Chris Myers Asch
Biographic Data
| ID | 1251973 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Myers Asch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris Myers |
| FAMILY NAME | Asch |
| SIGNATURE | ASCH C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colby College, Waterville, Maine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Rhythms of Resistance and Resilience
Sextuple Jeopardy
An email arrived one day in the inbox of American Public Media investigative reporter Madeleine Baran. Did she know, the writer asked, there was a Black man in Mississippi who had been tried six times—six times—for the same crime? Intrigued, and a bit incredulous, Baran, fellow reporter Parker Yesko, and a team of researchers delved into the story. The result is season 2 of In the Dark, an extraordinary twenty-episode exploration of the Curtis …
Hattiesburg
William Sturkey's Hattiesburg is a marvelous, deeply researched, and exceptionally well-written book that explores the biracial history of one of Mississippi's few urban centers. A professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Sturkey focuses on the eight decades between Hattiesburg's founding in the 1880s and segregation's collapse in the 1960s. He weaves the stories of white and black Hattiesburgers into a compelling and complex nar…
Chocolate City
The Senator and the Sharecropper
This study of race, politics, and economics in Mississippi tells the story of two extraordinary personalities—Fannie Lou Hamer and James O. Eastland—who represented deeply opposed sides of the civil rights movement. Both were from Sunflower County: Eastland was a wealthy white planter and one of the most powerful segregationists in the U.S. Senate, while Hamer, a sharecropper who grew up desperately poor just a few miles from the Eastland plantat…
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The Senator and the Sharecropper
This study of race, politics, and economics in Mississippi tells the story of two extraordinary personalities—Fannie Lou Hamer and James O. Eastland—who represented deeply opposed sides of the civil rights movement. Both were from Sunflower County: Eastland was a wealthy white planter and one of the most powerful segregationists in the U.S. Senate, while Hamer, a sharecropper who grew up desperately poor just a few miles from the Eastland plantat…
Chocolate City
Hattiesburg
William Sturkey's Hattiesburg is a marvelous, deeply researched, and exceptionally well-written book that explores the biracial history of one of Mississippi's few urban centers. A professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Sturkey focuses on the eight decades between Hattiesburg's founding in the 1880s and segregation's collapse in the 1960s. He weaves the stories of white and black Hattiesburgers into a compelling and complex nar…
Sextuple Jeopardy
An email arrived one day in the inbox of American Public Media investigative reporter Madeleine Baran. Did she know, the writer asked, there was a Black man in Mississippi who had been tried six times—six times—for the same crime? Intrigued, and a bit incredulous, Baran, fellow reporter Parker Yesko, and a team of researchers delved into the story. The result is season 2 of In the Dark, an extraordinary twenty-episode exploration of the Curtis …
Rhythms of Resistance and Resilience
History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Economic history (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · African americans (2 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · History (2 works)