A history of the distinctive, US Capital sound that fuses hip-hop, funk, and soul

A study of the ever-evolving fairy tale about the murderous aristocrat and his endangered wife

Personal encounters with musical geniuses determined to change the world; includes pieces on Bob Marley, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Nina Simone, Sun Ra, Augustus Pablo, the Neville Brothers, Yabby You, and Nadia Gamal

A study of the tensions between the private and public realms of interracial relationships

A study of one group of Sudanese refugees and their efforts to hold on to their traditions

Interviews with the Indian-American author of The Tiger's Daughter, Jasmine, The Holder of the World, and The Middleman and Other Stories (winner of the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award)

A history and songbook of a once widespread but now nearly forgotten folk entertainment

The Works of the “Gawain”-Poet presents a number of distinctive features: a conservatively edited text; the original manuscript illustrations; apparatus, glosses, and notes on the page with the text; and a full introduction and bibliography. The book should prove useful both as a reading and reference edition and as a graduate text.

The story of an outrageous architectural folly—Longwood, in Natchez, Mississippi—which stands unfinished today as one of the grandest and most opulent of antebellum mansions.

An evaluation that tracks American culture’s shift from modernism into postmodernism

An examination of the swamp’s role in southern cultural, literary, and ecological history

A well-researched collection of biographical sketches of notable African Americans from Mississippi

An assessment of the great speech as Lincoln's moral resolution of his views on slavery, race, and religion

A book that shows how the world of music video has thrust feminism to the forefront

We should always remind ourselves that capitalism, now politely called the market system, has always, basically, been unstable.

Where William Faulkner’s fiction stands in relation to that of Ellison, Pynchon, Nabokov, and other postmodern greats

Collected letters from Mrs. Keith Frazier Somerville’s “Dear Boys” column published in the Bolivar Commercial (Cleveland, Mississippi) newspaper during the final years of World War II

An appreciative retrospective of the art created by the man Langston Hughes called America’s greatest black cartoonist

A collection of essays focusing on the rich variety of black folk art and its artists

The story of the Mississippi Governor’s Mansion, a National Historic Landmark and one of only a handful of buildings left standing when General Sherman burned Jackson, Mississippi, during the Civil War. This book traces the mansion’s history from 1842 until 1977.

The definitive biography of the artist who created the template for Nashville’s modern country music sound

An assessment of the worldwide achievement of the man who made manga mainstream

Interviews with the director of Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, A Passage to India, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and many other epic films

Conversations with the conservative founder of the National Review, host of television’s The Firing Line, and author of fifty-seven books of fiction and nonfiction

Interviews with the acclaimed Anglo-Caribbean author of Dancing in the Dark, A Distant Shore, and Foreigners

A never-before-published novel of white characters struggling to understand the true nature of manhood

A renowned African American author’s first novel with an entire cast of white characters