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Race relations 78 Blues: Folksongs and Phonographs in the American South Aaron Douglas: Art, Race, and the Harlem Renaissance Aaron Henry: The Fire Ever Burning The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison: Speaking the Unspeakable Affect and Power: Essays on Sex, Slavery, Race, and Religion African American Religion and the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas African American Writers: Portraits and Visions African-American Proverbs in Context American Exceptionalism The Art of Nellie Mae Rowe 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 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 Booker T. Washington in Perspective: Essays of Louis R. Harlan 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 Caribbean Visionary: A. R. F. Webber and the Making of the Guyanese Nation Changing Channels: The Civil Rights Case that Transformed Television Charles Johnson: The Novelist as Philosopher Chicano Graffiti and Murals: The Neighborhood Art of Peter Quezada Cinderella in America: A Book of Folk and Fairy Tales The Circle of Guilt Civil Rights Childhood Civil Rights Chronicle: Letters from the South The Color of Jazz: Race and Representation in Postwar American Culture Conversations with Albert Murray Conversations with Amiri Baraka Conversations with Audre Lorde Conversations with August Wilson Conversations with Chaim Potok Conversations with Chester Himes Conversations with Chinua Achebe Conversations with Clarence Major Conversations with Derek Walcott Conversations with Ernest Gaines Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks Conversations with Ishmael Reed Conversations with James Baldwin Conversations with John Edgar Wideman Conversations with Maya Angelou Conversations with Nikki Giovanni Conversations with Ralph Ellison Conversations with Sonia Sanchez Conversations with Toni Morrison Conversations with Wole Soyinka The Courting of Marcus Dupree Covering for the Bosses: Labor and the Southern Press 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 DuBose Heyward: A Charleston Gentleman and the World of Porgy and Bess Empire and Slavery in American Literature, 1820-1865 Eudora Welty: Seeing Black and White Faulkner and Race Faulkner on the Color Line: The Later Novels Finding a Way Home: A Critical Assessment of Walter Mosley's Fiction 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 Gertrude Stein and Richard Wright: The Poetics and Politics of Modernism Global Pop, Local Language Growing Up in Mississippi Haitian Vodou Flags 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 Invisible Suburbs: Recovering Protest Fiction in the 1950s United States James K. Humphrey and the Sabbath-Day Adventists Jazz in American Culture Jazz Planet Jesus and the Sweet Pilgrim Baptist Church Jews in Early Mississippi John Singleton: Interviews Kennedy's Blues: African American Blues and Gospel Songs on JFK The Lasting of the Mohicans: History of an American Myth Let's Make Some Noise: Axé and the African Roots of Brazilian Popular Music Lincoln's Moral Vision: The Second Inaugural Address Lockstep and Dance: Images of Black Men in Popular Culture The Lonely Days Were Sundays: Reflections of a Jewish Southerner Lords of Misrule: Mardi Gras and the Politics of Race in New Orleans Louisiana Governors: Rulers, Rascals, and Reformers Making Haste Slowly: The Troubled History of Higher Education in Mississippi Manners and Southern History Mardi Gras, Gumbo, and Zydeco: Readings in Louisiana Culture Marxism for Our Times: C. L. R. James on Revolutionary Organization Mayor Crump Don't Like It: Machine Politics in Memphis The Measure of Our Days Writings of William F. Winter A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader Memphis-Nam-Sweden: The Story of a Black Deserter The Mind of the South: Fifty Years Later Mississippi Liberal: A Biography of Frank E. Smith Mississippi Politics The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006 The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission: Civil Rights and States' Rights Moving Pictures, Migrating Identities The Mulatta and the Politics of Race Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a, and Asian American Fictions Multiparty Politics in Mississippi, 1877-1902 Murder at Montpelier: Igbo Africans in Virginia My Mississippi Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature between the Wars: A New Pandora's Box Native American Writing in the Southeast: An Anthology, 1875-1935 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 Now Is the Time On My Way: The Arts of Sarah Albritton Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895 Overseas American: Growing Up Gringo in the Tropics Pagan Spain Passage on the Underground Railroad Paul Marchand, F. M. C. The Peddler's Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi Performing the Pilgrims: A Study of Ethnohistorical Role Playing at Plimoth Plantation Perspectives on Wole Soyinka: Freedom and Complexity Peyote Religious Art: Symbols of Faith and Belief Photographs from the Memphis World, 1949-1964 The Pilgrim Jubilees Pilgrimage from Darkness: Nuremberg to Jerusalem Piney Woods School: An Oral History A Place Called Mississippi: Collected Narratives Placing the South Plunging into Haiti: Clinton, Aristide, and the Defeat of Diplomacy Porgy 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 Reconstructing Fame: Sport, Race, and Evolving Reputations Rednecks, Redeemers, and Race: Mississippi after Reconstruction, 1877-1917 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 Rencontres sur le Mississipi, 1682-1763 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 Rise of David Duke 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 Sam Myers: The Blues Is My Story Savage Holiday Scottish Traveller Tales: Lives Shaped through Stories A Scottsboro Case in Mississippi: The Supreme Court and Brown v. Mississippi Searching for Red Eagle: A Personal Journey into the Spirit World of Native America Seminole Burning: A Story of Racial Vengeance Sentenced to Death: The American Novel and Capital Punishment The Several Lives of Chester Himes Shadow and Shelter: The Swamp in Southern Culture Shadowing Ralph Ellison Shelby Foote: A Writer's Life Shifting Interludes: Selected Essays Shim Showman: The Life and Music of Perry George Lowery Sidelines Activist: Charles S. Johnson and the Struggle for Civil Rights Slavery and Frontier Mississippi, 1720-1835 Slavery and the American South Slavery, Propaganda, and the American Revolution The South and the Caribbean Spheres of Liberty: Changing Perceptions of Liberty in American Culture Spike Lee: Interviews A Spiral Way: How the Phonograph Changed Ethnography 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 Steamboats and the Cotton Economy: River Trade in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Straight White Male: Performance Art Monologues Strike Songs of the Depression Striking Performances/Performing Strikes Sundays Down South: A Pastor's Stories Three Lives for Mississippi Through the Lens of the City: NEA Photography Surveys of the 1970s Tim Hector: A Caribbean Radical's Story A Time to Speak: Speeches by Jack Reed To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance Toni Morrison: Conversations Toussaint's Clause: The Founding Fathers and the Haitian Revolution Triumph of Good Will: How Terry Sanford Beat a Champion of Segregation and Reshaped the South 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 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 What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction Where Have All the Flower Children Gone? 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 Witnessing 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 World War I and the Cultures of Modernity 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	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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