the American Songbook and how they still resonate

A collection of twenty-four interviews with a singular writer whose work is a dream-fueled blend of European modernism, American pulp, and paranoid late-century postmodernism

A theory of how authors position readers in relation to literary character through empathy, awe, and indifference

The first complete history of Mississippi’s seafood industry and those who harvested and processed this coastal bounty

A trailblazing book on the depiction of the Haitian Revolution in film and video games

A probing of the earliest Black efforts to overcome disfranchisement popular politics in the Jim Crow South

A multidisciplined exploration of the importance and evolution of liberal arts

A first-of-its-kind history of Ted Geisel and the beloved children’s book series he created

A long-awaited assessment of the Nobel laureate’s work in relation to America’s cosmic sin

A sounding of a vibrant multiracial identity often unknown outside the Caribbean

How New Orleans became a Confederate city after the war, and how citizens tore those symbols down

A tale of three African American teenagers who conquered the music world

A celebration of those independent people who call the fringes of the mighty Mississippi home

A scholarly exploration of the iconic comics artist

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

A wrestling with the faults and possibilities of the portrayals of race in this powerful genre

A study of interracial intimacy, multiracial identities, and the intersectional, interconnected nature of social relations

A comprehensive and fun overview of moviegoers’ favorite genre

Close readings of Black women reclaiming space within the power of nature

A brilliant merging of personal experience and world-changing, historical significance in a hamlet that held the line against Russia

A lush introduction to the most extraordinary children’s literature archive in the world