University of Georgia Press Fall/Winter 2025 Catalog

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA

BooKs for faLL / Winter 2025

CATALOG HIGHLIGHTS

TITLE INDEX

12 35 naturaL WonDers of georgia to see Before you Die Litrel, Ann, and Charles Seabrook

36 aLL geographers shouLD Be feMinist geographers Naylor, Lindsay

1 anthony BeneZet Chanoff, David

31 BetWeen King Cotton anD Queen viCtoria Cleland, Beau

21 BLaCK MontMartre in the JaZZ age Tomlinson, Robert

10 BLue Loop White, AJ

26 CattLe traiLs anD aniMaL Lives Morin, Karen M.

34 Conservation in CoMMon Raycraft, Justin

6 a Desert BetWeen tWo seas Muia, A.

18 Driven Johnson, Tom

29 enforCing orDer on the BorDer Gamino, Eric

22 hiDDen WorLD Tarner, Kevin, and Rachel Hughes

35 infrastruCtures of Caring CitiZenship

Gutiérrez Sánchez, Isabel

3 JaZZ June Thompson, Clifford

8 LanD of everLasting hiLLs Davis, Ren, and Helen Davis

25 LoCaL tv Herold, Lauren, and Annie Laurie Sullivan, eds.

11 the MeDiuM piCture Christopher, Roy

14 MeriDian rising Burch, Paul

2 My Corpse insiDe Jamison, Wes

16 no pLaCe for piLgriMs Marshall, Mike

28 originaL sin?

Barnes, Willie, Jr., and J. Carter Scott

17 peaCh pit CoraZÓn Ocasio, Rafael, ed.

20 porgy’s ghost Greene, Harlan

33 protest anD peDagogy Hyres, Alexander D.

24 raDioaCtive DiXie Peyton, Caroline Rose

32 Wagging tongues anD tittLe tattLe Hoffert, Sylvia D. 6 13

27 a MonuMent to BLaCKness Jeffery, Hannah E.

4 More historiC ruraL ChurChes of georgia Seals, Sonny

13 the Most ControversiaL state parK

Martin, C. Brenden

30 MotoWn anD the MaKing of WorKing-CLass revoLutionaries

Scott, Jerome, and Walda KatzFishman

7 unMothereD, untongueD Roripaugh, Lee Horikoshi

The life and enduring legacy of an eighteenth-century Quaker abolitionist

Anthony Benezet

Quaker, Abolitionist, Anti-Racist

david Chanoff

“I think of the history of the struggle for full human rights as being a great chain that stretches back over the centuries. If anyone has a claim to being the first American link in that chain—although his influence spread well beyond his country—it is Anthony Benezet. I hope this intriguing, gracefully written book helps make this extraordinary man far better known.”—Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold’s Ghost

Wilberforce, Clarkson, Wesley. Britain’s great abolitionist activist Granville Sharp. Each of these consequential figures of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world were galvanized by the moral power of a modest Quaker teacher who never ventured more than a few miles from his home in Philadelphia: Anthony Benezet. While Benezet was buried in an unmarked grave, his fingerprints are all over the extinction of the Atlantic slave trade and the gathering strength of America’s own burgeoning abolitionist movement. He was a figure of global importance, “a saint,” Garry Wills called him, a great bearer to the rest of the world of the American ideals (no matter how compromised) of equality and liberty.

Anthony Benezet lived, by chance, at the nexus of radical Christianity and revolutionary democracy, and he fused the power of those two streams of morality in a way that changed lives and challenged political institutions so compellingly that the world became a different place because of him. But for all the magnitude of Benezet’s impact, he is largely unknown outside scholars of the period. He does not exist in any meaningful way in the widely read histories and biographies that define and amplify America’s historical consciousness.

In Anthony Benezet: Quaker, Abolitionist, Anti-Racist, preeminent biographer David Chanoff tells Benezet’s story—who he was, what he did, how he did it, and why it was that William Penn’s “Holy Experiment” of Pennsylvania provided the matrix for the historic transformation the abolitionist educator brought about. Indeed, Chanoff carves out a place for this forgotten American hero as a pioneering figure among those who launched American ideals onto the world stage.

DAVID CHANOFF has written for the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, New Republic, and the Wall Street Journal, among other publications. His twenty-four books include collaborations with former surgeon general Joycelyn Elders, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral William Crowe Jr., and Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon. In addition to ghostwriting, he has also written a number of histories, including a history of Black medicine and health care that was awarded the Phillis Wheatley Prize for History from the Sons & Daughters of the U.S. Middle Passage.

WES JAMISON is an assistant professor of English at Del Mar College. They are the author of Carrion, which received the 2021 Quill Prose Award, and the chapbook and Melancholia, a winner of Essay Press’s Chapbook Contest. Their essays have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and mentioned as Notables in the Best American series. Their work also appears in DIAGRAM, The Rumpus, Tupelo Quarterly, After the Art, and elsewhere. Born and raised in the Midwest, Jamison currently lives in Corpus Christi, Texas, with their partner and two cats.

