SHAKING THE FAMILY TREE: Blue Blood, Black Sheep, and Other Obsessions of an Accidental Genealogist.
(Simon & Schuster: 2010)
This is the big new book about genealogy. Find out more at www.buzzyjackson.com.
THE BETTER ANGELS OF OUR NATURE: Racial Equity and Environmental Well-Being (University of Washington Press: 2010) I'm co-editing this anthology on environmental justice with Patricia Nelson Limerick and Barry Ross Muchnick, under the auspices of The Center of the American West at CU Boulder.
A BAD WOMAN FEELING GOOD: BLUES AND THE WOMEN WHO SING THEM
This is my previous book, published in 2005. A combination of biography, an appreciation of music, and a sweeping view of American history illuminating the pivotal role of blues women in a powerful musical tradition. Musician Thomas Dorsey said, "The blues is a good woman feeling bad." But these women show by their style that he had it backward: The blues is a bad woman feeling good.(W.W. Norton: 2005).