As a film director, artist, and personality, John Waters (b. 1946) has worked at the forefront of American cinema for nearly forty years. Waters began ...

Aesthetic Frontiers: The Machiavellian Tradition and the Southern Imagination by Richard Nelson A re-evaluation of the literary and historical origins ...

An examination of how the works of five African-American writers reveal the power of communal bonds As a reaction against persistent black exclusion ...

A vibrant and varied look at African American songs and the history behind the lyrics Musicians and music scholars rightly focus on the sounds of the blues ...

Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos undertakes an interdisciplinary exploration of the African American West through close readings of texts from a variety ...

Plunging into Haiti: Clinton, Aristide, and the Defeat of Diplomacy by Ralph Pezzullo For much of the early 1990s, Haiti held the world's attention. A ...

In 1944, William Faulkner wrote to Malcolm Cowley, “I’m telling the same story over and over which is myself and the world. That’s all ...

"I've been asked all over America . . . why Mississippi is so distinctive. You know, we have our failings, but we're coming along all right. But as to ...

LITERARY EXPLORATIONS INTO THE RADICAL, HOPEFUL RACIAL FUTURES IMAGINED BY SCIENCE FICTION Essays by Marleen S. Barr, Gerry Canavan, Grace L. Dillon, ...