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On March 5, 1959, Luvenia Long was listening to gospel music when a news bulletin interrupted her radio program. Fire had engulfed the Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School in Wrightsville. Her son was among the twenty-one boys who burned to death. Black Boys Burning presents a focused explanation of how systemic poverty perpetuated by white supremacy sealed the fate of those students.

Prohibition, with all its crime, corruption, and cultural upheaval, ran its course in thirteen years in most of the US - but not in Memphis, where it lasted thirty. Patrick O'Daniel takes a fresh look at those responsible for the rise and fall of Prohibition, its effect on Memphis, and the impact events in the city had on the rest of the country.

From the pioneering Cuban Giants (1885-1915) to the Negro Leagues (1920-1960), black baseball was a long-standing staple of African American communities. While many of its artifacts and statistics are lost, black baseball figured vibrantly in films, novels, plays, and poems. In Invisible Ball of Dreams, Emily Ruth Rutter examines wide-ranging representations of this history.

The first collection to address the myriad legacies of African chattel slavery in the writings and personal history of one of the twentieth century's most incisive authors on US slavery and the long ordeal of race in the Americas. Contributors examine the constitutive links among slavery, capitalism, and modernity across Faulkner's oeuvre.

Argues the doings of Winnie-the-Pooh remain relevant for readers in a posthuman, information-centric, media-saturated, globalized age. The first volume to offer multiple perspectives from multiple authors on the Pooh books in a single collection focuses on approaches that bring this classic of children's literature into the current era.

Argues the doings of Winnie-the-Pooh remain relevant for readers in a posthuman, information-centric, media-saturated, globalized age. The first volume to offer multiple perspectives from multiple authors on the Pooh books in a single collection focuses on approaches that bring this classic of children's literature into the current era.

Collects twenty-one interviews with filmmaker Alain Resnais. Spanning his entire career from his early short subjects to his final feature film, the volume highlights Resnais's creative strategies and principles, illuminates his place in world cinema history, and situates his work relative to the New Wave and American film.

These interviews expose the remarkable consistency of Steve Erickson's vision over time while simultaneously capturing the new threads that appear in his later fiction as they emerge in his thought. This volume will deepen readers' understanding of how Erickson's books work - and why this utterly singular writer deserves greater attention.

Collects twenty-one interviews with filmmaker Alain Resnais. Spanning his entire career from his early short subjects to his final feature film, the volume highlights Resnais's creative strategies and principles, illuminates his place in world cinema history, and situates his work relative to the New Wave and American film.

Offers a sustained analysis of race and representation in young adult speculative fiction (YASF). The collection considers how characters of colour are represented in YASF, how they participate in speculative worlds, how race affects or influences the structures of speculative worlds, and how race and racial ideologies are implicated in YASF.

These interviews expose the remarkable consistency of Steve Erickson's vision over time while simultaneously capturing the new threads that appear in his later fiction as they emerge in his thought. This volume will deepen readers' understanding of how Erickson's books work - and why this utterly singular writer deserves greater attention.

A groundbreaking collection on the work of a pioneer of underground comix and a fixture of comics culture. Contributors cast Crumb's work as sophisticated and complex in its representations of gender, sexuality, race, politics, and history, and chart his role in underground comix and the ways in which his work has circulated in the art museum.

Offers a sustained analysis of race and representation in young adult speculative fiction (YASF). The collection considers how characters of colour are represented in YASF, how they participate in speculative worlds, how race affects or influences the structures of speculative worlds, and how race and racial ideologies are implicated in YASF.

A groundbreaking collection on the work of a pioneer of underground comix and a fixture of comics culture. Contributors cast Crumb's work as sophisticated and complex in its representations of gender, sexuality, race, politics, and history, and chart his role in underground comix and the ways in which his work has circulated in the art museum.

An anthology of critical essays, this volume introduces a new group of fiction writers from the American South. These fresh voices, like their twentieth-century predecessors, examine what it means to be a southerner in the modern world.

An anthology of critical essays, this volume introduces a new group of fiction writers from the American South. These fresh voices, like their twentieth-century predecessors, examine what it means to be a southerner in the modern world.

Delves into the essential nature of the liberal arts in America today. Written by scholars from a diversity of fields and institutions, the essays in this collection legitimize the liberal arts and offer visions for the role of these disciplines in the modern world.

Delves into the essential nature of the liberal arts in America today. Written by scholars from a diversity of fields and institutions, the essays in this collection legitimize the liberal arts and offer visions for the role of these disciplines in the modern world.