University Press of Mississippi Fall-Winter 2015-2016 catalog

Books for Fall/Winter 20152016

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A Charlie Brown Religion: The Spiritual Life and Work of Charles M. Schulz, page 3

17 Alaniz Death, Disability, and the Superhero6 Anderson Emmett Till1 Barbour / Nash Americas Great Storm19 Bernard / Woodward Krzysztof Kieslowski: Interviews32 Blank / Kitta Diagnosing Folklore21 Bolick / Austin Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s23 Boyett Right to Revolt25 Brasell The Possible South25 Brown Beyond Bombshells11 Burnett Gone to the Grave31 Cash / Perry Rough South, Rural South27 Daniel / Williams Race and the Obama Phenomenon26 Davis Prefiguring Postblackness33 Day, J. The Southern Manifesto 30 Day, S. Reading Like a Girl22 Dockery / Thompson The Geology of Mississippi7 Eichelberger Tell about Night Flowers4 Eliason / Squire To See Them Run10 Feintuch / Samson Talking New Orleans Music12 Fertel The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak24 Fischer-Hornung / Mueller Vampires and Zombies30 Giunta / Sciorra Embroidered Stories14 Guenin-Lelle The Story of French New Orleans6 Hailman Return to Guntown32 Haney The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanasev, Volume II12 Heard French Quarter Manual5 Hilpert American Cyclone8 Horn / Huffman / Jones Lines Were Drawn33 Howell Raised Up Down Yonder16 Irving Michael Allred: Conversations16 Jackson Pioneering Cartoonists of Color27 Johnson Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos18 Kapsis Woody Allen: Interviews, Revised and Updated19 Keough Kathryn Bigelow: Interviews18 Kohn Harmony Korine: Interviews10 Laudun The Amazing Crawfish Boat15 Levasseur / Rabalais Conversations with James Salter2 Levingston Bright Fields3 Lind A Charlie Brown Religion21 Lornell / Rasmussen The Music of Multicultural America23 Luckett Joe T. Patterson and the White Souths Dilemma28 Martin Dancing on the Color Line26 Maus / Donahue Post-Soul Satire4 McHale Stable Views13 Miller / Roberts / LaPoe Oil and Water9 Newman / Rosen Black Baseball, Black Business24 Nixon Resisting Paradise9 Oestreich / Pleasant Lines of Scrimmage28 Okafor-Newsum SoulStirrers14 Parrish Fear and What Follows20 Pecknold / McCusker Country Boys and Redneck Women13 Pfeffer Southern Ladies and Suffragists11 Pope Getting Off at Elysian Fields5 Rollyson A Real American Character7 Salter Jack Cristil29 Seward / Tally Toni Morrison15 Thomas Conversations with Barry Hannah20 Villepastour The Yorb God of Drumming31 Watson / Abadie Fifty Years after Faulkner8 Weber Uniting Mississippi22 Webster Mississippians in the Great War29 Zheng African American Haiku

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PHOTOGRAPHSFront cover: In his studio, Charles M. Schulz smiles as he looks at the original drawing of his July 9, 1969, strip in which Charlie Brown asks Lucy, Do you ever wonder if God is pleased with you? courtesy of the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center, Santa Rosa, California. Back cover: TIM ISBELL/SUN HERALD Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour and First Lady Marsha Barbour look at the damage on Point Cadet in Biloxi.

Americas Great StormLeading through Hurricane Katrina

Haley Barbour with Jere NashForeword by Ricky Mathews

When Hurricane Katrina hit Mississippi on August 29, 2005, it unleashed the costliest natural disaster in American history, and the third deadliest. Haley Barbour had been Mississippis governor for only twenty months when he assumed responsibility for guiding his pummeled, stricken states recovery and rebuilding efforts. Americas Great Storm is not only a personal memoir of his role in that recovery, but also a sifting of the many lessons he learned about leadership in a time of massive crisis. For the book, the authors interviewed more than forty-five key people involved in helping Missis-sippi recover, including local, state, and federal offi-cials as well as private citizens who played pivotal roles in the weeks and months following Katrinas landfall. In addition to covering in detail the days in September and October of 2005, chapters focus on the special legislative session that allowed casinos to build on shore; the role of the recovery commis-

sion chaired by Jim Barksdale; a behind-the-scenes description of working with Congress to pass an unprecedented, multi-billion-dollar emergency disaster assistance appropriation; and the enormous roles played by volunteers in rebuilding the entire housing, transportation, and education infrastructure of south Mississippi and the Gulf Coast. A final chapter analyzes the leadership skills and strategies Barbour employed on behalf of the people of his native state, observations that will be valuable to anyone tasked with managing in a crisis.

Haley Barbour, Yazoo City, Mississippi, served as Mississippis governor from 2004 to 2012 and is founding partner of the Washington, DC, firm BGR Group. Jere Nash, Jackson, Mississippi, is coauthor of Mississippi Politics: The Strug-gle for Power, 19762008 (published by University Press of Mississippi) and Mississippi Fried Politics: Tall Tales from the Backroom.

A first-person account

of the year following the worst natural disaster in American history

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Aerial shot of devastated neighborhood off US Highway 90

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ART BIOGRAPHY MISSISSIPPI

Bright FieldsThe Mastery of Marie Hull

Bruce LevingstonForeword by Michaela MerrydayContributions by Mary Garrard, Philip Jackson, and Jon Levingston

Bright Fields is a comprehensive and deeply inti-mate exploration of the life and work of Mississippi- born artist Marie Hull (18901980). Her paintings reflect a nine-decade journey of search, thought, and growth. She produced some of the most memorable and iconic works ever created by a southern artist. This elegant and exquisitely detailed book contains over two hundred newly photographed reproduc-tions of the artists finest works, many never before seen by the public. Hull was born in a small town near Jackson at a time when women were not allowed to vote and were denied many career opportunities. This did not deter Hull from a constant search for quality both in her life and in her art. She studied with some of the most important artists of her day, including William Merritt Chase, in Philadelphia, New York,

and Europe. She won major national competitions and awards and was exhibited in some of the worlds most prestigious art exhibitions and shows in the United States, Europe, and East Asia. During the Depression, Hull created a series of paintings depicting African Americans and local sharecroppers that is considered one of the most significant contributions to regionalist art in the countrys history. These important, deeply moving works place her among the forefront of the great American portraitists. Three decades later, in her seventies, Hull would reveal her remarkable ability to evolve again, this time into one of the most significant abstract painters of the South. In her powerful, brilliantly colorful late works, she combines her mastery of landscape painting with a unique, persuasive synthesis of ideas from such artists as Mark Roth- ko, Willem de Kooning, and Hans Hofmann. Today, Hulls works are exhibited in museums and prestigious private collec-tions throughout the country. Bright Fields expands our knowledge of the painters remarkable life and work, illustrating why Hulls unique vision and tremendous creativity had, and continues to have, such a profound impact on art in the South and beyond.

Bruce Levingston, Oxford, Mississippi, and New York, New York, is an acclaimed concert pianist who has given numerous world premieres at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and other international venues. The New York Times declared him one of todays most adventurous musicians and the New Yorker called him a force for new music. He is founder and artistic director of the music foundation Premiere Commission, Inc., which has commissioned and premiered over fifty new works, and he is the Chancellors Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College Artist in Residence at the University of Mississippi.

SEPTEMBER, 224 pages, 10 x 12 inches, 224 color illustrations (approx.), foreword, bibliography, indexCloth $50.00T 978-1-62846-487-0 Ebook available

A deluxe and dazzling biography of the great Mississippi artist

PHOTOGRAPHSMarie Hull and her dog Mimi, taken in 1966 just before a major retrospective exhibit sponsored by the Mississippi Art Association; photo by Charles Gerald for the Clarion LedgerJackson Daily News; courtesy Mississippi Department of Archives and History. PaintingDetail, Yellow Roses, undated, oil on canvas, 21 x 28, private collection.


POPULAR CULTURE COMICS STUDIES RELIGION

A Charlie Brown ReligionThe Spiritual Life and Work of Charles M. Schulz

Stephen J. Lind

Charles M. Schulzs Peanuts comic strip franchise, the most successful of all time, forever changed the industry. For more than half a century, the endearing, witty insights brought to life by Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, and Lucy have caused newspaper readers and television viewers across the globe to laugh, sigh, gasp, and ponder. A Charlie Brown Religion explores one of the most provocative topics Schulz broached in his heartwarming workreligion. Based on new archival research and original interviews with Schulzs family, friends, and colleagues, author Stephen J. Lind offers a new spiritual biography of the life and work of the great comic strip artist. In his lifetime, aficionados and detractors both labeled Schulz as a fundamentalist Christian or as an atheist. Yet his deeply personal views on faith have eluded journalists and biographers for decades. Previously unpublished writings from Schulz will move fans as they begin to see the nuances of the humorists own complex, intense journey toward understanding God and faith.

