Tag: University Press of Mississippi

  • Born in 1941 of a Hawaiian mother and a white father, Gene H. Bell-Villada, grew up an overseas American citizen. An outsider wherever he landed, he never had a ready answer to the innocuous question “Where are you from?”

  • Race and the Obama Phenomenon: The Vision of a More Perfect Multiracial Union University Press of Mississippi 2014-07-17 432 pages 6 X 9 inches 3 B&W photographs Hardcover ISBN: 9781628460216 Edited by: G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Hettie V. Williams, Lecturer of African American History Monmouth University, West Long…

  • United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey (b. 1966) describes her mode as elegiac. Although the loss of her murdered mother informs each book, Trethewey’s range of forms and subjects is wide.

  • Louisiana Creole Literature: A Historical Study University Press of Mississippi 2013-10-17 256 pages 6 x 9 inches, bibliography, index Hardback ISBN: 9781617039102 Catharine Savage Brosman, Professor Emerita of French Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana Louisiana Creole Literature is a broad-ranging critical reading of belles lettres—in both French and English—connected to and generally produced by the…

  • Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954 University Press of Mississippi 2005 224 pages bibliography, index Cloth ISBN: 9781578067053 Paper ISBN: 9781604732474 Alex Lubin, Associate Professor of American Studies University of New Mexico Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954 studies the meaning of interracial romance, love, and sex in the…

  • From Bruce Lee to Samurai Champloo, how Asian fictions fuse with African American creative sensibilities

  • Paul Marchand, F.M.C. University Press of Mississippi 1998 184 pages Paper ISBN: 978-1-57806-798-5 Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) Never before published, a 1920s novel disputes prevailing attitudes on racial character and identity Chesnutt wrote this novel at the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance, but set it in a time and place favored by George Washington Cable.…

  • A Unique Slant of Light: The Bicentennial History of Art in Louisiana University Press of Mississippi 2012-09-20 450 pages 9 1/2 x 11 7/8 inches, 400+ color illustrations, foreword, introduction, bibliography, index of artists Cloth ISBN: 978-1-61703-690-3   Edited By: Michael Sartisky, President Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities J. Richard Gruber, Director Emeritus Ogden Museum…

  • Me: A Book of Remembrance University Press of Mississippi 1997 (Originally published in 1915) 368 pages Cloth ISBN: 0878059911 (9780878059911) Paper ISBN: 087805992X (9780878059928) Winnifred Eaton (1875-1954) Afterword by: Linda Trinh Moser, Professor of English Missouri State University A Chinese-Eurasian’s autobiographical novel tracing a woman’s dual quest for a writing career and romance Ironically, Winnifred…

  • To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance University Press of Mississippi 1999 202 pages Cloth: 157806130X (9781578061303) Paper: 1578061318 (9781578061310) Jon Woodson, Professor of English Howard University, Washington, D.C. Jean Toomer’s adamant stance against racism and his call for a raceless society were far more complex than the average reader of…