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Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of Up South in the Ozarks
New essays from Brooks Blevins.
Announcing the Forthcoming Publication of Race and Repast
Racialized identity and foodscapes, bringing fresh analysis to one of the American South’s most distinctive and revealing art forms.
Now Available! Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta
“Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the Elaine Massacre…”
Guy Lancaster on the American Rambler Podcast
American Atrocity focuses on Arkansas, but it tells a larger story of lynching and race relations in America. Dr. Lancaster, a native of Arkansas, also gets to the heart of the matter by asking: what is a lynching?
Interviews with John Kirk, author of new Winthrop Rockefeller Biography
“A readable and intriguing portrait of a figure whose prelude to power distinguished him from other southern leaders of the era.”
Now Available! Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas
“A must-read for understanding how ordinary people could perpetrate the most barbaric racial atrocities.”
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The submission deadline for the 2027 Miller Williams Poetry Prize is 30 September 2025.
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