Since his first arrest in 1975, Ted Bundy has been the most ubiquitous serial killer in US popular culture. He is the subject of seven feature films and miniseries, several televised documentaries and ...

Nominee for the 2025 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Nonfiction

Part history, part memoir, Outliving the White Lie: A Southerner’s Historical, Genealogical, and Personal Journey charts ...

Chosen as Mississippi's 2024 Great Read for Adults by the Mississippi Center for the Book

Ellen Ann Fentress is a veteran writer for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Atlantic. She’s also a ...

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 ...

In Authenticating Whiteness: Karens, Selfies, and Pop Stars, Rachel E. Dubrofsky explores the idea that popular media implicitly portrays whiteness as credible, trustworthy, familiar, and honest, and ...

Winner of a 2023 Edited Collection Award from the South Atlantic Modern Language Association

Contributions by Danielle Christmas, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Garrett Bridger Gilmore, Spencer R. Herrera, Cassandra ...

In recent years, shrimpers on the Louisiana coast have faced a historically dire shrimp season, with the price of shrimp barely high enough to justify trawling. Yet, many of them wouldn’t consider leaving s ...

In The South Strikes Back, Hodding Carter III describes the birth of the white Citizens’ Council in the Mississippi Delta and its spread throughout the South. Originally published in 1959, this book begins w ...

Shortlisted Finalist for the 2023 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work

American comics from the start have reflected the white supremacist culture out of which they arose. Superheroes and comic ...

Contributions by Tim Armstrong, Edward A. Chappell, W. Ralph Eubanks, Amy A. Foley, Michael Gorra, Sherita L. Johnson, Andrew B. Leiter, John T. Matthews, Julie Beth Napolin, Erin Penner, Stephanie Rountree, ...