University Of Georgia Press: 447 books
Visible Man
The Life of Henry Dumas
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Henry Dumas (1934–1968) was a writer who did not live to see most of his fiction and poetry in print. A son of Sweet Home, Arkansas, and Harlem, he devoted himself to the creation of a black literary cosmos, one in which black literature and culture were windows into the human condition. While he...
A Sense of Regard
Essays on Poetry and Race
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
A Sense of Regard, says Laura McCullough, “is an effort to collect the voices of living poets and scholars in thoughtful and considered exfoliation of the current confluence of poetry and race, the difficulties, the nuances, the unexamined, the feared, the questions, and the quarrels across aesthetic...
North Carolina Women
Their Lives and Times, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
By the twentieth century, North Carolina’s progressive streak had strengthened, thanks in large part to a growing number of women who engaged in and influenced state and national policies and politics. These women included Gertrude Weil who fought tirelessly for the Nineteenth Amendment, which extended...
The Southern Hospitality Myth
Ethics, Politics, Race, and American Memory
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Hospitality as a cultural trait has been associated with the South for well over two centuries, but the origins of this association and the reasons for its perseverance often seem unclear. Anthony Szczesiul looks at how and why we have taken something so particular as the social habit of hospitality—which...
by Claudrena N. Harold, Bryant Simon, Jane Dailey
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
This study details how the development and maturation of New Negro politics and thought were shaped not only by New York–based intellectuals and revolutionary transformations in Europe, but also by people, ideas, and organizations rooted in the South. Claudrena N. Harold probes into critical events...
Development Drowned and Reborn
The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Development Drowned and Reborn is a “Blues geography” of New Orleans, one that compels readers to return to the history of the Black freedom struggle there to reckon with its unfinished business. Reading contemporary policies of abandonment against the grain, Clyde Woods explores how Hurricane...
The South of the Mind
American Imaginings of White Southernness, 1960–1980
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
With the nation reeling from the cultural and political upheavals of the 1960s era, imaginings of the white South as a place of stability represented a bulwark against unsettling problems, from suburban blandness and empty consumerism to race riots and governmental deceit. A variety of individuals...
Finding Charity's Folk
Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Finding Charity’s Folk highlights the experiences of enslaved Maryland women who negotiated for their own freedom, many of whom have been largely lost to historical records. Based on more than fifteen hundred manumission records and numerous manuscript documents from a diversity of archives, Jessica...
Homicide Justified
The Legality of Killing Slaves in the United States and the Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
This comparative study looks at the laws concerning the murder of slaves by their masters and at how these laws were implemented. Andrew T. Fede cites a wide range of cases—across time, place, and circumstance—to illuminate legal, judicial, and other complexities surrounding this regrettably common...
by William V. Lombardi, Robert Gunn, Andy Doolen
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Mapping Region in Early American Writing is a collection of essays that study how early American writers thought about the spaces around them. The contributors reconsider the various roles regions—imagined politically, economically, racially, and figuratively—played in the formation of American...
Sudden Music
Improvisation, Sound, Nature
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Music, said Zen patriarch Hui Neng, "is a means of rapid transformation." It takes us home to a natural world that functions outside of logic, where harmony and dissonance, tension and release work in surprising ways. Weaving memoir, travelogue, and philosophical reflection, Sudden Music presents...
by James Kilgo
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Reconciliation and remembering are the forces at work in Inheritance of Horses. In these essays, James Kilgo seeks the common ground between his roles as a man, as husband and father, and as heir to his family legacy. Pausing at mid-life to make an eloquent, understated stand against our era's rootlessness,...
Properties of Violence
Law and Land Grant Struggle in Northern New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Through a compelling story about the conflict over a notorious Mexican-period land grant in northern New Mexico, David Correia examines how law and property are constituted through violence and social struggle.
Spain and Mexico populated what is today New Mexico through large common property...
Walking in the Land of Many Gods
Remembering Sacred Reason in Contemporary Environmental Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
How are we placed on Earth? What is our relationship to the world around us, and how< does our thinking affect the way we relate to the world? We are entrapped, says A. James Wohlpart, by what Martin Heidegger calls "enframing," a worldview that considers all objects as mere resources for our use....