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African American studies 78 Blues: Folksongs and Phonographs in the American South Aaron Douglas: Art, Race, and the Harlem Renaissance Aaron Henry: The Fire Ever Burning Aerosol Kingdom: Subway Painters of New York City The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison: Speaking the Unspeakable 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 Writers: Portraits and Visions African-American Proverbs in Context Africans and Seminoles: From Removal to Emancipation American Musicians II: Seventy-one Portraits in Jazz American Singers: Twenty-seven Portraits in Song The Art of Nellie Mae Rowe The Art of William Edmondson Ash of Stars: On the Writing of Samuel R. Delany At Home Inside: A Daughter's Tribute to Ann Petry Autobiography as Activism: Three Black Women of the Sixties Autobiography of a Female Slave Barthé: A Life in Sculpture Beaches, Blood, and Ballots: A Black Doctor's Civil Rights Struggle The Beat!: Go-Go Music from Washington, D.C. Beetlecreek Black and White: Cultural Interaction in the Antebellum South Black Diva of the Thirties: The Life of Ruby Elzy Black Exodus: The Great Migration from the American South Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans 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 Blues Boy: The Life and Music of B. B. King Blues Mandolin Man: The Life and Music of Yank Rachell Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues, Third Edition Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues Booker T. Washington in Perspective: Essays of Louis R. Harlan Britain and the American South: From Colonialism to Rock and Roll A Business Career C. L. R. James and Creolization: Circles of Influence C. L. R. James on the 'Negro Question' C. L. R. James: A Critical Introduction Can Anything Beat White? A Black Family's Letters Changing Channels: The Civil Rights Case that Transformed Television Charles Johnson: The Novelist as Philosopher Circle Dance: The Art of John T. Scott Civil Rights Childhood Civil Rights Chronicle: Letters from the South The Civil Rights Movement in America The Color of Jazz: Race and Representation in Postwar American Culture Coming Home! Self-Taught Artists, the Bible, and the American South Connecting Times: The Sixties in Afro-American Fiction Contemporary Southern Identity: Community through Controversy Conversations with Albert Murray Conversations with Amiri Baraka Conversations with August Wilson Conversations with Chester Himes Conversations with Chinua Achebe Conversations with Clarence Major Conversations with Ernest Gaines Conversations with Gloria Naylor Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks Conversations with Ishmael Reed Conversations with James Baldwin Conversations with John Edgar Wideman Conversations with Leon Forrest Conversations with Margaret Walker Conversations with Maya Angelou Conversations with Nikki Giovanni Conversations with Ralph Ellison Conversations with Rita Dove Conversations with Sonia Sanchez Conversations with Toni Morrison Conversations with Wole Soyinka Courtship and Love among the Enslaved in North Carolina Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African American Quilters Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country Cross the Water Blues: African American Music in Europe The Cry Was Unity: Communists and African Americans, 1917-1936 Cultural Orphans in America Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas Dangerous Freedom: Fusion and Fragmentation in Toni Morrison's Novels Dark Princess Doubled Plots: Romance and History Earl Hooker, Blues Master Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press Empire and Slavery in American Literature, 1820-1865 Evelyn's Husband Finding a Way Home: A Critical Assessment of Walter Mosley's Fiction Flying Free: Twentieth-Century Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Ellin and Baron Gordon For Us, the Living Foster Care Odyssey: A Black Girl's Story Freedom Walk: Mississippi or Bust The Fruits of Integration: Black Middle-Class Ideology and Culture, 1960-1990 The Fugitive Race: Minority Writers Resisting Whiteness Global Pop, Local Language Haitian Vodou Flags A Hard Rain Fell: SDS and Why It Failed The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle Over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980 The Historical Present: Uses and Abuses of the Past A History of Affirmative Action, 1619-2000 Huey P. Newton: The Radical Theorist The Identity Question: Blacks and Jews in Europe and America Inherit the Land: Jim Crow Meets Miss Maggie's Will Invisible Suburbs: Recovering Protest Fiction in the 1950s United States James K. Humphrey and the Sabbath-Day Adventists Jazz and Death: Medical Profiles of Jazz Greats Jazz Diplomacy: Promoting America in the Cold War Era Jazz in American Culture Jazz Planet Jennie Carter: A Black Journalist of the Early West The Jim Dilemma: Reading Race in Huckleberry Finn John Singleton: Interviews Justice Older than the Law: The Life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree Kennedy's Blues: African American Blues and Gospel Songs on JFK Ladies First: Women in Music Videos Ladies of Soul Let It Shine: Self-Taught Art from the T. Marshall Hahn Collection Let the World Listen Right: The Mississippi Delta Hip-Hop Story Light of the Spirit: Portraits of Southern Outsider Artists Lockstep and Dance: Images of Black Men in Popular Culture Lords of Misrule: Mardi Gras and the Politics of Race in New Orleans Louisiana Making a Way out of No Way: African American Women and the Second Great Migration Making Haste Slowly: The Troubled History of Higher Education in Mississippi Manners and Southern History