There are three things that Ive learned never to discuss with people, Linus says, Religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin. Yet with the support of religious communities, Schulz bravely defied

convention and dared to express spiritual thought in the funny pages, a secular, mainstream entertainment medium. This insightful, thorough study of the 17,897 Peanuts newspaper strips, seventy-five animated titles, and global merchandising empire will delight and intrigue as Schulz considers what it means to believe, what it means to doubt, and what it means to share faith with the world.

Stephen J. Lind, Lexington, Virginia, is an Assistant Professor of Business Communication at Washington and Lee University. He holds a PhD in Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design from Clemson University. His work has appeared in scholarly journals such as ImageTexT, the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture and the Journal of Communication and Religion. Further details on his work can be found at http://www.StephenJLind.com

NOVEMBER, 240 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 32 b&w photographs, 25 line illustrations, 2 tables, bibliography, indexCloth $25.00T 978-1-4968-0468-6Ebook availableGreat Comics Artists Series

The first spiritual

biography of a misun-derstood believer, the renowned creator of Peanuts

ILLUSTRATIONSSally Brown figurine from 2007 Forever Fun toy set, featuring removable angel wings and tinsel halo, photograph by author; 2007 Lenox crche, crafted and ornamented with 24 karat gold, titled The Christmas Pageant, photograph by author.

Stable ViewsStories and Voices from the Thoroughbred Racetrack

Ellen E. McHale

Stable Views offers an inside look at the thoroughbred racing industry through the words and perspec-tives of those who labor within its stables. In more than fourteen years of field research, Ellen E. McHale has traveled throughout the Eastern Seaboard, Kentucky, and Louisiana to gather oral narratives from those most intimately involved with rac-ing: the stable workers, exercise riders, and horse trainers who form the backbone of the industry. She interviewed workers at Saratoga, Belmont, Tampa Bay Downs, Keene-land, the Evangeline Training Cen-

ter in Louisiana, and the Palm Meadows Training Center in Florida. Workers within all sectors of the thoroughbred world have long histories of involvement in the racing industry, with many individuals shifting occupational roles throughout their lifetimes. The thoroughbred racetrack operates as a multicultural workplace that relies upon apprenticeship and mentoring. Many workers speak to the history, the joys, the hardships, and the miracles of horse racing along with the changes that they have experienced through their long careers. Included in the book are discussions about luck, the occupational language of the racetrack, race and gender, and recent changes in the industry, all in the words and voices of the stable workers.

Ellen E. McHale, Esperance, New York, is a folklorist and the executive director of the New York Folklore Society. A native New Yorker, her work as a folklorist has included documentary projects and field research throughout the upstate New York region. She is the coeditor of New York State Folklife Reader: Diverse Voices from University Press of Mississippi. OCTOBER, 160 pages (approx.), 8 x 8 inches, 45 color photographs, bibliography, indexCloth $30.00T 978-1-4968-0368-9Ebook availableFolklore Studies in a Multicultural World Series

To See Them RunGreat Plains Coyote Coursing

Eric A. EliasonPhotographs by Scott SquireForeword by Stephen Bodio

To See Them Run explores how and why Great Plains hunters have chased coyotes with greyhounds and other sight hounds since before George Armstrong Custer. Though a well-developed, long-lived, wide-spread, and undeniably enthralling tradition, the practice remains lit-tle known, even to those living in Oklahoma, Nebraska, and South Dakota, where the tradition is com-mon. Coyote coursing, hunting with greyhounds launched from special-ly made pickup rigs, is a hobby by

locals, for locals, and it has remained a quintessentially vernacular enterprise occupying a rung below the Plains prestige forms of an-imal training and interactionnamely with horses and cattle. The coyote coursing tradition provides an ideal setting for exploring the relationship between animals and the study of folklore. The book examines the artistry, thrills, values, camaraderie, economy, and controversies of this uncommercialized and never- before-studied vernacular tradition. Through ethnographic photo-graphs and authentic collected commentary from participants, this book uncovers how hunting dogs and coyotes both have shaped and been shaped by human aesthetic sensibilities in ongoing folk-loric and biological processes. Author Eric A. Eliason and photogra-pher Scott Squire discover deep and sophisticated local knowledge in a unique interaction with the natural ecologies of the great North American prairie.

Eric A. Eliason, Springville, Utah, is professor of folklore at Brigham Young University. He has published on hunting, as well as Caribbean, military, Mormon, Russian, English, Afghan, American, Mexican, and biblical cultural traditions. His books include Wild Games: Hunting and Fishing Traditions in North America with Dennis Cutchins, Latter-day Lore: Mormon Folklore Studies with Tom Mould, and Black Velvet Art with Scott Squire (published by University Press of Mississippi). Scott Squire, Seattle, Washing-ton, is a documentary photographer and filmmaker. Squire is a principal in NonFiction Media, the production company responsi-ble for the 2015 feature documentary Drawing the Tiger.

NOVEMBER, 112 pages (approx.), 11 x 9 inches, 41 color photographs, 9 b&w illustrations, foreword, bibliography, indexCloth $40.00T 978-1-4968-0386-3Ebook available

SPORTS HORSE RACING FOLKLORE FOLKLORE AMERICAN WEST PHOTOGRAPHY

An unforgettable and up-close portrait of the men and dogs who hunt coyotes

A moving revelation of the many essential work-ers and their lives on the backside of horse racing



American CycloneTheodore Roosevelt and His 1900 Whistle-Stop Campaign

John M. Hilpert

When Theodore Roosevelt entered na-tional politics as the Republicans nomi-nee for the vice presidency in 1900, he was only forty-one years old. However, he had caught the publics attention with the popular version of his life story. Child of East Coast privilege. Sickly, be-spectacled youth. Naturalist and author. Harvard graduate. New York assembly-man. Young widower. Badlands cow-boy. Civil Service reformer. Urban po-lice commissioner. Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Rough Rider and war hero. Enemy of political bosses as governor of the nations most important state. At-tentive husband to his second wife, Edith, and the father of six children. Few candidates for the presidency or vice presidency have enjoyed the elevat-ed level of admiration accorded Roos-

evelt in the waning days of the nineteenth century. Biographers have chronicled every significant period of Roosevelts life with one exception, and American Cyclone fills that gap. His nomination for the vice presidency was Roosevelts debut as a candidate for national office. American Cyclone pres-ents the story of his campaign, a whirlwind effort highlighted by an astounding whistle-stop tour of 480 communities across twenty-three states. Eighteen of those states gave a plurality of votes to the McKinley-Roosevelt ticket, a gain of five states for the Republicans over 1896. Everywhere Roosevelt went, admiring throngs and dramatic events helped forge him into the man who would soon be the twenty-sixth president of the United States. Returning from the Spanish War, Roosevelt was familiar to millions of people across the country as a determined leader. As he interacted with crowds of hundreds, thousands, and even tens of thousands, Roosevelt felt their eagerness to see and hear him. Accordingly, for the first time, this whistle-stop campaign marks the development of the confidence and maturity that would transform Roosevelt into a national leader.

John M. Hilpert, Lake Village, Arkansas, and Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is a retired university president who lived for many years in one or another of the states visited by Theodore Roosevelt prior to the election of 1900. He has written pieces for scholarly journals, newspapers, other periodicals, and conference presentations.

NOVEMBER, 304 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 55 b&w illustrations, appendices, bibliography, indexCloth $40.00T 978-1-4968-0339-9 Ebook available

A Real American CharacterThe Life of Walter Brennan

Carl Rollyson

Walter Brennan (18941974) was one of the greatest character actors in Hol-lywood history. He won three Academy Awards and became a national icon star-ring as Grandpa in The Real McCoys. He appeared in over two hundred motion pictures and became the subject of a Norman Rockwell painting, which celebrated the actors unique role as the voice of the American Western. His life journey from Swampscott, Massa-chusetts, to Hollywood, to a twelve-thousand-acre cattle ranch in Joseph, Oregon, is one of the great American stories. In the first biography of this epic figure, Carl Rollyson reveals Brennans consummate mastery of virtually every kind of role while playing against and often stealing scenes from such stars as

Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart, and John Wayne. Rollyson fully explores Brennans work with Hollywoods greatest directors, such as Howard Hawks, John Ford, and Fritz Lang. As a father and grandfather, Brennan instilled generations of his family with an outlook on the American Dream that remains a sustaining feature of their lives today. His conservative politics, which grew out of his New England upbringing and his devout Catholicism, receive meticulous attention and a balanced assessment in A Real Ameri-can Character. Written with the full cooperation of the Brennan family and drawing on material in archives from every region of the United States, this new biography presents an artist and family man who lived and breathed an American idealism that made him the Real McCoy.