OCTOBER

5.5 X 8.5 | 186 pp. paperBacK $27.95t 9780820374949 eBooK aVailaBle

An inquiry into the effects of being perpetually virtually connected on identity, language, and the body

My Corpse Inside wes Jamison

CRUX: THE GEORGIA SERIES IN LITERARY NONFICTION

“My Corpse Inside reads like a two-hundred-page slingshot, whipping from Kristeva to Angelspit, 2 Girls 1 Cup to Althusser, Michael Brown to Japanese Technohorror, all the while nakedly processing the author’s own abuse. Ultimately, Jamison explores the body, the disembodied, the other-bodied, and our delicate agency that laces them. This book is more dexterous than anything I’ve read in years. How queer, indeed.”—Miah Jeffra, author of The Violence Almanac

A provocative and meticulously structured exploration of identity, language, and the body, My Corpse Inside exposes the thin and increasingly blurry line between the physical and the digital, between the living and the dead. Wes Jamison contends with the complex and disturbing relationship of sexuality and violence through a torrent of virtual horrors—shock sites, hookup apps, beheading videos, and creepshots—as well as through Jamison’s own experiences of being surveilled and exploited online. Inspired by Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s master horror film Kairo, which portrays ghosts overflowing into our reality through the internet, this fragmented book-length essay clarifies Julia Kristeva’s infamously esoteric theory of abjection and subjectivity and updates it for today’s constant virtuality. My Corpse Inside is a disquieting work that asks readers to confront the violence, fetish, horror, and loneliness inherent in our eternal connectivity.

Self-reflection and an examination in essays of what it means to be human

Jazz June

A Self-Portrait in Essays

Clifford ThomPson

CRUX: THE GEORGIA SERIES IN LITERARY NONFICTION

“Clifford Thompson has skillfully captured in words a distinct era of American history, the specific feel over time of two major cities (Washington and New York); an intimate glimpse of the complexity of race and masculinity; and the small details of family, love, ambition, fear, fatherhood, and aging that make up a life. It is a charming, quiet but powerful, well-crafted collection.”—Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic and Desire

“Clifford Thompson is an essayist of the finest order.”—Jerald Walker, author of How to Make a Slave and Other Essays

Jazz June: A Self-Portrait in Essays traces a life, not by recounting its major events but by going deep into its representative moments: the moments of wonder, hope, fear, uncertainty, humor, love, and epiphany that make up human experience. Along the way, as a son of a widowed mother, as a young man in the big city, as a husband and father, as an aging empty nester, and as an artist, the author discovers, with each new role, more of who he is. A lover of the arts, he offers creative reflections on literature, music, and film; a Black American whose life is informed but not defined by race, he embraces Black culture while remaining defiantly himself.

CLIFFORD THOMPSON is a recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award for nonfiction whose essays and reviews have appeared in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Best American Essays, Times Literary Supplement, the 2024 Pushcart Prize Anthology, and more. His books include What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man’s Blues, which Time magazine called one of the “most anticipated” books of the season, and the graphic novel Big Man and the Little Men, which he wrote and illustrated. Thompson teaches creative nonfiction writing at Sarah Lawrence College and the Vermont College of Fine Arts. A painter, he is a member of Blue Mountain Gallery in New York City.

An illustrated tribute to rural church communities and an exploration of their significance

More Historic Rural Churches of Georgia

sonny seals

foreword by ambassador andrew young

“This new volume from Historic Rural Churches of Georgia continues the organization’s excellent tradition of sharing Georgia’s rich history and highlighting the importance of religious spaces and practices across many communities of faith. The beautiful photographs and engaging narratives draw readers into the lives of many diverse Georgians, whether Primitive Baptists in the Wiregrass region, circuit-riding Methodists in the Piedmont, or Presbyterians building churches of stone in the mountains. Through the stories of these historic rural churches, this book bares the soul of nineteenthcentury Georgia in all its many forms.”—Jan Love, dean, Candler School of Theology, Emory University

This much anticipated follow-up to the best-selling Historic Rural Churches of Georgia (2016) documents even more rural churches and communities founded prior to 1900 throughout the Peach State. With more than 250 stunning color images, the new volume chronicles the historical, community, religious, and architectural significance of fifty new sites, while simultaneously calling for their historic preservation when possible.

The book includes special focus on African American churches preand post-Emancipation, with a foreword by Ambassador Andrew Young. In his foreword, Ambassador Young reflects on the central role of the Black church in his life, writing, “As I look back, my experience in these rural church assignments was the basis for my understanding of racial inequality in the South and my deeply held conviction to do something about it. It prepared me for the long struggle that was to come.” In addition to this important foreword, scholars Doug E. Thompson and Noel Leo Erskine add significant historical context in their introductory essay.

SONNY SEALS is the coauthor, with George S. Hart, of the awardwinning Historic Rural Churches of Georgia (Georgia), published in 2016. Also with George S. Hart, he is a cofounder of Historic Rural Churches of Georgia, a nonprofit formed in 2013 for the purpose of researching and documenting some of Georgia’s most historic and architecturally significant rural churches. Seals is a graduate of Georgia Tech and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

OCTOBER 10 X 12 | 424 pp.

