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Affect and Power: Essays on Sex, Slavery, Race, and Religion by David J. Libby $42.50, (list price $50), University of Mississippi Press, ISBN 9781934110331, pp. 240.
This is an anthology of essays by former students of Winthrop D. Jordan, a historian and author of White Over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812, to honor his legacy of writing and teaching. He taught about the complexities of sex, slavery, race, and religion in American culture in his forty-year career at the University of California and the University of Mississippi.
