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Describes the birth of the white Citizens' Council in the Mississippi Delta and its spread throughout the South. Hodding Carter begins with a brief historical overview and traces the formation of the Council, its treatment of African Americans, and its impact on white communities, concluding with an analysis of the Council's future in Mississippi.

Features the lyrics of fifteen slave songs and fifteen abolitionist songs, placing them in proper historical context and making them available again to the general public. These songs not only express outrage at slavery but call for militant resistance and destruction of the slave system.

This collection allows readers to observe Elizabeth Spencer's evolving style while offering glimpses of the moral reasoning that lies at the heart of all her work. Greene's critical introduction helpfully places these narratives within the context of Spencer's entire body of writing.

Identifies an archive of over 150 English-language children's picture books that explicitly represent LGBTQ+ identities, expressions, and issues. This archive is then analysed to explore the evolution of LGBTQ+ characters and content from the 1970s to the present.

Presents fifteen essays addressing how Edwidge Danticat's writing, anthologizing, and storytelling trace, (re)construct, and develop alternate histories, narratives of nation building, and conceptions of home and belonging.

Tackles topics often overlooked in foodways. Michael Owen Jones explains how we communicate through what we eat, the connection between food choice and who we are or want to appear to be, the ways that many of us self-medicate moods with foods, and the nature of disgust.

The essays in Contagious Imagination study the pedagogy of Lynda Barry's work and its application academically and practically. Examining Barry's career and work from the point of view of research-creation, the book applies Barry's unique mixture of teaching, art, learning, and creativity to the very form of the volume.

Diane di Prima was one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century, and her career is distinguished by strong contributions to both literature and social justice. This volume presents twenty interviews ranging from 1972 to 2010 that chart di Prima's intellectual, spiritual, and political evolution.

Diane di Prima was one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century, and her career is distinguished by strong contributions to both literature and social justice. This volume presents twenty interviews ranging from 1972 to 2010 that chart di Prima's intellectual, spiritual, and political evolution.

Features seventeen interviews, the majority translated into English for the first time, covering the entirety of Malle's career. The collection demonstrates that Malle was a filmmaker who thought deeply about his choices as a director, the ideological implications of those choices, and the often-controversial themes treated in his films.

Features seventeen interviews, the majority translated into English for the first time, covering the entirety of Malle's career. The collection demonstrates that Malle was a filmmaker who thought deeply about his choices as a director, the ideological implications of those choices, and the often-controversial themes treated in his films.

Offers an epic history of a little-known African American instrumental music form. John Shaw follows the music from its roots in West Africa and early American militia drumming to its prominence in African American communities during the time of Reconstruction, both as a rallying tool for political militancy and a community music.

Humour in recent American poetry has been largely dismissed or ignored by scholars, due in part to a staid reverence for the lyric. Laugh Lines argues that humour is not a superficial feature of a small subset, but instead an integral feature in a great deal of American poetry written since the 1950s.

There are over eighty images in Exposing Mississippi, including some never-before-seen archival photographs. The chapters on institutional, leisure, and memorial landscapes address how Eudora Welty's photographs contribute to, reflect on, and intervene in customary visual constructions of the Depression-era South.

Introduces seventy Victorian urban legends ranging from 'Beetle Eyes' to the 'Shoplifter's Dilemma' and from 'Hands in the Muff' to 'the Suicide Club'. While a handful of these stories are already known, the vast majority have never been identified, and they have certainly never received scholarly treatment.

Addresses Harry Potter primarily as a literary phenomenon rather than a cultural one. Contributors interrogate the novels on many levels, from multiple perspectives, and with various conclusions, but they come together around the overarching question: What is it about these books?

Addresses Harry Potter primarily as a literary phenomenon rather than a cultural one. Contributors interrogate the novels on many levels, from multiple perspectives, and with various conclusions, but they come together around the overarching question: What is it about these books?

In the interviews collected in Jeff Lemire: Conversations, readers see Lemire come to understand the process of collaboration, the balancing act involved in working for different kinds of comics publishers, the responsibilities involved in representing characters outside his own culture, and the possibilities that exist in the comics medium.

In the interviews collected in Jeff Lemire: Conversations, readers see Lemire come to understand the process of collaboration, the balancing act involved in working for different kinds of comics publishers, the responsibilities involved in representing characters outside his own culture, and the possibilities that exist in the comics medium.

Recasts the world-historical significance of the Saint-Domingue Revolution to investigate the twinned significance of colour/race and class in the reproduction of privilege and inequality in contemporary Haiti. Through this ethnography, class emerges as the principal site of social organization among Haitians.

Argues for the benefits and potential of 'primary science fiction', or science fiction for children under twelve years old. Using three empirical studies and over 350 children's books, Equipping Space Cadets presents interdisciplinary evidence that science fiction and children are compatible after all.

Takes a humorous, intimate approach to disability through the stories, jokes, performances, and other creative expressions of people with disabilities. Author Teresa Milbrodt explores why individuals can laugh at their leglessness, find stoma bags sexual, discover intimacy in scars, and flaunt their fragility in ways both hilarious and serious.

Argues that the Delmer Daves' work warrants sustained scholarly attention. Examining all of Daves' films, his screenplays, scripts that were not filmed, and personal papers, Douglas Horlock argues that Daves was a serious and enlightened filmmaker whose work confronts the general conservatism of Hollywood in the mid-twentieth century.

Fred Rogers wrote the television scripts and music, performed puppetry, sang, hosted, and directed Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for more than thirty years. This book centres on the show's environmentalism, primarily expressed through his themed week 'Caring for the Environment', produced in 1990.

Though separated by almost half a century, the campaigns of both George Wallace and Donald Trump broke new grounds for political partisanship and divisiveness. Andrew Stoner analyses the two candidates, their campaigns, and their speeches and activities, as well as their coverage by the media, through the lens of demagogic rhetoric.

Even the most celebrated figures of the comics industry, such as Stan Lee and Frank Miller, have not been able to distance themselves from the problematic racism embedded in their narratives despite their intentions. This book provides a sober assessment of these creators and their role in perpetuating racism throughout the history of comics.

Minas Gerais is a state in southeastern Brazil deeply connected to the nation's slave past and home to many traditions related to the African diaspora. Addressing a range of traditions helping to define the region, Jonathon Grasse examines the complexity of Minas Gerais by exploring the intersections of its history, music, and culture.

The first volume dedicated exclusively to Su Friedrich and her work. The interviews collected here highlight the historical, theoretical, political, and economic dimensions through which Friedrich's films gain their unique and defiantly ambiguous identity.

Despite the high number of programs and their evident popularity, paranormal reality television has to date received little critical attention. This volume provides an overview of the paranormal reality television genre, its development, and its place in television history, conducting in-depth analyses of over thirty paranormal television series.

The first volume dedicated exclusively to Su Friedrich and her work. The interviews collected here highlight the historical, theoretical, political, and economic dimensions through which Friedrich's films gain their unique and defiantly ambiguous identity.