Carl Rollyson, Cape May County, New Jersey, is the advisory editor of the Hollywood Legends series, University Press of Mis-sissippi, and the author of several biographies, including Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress and Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews (both published by University Press of Mississippi); Amer-ican Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath; and Amy Lowell Anew: A Biography. He is a professor of journalism at Baruch College, the City University of New York.

SEPTEMBER, 304 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 71 b&w photographs (approx.), filmography, bibliography, index Cloth $35.00T 978-1-62846-047-6 Ebook availableHollywood Legends Series

AMERICAN HISTORY BIOGRAPHY FILM STUDIES BIOGRAPHY POPULAR CULTURE

An account of the extraordinary twenty-three-state, 480-stop blitz that shaped Roosevelt and the West

The first biography

of the prodigiously hard-working actor who embodied the Western ideal


Return to GuntownClassic Trials of the Outlaws and Roguesof Faulkner Country

John Hailman

A federal prosecutor in Mississippi for over thirty years, John Hailman rou-tinely worked with federal agents, law-yers, judges, and criminals of every type imaginable. Encouraged by the acclaim for his first book, From Midnight to Guntown, he has opened even more of the astonishing cases within the over thirty-five boxes full of trial stories he carried into retirement. Hailman gathers colorful exploits of eccentric modern criminals from William Faulkners Mississippi, where savvy victims often outwit their crimi-nal perpetrators. Characters range from rich but incompetent drug lords and nationwide gun-runners to bumbling Dixie Mafia kidnappers. The book ends with Fancy Frauds in which ingenious con men (and women) offer hilarious

but surprisingly sophisticated special deals on tax-free gold mines in Mexico and bargain (but bogus) Viagra. Chapters include Guns, Bombs, and Moonshine Whiskey, Drug Kingpins Have Troubles Too, Crime Victims Fight Back, Mere Theft, and Fancy Frauds. Written to entertain and enlighten, these stories will delight any fan of the true crime genre and anyone who enjoys good writ-ing and the skill of a master storyteller.

John Hailman, Oxford, Mississippi, is a retired federal prosecutor at the US attorneys office in Oxford, Mississippi, and was an inau-gural Overby Fellow in Journalism and adjunct professor of law at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Thomas Jefferson on Wine; From Midnight to Guntown: True Crime Stories from a Federal Prosecutor in Mississippi; and The Search for Good Wine: From the Founding Fathers to the Modern Table, all published by University Press of Mississippi.

OCTOBER, 368 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 32 b&w photographs (approx.), indexCloth $29.95T 978-1-4968-0305-4 Ebook available

Emmett TillThe Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement

Devery S. AndersonForeword by Julian Bond

Emmett Till offers the first truly com-prehensive account of the 1955 murder and its aftermath. It tells the story of Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old Afri-can American boy from Chicago bru-tally lynched for a harmless flirtation at a country store in the Mississippi Delta. His death and the acquittal of his killers by an all-white jury set off a firestorm of protests that reverberated all over the world and spurred on the civil rights movement. Like no other event in modern history, the death of Emmett Till provoked people all over the United States to seek social change. For six decades the Till story has continued to haunt the South as the lingering injustice of Tills murder and the aftermath altered many lives. Fifty years after the murder, renewed inter-

est in the case led the Justice Department to open an investigation into identifying and possibly prosecuting accomplices of the two men originally tried. Between 2004 and 2005, the Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted the first real probe into the killing and turned up important information that had been lost for decades. This book will stand as the definitive work on Emmett Till for years to come. Incorporating much new information, the book demonstrates how the Emmett Till murder exemplifies the Jim Crow South at its nadir. The author accessed a wealth of new evi-dence. Anderson has made a dozen trips to Mississippi and Chicago to conduct research and interview witnesses and reporters who covered the trial. In Emmett Till Anderson corrects the historical record and presents this critical saga in its entirety.

Devery S. Anderson, Salt Lake City, Utah, is a graduate of the University of Utah and is an editor at Signature Books in Salt Lake City. He has authored or coauthored several books on Mormon history, two of which won the Steven F. Christensen Award for Best Documentary from the Mormon History Association.

SEPTEMBER, 560 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 35 b&w photographs (approx.), foreword, appendix, bibliography, index Cloth $45.00T 978-1-4968-0284-2 Ebook availableRace, Rhetoric, and Media Series

TRUE CRIME BIOGRAPHY CIVIL RIGHTS AMERICAN HISTORY AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

A gripping reexam-ination of the abduc-tion and murder that galvanized the civil rights movement

New tales of wild bad guys from an accom-plished prosecutor of drug dealers, kidnap-pers, and con men


Tell about Night FlowersEudora Weltys Gardening Letters, 19401949

Selected and edited by Julia Eichelberger

Tell about Night Flowers presents pre-viously unpublished letters by Eudora Welty, selected and annotated by scholar Julia Eichelberger. Welty published many of her best-known works in the 1940s: A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, and The Golden Apples. During this period, she also wrote hundreds of letters to two friends who shared her love of gardening. One friend, Diarmuid Russell, was her literary agent in New York; the other, John Robinson, was a high school classmate and an aspiring writer who served in the Army in WWII, and long the focus of Weltys affection. Weltys lyrical, witty, and poignant discussions of gardening and nature are delightful in themselves; they are also figurative expressions of Weltys views

of her writing and her friendships. Taken together with thirty-five illustrations, they form a poetic narrative of their own, chronicling artistic and psychic developments that were underway before Welty was fully conscious of them. By 1949 her art, like her friendships, had evolved in ways that she would never have predicted in 1940. Tell about Night Flowers not only lets readers glimpse Welty in her garden; it also reveals a brilliant and generous mind responding to the public events, people, art, and natural landscapes Welty encountered at home and on her travels during the 1940s. This book enhances our understanding of the life, landscape, and art of a major American writer. Julia Eichelberger, Charleston, South Carolina, is Marybelle Higgins Howe Professor of Southern Literature at the College of Charleston. She is the author of Prophets of Recognition: Ideology and the Individual in Novels by Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, and Eudora Welty and articles in the Eudora Welty Review, Mississippi Quarterly, and other publications.

SEPTEMBER, 304 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 35 b&w illustrations, introduction, appendix, bibliography, indexPaper $25.00T 978-1-4968-0467-9Ebook available

Jack CristilVoice of the MSU Bulldogs, Revised Edition

Sid SalterForeword by John Grisham

Jack Cristil (19252014) was a South-eastern Conference icon and the Voice of Bulldog athletics for more than five decades. In this biography, Cristils remarkable life and career is shared with all Bulldog fans. Authored by Mississippi journalist Sid Salter with a foreword by distinguished MSU alum John Grisham, the book originally sold over 10,000 copies and raised over $170,000 for the Jacob S. Jack Cristil Scholarship in Journalism at MSU. With a fifty-eight-year association with MSU, Cristil was the second- longest tenured college radio play-by-play announcer in the nation at the time of his 2011 retirement. During his legendary career as the Voice of the Bulldogs, Cristil called 636 football

games since 1953. Thats roughly 60 percent of all the football games played in school history. He was in his 54th season as the mens basketball play-by-play voice, having described the action of almost 55 percent of all the mens basketball games. In all, Cristil shared with Bulldog fans across the Magnolia State and around the world more than 1,500 collegiate contests. Central to Cris-tils inspiring story was his upbringing in Memphis as the son of first-generation Russian-Jewish immigrants. This paperback edition is updated with new material covering Cristils death and memorial service, with additional post-retirement and memorial photos.

Sid Salter, Starkville, Mississippi, is director of public affairs at Mississippi State University. He has been a Mississippi syndicated political columnist for more than thirty years.