343 color iMages, 13 B&W iMages harDBacK With Dust JacKet $49.95t 9780820373355 a Kenneth coleMan FunD puBlication

A. MUIA is a writer whose stories and articles have appeared in the Baltimore Review, Chicago Review, Grist, Image Journal, Water~Stone Review, West Branch, AWP’s Writer’s Chronicle, and other journals. Her work has been anthologized in The Orison Anthology and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Find her online at amuia.net.

Stories of guilt and redemption in an unforgiving land

A Desert between Two Seas

A Novel in Stories a. muia

FLANNERY O’CONNOR AWARD FOR SHORT FICTION

“Muia’s voice is essential. These stories are fire, and this book is powerful. Your favorite book is waiting to meet you.—Luis Alberto Urrea, author of Goodnight, Irene: A Novel

“Like the far tolling of a bell, Muia’s stories are reminiscent of tale, legend, and fable. Stark and moving, unsparing and compassionate, her work is grounded in history but suspended in no particular time. . . . These are spellbinding myths to get lost in.”—Robert Clark, author of In the Deep Midwinter: A Novel

“Muia’s language is like her setting: sparse and beautiful. She writes with emotional restraint, her stories driven by details and images that feel unexpected and shocking and new and by the actions of her compelling characters. . . . Such is the world of Muia’s collection, a world in which love and violence, survival and hope, live side by side. Reading A Desert between Two Seas is an immersive experience, one that I am delighted my fellow lovers of story and history, of vivid characters and setting, will soon have also.”—Lori Ostlund, author of After the Parade

Set in the crumbling Spanish missions of nineteenth-century Baja California, this mythic novel in linked stories follows two griefstricken people as haunted as the desolate chapels around them: a priest who caused the drowning of a native boy by compelling him to fish for pearls, and a deaf woman trying to outrun her murderous reputation as a pistolera. Though the stories span landscapes, villages, characters, and decades, the heart of the novel is Baja California itself—a stark land of cactus and creosote, of russet canyons and splintered wastes of rock—where people living in the shadow of ruined missions seek redemption on an inhospitable peninsula forsaken even by its priests.

SEPTEMBER

5.5 X 8.5 | 248 pp.

1 Map paperBacK $26.95t 9780820374383

eBooK aVailaBle

A collection of essays that thread themselves around the questions and complexities of language, landscape, and identity

unMothered, unTongued

Lyric Essays

lee horiKoshi roriPaugh

seleCTed by ChloÉ CooPer Jones

SUE SILVERMAN PRIZE FOR CREATIVE NONFICTION

“unMothered, unTongued is an extraordinary collection of essays that masterfully pushes the boundaries of nonfiction. The writing is simply exquisite. Each sentence sings with an elegant precision that cuts like a scalpel to the essence of self, memory, and place. This manuscript tackles nuanced questions of identity, family, and culture while simultaneously reimagining the very limits of form and poetic prose. The results are breathtaking. I’m so grateful for this reading experience, one I will not forget.”—Chloé Cooper Jones, author of Easy Beauty

unMothered, unTongued is a collection of lyric essays written from the liminal space of the in-between. These essays thread themselves around questions of language, landscape, and identity, weaving together intersectionalities and intertextualities. Author Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh, a biracial LGBTQIA+ Nisei who was born and raised in Laramie, Wyoming, to a nonnative-English-speaking Issei mother, considers not only the tensions in the rifts between intersectional identities (biracial Nisei, LGBTQIA+) but also the tensions between marginalized identities and the landscapes and cultures of the American West; the tensions between nonnative, second, erased, and/or forgotten languages; and the tensions between those who abuse and those who survive. These rifts, intersections, and fractures, while frequently a source of violence and immense grief, are also a source of illumination and clarity. The essays in this collection are written almost entirely in hybrid/ lyric forms—oftentimes braided, oftentimes patchworked, oftentimes segmented—reflecting some of the fractured complexities and intersections of Horikoshi Roripaugh’s own hybrid identities.

LEE HORIKOSHI RORIPAUGH (she/they) is a biracial Nisei and the author of five volumes of poetry, most recently tsunami vs. the fukushima 50, a Best Book of 2019 by the New York Public Library and a poetry finalist in the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards. Some of her other work includes her chapbook, #stringofbeads, and a fiction collection, Reveal Codes, which was the winner of the Moon City Press Short Fiction Award. A recipient of the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in Poetry/ Prose for 2004 and a 1998 winner of the National Poetry Series, Horikoshi Roripaugh’s poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, Story Magazine, Terrain.org, Hotel Amerika, and North American Review, among other publications. Seven of their essays have been listed as Notable Essays in Best American Essays. They live in Wyoming.

