Elaine J. Lawless is professor emerita at University of Missouri. She is author of six books and coauthor (with David Todd Lawrence) of When They Blew the Levee: Race, Politics, and Community in Pinhook, Missouri and (with M. Heather Carver) of Troubling Violence: A Performance Project, both published by University Press of Mississippi. With David Todd Lawrence, she also coproduced the documentary film Taking Pinhook, available on YouTube or at www.RebuildPinhook.org.
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