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B. Brian Foster

Writer. Sociologist. Archivist.

Footage by Ethan Payne

A Black South Way

The Black South is where and who my work focuses on: rural communities that have long grounded Black American culture, history, and politics. And a  Black South way is how I do that work—deliberative, communal, pragmatic, and committed to Truth. Bezel is my digital portfolio. The Black Volumes is a living archive.

Selected Works

I Don't Like the Blues

Book · 2020

How do you love and not like the same thing at the same time? An ethnography of how Black residents in Clarksdale, Mississippi feel about  and navigate the town's blues tourism economy.

We Make

Film · 2025 · Act 3 of 

By: B. Brian Foster & Ethan Payne

Vessels

He called his shop "The Fraile Vessel."

Portfolio

Portfolio

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Archive

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Archive

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& Public Work

& Public Work

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