Cathy Flum

The lives and work of two photographers who were instrumental in protecting the Great Smoky Mountains

Land of Everlasting Hills

George Masa, Jim Thompson, and the Photographs That Helped Save the Great Smoky Mountains and Blaze the Appalachian Trail ren and helen davis

At the turn of the twentieth century, the rugged peaks and lush valleys of the Great Smoky Mountains, once home to the Cherokee, were little known outside eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina. This dramatically changed with the arrival of two forces with very different visions: lumber companies who sought to fuel the nation’s growth and profit from harvesting the abundant timber, and tourists who discovered the healthful qualities and natural beauty of the mountains.

By the early 1920s, it became a race against time to protect the Great Smoky Mountain forests from decimation by clearcutting. Photography proved to be essential to this goal by showing the American people the extraordinary beauty of the landscape that was at risk of being lost. Two men—George Masa (raised as Shoji Endo), a Japanese immigrant in Asheville; and James “Jim” Thompson, a commercial photographer in Knoxville—were leaders in this effort, capturing exceptional images widely used in publications and portfolios for business and political leaders.

In addition, the two men helped guide the effort to blaze the route of the nascent Appalachian Trail through the Great Smokies and beyond to its southern terminus in North Georgia. Jim Thompson lived to see the fruits of his labors, but George Masa, who died in 1933 and was buried in a pauper’s grave, did not.

Land of Everlasting Hills details the lives and work of Masa and Thompson, both of whom were influential in the decade-long campaign to establish a national park and to protect the scenic beauty and rich diversity of the Great Smoky Mountains. In addition to the historical and biographical narrative—which includes more than thirty relevant photographs embedded within the text—the large-format book features a selection of photographic plates representing the exceptional images that Masa and Thompson created.

REN AND HELEN DAVIS are coauthors of several books including Landscapes for the People: George Alexander Grant, First Chief Photographer of the National Park Service (Georgia); Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery: An Illustrated History and Guide (also Georgia); Georgia Walks: Discovering Hikes through the Peach State’s Natural and Human History; and Atlanta Walks: A Comprehensive Guide to Walking, Running, and Bicycling the Area’s Scenic and Historic Locales. Ren Davis is a retired healthcare executive of thirty-two years, has had his travel writing and photography appear in such places as the Atlanta JournalConstitution, Georgia Magazine, and Atlanta Magazine. Helen Davis taught for nearly thirty years in Atlanta public and private schools.

OCTOBER 10 X 9 | 256 pp.

261 B&W iMages, 27 color iMages harDBacK With Dust JacKet $39.95t 9780820366524 a FrienDs FunD puBlication

Courtesy of the authors

AJ WHITE is a poet and educator from north Georgia. He is the winner of the 2023 Fugue Poetry Prize, selected by Kaveh Akbar, and of a 2023 Academy of American Poets University Prize, selected by Tara Betts. His poems have also appeared in The Account, Best New Poets, Overheard, West Trade Review, and elsewhere. He teaches creative writing and lives in New York.

SEPTEMBER

6 X 9 | 92 pp. paperBacK $19.95t 9780820374314 eBooK aVailaBle

An exploration of the path to recovery through acceptance and meditation on those qualities of the universe reflected in the self

Blue

Loop

Poems aJ whiTe

seleCTed by Chelsea dingman

THE NATIONAL POETRY SERIES

“In this searing debut, language loops back and forth across chasm and current to both rescind and remake a present in collision with a future that it does not recognize in its constant approach. Braiding words across histories and memory and space and time, White pulls the present closer to examine the speaker’s place within it, as well as the concrete details that make life events concerning addiction, recovery, and loss possible. In elegantly crafted poems that are both startling and arresting, White’s collection deftly emulates the structural integrity of a star’s blue loop, while mimicking its instability as it evolves. As such, Blue Loop makes space for transformation: through language, in a life, and in the reader. It asks one to enter the experiences of these poems and leave them not just changed but rearranged by all that has ‘been abandoned / into this life’ that is there yet not there, gone yet not gone. It is a graceful, surprising book that I will return to again and again.”—Chelsea Dingman, author of Through a Small Ghost and Thaw

Blue Loop is composed of poems about addiction and recovery, using meditation as a lens through which memories of loss and harm might begin to be processed and accepted. It seeks to prioritize—and demonstrate—dwelling with the self in the present moment, avoiding the tendency to do what those in the recovery community call future tripping: our innate, strong desire to visit things not yet come to pass through the mode of anxious attachment. In fact, these poems are against attachment, in the Buddhist sense, accepting and appreciating the beneficial gifts of calm from loved ones and community of all kinds but in search of release from the need to rely on such connections completely. Therefore, often, they are lonely poems.

Despite searching for connection, the speaker remains most faithful to—and finds grounding in—the self. The goal of Blue Loop is to provide potential strategies and modes of thought for readers navigating any form of recovery or in search of more balanced being.

