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Maverick Gardeners

Dr. Dirt and Other Determined Independent Gardeners

University Press of Mississippi

A fun and exciting inside look at unique DIGrs across the world

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From Rabbit Ears to the Rabbit Hole

A Life with Television

University Press of Mississippi

A personal narrative about growing up with the golden age of television

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Dear Bob

Bob Hope's Wartime Correspondence with the G.I.s of World War II

University Press of Mississippi

An extraordinary collection of posts to and from the “G.I.s’ best friend” and incomparable entertainer

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Colonial Mississippi

A Borrowed Land

University Press of Mississippi

The first complete synthesis of the diverse encounters, conflicts, and exchanges of Mississippi’s colonial period

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Peculiar Whiteness

Racial Anxiety and Poor Whites in Southern Literature, 1900-1965

University Press of Mississippi

A deep, compassionate probing of how white writers misconstrued, manipulated, and distrusted poor southern whites

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Ode to Gen X

Institutional Cynicism in Stranger Things and 1980s Film

University Press of Mississippi

A comprehensive study of cynicism in popular 1980s movies reflected in the television series Stranger Things

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Intergenerational Solidarity in Children’s Literature and Film

University Press of Mississippi

An examination of the diverse ways in which children’s literature and film contribute to intergenerational bonding and solidarity

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David Cronenberg

Interviews

Edited by David Schwartz
University Press of Mississippi

A collection of fifteen interviews with a director whose work is thematically consistent and marked by a rigorous intelligence, a keen sense of humor, and a fearless engagement with the nature of human existence

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Crossing Bar Lines

The Politics and Practices of Black Musical Space

University Press of Mississippi

A sounding of positions and space in the brilliant work of African American improvisers

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Conversations with John Berryman

Edited by Eric Hoffman
University Press of Mississippi

All of Berryman’s major interviews, personality pieces, profiles, and local interest items

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I AM A MAN

Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970

University Press of Mississippi

Unforgettable photographs from flash points of the civil rights struggle

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Bohemian New Orleans

The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press

University Press of Mississippi

The history of a small but mighty publisher in the vanguard of the small press revolution

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The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev, Volume III

University Press of Mississippi

The long-awaited final volume of the series dedicated to collecting tales from the Russian Grimm

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R. Crumb

Literature, Autobiography, and the Quest for Self

University Press of Mississippi

A thorough engagement with the literary, spiritual, and intellectual underpinnings of a great comics creator

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Mysterious Travelers

Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity

University Press of Mississippi

How a creator transformed the hero and forever forged a brooding bond between philosophy and comics

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Improvising Sabor

Cuban Dance Music in New York

University Press of Mississippi

The first thorough exploration of the innovative, flute-driven Cuban dance music of New York, charanga

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The Sacred Language of the Abakuá

University Press of Mississippi

The first English-language translation and extensive notation of a seminal work from the African diaspora

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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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Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture

University Press of Mississippi

A new perspective on an explosively popular subgenre of young adult media

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New York and the International Sound of Latin Music, 1940-1990

University Press of Mississippi

An assessment, celebration, and careful notation of the extraordinary melting pot of Latin music

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Kasi Lemmons

Interviews

University Press of Mississippi

Fifteen interviews that illuminate Lemmons’s distinctive ability to challenge social expectations through film and actualize stories that broaden expectations of cinematic Black femaleness and maleness

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Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry

Edited by Mollie Godfrey
University Press of Mississippi

The first volume to collect all of Hansberry’s substantive interviews in one place, including many radio and television interviews that have never before appeared in print

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Conversations with Dana Gioia

Edited by John Zheng
University Press of Mississippi

The first collection of interviews with the internationally known poet and public intellectual

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Breaking the Blockade

The Bahamas during the Civil War

University Press of Mississippi

A book-length study of the often unexplored great carnival of the Civil War

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The Nightcrawler King

Memoirs of an Art Museum Curator

University Press of Mississippi

A moving and fun account of the man who influenced fifty years of growth at the New Orleans Museum of Art

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Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus!

Photographs from the Sacred Steel Community

University Press of Mississippi

A powerful witness of the electric steel guitar tuned to worship the Lord

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Rediasporization

African-Guyanese Kweh-Kweh

University Press of Mississippi

The astonishing transformation of an African tradition that distinguishes a second American Guyanese diasporization

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Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor

Edited by Alison Arant and Jordan Cofer; Afterword by Marshall Bruce Gentry
University Press of Mississippi

Fresh approaches to the study of the works of the influential southern writer

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French on Shifting Ground

Cultural and Coastal Erosion in South Louisiana

University Press of Mississippi

An intensive study of the disappearance of land and language in Louisiana

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Damaged

Musicality and Race in Early American Punk

University Press of Mississippi

The first book-length account of American punk as a musical style

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