Faculty Fellow and Writer in Residence, Black Power at Ole Miss
Biography
W. Ralph Eubanks is the Black Power at Ole Miss Faculty Fellow at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. He is the author of A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through A Real and Imagined Literary Landscape. He is also the author of two other works of nonfiction: Ever Is a Long Time and The House at the End of the Road. A writer and essayist whose work focuses on race, identity, and the American South, he was a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow and the 2021-2022 Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. His next book, When It's Darkness on the Delta: An American Reckoning, will be published by Beacon Press in 2025.
Publications
The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South
A powerful story about race and identity told through the lives of one American family across three generations
Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi’s Dark Past
A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape
Courses Taught
- SST 109 Southern Rights and Activism
- SST 599 Geography and Southern Literature
Education
M.A. English Literature, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (1979)