Derek Ellis

How immersion in technology finds us in a world of pure media and redefines who we are, how we are, and what we will be

The Medium Picture

roy ChrisToPher

“Exactly the sort of contemporary cultural analysis to yield unnerving flashes of the future.”—William Gibson, award-winning author of Neuromancer

“Like a skateboarder repurposing the utilitarian textures of the urban terrain for sport, Roy Christopher reclaims the content and technologies of the media environment as a landscape to be navigated and explored. The Medium Picture is both a highly personal yet revelatory chronicle of a decades-long encounter with mediated popular culture.”—Douglas Rushkoff, documentarian and award-winning author of Coercion

“A synthesis of theory and thesis, research and personal recollection, The Medium Picture is a work of rangy intelligence and wandering curiosity. Thought-provoking and a pleasure to read.”—Charles Yu, award-winning author of Interior Chinatown

The ever-evolving ways that we interact with each other, our world, and ourselves through technology is a topic as worn as the devices we clutch and carry every day. How did we get here? Drawing from the disciplines of media ecology and media archaeology, as well as bringing fresh perspectives from subcultures of music and skateboarding, The Medium Picture illuminates aspects of technological mediation that have been overlooked along the way. Roy Christopher’s high-tempo, lucid prose shows us how immersion in unmoored technologies of connectivity places us in a world of pure media and redefines who we are, how we are, and what we will be.

ROY CHRISTOPHER is an aging BMX and skateboarding zine kid. That’s where he learned to turn events and interviews into pages with staples. His books include Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future; Boogie Down Predictions: Hip-Hop, Time, and Afrofuturism; and Post-Self: Journeys beyond the Human Body. He holds a PhD in communication studies from the University of Texas at Austin and writes regularly at roychristopher.com.

OCTOBER

6 X 9 | 232 pp.

48 B&W Figures, 4 DiagraMs

Nick Thompsen

ANN LITREL is a nationally published artist whose paintings of botanical and wildlife subjects have appeared on prints, books, stationery, and textiles. As a writer and illustrator, she has collaborated on three books and has been a monthly columnist for a range of publications on topics of art, ecology, community, and history. Litrel’s passion for arts and community led her to cofound the Woodstock Arts Center, an award-winning, multidisciplinary arts center on a four-acre campus. She lives with her husband, Dr. Michael Litrel, in Woodstock, Georgia.

CHARLES SEABROOK

retired from the Atlanta-Journal Constitution in 2005 after thirtyfour years as a science and environmental writer. He continues to write on a freelance basis his popular weekly column, Wild Georgia, which runs every Saturday in the AJC’s Living section. He is the author of three books: Red Clay, Pink Cadillacs, and White Gold: The Kaolin Chalk Wars; Cumberland Island: Strong Women, Wild Horses; and The World of the Salt Marsh: Appreciating and Protecting the Tidal Marshes of the Southeastern Atlantic Coast (Georgia). He and his wife, Laura, live in Decatur, Georgia.

OCTOBER

10 X 8 | 296 pp.

115 color iMages, 36 Maps

harDBacK $39.95t 9780820374444

a georgia anD Bruce MceVer FunD For the arts anD enVironMent puBlication

An

illustrated bucket list of the many

natural wonders of Georgia

35 Natural Wonders of Georgia to See before You Die

ann liTrel and Charles seabrooK

“The best blend of art, science, natural history, and Georgia history that you’ll ever read!”—Robert A. Hattaway, author of Trees, Shrubs, and Vines of Southwest Florida

“Ann Litrel’s wonderfully loose and expressive watercolor renderings paired with Charles Seabrook’s masterful descriptions make you want to jump in the car and not come home until you’ve seen them all.”—Seth Hopkins, executive director, Booth Western Art Museum

The expression “natural wonders” can often conjure images of far-flung destinations like the Grand Canyon, the peaks of the Rockies, or Niagara Falls. Yet Georgia, the largest state east of the Mississippi, is home to a wealth of wonders that rival any found beyond its borders. Such wonders include the Altamaha River, Georgia’s own untamed Amazon; Providence Canyon, the “little Grand Canyon”; Brasstown Bald, Georgia’s highest peak and only cloud forest; and the vast, hauntingly beautiful Okefenokee Swamp.

Based on noted science journalist Charles Seabrook’s personal bucket list and artist Ann Litrel’s insightful watercolors and sketches, 35 Natural Wonders of Georgia to See before You Die offers a fresh take on Georgia’s natural beauty in the tradition of naturalists such as John James Audubon and William Bartram. Each of the thirty-five sites is introduced by paintings, field sketches, artist notes, and elegant science writing that highlight its unique attributes. The book captures the beauty and rich natural history of Georgia’s biological and geological treasures—inspiring leisure travelers, nature enthusiasts, and art lovers to explore these places on their own.

