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B. Brian Foster

Writer. Sociologist. Documentarian.

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

Film · 2025 

 · Act 3 of 

By: B. Brian Foster & Ethan Payne

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