W. Ralph Eubanks
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W. Ralph Eubanks

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W. Ralph Eubanks is the author of When It's Darkness on the Delta: How America's Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land . Eubanks delivers a powerful and insightful examination of how racism and economic instability have shaped life in the Mississippi Delta. In When It's Darkness on the Delta, Eubanks traces the enduring consequences of political decisions that have entrenched inequality across generations. At the same time, he brings attention to the resilience of local communities and the grassroots movements working toward meaningful change. The book offers a thoughtful framework for policy reform and community investment, underscoring the need to support those who have long sustained the region through their labor and lived experience. Eubanks is also the author of three other works of nonfiction: A Place Like Mississippi (Timber Press) takes readers on a complete tour of the real and imagined landscapes that have inspired generations of authors. This is a book that honors and explores the landscape of Mississippi—and the Magnolia State’s history—and reveals the many ways this landscape has informed the work of some of America’s most treasured authors. He is also the author of Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi's Dark Past (Basic Books) and The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South (HarperCollins). Washington Post book critic Jonathan Yardley named Ever is a Long Time as one of the best nonfiction books of 2003. Richard Ford wrote that The House at the End of the Road “finds its truth in between conventional wisdom and sociological presumption, in between lies and faulty history. It is a story of race, of family, of place itself, and it tells us that compassion and the stirring force of individual human endeavor finally mean more than anything.” Eubanks has contributed articles to the Washington Post Outlook and Style sections, WIRED, The Hedgehog Review,The Wall Street Journal, The American Scholar, The New Yorker, and National Public Radio. A graduate of the University of Mississippi (B.A.) and the University of Michigan (M.A., English Language and Literature), he is a recipient of a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, has been a fellow at the New America Foundation, and was a 2021-2022 fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. He serves as faculty fellow and writer-in-residence at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi and lives in Washington, DC and Oxford, Mississippi. From 1995 to 2013 he was director of publishing for the Library of Congress and is the former editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review at the University of Virginia. Currently he is a visiting professor of English and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi.
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