Jennifer Carter

Courtesy of the author

An illustrated history of one of Georgia's most scenic state parks

The Most Controversial State Park

Jekyll Island

C. brenden marTin

The Most Controversial State Park offers a unique study of Jekyll Island State Park from the 1940s to the present. Relying on more than sixty oral histories, governors’ records, and a variety of archival materials, C. Brenden Martin illuminates the compelling stories of how Jekyll evolved from one of the most prestigious private clubs in the world to a state park that was originally intended to be a beach park “for the plain people of Georgia.” The richly illustrated study illuminates numerous issues the state-owned island has faced during its seventy-five-year history, including the political upheaval of the Three Governors Controversy, the State’s acquisition of the island, the use of convict labor on the island for nearly fifteen years, governors’ attempts to sell the island, the political corruption concerning leases and lots on the island, the separate-but-unequal access for African Americans in the late Jim Crow era, and the push for Black equality in the 1960s. Beyond the 1960s, numerous activists and organizations have fought to conserve the natural beauty of the island, along with two generations of historic preservationists who have advocated the saving of Jekyll’s Historic District.

C. BRENDEN MARTIN is professor of history at Middle Tennessee State University. He is the author of Tourism in the Mountain South: A Double-Edged Sword and coauthor, with June Hall McCash, of The Jekyll Island Club Hotel. Prior to coming to MTSU, he served as historian and curator at the Museum of the New South in Charlotte, North Carolina. When he is not at Jekyll Island, he lives in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, with his wife, Leah.

FEBRUARY

8.5 X 11 | 240 pp.

78 color iMages, 89 B&W iMages harDBacK With Dust JacKet $39.95t 9780820373560 a FrienDs FunD puBlication

John St. Clair

The magical imagined memoir of American music legend Jimmie Rodgers, the Father of Country Music

Meridian Rising A Novel

Paul burCh

NEWSOUTH BOOKS

“If I was expecting anything from this mad, mad book, it was a straightforward rendering of Jimmie Rodgers’s short, familiar life—not an action-packed noir, complete with gangsters and gun battles; a traveling nurse with a satchel of narcotics; the thoughtful voices of sadly forgotten bluesmen; beautiful automobiles; an indictment of the recording industry; lost, grieving children; and a meditation on family. All in 232 pages. The result is a crazy-in-the-best way, long-overdue corrective: It saves Jimmie Rodgers from his own legend.”—Tony Earley, author of Jim the Boy

Known for “Blue Yodel (T for Texas),” “Waiting for a Train,” and “In the Jailhouse Now,” Jimmie Rodgers has had an incalculable impact on American music. Paul Burch’s biofictional tale of the short and poignant life of the “Father of Country Music” includes an imagined first-person memoir, accompanied by spirited, hilarious, and often conflicting recollections of Jimmie’s family and music colleagues, along with period black-and-white illustrations.

Born in 1897 in Meridian, Mississippi, Rodgers remains the only artist voted into the Rock & Roll, Country, Blues, and Songwriters Halls of Fame. Generations of fans from B. B. King and Johnny Cash to George Harrison and Dolly Parton recall a Rodgers record as the first music played in their home. But his fame extended far beyond America to Africa, Ireland, England, Australia, and Russia. His disciples include Robert Johnson, Bob Dylan, John Prine, the Clash’s Joe Strummer, Jack White, and anyone over the last century who has picked up a guitar to sing about life and the world around it.

Meridian Rising is at once an immersive tale and a brilliant literary puzzle, deftly blending history and fiction to create a vibrant alternative life-tale of the entertainer Howling Wolf called “my man that I really dug.” Written with the knowledge and sensitivity of a touring musician who has traveled many of the same roads and stages, Meridian Rising engages the reader in a quest for truth while confronting the deceptions that live within our deepest relationships.

PAUL BURCH, a native of Washington, D.C., currently living in Nashville, is a writer, composer, and recording artist. Burch has produced numerous albums with his band the WPA Ballclub, including Last of My Kind, a companion to Tony Earley’s bestselling novel Jim the Boy, as well as a musical version of Meridian Rising In addition, Burch has produced recordings with Mark Knopfler, Ralph Stanley, Lambchop, and Charlie Louvin, which received a GRAMMY nomination. Learn more at paulburch.com.

SEPTEMBER

Jim Herrington

MIKE MARSHALL, a longtime journalist for the Huntsville Times, has spent decades telling stories about trappers, moonshiners, cockfighters, tent revivals, and snake-handling churches. He has won more than seventy state and national writing awards and is the only writer in Alabama history to win the state’s top sportswriting award for three consecutive years. Marshall is a native of Huntsville, Alabama.

A

revelatory investigation of a more than sixty-year-old cold murder case

No Place for Pilgrims

Solving the Murder of William Moore, the Last Cold Civil Rights Case miKe marshall

NEWSOUTH BOOKS

While doing research for a term paper on civil rights for his ninthgrade civics class in the spring of 1976, Mike Marshall found an article in Time magazine about William Moore, a thirty-five-yearold postman from Binghamton, New York. On the afternoon of April 20, 1963, Moore arrived at the Chattanooga bus station from Washington, D.C., where he strapped on his protest signs. He planned to walk to the governor’s mansion in Jackson, Mississippi, and hand-deliver a letter to Governor Ross Barnett. On the third day of his walk, he pushed his cart through Keener, Alabama— about fifteen miles north of Gadsden and twenty miles from Marshall’s paternal grandparents’ home. He stopped at a general merchandise store, ate a can of corn and a pecan pie, and read the afternoon newspaper. About an hour later, he rounded a curve that hugged a small park and saw a black car parked under a walnut tree, its headlights and motor off.

