Politics
The University of Mississippi School of Law
Since its founding in 1854, the University of Mississippi School of Law has been an institutional bulwark of the state. Generations of Mississippi's prominent lawyers and politicians were graduates of ...
Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?
What happened to the Vietnam protesters and civil rights activists? Where did their idealism lead them? And what do they feel they have contributed to the nation's political debate? Answers to these and ...
Leander Perez
Leander Perez 1891-1969) was more than simply another Neanderthal segregationist. He was a political boss who held absolute power in Plaquemines Parish to an extent unsurpassed by any parish leader in ...
Huey P. Newton
Huey P. Newton's powerful legacy to the Black Panther movement and the civil rights struggle has long been obscured. Conservatives harp on Newton's drug use and on the circumstances of his death in a ...
Ellen S. Woodward
Winner of the 1994 Eudora Welty Prize
Ellen S. Woodward (1887-1971) was touted as Roosevelt's second most powerful woman appointee. Among American women only Eleanor Roosevelt and Labor Department Secretary ...
Postcolonial Cultures
Simon Featherstone's Postcolonial Cultures is a clearly written introduction to the study of postcolonial cultures, and it broadens the reach of postcolonial theory and criticism.
The book covers current ...
Robert G. Clark's Journey to the House
This biographical profile written by one of the South's most notable authors traces the life of Robert George Clark Jr. (1928-2025) from his Jim Crow boyhood in Ebenezer, Mississippi, through his notable ...
A History of Affirmative Action, 1619-2000
What is it about affirmative action that makes this public policy one of the most contentious political issues in the United States today?
The answer to this question cannot be found by studying the recent ...
Mississippi Liberal
Instead of turning toward hatred after his father was murdered by a black man in 1926, Frank E. Smith (1918-1997) committed himself to help his racist state move toward integration and racial harmony. ...
Marxism for Our Times
Rarely as in the collection here can one encounter an essayist, novelist, historian, and political leader like the late C. L. R. James in the working throes of forming and then fomenting personal political ...