Very proud to announce the publication of the new book that we have been working on:

Southern History on Screen: Race and Rights, 1976-2016

Edited by Bryan M. Jack with contributions by Caroline Schroeter, Oliver Gruner, Daniel Farrell, Erik Alexander, Todd Simpson, Kwakiutl Dreher, Megan Hunt, Gene Kelly, and Tatiana Prorokova.

My contribution is a chapter entitled "From Griffith to Parker: Constructing and reconstructing race and the history of the US South in The Birth of a Nation (1915–2016)".

Available at your favorite bookstore, direct from the publisher by calling 800-537-5487, or from www.kentuckypress.com or at http://kentuckypress.com/live/title_detail.php?titleid=5383#.WwQezkgvyUk.