A fascinating and personal history of children’s public health in the US

A scholarly exploration of the union of art, writing, and protest during the 1960s

A powerful, truthful, and personal assessment of the many ways humor can bring about love and understanding

A paradigm-shifting perspective that insists on the agency and power of Black people to shape their futures

A collection of interviews with one of America’s most popular poets who is widely praised for creating a rare blend of accessible and intelligent verse

The long-awaited book-length analysis of the approaches and applications to teaching found in the great comic artist’s work

A riveting history of how southern women writers negotiated authorial control in the late nineteenth- through early twentieth-century periodical market

A scarily skilled critical examination of Victorian-era urban legends

An engaging study that tracks the rise and fall of television’s attempts to capture viewer attention on multiple screens

The first scholarly volume to treat the entire range of Edwidge Danticat’s powerful works

A vivid, behind-the-scenes investigation into the integrative collaborations between contemporary jazz musicians and filmmakers

A fascinating reconsideration of the depictions and implications of race and diversity in the Harry Potter franchise

A renowned scholar’s daring work on how foodways transform and reshape our place in the world

Collected interviews with the National Book Award finalist and Booker Prize-winning author of Tenth of December and Lincoln in the Bardo

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

An awe-inspiring collection that explores the life and legacy of a beloved star, storyteller, collector, photographer, and chief country music historian

A firsthand remembrance of the artists, engineers, crews, and settings that make roots music magical

A foundational look at the way children’s books shaped views of the LGBTQ+ world

The seminal history of the formation and tactics of the Citizens’ Council that battled integration and voting rights

An enlightening collection of essays by a renowned European scholar on the transatlantic significance of Eudora Welty

A critical study that highlights a new perspective of the long-buried and forgotten songs of resistance

The first collection of essays focused exclusively on examining the Harry Potter novels as literature

Collected interviews with the internationally acclaimed director, screenwriter, and producer known for the emotional realism and stylistic simplicity of such films as Le Monde du silence and Goodbye, Children

A recovery and celebration of a once-mighty, now-vanished Tennessee musical legacy

Collected interviews with the feminist Beat poet and cofounder of the Poets Press, known for her blended use of political and spiritual subject matter

A poignant collection of letters from Willie Morris accompanied by photographs by his son, David Rae Morris

A coming-of-age story of a young woman navigating a turbulent and changing South

An in-depth study of the influence and conflicting interpretations of Black vocal heritage in the 1920s

A deeply researched upending of the trope of Haiti as the Black Republic

An innovative redress of the long critical inattention to the power of humor in recent verse

Collected interviews with the award-winning Canadian comic writer and artist whose credits include Marvel’s Extraordinary X-Men and DC’s Justice League Dark

A critical exploration of key musical legacies in the Brazilian state

A scholarly exploration of how children’s books embrace and wrestle with the science fiction genre

The first book to explore the impact the innovative studio executive had on American movie musicals

A lushly illustrated and complete history of Louisiana’s shrimping industry

An in-depth exploration of the environmentalism in the beloved children’s television program

A long-overdue history of short stories, place, and the significance of setting on racial representation

A scholarly exploration of a forgotten director’s body of work

A focused character study of a recurring figure in the fiction of one of Mississippi’s greatest writers

A focused character study of a recurring figure in the fiction of one of Mississippi’s greatest writers

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

The first book-length work to look critically at Eudora Welty’s work as a photographer

From the former Dutch East Indies to the Mississippi Delta, the touching, true story of a man’s search for home

A collection of interviews with the acclaimed avant-garde filmmaker whose innovations of narrative, documentary, and experimental style explore the roles of gender, family, and sexuality in contemporary America

A new exploration of the lasting affection and appreciation of the beloved children’s novel

The first scholarly study of the frighteningly popular paranormal reality television genre

A superb compendium of definitions for over one thousand terms related to comics studies, collecting, and publishing

A wrestling with whiteness and white supremacy throughout the history of comics creation

A common-sense guide to the dynamic landscapes of Mississippi and southeastern gardening

Through the lens of literature and film for and about students, a critique of what neoliberalism unleashed in schools