AVAILABLE, 256 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 55 b&w photographs (approx.), foreword, bibliography, indexPaper $25.00T 978-1-4968-0500-3Ebook available

AMERICAN LITERATURE GARDENING BIOGRAPHY SPORTS MISSISSIPPI

A collection of the garden correspon-dence of a great American writer and gardener

The biography of the iconic, unforgettable announcer of Mississippi sports

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Uniting MississippiDemocracy and Leadership in the South

Eric Thomas WeberForeword by Governor William F. Winter

Uniting Mississippi applies a new, philosophically informed theory of democratic leadership to Mississip-pis challenges. Governor William F. Winter has written a foreword for the book, supporting its proposals. The book begins with an examina-tion of Mississippis apparent Catch-22, namely the difficulty of addressing problems of poverty without fixing issues in education first, and vice versa. These difficulties can be overcome if we look at their common roots, argues Eric Thomas Weber, and if we practice virtuous democratic leadership. Since the approach to addressing poverty has for so long been unsuccessful, Weber

reframes the problem. The challenges of educational failure reveal the extent to which there is a caste system of schooling. Certain groups of people are trapped in schools that are underfunded and failing. The ideals of democracy reject hierarchies of citizenship, and thus, the author contends, these ideals are truly tested in Mississippi. Weber offers theories of effective leadership in general and of democratic leadership in particular to show how Mississip-pis challenges could be addressed with the guidance of common values. The book draws on insights from classical and contemporary philosophical outlooks on leadership, which highlight four key social virtues: wisdom, courage, moderation, and justice. Within this framework, the author approaches Mississippis problems of poverty and educational frustration in a novel way that is applica-ble in and beyond the rural South. Weber brings to bear each of the virtues of democratic leadership on particular problems, with some overarching lessons and values to advance. The authors edi-torial essays are included in the appendix as examples of engaging in public inquiry for the sake of democratic leadership.

Eric Thomas Weber, Oxford, Mississippi, is associate professor of public policy leadership at the University of Mississippi and the recipient of the Mississippi Humanities Councils 2015 Public Scholar Award. He serves as executive director of the Society of Phi-losophers in America and is the author of three books, including Democracy and Leadership: On Pragmatism and Virtue.

SEPTEMBER, 144 pages (approx.), 5 x 8 inches, foreword, appendices, bibliography, indexPrinted casebinding $65.00S 978-1-4968-0331-3Paper $20.00T 978-1-4968-0349-8 Ebook available

Lines Were DrawnRemembering Court-Ordered Integration at a Mississippi High School

Edited by Teena F. Horn, Alan Huffman, and John Griffin JonesForeword by Claiborne Barksdale

Lines Were Drawn looks at a group of Mississippi teenagers whose entire high school experience, beginning in 1969, was under federal court-ordered racial integration. Through oral histories and other research, this group memoir con-siders how the students, despite their markedly different backgrounds, shared a common experience that greatly influences their present interactions and views of the worldsometimes in sur-prising ways. The book is also an explo-ration of memory and the ways in which the same event can be remembered in very different ways by the participants. The editors (proud members of Murrah High Schools Class of 1973) and more than fifty students and teach-ers address the reality of forced deseg-

regation in the Deep South from a unique perspectivethat of the faculty and students who experienced it and made it work, however briefly. The book tries to capture the few years in which enough people were so willing to do something about racial division that they sacrificed immediate expectations to give integration a true chance. This period recognizes a rare moment when the political will almost caught up with the determination of the federal courts to finally do something about race. Because of that collision of circum-stances, southerners of both races assembled in the public schools and made integration work by coming together, and this book seeks to capture those experiences for subsequent generations.

Teena F. Horn, Houston, Mississippi, is a wife, mother, dentist, small business owner, and farmer in rural Mississippi. Alan Huff-man, Bolton, Mississippi, is a freelance journalist and author of five other nonfiction books including Mississippi in Africa: The Saga of the Slaves of Prospect Hill Plantation and Their Legacy in Liberia and Ten Point: Deer Camp in the Mississippi Delta, both published by University Press of Mississippi. He has appeared on NPR and numerous other radio shows, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, PBS, Fox News, and other national TV shows. John Griffin Jones, Jackson, Mississippi, is a trial lawyer, author, and father. He is the interviewer/editor of Mississippi Writers Talking and Mississippi Writers Talking II, both published by University Press of Mississippi, and numerous law-related publications.

FEBRUARY, 320 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 20 b&w illustrations (approx.), foreword, appendix, bibliography, indexCloth $35.00T 978-1-62846-231-9Ebook available

EDUCATION POLITICAL SCIENCE HISTORY MISSISSIPPI DESEGREGATION

Oral histories gathered by three graduates of a major high school in Jackson

An approach to cultivating the leaders of tomorrow


Lines of ScrimmageA Story of Football, Race, and Redemption

Joe Oestreich and Scott Pleasant

As in many small towns in the South, folks in Conway, South Carolina, fill the stands on fall Fridays to cheer on their local high school football squad. In 1989with returning starter Carlos Hunt at quarterback and having fin-ished with coming off an 8-4 record in 1988hopes were high that the beloved Tigers would win their first state championship. But during spring practice, Coach Chuck Jordan (who is white) benched Hunt (who is black) in favor of Mickey Wilson, an inex-perienced white player. Seeing this demotion of the black quarterback as an example of the racism prevalent in football generally and in Conway specifically, thirty-one of the teams thirty-seven black playersunder the guidance of H. H. Singleton, pastor of

Cherry Hill Missionary Baptist Church and president of the local NAACPboycotted the team in protest. The season-long strike severed the town along racial lines, as it became clear that the incident was about much more than football. It was about the legacy of slavery and segregation and Jim Crow and other points of tension and oppression that many people in Conwayand the Southhad wrongly assumed were settled. While the 1989 season is long over, the story reverberates today. Chuck Jordan is still coaching at Conway High, and hes still without that state championship. Meanwhile, Mickey Wilson is now coaching Conways fiercest rival, the Myrtle Beach Seahawks. In the annual Victory Bell Game between Conway and Myrtle Beach, the biggest contest of the year for both teams, a veteran coach and his young protg compete against each otheragainst the backdrop of a racial conflict that bitterly divided a small south-ern town.

Joe Oestreich, Conway, South Carolina, teaches creative writing at Coastal Carolina University. He is the author of Hitless Wonder: A Life in Minor League Rock and Roll. His work has appeared in Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Ninth Letter, Creative Nonfiction, and the Normal School, among others. Scott Pleasant, Conway, South Carolina, is the writing center coordinator at Coastal Car-olina University. His work has appeared in Southern Discourse.

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Black Baseball, Black BusinessRace Enterprise and the Fate of the Segregated Dollar

Roberta J. Newman and Joel Nathan RosenWith introductory essays by Monte Irvin and Earl Smith

Roberta J. Newman and Joel Nathan Rosen have written an authoritative social history of the Negro Leagues. This book examines how the relationship between black baseball and black busi-nesses functioned, particularly in urban areas with significant African American populationsChicago, Detroit, Indianap-olis, Kansas City, Newark, New York, Phil-adelphia, and more. Inextricably bound together by circumstance, these sports and business alliances faced destruction and upheaval. Once Jackie Robinson and a select handful of black baseballs elite gained acceptance in Major League Baseball and financial stability in the main-stream economy, shock waves traveled throughout the black business world. Though the economic impact on Negro League baseball is perhaps obvious due

to its demise, the impact on other black-owned businesses and on segregated neighborhoods is often undervalued if not outright ignored in current accounts. There have been many books written on great individual players who played in the Negro Leagues and/or integrated the Major Leagues. But Newman and Rosen move beyond hagiography to analyze what happens when a community has its economic footing undermined while simultaneously being called upon to celebrate a larger social progress. In this regard, Black Baseball, Black Business moves beyond the diamond to explore baseballs desegregation narrative in a critical and wide ranging fashion.

Roberta J. Newman, Brooklyn, New York, is master professor in the Department of Liberal Studies at New York University. Her work has appeared in the journals Cooperstown Symposium: 20092010 and NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture. Joel Nathan Rosen, Allentown, Pennsylvania, is associate profes-sor of sociology at Moravian College in Bethlehem. He is coeditor of A Locker Room of Her Own: Celebrity, Sexuality, and Female Athletes; Fame to Infamy: Race, Sport, and the Fall from Grace; and Reconstructing Fame: Sport, Race, and Evolving Reputations, all published by University Press of Mississippi.

