James G. Thomas, Jr., Oxford, Mississippi, is associate director for publications at the University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of Southern Culture. He is an editor of the twenty-four-volume "New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture" and the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series, and his work has appeared in "Ethnic Heritage in Mississippi: The Twentieth Century", "Southern Cultures", "Southern Quarterly", "Delta Magazine", and "Living Blues".