Monsters and Saints

Edited by Shantel Martinez & Kelly Medina-López
Categories: Diaspora Studies
Series: Horror and Monstrosity Studies Series

Winner of the 2025 Ray and Pat Browne Award for the Best Edited Collection in Popular and American Culture

Contributions by Kathleen Alcalá, Sarah Amira de la Garza, Sarah De Los Santos Upton, Moises Gonzales, ...

The Delta in the Rearview Mirror

By Di Rushing
Categories: Biography And Memoir

Nominee for the 2025 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Life Writing

After graduating from Mississippi State University in 1976, Di Rushing and her husband, Sam, found themselves back ...

Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana

By Keagan LeJeune
Categories: Louisiana

Winner of the 2024 Summerlee Book Prize for Nonfiction

In Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana, author Keagan LeJeune brilliantly weaves the unusual folklore, landscape, and history of Louisiana along with ...

Path to Grace

By Ethel Morgan Smith
Categories: Civil Rights
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

Winner of the 2023 Eudora Welty Prize

The civil rights movement is often defined narrowly, relegated to the 1950s and 1960s and populated by such colossal figures as Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. ...

Imperiled Whiteness

By Penelope Ingram
Categories: Film Studies

FINALIST FOR THE 2024 FRANK LUTHER MOTT/KAPPA TAU ALPHA JOURNALISM & MASS COMMUNICATION RESEARCH AWARD

In Imperiled Whiteness, Penelope Ingram examines the role played by media in the resurgence of white ...

Artful Breakdowns

Edited by Georgiana Banita & Lee Konstantinou
Categories: Comics Studies
Series: Tom Inge Series on Comics Artists

WINNER OF THE 2025 COMICS STUDIES SOCIETY EDITED BOOK PRIZE

Contributions by Georgiana Banita, Colin Beineke, Harriet Earle, Ariela Freedman, Liza Futerman, Shawn Gilmore, Sarah Hamblin, Cara Koehler, ...

Becoming Ezra Jack Keats

By Virginia McGee Butler
Categories: Biography And Memoir
Series: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography

Winner of the 2024 Adult Nonfiction Award from the Mississippi Library Association

Becoming Ezra Jack Keats offers the first complete biography of acclaimed children’s author and illustrator Ezra Jack K ...

Asian Political Cartoons

By John A. Lent
Categories: Comics Studies

2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
2024 Eisner Award Nominee for Best Academic/Scholarly Work
In Asian Political Cartoons, scholar John A. Lent explores the history and contemporary status of political ...

Emma's Postcard Album

By Faith Mitchell
Categories: History
Series: Atlantic Migrations and the African Diaspora

BCALA 2023 Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation Award winner

The turn of the twentieth century was an extraordinarily difficult period for African Americans, a time of unchecked lynchings, mob ...

Jazz à la Creole

By Caroline Vézina
Categories: African American Studies
Series: American Made Music Series

Winner of the 2023 Award for Excellence for Best Historical Research in Recorded Jazz from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections

During the formative years of jazz (1890–1917), the Creoles of C ...