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SPORTS RACE RELATIONS SPORTS AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

The story of a historic boycott by thirty-one black players on a southern high school football team

An extraordinary history of the Negro Leagues and theeconomic disruptions of desegregating a sport

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The Amazing Crawfish BoatJohn Laudun

In any given year, the Louisiana crawfish harvest tops 50,000 tons. The Amazing Crawfish Boat chronicles the devel-opment of an amphibious boat that transformed the Louisiana prairies into a powerhouse of aquaculture alongside agriculture. In seeking to understand how such an amazing machine came into being, John Laudun describes the ideas and traditions that have long been a part of the landscape and how they converged at a particular moment in time to create a new economic oppor-tunity for both the rice farmers who used them and the fabricators who made them. Louisiana residents of the prairies and marshes understand the landscape on which they live and have, over the years, produced an astonishing set of artifacts that demonstrate not only their ability to adapt, but their ability to innovate. The crawfish boat is a great

example of such creativity produced by individuals deeply embed-ded in their culture and place. To ascertain their inventiveness, Laudun examines the larger historical and cultural trends that led to this creation. He draws from archives, oral histories, and ethno-graphic accounts. In order to understand the nature of their craft and their imaginations, Laudun then turns to a closer examination of the shops and sheds where these boatwrights labor. While the lives of artists and scientists have been examined for what they tell us about innovation, in The Amazing Crawfish Boat the author seeks to address creativity as part of a larger cultural complex of ideas and behaviors. The Louisiana prairies are populated not just by Cajuns but also by Germans. As these groups settled they developed the com-plex mix of folk cultures that underlies a variety of traditions that are now seen as native to the area. Only through the diversity of the community and environment can the reader understand the importance of creativity in a setting where innovations might not be expected to flourish.

John Laudun, Lafayette, Louisiana, is associate professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His work has appeared in African American Review, Journal of American Folk-lore, and other scholarly journals, and his expertise has been cited in the New York Times and many other national outlets.

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Talking New Orleans MusicCrescent City Musicians Talk about Their Lives, Their Music, and Their City

Burt FeintuchPhotographs by Gary Samson

In New Orleans, music screams. It honks. It blats. It wails. It purrs. It messes with time. It messes with pitch. It messes with your feet. It messes with your head. One musician leads to another; tradi-tions overlap, intertwine, nourish each other; and everyone seems to know everyone else. From tra-ditional jazz through rhythm and blues and rock n roll to sissy bounce, in second-line parades, from the streets to clubs and fes-tivals, the music seems unending. In Talking New Orleans Music, author Burt Feintuch has pursued a decades-long fascina-

tion with the music of this singular city. Thinking about the devasta-tionnot only material but also culturalcaused by the levees break-ing in 2005, he began a series of conversations with master New Orleans musicians, talking about their lives, the cultural contexts of their music, their experiences during and after Katrina, and their city. Photographer Gary Samson joined him, adding a compelling visual dimension to the book. Here you will find intimate and revealing interviews with eleven of the citys most celebrated musicians and culture-bear-ersSoul Queen Irma Thomas, Walter Wolfman Washington, Charmaine Neville, John Boutt, Dr. Michael White, Deacon John Moore, Cajun bandleader Bruce Daigrepont, Zion Harmonizer Brazella Briscoe, producer Scott Billington, as well as Christie Jourdain and Janine Waters of the Original Pinettes, New Orleanss only all-woman brass band. Feintuchs interviews and Samsons sixty-five color photographs create a powerful portrait of an Amer-ican place like no other and its worlds of music.

Burt Feintuch, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, has written about roots music, regional cultures, and music revivals in North America and abroad since the 1970s, along with producing documentary sound recordings. An academic and a musician, he directs the Center for the Humanities at the University of New Hampshire. Gary Samson, Concord, New Hampshire, is an accomplished fine arts photographer whose work has been exhibited internationally. He chairs the photography department at the New Hampshire Institute of Art.

NOVEMBER, 240 pages (approx.), 9 x 9 inches, 65 color photographs, bibliography, indexCloth $40.00T 978-1-4968-0362-7Ebook availableAmerican Made Music Series

FOLKLORE LOUISIANA MUSIC LOUISIANA

Interviews with and beautiful photography of eleven great musicians and their inspiring city

The remarkable story of the Cajuns and Germans of Louisiana who conquered the rice fields and spawned

an aquaculture bonanza


Getting Off at Elysian FieldsObituaries from the New Orleans "Times-Picayune"

John Pope

No city in America knows how to mark death with more funerary panache than New Orleans. The pageants commem-orating departed citizens are often in themselves works of performance art. A grand obituary remains key to this Stygian passage. And no one writes them like New Orleanian John Pope. Collected here are not just simple, mindless recitations of schools and workplaces, marriages, and mourners bereft. These pieces in Getting Off at Elysian Fields are full-blooded life stories with accounts of great achieve-ments, dubious dabblings, unavoid-able foibles, relationships gone sour, and happenstances that turn out to be life-changing. To be sure, there are stories about Carnival monarchs, great philanthro-

pists, and a few politicians. But because New Orleans embraces eccentric behavior, there are stories of people who colored way outside the lines. For instance, there was the doctor who used his plasma to make his flowers grow, and the philanthropist who took money she had put aside for a fur coat to underwrite the lawsuit that desegregated Tulane University. A letter carrier everyone loved turned out to have been a spy during World War II, and a fledgling lawyer changed his lifelong thoughts about race when he saw blind people going into a Christmas party through separate doorsone for white people and another for African Americans. Then there was the punctilious judge who got down on his hands and knees to edge his lawnwith scissors. Because New Orleans funerals are distinctive, the author includes accounts of four that he covered, complete with soulful singing and even some dancing. As a popular, local bumper sticker indisputably declares, New OrleansWe Put the Fun in Funeral.

John Pope, New Orleans, Louisiana, has written obituaries throughout his forty-four-year career in journalism and was a mem-ber of the New Orleans Times-Picayune team that won two Pulitzer Prizes, a National Headliner Award, and a George Polk Award for coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. OCTOBER, 288 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inchesCloth $30.00T 978-1-4968-0375-7Ebook available

Gone to the GraveBurial Customs of the Arkansas Ozarks, 18501950

Abby Burnett

Before there was a death care industry where professional funeral directors offered embalming and other services, residents of the Arkansas Ozarksand, for that matter, people throughout the Southburied their own dead. Every part of the complicated, labor-inten-sive process was handled within the deceaseds community. This process included preparing the body for burial, making a wooden coffin, digging the grave, and overseeing the burial cer-emony, as well as observing a wide variety of customs and superstitions. These traditions, especially in rural communities, remained the norm up through the end of World War II, after which a variety of factors, primarily the loss of manpower and the rise of the

funeral industry, brought about the end of most customs. Gone to the Grave, a meticulous autopsy of this now-vanished way of life and death, documents mourning and practical rituals through interviews, diaries and reminiscences, obituaries, and a wide variety of other sources. Abby Burnett covers attempts to stave off death; passings that, for various reasons, could not be mourned according to tradition; factors contributing to high maternal and infant mortality; and the ways in which loss was expressed through obituaries and epitaphs. A concluding chapter examines early undertaking practices and the many angles funeral industry profes-sionals worked to convince the public of the need for their services.

Abby Burnett, Kingston, Arkansas, is a freelance newspaper reporter. She is the author of When the Presbyterians Came to Kingston: Kingston Community Church 19171951.

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LOUISIANA AMERICAN HISTORY FOLKLORE SOUTHERN STATES

A masterful writers career-spanning selection of the best remembrances from the Big Easy

A rich survey of folk practices prior to mortuaries and the funeral industry

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French QuarterManualAn Architectural Guide to New Orleans's Vieux Carr

Malcolm Heard

In New Orleans the French Quar-ter packs itself into a little grid of a colonial town behind the levee of the Mississippi River. Estab-lished in 1718, the town received its gridded plan from a French military engineer in 1721. Most of the buildings standing today date from the nineteenth century, with eighteenth- and twentieth-centu-ry structures interspersed. This detailed architectural handbook describes how to read French Quarter architecture by determining a structures type, its component parts, and its style. The basic types are termed the French Colonial house, the Span-

ish Colonial house, the cottage, the town house, and the shotgun house. The basic component parts are doors, windows, shutters, balconies, and courtyards. The styles are based upon decorative mo-tifs common to distinctive historical periods (Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic, Italianate, etc.). Each reveals that the colonists native archi-tectural traditions were transformed into a set of structures adapted to the moist heat of semitropical Louisiana. With images of buildings, plans, and sections from the French Quarters remarkable inventory, this guide illustrates how a succession of styles from the eighteenth to the twentieth century has been draped over a range of building types. Thoroughly indexed and cross-referenced, it will provide with equal satisfaction a start-to-finish read, a search for specific infor-mation, or a concentrated browse. Illustrated with some two hundred photographs and fifty line drawings, this handy manual has long been essential for architects, historic preservationists, and general readers interested in the buildings of one of Americas richest historic districts.

Malcolm Heard was an architect and a teacher in the School of Architecture, Tulane University.

