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Must the Professor Crusade? W. Ralph Eubanks on the Connection Between Black Writing and Black Resistance

Must the Professor Crusade? W. Ralph Eubanks on the Connection Between Black Writing and Black Resistance

“Books and stories can be a light that leads toward the pursuit of truth in what might be dark times.”

By W. Ralph Eubanks | November 12, 2024

How Much Did the History of American Chattel Slavery Shape William Faulkner’s <em>Absalom, Absalom!</em>?

How Much Did the History of American Chattel Slavery Shape William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!?

W. Ralph Eubanks on the Connection Between Faulkner’s Fiction, His Longtime Home, and the University of Mississippi

By W. Ralph Eubanks | July 29, 2021

In the Mississippi Woods Where the Southern Myth Ends

In the Mississippi Woods Where the Southern Myth Ends

W. Ralph Eubanks Gets Deep Into the Piney Woods,
Literary and Otherwise

By W. Ralph Eubanks | March 16, 2021

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