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Defying Jim Crow: African American Community Development and the Struggle for Racial Equality in New Orleans, 1900-1960 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
From the earliest days of Jim Crow, African Americans in New Orleans rallied around... Læs mere
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Reinventing Dixie: Tin Pan Alley's Songs and the Creation of the Mythic South (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Tin Pan Alley, once New York City’s songwriting and recording mecca, issued more than a thousand songs about the American... Læs mere
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Slim Harpo: Blues King Bee of Baton Rouge (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
As Louis Armstrong forever tethered jazz to New Orleans and Clifton Chenier fixed Lafayette as home to zydeco, Slim Harpo established Baton Rouge as a base for... Læs mere
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George Washington Carver: A Life (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Offers a thorough biography of George Washington Carver, including in-depth details of his relationships with his friends, colleagues, and supporters. In pursuit of the... Læs mere
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The Richmond Theater Fire: Early America's First Great Disaster (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores a forgotten catastrophe and its wide societal impact. Investigating private letters, diaries, and sermons, among other rare or... Læs mere
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Polishing the Glass Storm: A Sequence (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In poems that weave a linguistic web between the metaphysical and material realms, Katherine Soniat reminds us of the many ways in which language can reinforce otherwise frail connections between vision and experience.
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Light at the Seam: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A new collection from North Carolina poet Joseph Bathanti, Light at the Seam is an exploration of mountaintop removal in southern Appalachian coal country. The volume illuminates... Læs mere
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Lures: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Written almost exclusively in traditional, modified, and nonce forms, the poems in Lures renegotiate grief, trauma, southern masculinities, and fatherhood with unflinching resolve. With... Læs mere
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Our Lady of Bewilderment: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Drawing on the aid of beings real and imaginary, Our Lady of Bewilderment offers humorous, honest, and intimate poems contemplating life’s traumas and joys, filtered through the religion-infused secular traditions of Louisiana.
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Poets and the Fools Who Love Them: A Memoir in Essays (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Drawing on his adulthood in academe, Richard Katrovas’s memoir in essays chronicles a quest to locate surrogate fathers among older poets and other... Læs mere
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The Judas Ear: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Like the ear-shaped mushroom named for a biblical betrayer, the poems in The Judas Ear can shift suddenly from wit to pathos, from seductiveness to danger, with a generosity of vision that is at once wise and revelatory.
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Costa Rica After Coffee: The Co-op Era in History and Memory (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores the political, social, and economic place occupied by the coffee industry in contemporary Costa Rican history. Lowell Gudmundson... Læs mere
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