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The Gorilla Man and the Empress of SteakA New Orleans Family Memoir

Randy Fertel

The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak is the story of two larger-than-life characters and the son whom their lives helped to shape. Ruth Fertel was a petite, smart, tough-as-nails blonde with a weakness for rogues, who founded the Ruths Chris Steak House empire almost by accident. Rodney Fertel was a gold-plated, one-of-a-kind personality, a railbird-heir to wealth from a pawnshop of dubious repute just around the corner from where the teenage Louis Armstrong and his trumpet were discovered. When Fertel ran for mayor of New Orleans on a single campaign promisebuying a pair of gorillas for the zoohe garnered a paltry 308 votes. Then he purchased the gorillas anyway! These colorful figures yoked togeth-

er two worlds not often connectedlazy rice farms in the bayous and swinging urban streets where ethnicities jazzily collided. A trip downriver to the hamlet of Happy Jack focuses on its French-Alsa-tian roots, bountiful tables, and self-reliant lifestyle that inspired a restaurant legend. The story also offers a close-up of life in the Old Jewish Quarter on Rampart Streetand how it intersected with the denizens of Back a Town, just a few blocks away, who brought jazz from New Orleans to the world. The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak is a New Orleans story, featuring the distinctive characters, color, food, and history of that citybefore Hurricane Katrina and after. But it also is the universal story of family and the full magnitude of outsize follies leavened with equal measures of humor, rage, and rue.

Randy Fertel, New Orleans, Louisiana, and Armenia, New York, is a writer and president of both the Fertel Foundation and the Ruth U. Fertel Foundation. He has taught English at Harvard, Tulane, LeMoyne College, the University of New Orleans, and the New School for Social Research. He is the author of A Taste for Chaos: The Art of Literary Improvisation.

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ARCHITECTURE NEW ORLEANS MEMOIR FOODWAYS LOUISIANA

The Big Easy family saga of an eccentric father, a workaholic mother, and the birth of the Ruths Chris Steak House empire

A handbook for discoveringthe architectural gems in the Vieux Carr of New Orleans

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Oil and WaterMedia Lessons from Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon Disaster

Andrea Miller, Shearon Roberts, and Victoria LaPoe

Along the Gulf Coast, history is often referenced as pre-Katrina or post-Ka-trina. However, the natural disaster that appalled the world in 2005 has been joined by another catastrophe, this one man-madethe greatest envi-ronmental and maritime accident of all time, the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. In less than five years, the Gulf Coast has experienced two colossal disasters, very different, yet very similar. And these two equally complex crises have resulted in a steep learning curve for all, but especially the journalists cover-ing these enduring stories. In Oil and Water, the authors show how Katrina journalists have reluctantly had to transform into oil spill journal-ists. The authors look at this process from the viewpoints not only of the journalists, but also of the public and of the scientific community. This book

assesses the quality of journalism and the effects that quality may have on the public. The authors argue that regardless of the type of journalism involved or the immensity of the events covered, suc-cessful reportage still depends on the fundamentals of journalism and the importance of following these tenets consistently in a crisis atmosphere, especially when confronted with enduring crises that are just years apart.

Andrea Miller, Geismar, Louisiana, is associate dean for under-graduate studies and administration at the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University. Shearon Roberts, New Orleans, Louisiana, is a native of Trinidad and a Latin Ameri-can studies instructor and doctoral candidate at Tulane University. She contributed to Covering Disaster: Lessons from Coverage of Katrina and Rita. Victoria LaPoe, Bowling Green, Kentucky, is an assistant professor at Western Kentucky University. She is the author of American-Indian Media: The Past, the Present, and the Promise of Digital.

OCTOBER, 204 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 4 b&w illustrations, indexPaper $25.00T 978-1-4968-0464-8Ebook available

Southern Ladies and SuffragistsJulia Ward Howe and Womens Rights at the 1884 New Orleans Worlds Fair

Miki Pfeffer

Women from all over the country came to New Orleans in 1884 for the Womans Department of the Cotton Centennial Exposition, that portion of the Worlds Fair exhibition devoted to the celebration of womens affairs and industry. Their conversations and interactions played out as a drama of personalities and sectionalism at a tran-sitional moment in the history of the nation. These women planted seeds at the Exposition that would have other-wise taken decades to drift southward. This book chronicles the successes and setbacks of a lively cast of post-bellum women in the first Womans Department at a worlds fair in the Deep South. From a wide range of primary documents, Miki Pfeffer re-creates the sounds and sights of

1884 New Orleans after Civil War and Reconstruction. She focuses on how difficult unity was to achieve, even when diverse women professed a common goal. Such celebrities as Julia Ward Howe and Susan B. Anthony brought national debates on womens issues to the South for the first time, and journalists and ordinary women reacted. At the Worlds Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposi-tion, the Womans Department became a petri dish where cultures clashed but where women from across the country exchanged views on propriety, jobs, education, and suffrage. Pfeffer memo-rializes womens exhibits of handwork, literary and scientific endeavors, inventions, and professions, but she proposes that the real impact of the six-month long event was a shift in womens self-conceptions of their public and political lives. For those New Orleans ladies who were ready to seize the opportunity of this uncommon forum, the Womans Department offered a future that they had barely imagined.

Miki Pfeffer, Thibodaux, Louisiana, is an independent researcher and native New Orleanian whose work has appeared in the Ency-clopedia of Worlds Fairs and Expositions and in journals such as the Louisiana Historical Journal and La Creole.

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MEDIA STUDIES NATURAL DISASTERS LOUISIANA HISTORY WOMENS STUDIES SOUTHERN STATES

How the mediahandled coverage and shaped understanding of two massive and ongoing catastrophes

A close look at the issues of gender and power at the 1884 Worlds Fair in New Orleans

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The Story ofFrench New OrleansHistory of a Creole City

Dianne Guenin-Lelle

What is it about the city of New Orleans History, location, and culture, continue to link it to France while distancing it culturally and symbolically from the United States. This book explores the traces of French language, history, and artistic expression that have been present there over the last three hun-dred years. This volume focuses on the French, Spanish, and American colonial periods to understand the imprint that French socio-cultural dynamic left on the Crescent City. The migration of Acadians to New Orleans at the time the city became a Spanish dominion and the arrival of Haitian refugees when the city became an American territory oddly reinforced

its Francophone identity. However, in the process of establishing itself as an urban space in the antebellum south, the culture of New Orleans became a liability for New Orleans elite after the Louisiana Purchase. New Orleans and the Caribbean share numerous historical, cultural, and linguistic connections. The book analyzes these con-nections and the shared process of creolization occurring in New Orleans and throughout the Caribbean Basin. It suggests French New Orleans might be understood as a trope for unscripted orig-inal Creole social and cultural elements. Since being Creole came to connote African descent, the study suggests that an association with France in the minds of whites allowed for a less racially-bound and contested social order within the United States.

Dianne Guenin-Lelle, Albion, Michigan, received her PhD in French literature from Louisiana State University and is a profes-sor of French at Albion College. She is the coauthor, with Ron-ney Mourad, of Prison Narratives of Jeanne Guyon and Jeanne Guyon: Selected Writings. Her work has appeared in such journals as Louisiana History and the French Review.

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Fear and What FollowsThe Violent Education of a Christian Racist, a Memoir

Tim Parrish

Fear and What Follows is a riveting, unflinching account of the authors spiral into racist violence during the latter years of desegregation in 1960s and 1970s Baton Rouge. About the memoir, author and editor Michael Griffith writes, This might be a con-troversial book, in the best waycon-troversial because it speaks to real and intractable problems and speaks to them with rare bluntness. The narrative of Parrishs descent into fear and irrational behavior begins with bigotry and apocalyptic thinking in his Southern Baptist church. Living a life upon this volatile foundation of prejudice and apprehension, Parrish feels destabilized by his brother going to Vietnam, his own puberty and restless-ness, serious family illness, and econom-ic uncertainty. Then a near-fatal street fight and subsequent stalking by an older sociopath fracture what security is left, leaving him terrified and seemingly helpless.

Parrish comes to believe that he can only be safe by allying himself with brute force. This brute influence is a vicious, char-ismatic racist. Under this bigots terrible sway, Parrish turns to violence in the street and at school. He is even conflicted about whether he will help commit murder in order to avenge a friend. At seventeen he must reckon with all of this as his parents and neighbors grow increasingly afraid that they are losing their neighborhood to African Americans. Fear and What Follows is an unparalleled story of the complex roots of southern, urban, working-class racism and white flight, as well as a story of family, love, and the possibility of redemption.

