W. Ralph Eubanks

W. Ralph Eubanks is the author of Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi's Dark Past and The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South. He is a visiting professor of southern studies at the University of Mississippi.

Words in Confinement

Lessons on literature and life from inside a notorious Mississippi prison

by W. Ralph Eubanks | Thursday, March 11, 2021

Color Lines

How DNA ancestry testing can turn our notions of race and ethnicity upside down

by W. Ralph Eubanks | Friday, March 01, 2013

Affirmative Action and After

Now is the time to reconsider a policy that must eventually change. But simply replacing race with class isn’t the solution.

by W. Ralph Eubanks | Monday, December 01, 2008