B. Brian Foster, Ph.D. | Black South Writer, Documentarian, Sociologist

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B. Brian Foster

B. Brian Foster

Writer. Sociologist. Documentarian.

Video by Ethan Payne

That became my mission: to help put the rural Black South (back) on all the records, to tell their stories Beautiful.

Selected Works

I Don't Like the Blues

Book · Ethnography · 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

We do a Black South way

Film · 2025

· Act 3 of

By: B. Brian Foster & Ethan Payne

Full Oral History Collection

Work

Major Research & Storytelling Projects

Oral History, Documents, & Collections

Essays, Keynotes, & Conversations

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Images: Justin Hardiman (top center), D.J. Toliver (top Left, middle center, bottom left), Christine Kreschollek (top right), Ethan Payne (middle left), Noah Stewart (middle right), Zaire Love (bottom right)

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