Tim Parrish, Hamden, Connecticut, is a professor of English in the MFA Program at Southern Connecticut State University. He is the author of Red Stick Men: Stories (University Press of Missis-sippi) and the novel The Jumper. His work has also been published in over thirty literary reviews.

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HISTORY LOUISIANA LOUISIANA MEMOIR RACE RELATIONS

The story of a working-class, Southern Baptist upbringing that transformed into a nightmare of bigotry and bullying in Baton Rouge,Louisiana

Why New Orleans is considered Americas distinctly French city

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Conversations withBarry HannahEdited by James G. Thomas, Jr.

Between 1972 and 2001, Barry Hannah (19422010) published eight novels and four collections of short stories. A master of short fiction, Hannah is con-sidered by many to be one of the most important writers of modern American literature. His writing is often praised more for its unflinching use of language, rich metaphors, and tragically damaged characters than for plot. I am doomed to be a more lengthy fragmentist, he once claimed. In my thoughts, I dont ever come on to plot in a straightfor-ward way. Conversations with Barry Hannah collects interviews published between 1980 and 2010. Within them Hannah engages interviewers in discussions on war and violence, masculinity, religious faith, abandoned and unfinished writ-ing projects, the modern South and his time spent away from it, the Souths obsession with defeat, the value of teaching writing, and post-Faulknerian literature. Despite his rejection of the

label southern writer, Hannahs work has often been compared to that of fellow Mississippian William Faulkner, particularly for each authors use of dark humor and the Southern Gothic tradition in their work. Notwithstanding these comparisons, Hannahs voice is distinctly and undeniably his own, a linguistic tour de force.

James G. Thomas, Jr., Oxford, Mississippi, is associate director for publications at the University of Mississippis Center for the Study of Southern Culture. He is an editor of the twenty-four- volume New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture and the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series, and his work has appeared in Ethnic Heritage in Mississippi: The Twentieth Century, Southern Cul-tures, Southern Quarterly, Delta Magazine, and Living Blues.

JANUARY, 240 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology, indexPrinted casebinding $80.00S 978-1-4968-0435-8Paper $25.00T 978-1-4968-0444-0Ebook availableLiterary Conversations Series

Conversations with James SalterEdited by Jennifer Levasseur and Kevin Rabalais

James Salter (born James Horowitz in 1925) has been known throughout his career as a writers writer, acclaimed by such literary greats as Susan Sontag, Richard Ford, John Banville, and Peter Matthiessen for his lyrical prose, his insightful and daring explorations of sex, and his examinations of the inner lives of women and men. Conversations with James Salter collects interviews published from 1972 to 2014 with the award-winning author of The Hunters, A Sport and a Pastime, Light Years, and All That Is. Gathered here are his earliest interviews follow-ing acclaimed but moderately selling novels, conversations covering his work as a screenwriter and award-winning director, and interviews charting his explosive popularity after publishing All That Is, his first novel after a gap of thirty-four years. These conversations chart Salters progression as a writer, his love affair with France, his military past as a fighter pilot, and his lyrical explorations of gender relations. The collection contains interviews

from Sweden, Chile, France, and Argentina appearing for the first time in English. Included as well are published conversations from the United States, Canada, and Australia, some of which are significantly extended versions, giving this collection an interna-tional scope of Salters wide-ranging career and his place in world literature.

Jennifer Levasseur and Kevin Rabalais, Louisiana natives now living in Australia, coedited Novel Voices. Their work has appeared in Tin House, Glimmer Train Stories, Kenyon Review, and Brick.

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BIOGRAPHY LITERATURE BIOGRAPHY LITERATURE

I have no interest in literary games or metafictionany of

that conscious mess-ing around with form. I love the easy voice, the clash through what the mind gives you.

There came a time when I felt I was not going to be satisfied

with life unless I could write. So I did what was essential for me, or else perhaps the most important part of me would have perished.


Pioneering Cartoonistsof Color Tim Jackson

Syndicated cartoonist and illustrator Tim Jackson offers an unprecedented look at the rich yet largely untold story of African American cartoon artists. This book provides a historical record of the men and women who created sev-enty-plus comic strips, many editorial cartoons, and illustrations for articles. The volume covers the mid-1880s, the early years of the self-proclaimed black press, to 1968, when African American cartoon artists were accepted in the so-called mainstream. When the cartoon world was pre-paring to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the American comic strip, Jackson anticipated that books and arti-cles published upon the anniversary would either exclude African American artists or feature only the three whose

work appeared in mainstream newspapers after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination in 1968. Jackson was determined to make it impossible for critics and scholars to plead an ignorance of black cartoonists or to claim that there is no information on them. He began in 1997 cataloging biographies of African American cartoon-ists, illustrators, and graphic designers, and showing samples of their work. His research involved searching historic newspapers and magazines as well as books and Whos Who directories. This project strives not only to record the contributions of African American artists, but also to place them in full historical context. Revealed chronologically, these cartoons offer an invalu-able perspective on American history of the black community during pivotal moments, including the Great Migration, race riots, the Great Depression, and both World Wars. Many of the greatest creators have already died, so Jackson recognizes the stakes in remembering them before this hidden yet vivid history is irretriev-ably lost.

Tim Jackson, Chicago, Illinois, is a nationally syndicated cartoon-ist and illustrator born in Dayton, Ohio. He earned a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has illustrated editorial cartoons for the Chicago Defender, Chicago Tribune, and Cincin-nati Herald, among others.

FEBRUARY, 128 pages (approx.), 7 x 10 inches, 170 b&w illustrations (approx.), indexPrinted casebinding $85.00S 978-1-4968-0479-2Paper $35.00S 978-1-4968-0485-3Ebook available

Michael AllredConversations

Edited by Christopher Irving

Michael Allred stands out for his blend of spiritual and philosophical approaches with an art style reminis-cent of 1960s era superhero comics, which creates a mixture of both post-modernism and nostalgia. His child-hood came during an era where pop art and camp embraced elements of kitsch and pastiche and introduced them into the lexicon of popular culture. Allreds use of both in his work as a cartoonist on his signature comic book Madman in the early 1990s offset the veiled auto-biography of his own spiritual journey through Mormonism and struggles with existentialism. Thematically, Allreds work deals heavily with the afterlife as his cre-ations struggle with the grander ques-tionswhether his modern Franken-stein hero Madman, cosmic rock n roller Red Rocket 7, the undead hero-ine of iZombie (cocreated with writer Chris Roberson), or the cast of super-

hero team book The Atomics. Allred also enjoys a position in the creator-driven generation that informs the current batch of inde-pendent cartoonists and has experienced his own brush with a major Hollywood studios aborted film adaptation of Madman. Allreds other brushes with Hollywood include an independent adaptation of his comic book The G-Men from Hell, an appearance as himself in Kevin Smiths romantic comedy Chasing Amy (where he provided illustrations for a fictitious comic book), the television adaptation of iZombie, and an ongoing relationship with director Robert Rodriguez on a future Madman film. Michael Allred: Conversations features several interviews with the cartoonist from the early days of Madmans success through to his current mainstream work for Marvel Comics. To read them is to not only witness the ever-changing state of the comic book industry, but also to document Allreds growth as a creative genius.

Christopher Irving, Richmond, Virginia, is a comic book and pop-ular culture historian. His most recent work includes Leaping Tall Buildings: The Origins of American Comics (with photographer Seth Kushner), the Graphic NYC web project (www.nycgraphic novelists.com), and the upcoming French edition book Comics NYC.

SEPTEMBER, 192 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 10 b&w illustrations, introduction, chronology, indexPrinted casebinding $40.00S 978-1-4968-0326-9 Ebook availableConversations with Comic Artists Series

COMICS STUDIES POPULAR CULTURE AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES BIOGRAPHY COMICS STUDIES

To me, art is the most important thing in human existence. Every time you can look at something a human being created, it means something and echoes out.

The marvelous recovery of neglected black artists and their awesome body of comics creativity


Death, Disability, and the SuperheroThe Silver Age and Beyond

Jos Alaniz

The Thing. Daredevil. Captain Marvel. The Human Fly. Drawing on DC and Marvel comics from the 1950s to the 1990s and marshaling insights from three burgeoning fields of inquiry in the humanitiesdisability studies, death and dying studies, and comics studiesJos Alaniz seeks to redefine the contemporary understanding of the superhero. Beginning in the Silver Age, the genre increasingly challenged and complicated its hypermasculine, quasi-eugenicist biases through such disabled figures as Ben Grimm/The Thing, Matt Murdock/Daredevil, and the Doom Patrol. Alaniz traces how the superhero became increasingly vulnerable, ill, and mortal in this era. He then proceeds to a reinterpretation of characters and

seriessome familiar (Superman), some obscure (She-Thing). These genre changes reflected a wider awareness of related body issues in the postwar United States as represented by hospice, death with dignity, and disability rights movements. The persistent high-lighting of the bodys imperfection comes to forge a predominant aspect of the superheroic self. Such moves, originally part of the Silver Age strategy to stimulate sympathy, enhance psychological depth, and raise the dramatic stakes, developed further in such later series as The Human Fly, Strikeforce: Morituri, and the landmark graphic novel The Death of Captain Marvel, all examined in this volume. Death and disability, presumed routinely absent or denied in the superhero genre, emerge to form a core theme and defining function of the Silver Age and beyond.

