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CIVIL RIGHTS | WOMEN’S STUDIES Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954–1965 Edited by Davis W. Houck and David E. Dixon An anthology of speeches providing eloquent evidence of the powerful contribution women made to the struggle HHistorians have long agreed that women—black and white—were instrumental in shaping the civil rights movement. Until recently, though, such claims have not been supported by easily accessed texts of speeches and addresses. With this first-of-its-kind anthology, Davis W. Houck and David E. Dixon present thirtynine full-text addresses by women who spoke out while the struggle was at its most intense. Beginning with the Brown decision in 1954 and extending through the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the editors chronicle the unique and important rhetorical contributions made by such well-known activists as Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer, Daisy Bates, Lillian Smith, Mamie Till-Mobley, Lorraine Hansberry, Dorothy Height, and Rosa Parks. They also include speeches from lesserknown but influential leaders such as Della Sullins, Marie Foster, Johnnie Carr, Jane Schutt, and Barbara Posey. Nearly every speech was discovered in local, regional, or national archives, and many are published or transcribed from audiotape here for the first time. Houck and Dixon introduce each speaker and occasion with a headnote highlighting key biographical and background details. The editors also provide a general introduction that places these public addresses in context. Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954–1965 gives voice to stalwarts whose passionate orations were vital to every phase of a movement that changed America. Davis W. Houck is associate professor of communication at Florida State University. He is the author, with Matthew A. Grindy, of Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press (University Press of Mississippi), among other books. David E. Dixon is associate professor of political science at Saint Joseph’s College (Indiana). With Houck he coedited Rhetoric, Religion, and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954–1965. FEBRUARY, 352 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, index Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-60473-107-1 Photograph—Fannie Lou Hamer at the 1964 Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey, courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division RELATED Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press Davis W. Houck and Matthew A. Grindy Foreword by Keith A. Beauchamp Cloth $40.00S, 978-1-934110-15-7 AMERICAN LITERATURE | AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES Finding a Way Home A Critical Assessment of Walter Mosley’s Fiction Edited by Owen E. Brady and Derek C. Maus Essays by Owen E. Brady, Kelly C. Connelly, Juan F. Elices, Keith Hughes, Derek C. Maus, Jerrilyn McGregory, Laura Quinn, Francesca Canadé Sautman, Daniel Stein, Lisa B. Thompson, Terrence Tucker, and Albert U. Turner, Jr. I In Finding a Way Home, twelve essays by scholars from four countries trace Walter Mosley’s distinctive approach to representing African American responses to the feeling of homelessness in an inhospitable America. Mosley (b. 1952) writes frequently of characters trying to construct an idea of home and wrest a sense of dignity, belonging, and hope Considerations of the achievements of the acclaimed and popular African American writer from cultural and communal resources. These essays examine Mosley’s queries about the meaning of “home” in various social and historical contexts. Essayists consider the concept—whether it be material, social, cultural, or virtual—in all three of Mosley’s detective/crime fiction series (Easy Rawlins, Socrates Fortlow, and Fearless Jones), his three books of speculative fiction, two of his “literary” novels (RL’s Dream, The Man in My Basement), and in his recent social and political nonfiction. Essays here explore Mosley’s modes of expression, his testing of the limitations of genre, his political engagement in prose, his utopian/dystopian analyses, and his uses of parody and vernacular culture. Finding a Way Home provides rich discussions, explaining the development of Mosley’s work. Owen E. Brady is associate professor of humanities and coordinator of the American studies program at Clarkson University. His work has appeared in Callaloo; Obsidian: Black Literature in Review; and many other periodicals. Derek C. Maus is associate professor of English at the State University of New York, Potsdam. His work has appeared in Symbolism and other periodicals. OCTOBER, 224 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, bibliography, index Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-60473-088-3 Photograph—Walter Mosley © 2008 Nancy Crampton RELATED Charles Johnson The Novelist as Philosopher Edited by Marc C. Conner and William R. Nash Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-57806-973-6 20 University Press of Mississippi Call 1-800-737-7788 to order toll-free.
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