The new issue of Booklist suggests that CORNBREAD NATION 5 "should be required reading both for southerners themselves and for anyone else seeking enlightenment."
Keith Gilyard's biography of JOHN OLIVER KILLENS praised in the Neworld Review. In addition, the editor notes: "The more I read of Professor Keith Gilyard’s excellent and well written account of the internal battle Killens faced between being a social activist, and a solitary person which creative writing demands, I couldn’t help but note that what an exciting time in world history it must have been to have lived as a creative, thinking black person."
The new issue of Aperture features Reuben Cox and THE WORK OF JOE WEBB, with an excerpt from Cox's introduction.
Now available:
BROTHERS OF A VOW
Ami Pflugrad-Jackisch
In this detailed study of secret fraternal organizations in Virginia prior to the Civil War, Pflugrad-Jackisch connects the culture of secret orders to changing definitions of Southern white manhood in a tumultuous era.
Gale Kenny
Oberlin College sent a mission to Jamaica in the 1830s in the wake of emancipation, expecting to be able to use the transition as an argument in favor of abolition in America. Kenny examines the American-Jamaican encounter from both sides, illuminating the cultural assumptions and differing ideas about freedom that kept this mission from going as expected.
Amy Mills
Geographer Amy Mills looks at one particularly interesting neighborhood in Istanbul to understand how cultural memory can preserve the idea of a tolerant, multi-ethnic neighborhood even as a place in reality becomes less and less diverse.
Anna Mae Duane
Using a wide range of early American writing, Duane investigates the powerful image of the child-victim and its relationship to American understandings of colonization and power.