Jos Alaniz, Seattle, Washington, is associate professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Depart-ment of Comparative Literature at the University of WashingtonSeattle. He is the author of Komiks: Comic Art in Russia (published by University Press of Mississippi).

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Woody AllenInterviews, Revised and Updated

Edited by Robert E. Kapsis

This revised and updated edition gathers interviews and profiles cover-ing the entire forty-five year span of Woody Allens career as a filmmaker, including detailed discussions of his most popular as well as his most crit-ically acclaimed works. The present collection is a complete update of the volume that first appeared in 2006. In the years since, Allen has continued making movies, including Midnight in Paris and the Oscar-winning Blue Jasmine. While many interviews from the original edition have been retained in the present volume, ten new entries extend the coverage of Allens directo-rial career through 2015. In addition, there are two new, in-depth interviews from the period covered in the first edi-tion. Most of the interviews included in the original volume first appeared in such widely known publications and venues as the New York Times, the

Washington Post, Time Magazine the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and Playboy. A number of smaller and lesser-known venues are also represented, especially in the new volume. Several interviews from non-American sources add an international perspective on Allens work. Materials for the new volume include pieces focusing primar-ily on Allens films as well as broader profiles and interviews that also concentrate on his literary talent. Perhaps Stephen Mamber best describes Allens distinctiveness, especially early in his career: Woody Allen is not the best new American comedy director or the best comedy writer or the best comedy actor, hes simply the finest combination of all three.

Robert E. Kapsis, Great Neck, New York, is professor of sociology and film studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is author of Hitchcock: The Making of a Reputation and editor of several volumes in the Conversations with Filmmakers Series. Currently, Kapsis is collaborating with the Museum of the Moving Image and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in developing a major career retrospective on Steve Martin.

FEBRUARY, 352 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology, filmography, indexPrinted casebinding $65.00S 978-1-62846-693-5Paper $25.00T 978-1-4968-0445-7Ebook availableConversations with Filmmakers Series

Harmony KorineInterviews

Edited by Eric Kohn

Harmony Korine: Interviews tracks filmmaker Korines stunning rise, fall, and rise again through his own evolv-ing voice. Bringing together interviews collected from over two decades, this unique chronicle includes rare inter-views unavailable in print for years and an extensive, new conversation recorded at the filmmakers home in Nashville. After more than twenty years, Har-mony Korine (b. 1973) remains one of the most prominent and yet subversive filmmakers in America. Ever since his entry into the independent film scene as the irrepressible prodigy who wrote the screenplay for Larry Clarks Kids in 1992, Korine has retained his stature as the ultimate cinematic provocateur. He

both intelligently observes modern social milieus and simultane-ously thumbs his nose at them. Now approaching middle age, and more influential than ever, Korine remains intentionally sensation-alistic and ceaselessly creative. He parlayed the success of Kids into directing the dreamy por-trait of neglect, Gummo, two years later. With his audacious 1999 digital video drama Julien Donkey-Boy, Korine continued to demon-strate a penchant for fusing experimental, subversive interests with lyrical narrative techniques. Surviving an early career burnout, he resurfaced with a trifecta of insightful works that built on his earlier aesthetic leanings: a surprisingly delicate rumination on identity (Mister Lonely), a gritty quasi-diary film (Trash Humpers,) and a blistering portrait of American hedonism (Spring Breakers), which yielded significant commercial success. Throughout his career he has also continued as a mixed-media artist whose fields included music videos, paintings, photography, publishing, songwriting, and performance art.

Eric Kohn, Brooklyn, New York, is the chief film critic and a senior editor for Indiewire as well as the manager of the Criticwire Net-work. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Cineaste, Filmmaker, and other publications. He is a member of the New York Film Critics Circle.

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The fact that these films exist is a victory.

The victory is in the creation.

The only value of a film . . . is the diver-sion of doing it. . . . Im so involved figur-ing out the second act, I dont have to think about lifes terrible anxieties.

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Kathryn BigelowInterviews

Edited by Peter Keough

With her gripping film The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow (b. 1951) made history in 2010 by becoming the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Director. Since then she has also filmed history with her latest movie, Zero Dark Thirty, which is about the mission to kill Osama Bin Laden. She is one of Hollywoods bright-est stars, but her roots go back four decades to the very non-Hollywood, avant-garde art world of New York City in the 1970s. Her first feature The Loveless reflected those academic ori-gins, but such films subsequent as the vampire-Western Near Dark, the female vigilante movie Blue Steel, and the surf-er-crime thriller Point Break demon-strated her determination to apply her aesthetic sensibilities to popular, genre filmmaking. The first volume of Bigelows inter-views ever published, Peter Keoughs collection covers her early success with

Near Dark; the frustrations and disappointments she endured with films such as Strange Days and K-19: The Widowmaker; and her triumph with The Hurt Locker. In conversations ranging from the casual to the analytical, Bigelow explains how her evolving ambitions and aesthetics sprang from her earliest aspirations to be a painter and conceptual artist in New York in the 1970s and then expanded to embrace Hollywood filmmaking when she was exposed to such renowned directors as John Ford, Howard Hawks, Don Siegel, Sam Peckinpah, and George Roy Hill.

Peter Keough was film editor at the Boston Phoenix from 1989 to 2013. He is the editor of Flesh and Blood: The National Society of Film Critics on Sex, Violence, and Censorship and has published in the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune, Sight & Sound, and the Boston Globe.

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Krzysztof KielowskiInterviews

Edited by Renata Bernard and Steven Woodward

Krzysztof Kielowskis untimely death came at the height of his career, after his Three Colors trilogy of films gar-nered international acclaim (and an Oscar nomination), and he had been proclaimed Europes most important filmmaker by many critics. Born in 1941, he was only fifty-four years old when he died. Kielowski himself tried to tell the story of his life and career in the 1993 book Kielowski on Kielowski. This col-lection, by contrast, reveals the shifting voice of a filmmaker who was initially optimistic about his social and cultural role, then felt himself buffeted by the turbulent politics and events of the Peo-ples Republic of Poland. As described in the chronology in this book, he found himself subject to the economic censor-ship of post-Communist filmmaking. How Kielowski responded at each moment of his life, what he tried to

achieve with each of his films, is finely detailed in thirty-five selec-tions. These pieces bring together his thesis from the famous d film school, a manifesto written just before the dark days of martial law in Poland, diary entries from the first time he was working out-side Poland, and numerous rare interviews from Polish-, French-, and English-language sources.

Renata Bernard, Sydney, Australia, is the coeditor of Diasporas of Australian Cinema and has published in Kinokultura and Senses of Cinema. Steven Woodward, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, is professor at Bishops University in Quebec, where he teaches courses on film, media, and popular culture. He is the editor of After Kielowski: The Legacy of Krzysztof Kielowski.

DECEMBER, 256 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology, filmography, index Printed casebinding $55.00S 978-1-62846-213-5 Ebook availableConversations with Filmmakers Series

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Thrill-seeking adren-aline addicts have always fascinated me. The idea seems to be that its not until you risk your humanness that you feel most human.

I have never com-promised in what I have done with what I think, what surrounds me. Thats why my films cannot be taken

out of the archives.

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Country Boys andRedneck WomenNew Essays in Gender and Country Music

Edited by Diane Pecknold and Kristine M. McCusker

Contributions by Georgia Christgau, Alexander S. Dent, Leigh H. Edwards, Caroline Gnagy, Kate Heidemann, Nadine Hubbs, Jocelyn Neal, se Ottosson, Travis Stimeling, Matthew D. Sutton, and Chris Wilson

Country music boasts a long tradition of rich, contradictory gender dynamics, creating a world where Kitty Wells could play the demure housewife and the honky-tonk angel simultaneously, Dolly Parton could move from traditionalist girl singer to outspoken trans rights advocate, and current radio playlists can alternate between the reckless masc

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