“The Sand Mountain area between Chattanooga, Tenn., and Gadsden, Ala., is no place for pilgrims,” read the opening paragraph of the Time story. “It is a land of mountaineers who tote rifles in their cars, glare in suspicion at strangers, and believe unshakably in racial segregation. Last month William Moore . . . thought he might change things by walking through the area displaying civil rights signs. It cost him his life; he was found shot dead on U.S. Highway 11.”

No Place for Pilgrims is Marshall’s effort to fulfill a promise to both himself and his dying mother—a promise she did not want him to keep: to solve one of the only remaining civil rights cold cases. And once Marshall discovered who the killer actually was, he also figured out why his mother didn’t want him to “go stirring up trouble.”

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Peach Pit Corazón

A Judith Ortiz Cofer Reader ediTed by rafael oCasio

“Rafael Ocasio has skillfully put together a comprehensive collection of Judith Ortiz Cofer’s works; it's a true testament of the importance of her writing and permanence in the world of letters. This collection of some of her finest literary contributions, along with a detailed introduction and explanatory passages at the beginning of each chapter, honors the true spirit and gifted craft of a beloved writer.”—Carmen Haydee Rivera Vega, Professor of English, University of Puerto Rico

Judith Ortiz Cofer (1952–2016), a prominent Latina writer, was, among various recognitions, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her 1989 first novel, The Line of the Sun (Georgia); awarded the coveted O. Henry Prize for her short story “The Latin Deli” in 1994; and inducted into the Georgia Writer’s Hall of Fame in 2010. Beginning her literary career as a poet, Ortiz Cofer was a prolific writer of novels, short stories, and creative nonfiction essays, often inspired by her diverse cultural background. She was born in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico, and moved to Paterson, New Jersey, as a child in the mid-1950s. In Paterson, she witnessed the rise of a Puerto Rican community. During her early teenage years, her family left for Augusta, Georgia, the state where she put down roots. She joined the English Department at the University of Georgia in 1984, eventually being named the Franklin Professor of English and Creative Writing, before retiring from teaching in 2014. Her work often engaged with the intersections of the various geographies, cultures, and languages of the places she called home throughout her life.

Rafael Ocasio’s critical introduction and commentary on representative literary pieces are guided by interviews conducted during his twenty-seven-year friendship with Ortiz Cofer. One common subject of their conversations, as they joked, was labeling themselves as “Georgia-Ricans.” From a temporal hindsight point of view, as a Georgia-Rican writer, Ortiz Cofer recalls events that led to her rise as a Latina writer who was celebratory of a Latinx identity, a multiethnic community that comprised a range of socioeconomic backgrounds, while also being critical of their traditional binary concepts pertaining to gender and sexual orientations.

RAFAEL OCASIO is emeritus Charles A. Dana Professor of Spanish at Agnes Scott College. He is the author of Cuba’s Political and Sexual Outlaw: Reinaldo Arenas; The Making of a Gay Activist; and The Dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas: Queering Literature, Politics, and the Activist Curriculum, coauthored with Sandro Barros and Angela L. Willis. He lives in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.

NOVEMBER 6 X 9 | 344 pp.

Tom Meyer

An insider’s account of the convergences of twentieth-century American politics and journalism, from Vietnam and the civil rights movement to CNN and the twenty-four-hour news cycle

Driven

A Life in Public Service and Journalism from LBJ to CNN Tom Johnson

foreword by Judy woodruff

“President Johnson invested more confidence in the young man from Georgia and Harvard than he did anyone else on his White House staff, and it is no coincidence that Tom Johnson wound up writing this insider’s account of LBJ’s most crucial moments. This is a fascinating and valuable read.”—Bill Moyers, former White House press secretary

Driven brings a seasoned perspective to today’s conversations about government, media, and the future of truth in the form of a long-awaited autobiography by Tom Johnson, an award-winning journalist who helped shape the twenty-four-hour news media as we know it. Johnson’s storied career in politics and journalism spans the Lyndon B. Johnson administration, where he was privy to painful negotiations on Vietnam and notified the president that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated, through the executive leadership of the LA Times and, finally, Ted Turner’s upstart CNN in Atlanta.

From his perspective “inside the room,” Johnson provides eyewitness accounts of Lyndon B. Johnson’s triumphs and disasters and his on-the-ground view of the magnificent achievements and significant shortfalls of late twentieth-century American journalism. Johnson is also candid about his lifelong struggle with depression and mental health and recovery advocacy. With more than eight decades behind him, Driven is not just Johnson’s look at the past but a chance for his story to offer guidance about finding balance in an uncertain future.

