The recent history of a thriving Mississippi educational institution

The lost, melodious history of a Cold War drumbeat that harmonized Caribbean steel with the best of America

How South of the Border and Atlantic Beach reflect cultural shifts in a more inclusive South

With a new epilogue, the definitive biography of one of the world’s greatest filmmakers

The complicated story of the unstoppable expansion of nutria in America’s southern wetlands

The biography of a scholar, an author, an advocate for racial advancement, and a liberal who stayed in Mississippi

An interrogation of the harmful, binary stereotypes leveled against Black and Asian men

The first comprehensive history of literature from a state with perhaps the nation’s richest literary lode

An A-to-Z compendium of people, places, and events in Mississippi from prehistoric times to today

The multigenerational history of one of Louisiana's oldest dynasties and its empire of sugar and land

Conversations with the author of the acclaimed works Gorilla, My Love; The Salt Eaters; and Those Bones Are Not My Child

A recovery of the first book-length study of the blues and the story behind the extraordinary Dutchman who wrote it under Nazi occupation

A study of how notions of place and race inform the identities and performances of musicians in contemporary Cuba

A thorough examination of the context and impact of the irrepressibly optimistic literary darling

A challenge to the primacy of the Windrush generation as the sole founders of Caribbean literature

The story of the comic who took the stage with nothing but a newspaper and gave America an entirely new way to laugh

How black and white Mississippians strove to define themselves and restrain each other

How Caribbean thinkers have broadly influenced American culture and the quest for racial justice

Conversations with the creators, executive producers, and writers of today’s top horror shows

The perfect collection for anyone seeking to understand the cultural importance of comfort food

A star map of the galactic voyage from Yellow Peril and techno-Orientalism to dazzling stories by and about Asians

A daughter’s remembrance of life with the eccentric genius and artist Walter Anderson

An examination of how nineteenth-century African American folklore studies became a site of national debate

How superheroes grappled with industrialism, modernism, and capitalism

Curators reflect on a half century of the nation’s public presentation of living cultural heritage

How comics introduced a sharp metaphor for America’s growing recognition of a mutable past

A master class on film direction in which Schepisi provides a goldmine of insights into his films, his filmmaking style, and what makes him tick as an artist

A passionate insider’s account from a major mover and shaker in the American music scene

How one woman and her newspaper defied the white status quo and won a Pulitzer Prize

A detailed chronicle of how the wild Mississippi will eventually deliver a cataclysm

Glorious moments from all of Mississippi’s seasons in the Capital, the Delta, the Hill Country, the Piney Woods, and on the Coast

Essays that hunt down what happens when the undead go global

An essential history of the narrative art form’s global rise

A rebellious native son attempts to escape the magnetic pull of New Orleans

The only complete, on-the-scene account of the heinous Freedom Summer murders in Mississippi

The wide-ranging, authoritative story of thriving comics production and creativity in Asia

One woman’s harrowing, unforgettable account from the nadir of Jim Crow Mississippi

The unexpected story of a painter who flourished then withdrew and a small town’s discovery of a treasure

How Louisiana musicians and audiences negotiate with difference and shape a common musical heritage

A revelation of the valorous nonviolent efforts wielded to motivate change in a “moderate” part of the segregated South