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Offers the first critical history of the influential Southern Newspaper Syndicate, from its roots in the 1930s through its end in the 1950s. At its heyday, more than 240 papers were associated with the Syndicate, making it one of the biggest organs of the black press during the period leading up to the classic civil rights era (1955-68).

Presents scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic contexts. The collection features broadly themed essays on religion, economy, and the regional slave trade of the Caribbean. It also includes case studies of slavery's influence on specific institutions.

Provides the first account of art and politics under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. James A. Tyner repositions Khmer Rouge artworks within their proper political and economic context: the materialization of a political organisation in an era of anticolonial and decolonization movements.

Like Rachel Carson's groundbreaking work Silent Spring, Rick Van Noy's Sudden Spring is a call to action to mitigate our environmental degradation. By highlighting stories of people and places adapting to the impacts of a warmer climate, Van Noy shows us what communities in the South are doing to become more climate resilient.

Examines how the global jazz aesthetic strives, in various ways, toward an imaginative reconfiguration of a humanity that transcends entrenched borders of ethnicity and nationhood, while at the same time remaining keenly aware of the exigencies of history.

Shows how literary and visual depictions of black women helped to shape France's post-revolutionary national identity, particularly in response to the trauma of the French defeat in the Haitian Revolution. The stories of these women reveal a blind spot about race in French national identity that persists in the postcolonial present.

Border control continues to be a highly contested and politically charged subject around the world. This collection of essays challenges reactionary nationalism by making the positive case for the benefits of free movement for countries on both ends of the exchange.

Yes, there is barbecue, but that's just one course of the meal. With Vinegar and Char the Southern Foodways Alliance celebrates twenty years of symposia by offering a collection of poems that are by turns as sophisticated and complex, as vivid and funny, and as buoyant and poignant as any SFA gathering.

Brings together forty-six American and British women essayists whose work spans nearly four centuries. Their contributions prove that women have been significant participants in the essay tradition since the genre's modern beginnings in the sixteenth century. Collectively they represent a missing piece in the larger history of the essay.

Brings together forty-six American and British women essayists whose work spans nearly four centuries. Their contributions prove that women have been significant participants in the essay tradition since the genre's modern beginnings in the sixteenth century. Collectively they represent a missing piece in the larger history of the essay.

Border control continues to be a highly contested and politically charged subject around the world. This collection of essays challenges reactionary nationalism by making the positive case for the benefits of free movement for countries on both ends of the exchange.

Drawing on a detailed case study of the struggles that have come to define public transportation in California's East Bay, Rights in Transit offers a challenge to contemporary scholarship on transportation equity. Rather than focusing on civil rights alone, this book argues for engaging the more radical notion of the right to the city.

Recounts the history of school desegregation litigation in Alabama. Joseph Bagley argues that the litigious battles of 1954-1973 taught Alabama's segregationists how to fashion a more subtle defense of white privilege, placing them in the vanguard of a new conservatism oriented toward the Sunbelt, not the South.

With An Uncommon Faith Eddie S. Glaude Jr. makes explicit his pragmatic approach to the study of African American religion. He insists that scholars take seriously what he calls black religious attitudes, that is, enduring and deep-seated dispositions tied to a transformative ideal that compel individuals to be otherwise - no matter the risk.

This collection of letters and other documents offers the most complete portrait of the relationship between two of the American South's most acclaimed twentieth-century writers: Flannery O'Connor and Caroline Gordon.

Examines the local boosters, gentlemen farmers, historical preservationists, and nature-seeking suburbanites who abandoned the city to live in the metropolitan countryside during the twentieth century. These property owners formed the vanguard of the antigrowth movement that has defined metropolitan fringe politics across America.

Places sexuality at the centre of slavery studies in the Americas. While scholars have marginalized or simply overlooked the importance of sexual practices in most mainstream studies of slavery, Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris argue here that sexual intimacy constituted a core terrain of struggle between slaveholders and the enslaved.

Places sexuality at the centre of slavery studies in the Americas. While scholars have marginalized or simply overlooked the importance of sexual practices in most mainstream studies of slavery, Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris argue here that sexual intimacy constituted a core terrain of struggle between slaveholders and the enslaved.

Examines the patterns of migration flows during the post-World War II period, with particular attention to crises or shocks to the international system, as in the case of migration following the recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Syria. The authors' analysis makes several important contributions to this debate.

As the first book-length investigation of Thomas Pynchon's writing to put the topics of sex and gender at its core, this book moves beyond binary debates about whether to see Pynchon as liberatory or conservative, instead examining how his preoccupation with sex and gender conditions his fiction's whole worldview.

As the first book-length investigation of Thomas Pynchon's writing to put the topics of sex and gender at its core, this book moves beyond binary debates about whether to see Pynchon as liberatory or conservative, instead examining how his preoccupation with sex and gender conditions his fiction's whole worldview.

The stories in Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum's new collection are about finding resilience in the face of adversity. Lunstrum asks: How do we keep going in the face of grief or disappointment when love fails or disaster strikes? How do we maintain the stamina to carry on in an uncertain world? The characters in her stories are living these questions.

During the American Civil War, Maryland possessed divided loyalties and sentiments. These divisions came to a head in the years after the war. David Graham argues that Maryland did not adopt a unified postbellum identity and that the state remained divided, with some identifying with the Union and others maintaining a connection to the Confederacy.

Analyses the fraught location of Appalachians within the southern and American imaginaries, building on studies of race in literary and cinematic characterizations of the American South. Not only do we know what ""rednecks"" are, Meredith McCarroll argues, we rely on the use of such categories in fashioning our broader sense of self and other.

Examines how the recurrent use of Native American history in southern cultural and literary texts produces ideas of "feeling southern" that have consequences for how present-day conservative political discourses resonate across the United States.

This collection of more than twenty-five essays, both meditative and formally inventive, considers all kinds of subjects: everyday objects such as keys and hats, plus concepts of time and place; the memoir; writing; the essay itself; and Michael Martone's friendship with the writers David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, and Kurt Vonnegut.

Between 1914 and 1950, Ellen Biddle Shipman (1869-1950) designed more than 650 gardens, and her commissions spanned the America, from Long Island's Gold Coast to the state of Washington. In Ellen Shipman and the American Garden author Judith B. Tankard describes Shipman's remarkable life and discusses fifty of her major works.

Showcases the architectural legacy and design philosophy of Leila Ross Wilburn (1885-1967), a legacy that includes hundreds of houses in a variety of popular house styles, from bungalows to ranch houses, built using Wilburn's plan books during the first six decades of the twentieth century.

The first biography of this important landscape architect, James Rose examines the work of one of the most radical figures in the history of mid-century modernist American landscape design. An artist who explored his profession with words and built works, Rose fearlessly critiqued the developing patterns of land use he witnessed during a period of rapid suburban development.