May 9, 2007

ISSUE# LXIV

(Gussow is currently an assistant professor of English and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. He spent twelve years (1986-1998) working the streets of Harlem and the international club and festival circuit with Mississippi-born bluesman Sterling Magee as a duo called Satan and Adam.)

In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America) (Hardcover) by Joseph Crespino (Author)

From blues music came great artists, such as Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy, Bessie Smith, and others. But the blues might never have been created if it had not been for the influence of hollers, calls, and the changes that occurred in the lives of blacks. The evolution of the blues provides insight into the changes that took place in the lives of African Americans after slavery ended. ….....(Read More)

The Segregated Scholars: Black Social Scientists And the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890-1950 (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series in Black Studies) (Hardcover) by Francille Rusan Wilson (Author)

Mississippi Sissy (Hardcover) by Kevin Sessums (Author)

Muslim Women in America: The Challenge of Islamic Identity Today (Hardcover) by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad (Author), Jane I. Smith (Author), Kathleen M. Moore (Author)

Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) (Hardcover) by Heather Andrea Williams (Author)

Desire, Violence, & Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy (Southern Literary Studies) (Hardcover) by Gary M. Ciuba (Author)

When Rap Music Had a Conscience: The Artists, Organizations and Historic Events that Inspired and Influenced the "Golden Age" of Hip-Hop from 1987 to 1996 (Paperback) by Tayannah Lee McQuillar (Author), Brother J of the X-Clan (Foreword)

Representing Race: Racisms, Ethnicity and the Media (Hardcover) by John D H Downing (Author), Charles Husband (Author)

Coming Out Together: An Ethnohistory of the Asian and Pacific Islander Queer Women's and Transgendered People's Movement of San Francisco (Studies in Asian Americans) (Hardcover) by Trinity Ordona (Author)

Negras in Brazil: Re-envisioning Black Women, Citizenship, And the Politics of Identity (Paperback) by Kia Lilly Caldwell (Author)

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