Ethnic studies

78 Blues: Folksongs and Phonographs in the American South

Aaron Douglas: Art, Race, and the Harlem Renaissance

Aaron Henry: The Fire Ever Burning

Acadian to Cajun: Transformation of a People, 1803-1877

Accidental Ambassador Gordo: The Comic Strip Art of Gus Arriola

Aerosol Kingdom: Subway Painters of New York City

Affect and Power: Essays on Sex, Slavery, Race, and Religion

Africa and the Blues

African American Religion and the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas

African-American Proverbs in Context

Africans and Seminoles: From Removal to Emancipation

After Removal: The Choctaw in Mississippi

At Home Inside: A Daughter's Tribute to Ann Petry

Bashert: A Granddaughter's Holocaust Quest

Birth Chairs, Midwives, and Medicine

Black and White: Cultural Interaction in the Antebellum South

Black Exodus: The Great Migration from the American South

Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth Century African American Literature

Black-Jewish Relations on Trial: Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South

Blue Ridge Folklife

Britain and the American South: From Colonialism to Rock and Roll

C. L. R. James and Creolization: Circles of Influence

C. L. R. James on the 'Negro Question'

C. L. R. James: A Critical Introduction

Cajun and Creole Folktales Collected and Annotated

Cajun and Creole Music Makers: Musiciens cadiens et créoles

Cajun Country

Cajun Foodways

Cajun Mardi Gras Masks

Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors: A Young Reader's History

The Cajuns: Americanization of a People

Can Anything Beat White? A Black Family's Letters

Chicano Graffiti and Murals: The Neighborhood Art of Peter Quezada

The Choctaw before Removal

Choctaw Tales

The Color of Jazz: Race and Representation in Postwar American Culture

Connecting Times: The Sixties in Afro-American Fiction

Conversations with Sonia Sanchez

Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African American Quilters

Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country

The Cry Was Unity: Communists and African Americans, 1917-1936

Cultural Orphans in America

Divine Destiny: Gender and Race in Nineteenth-Century Protestantism

The Fugitive Race: Minority Writers Resisting Whiteness

The Glenbuchat Ballads

Great Smoky Mountains Folklife

Hungarian Folktales: The Art of Zsuzsanna Palko

The Hungry Cowboy: Service and Community in a Neighborhood Restaurant

James K. Humphrey and the Sabbath-Day Adventists

The Jim Dilemma: Reading Race in Huckleberry Finn

John Singleton: Interviews

Just Above the Water: Florida Folk Art

Kennedy's Blues: African American Blues and Gospel Songs on JFK

Let's Make Some Noise: Axé and the African Roots of Brazilian Popular Music

Lockstep and Dance: Images of Black Men in Popular Culture

Lords of Misrule: Mardi Gras and the Politics of Race in New Orleans

Miracles of the Spirit: Folk, Art, and Stories from Wisconsin

Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore

The Mulatta and the Politics of Race

Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a, and Asian American Fictions

On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in New York City

Passage on the Underground Railroad

The Peddler's Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi

Peyote Religious Art: Symbols of Faith and Belief

Pilgrimage from Darkness: Nuremberg to Jerusalem

Piney Woods School: An Oral History

Placing the South

Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Literature

The Press and Race: Mississippi Journalists Confront the Movement

Race and Sport: The Struggle for Equality on and off the Field

Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006 Third Edition

Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1990, Revised Second Edition

Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz

Reconstructing Fame: Sport, Race, and Evolving Reputations

Rednecks, Redeemers, and Race: Mississippi after Reconstruction, 1877-1917

Reminiscences of an Active Life: The Autobiography of John Roy Lynch

Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954

Roosevelt's Blues: African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on FDR

Sam Myers: The Blues Is My Story

Scottish Traveller Tales: Lives Shaped through Stories

Searching for Red Eagle: A Personal Journey into the Spirit World of Native America

Seminole Burning: A Story of Racial Vengeance

The Several Lives of Chester Himes

Shadow and Shelter: The Swamp in Southern Culture

Shenandoah Valley Folklife

Slavery and Frontier Mississippi, 1720-1835

Slavery and the American South

Slavery, Propaganda, and the American Revolution

The South and the Caribbean

South Florida Folklife

The Spirit of Black Hawk: A Mystery of Africans and Indians

Sports and the Racial Divide: African American and Latino Experience in an Era of Change

Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues

Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana

Theatre of the Fraternity: Staging the Ritual Space of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, 1896-1929

Threading the Generations: A Mississippi Family's Quilt Legacy

To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance

¡Viva la historieta!: Mexican Comics, NAFTA, and the Politics of Globalization

Vodou Things: The Art of Pierrot Barra and Marie Cassaise

Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba

Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau

W. E. B. Du Bois on Asia: Crossing the World Color Line

The War of Our Childhood: Memories of World War II

Whiteness in the Novels of Charles W. Chesnutt

Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination

Without Regard to Race: The Other Martin Robison Delany

Woke Me Up This Morning: Black Gospel Singers and the Gospel Life

Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965

The World of Richard Wright

The World War II Black Regiment That Built the Alaska Military Highway: A Photographic History

The WPA Guides: Mapping America

Writings of Frank Marshall Davis: A Voice of the Black Press

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UPM Fall BOOKFRIENDS Party Announced

On Sunday, November 22 from 3–5 p.m. the University Press of Mississippi will be holding its annual BOOKFRIENDS fall membership party at The Auditorium Restaurant at the Duling School. This year’s party will honor the memory of Willie Morris on the seventy-fifth anniversary of his birth. To mark the occasion UPM is featuring a new, limited edition of the quintessential Morris essay, My Two

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