Marxism for Our Times: C. L. R. James on Revolutionary Organization Mayor Crump Don't Like It: Machine Politics in Memphis A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader Memphis-Nam-Sweden: The Story of a Black Deserter The Mind of the South: Fifty Years Later Minty Alley Mississippi Politics The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006 Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a, and Asian American Fictions Murder at Montpelier: Igbo Africans in Virginia Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature between the Wars: A New Pandora's Box Nitty Gritty: A White Editor in Black Journalism No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey through the American South Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From: Lyrics and History Not Just Child's Play: Emerging Tradition and the Lost Boys of Sudan Now Is the Time On My Way: The Arts of Sarah Albritton On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in New York City Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895 Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895 Passage on the Underground Railroad Pearl Harbor Jazz: Change in Popular Music in the Early 1940s Photographs from the Memphis World, 1949-1964 Pictured in My Mind: Contemporary American Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Dr. Kurt Gitter and Alice Rae Yelen The Pilgrim Jubilees Piney Woods School: An Oral History Pinktoes Placing the South Plan B Prejudice Across America The Press and Race: Mississippi Journalists Confront the Movement The Pursuit of a Dream 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 Real Football: Conversations on America's Game Reclaiming Community in Contemporary African American Fiction Rednecks, Redeemers, and Race: Mississippi after Reconstruction, 1877-1917 Redressing the Balance: American Women's Literary Humor from Colonial Times to the 1980s Reggae Wisdom: Proverbs in Jamaican Music Reggae, Rastafari, and the Rhetoric of Social Control Religion in Mississippi Remaking Dixie: The Impact of World War II on the American South Remembering Reet and Shine: Two Black Men, One Struggle Reminiscences of an Active Life: The Autobiography of John Roy Lynch Resistance and Reformation in Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature: Brown, Wilson, Jacobs, Delany, Douglass, and Harper Return to Glory: Inside Tyrone Willingham's Amazing First Season at Notre Dame The Reverend Revising the Blueprint: Ann Petry and the Literary Left Revolt of the Tar Heels: The North Carolina Populist Movement, 1890-1901 Richard Wright's Travel Writings: New Reflections Richard Wright: Books and Writers The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC Robert G. Clark's Journey to the House: A Black Politician's Story The Role of Ideas in the Civil Rights South Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954 Roosevelt's Blues: African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on FDR Sacred and Profane: Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught Art Sam Myers: The Blues Is My Story Savage Holiday A Scottsboro Case in Mississippi: The Supreme Court and Brown v. Mississippi Self-Taught Art: The Culture and Aesthetics of American Vernacular Art The Several Lives of Chester Himes Shadow and Shelter: The Swamp in Southern Culture Shadowing Ralph Ellison Shim Showman: The Life and Music of Perry George Lowery Shreveport Sounds in Black and White Sidelines Activist: Charles S. Johnson and the Struggle for Civil Rights Sitting in Darkness: New South Fiction, Education, and the Rise of Jim Crow Colonialism, 1865-1920 Slavery and Frontier Mississippi, 1720-1835 Slavery and the American South Slavery, Propaganda, and the American Revolution Somebody Always Singing You The Soul of Southern Cooking The South and the Caribbean South Florida Folklife Spheres of Liberty: Changing Perceptions of Liberty in American Culture Spike Lee: Interviews The Spirit of Black Hawk: A Mystery of Africans and Indians A Spiritual Journey: The Art of Eddie Lee Kendrick Sports and the Racial Divide: African American and Latino Experience in an Era of Change Sports: The All-American Addiction Three Lives for Mississippi To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance Toni Morrison: Conversations Toussaint's Clause: The Founding Fathers and the Haitian Revolution Traveling the Rainbow: The Life and Art of Joseph E. Yoakum The Treasure of Ulysses Davis: Sculpture from a Savannah Barbershop Triumph of Good Will: How Terry Sanford Beat a Champion of Segregation and Reshaped the South A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz Trumpet Records: Diamonds on Farish Street Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers: Culture and Politics of the Early Cold War Unflinching Gaze: Morrison and Faulkner Re-Envisioned Unruly Tongue: Identity and Voice in American Women's Writing, 1850-1930 Vodou Things: The Art of Pierrot Barra and Marie Cassaise Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau W. E. B. Du Bois on Asia: Crossing the World Color Line Warring Fictions: Cultural Politics and the Vietnam War Narrative What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction Whiteness in the Novels of Charles W. Chesnutt Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination Why I Left America and Other Essays Without Regard to Race: The Other Martin Robison Delany Witness to Injustice 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 Writings of Frank Marshall Davis: A Voice of the Black Press Zydeco!	Download the BOOKFRIENDS newsletter Join us on Facebook READ OUR BLOG 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. 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