TOM JOHNSON served as chief executive officer of two of America’s most respected news organizations, the Los Angeles Times and CNN Part of the first White House Fellows class, he eventually became assistant press secretary under Bill Moyers, then assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson, following LBJ back to Texas after he left office. He is a recipient of several awards, including the Horatio Alger Award, Ten Outstanding Young Americans, the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the Paul White Award, to name a few. In 2006, he also received the John Gardner Legacy of Leadership Award by the White House Fellows for lifetime achievement in public service. A native of Macon, Georgia, and graduate of the University of Georgia and Harvard Business School, Johnson lives in Atlanta with his wife, Edwina.

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HARLAN GREENE is emeritus Scholar in Residence at the College of Charleston’s Addlestone Library. He was also director of Archival Services at the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, and he founded the archives at the Charleston County Public Library. Greene is chair of Charleston’s Historical Commission. An award-winning novelist, he has also authored or coauthored several nonfiction works, including Mr. Skylark: John Bennett and the Charleston Renaissance (Georgia) and Slave Badges and the Slave-Hire System in Charleston, South Carolina, 1783–1865. He is also the coeditor of Renaissance in Charleston: Art and Life in the Carolina Low Country, 1900–1940 (Georgia).

The biography of the oft-overlooked—and uncredited— coauthor of the historic novel, play, and opera

Porgy’s Ghost

The Life and Works of Dorothy Heyward and Her Contribution to an American Classic harlan greene

“Porgy's Ghost is full of original insights and new information about a fascinating but elusive figure who lived in the shadow of her more famous husband. Greene tells a compelling story that is by turns witty, tragic, and surprising.”—James M. Hutchisson, Emeritus Professor of English, The Citadel, and author of DuBose Heyward: A Charleston Gentleman and the World of Porgy and Bess

On the world stage, the opera Porgy and Bess is acclaimed as a distinctively American, yet universal, classic. Though scholars and the popular press have discussed it for nearly one hundred years, no one has factored in the major contributions of one of its forgotten authors—until now. Besides serving as a brief biography that illuminates Dorothy Heyward’s personal and professional life, which ranges from lighthearted whimsy to a descent into madness, what emerges in Porgy’s Ghost is a correction to a longstanding omission of Dorothy Heyward’s influence on Porgy, the novel written by her husband; Porgy, the play, mostly her creation; and Porgy and Bess, the opera often credited solely to George and Ira Gershwin. Fighting to restore her husband DuBose Heyward’s name to that work, she hid her own contributions to maximize his. Based on years of research in her archives and previously unknown materials, author Harlan Greene reveals a cypher of a woman who, in her lifetime and long after, was dismissed as unimportant.

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street-level guide to a Parisian neighborhood favored by Black expatriates in the 1920s

Black Montmartre in the Jazz Age

roberT Tomlinson

In Jazz Age Montmartre, African American musicians arrived in response to a demand for American dance rhythms. Hallowed entertainment venues acquired jazz orchestras, and a plethora of clubs sprang up in the narrow streets around the rue Pigalle and the rue Fontaine, creating a jazz-fueled dance culture. On this self-contained island in Paris, far from their racist homeland, these performers established an imperfect utopia. In Black Montmartre in the Jazz Age, Robert Tomlinson guides readers down these streets and into clubs and theaters in an effort to reveal what this unique neighborhood looked like to the Black Americans who were forced to search abroad for their American Dream.

Though faced with resistance from some of their white compatriots—namely American media and clubgoers—a relatively benign and tolerant French society allowed Black artists to attain a level of social and economic achievement that was denied to them in the United States. Black Montmartre in the Jazz Age provides a focused and detailed narrative, undeveloped in previous studies, that depicts the decline of the clannish white “society dancings” of the rue Caumartin and the parallel rise of Black-owned and -managed clubs in Pigalle.

If the colorful, turbulent lives of these Black expatriates seem at times the trivial chatter of gossip columns, the battles they fought and the collaborations in which they engaged with white entrepreneurs constitute what Tyler Stovall called the “nation’s conflicted journey into the modern age,” conflicts not without significance for our own time and mirrored by the microcosm of Black Montmartre.

ROBERT TOMLINSON is a Jamaican American artist and scholar of French literature. He is a professor emeritus in the French and Italian Department at Emory University. Author of more than a dozen peer-reviewed articles in both French and English, he has also written two previous books, Exiles: A Poem with Original Woodcuts and La Fête Galante: Watteau et Marivaux. He currently lives in Paris.

FEBRUARY

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Michael Burton

A revealing study that asks and answers the question, “How have plants survived for so long?”

Hidden World

The Survival Systems of Plants

Kevin Tarner and raChel hughes

For millions of years, plants have managed to resist and defend themselves from a continuous onslaught of life-threatening events. What Kevin Tarner and Rachel Hughes reveal here are the creative and constantly changing methods plants call on to survive in the face of a world that often doesn’t want them to. Despite the daunting pressures of being eaten by other species and competing among themselves for water, sunlight, and pollinators, plants manage to survive by calling on a deep well of ingenious strategies.

Unsurprisingly, these tactics have not only affected the success of plants, but we humans have also been affected by them in our own passage through time. We have coexisted with, and even co-opted plant defense, resulting in tremendous benefits for our species. Indeed, these adaptations are so intimately parallel to our daily lives that we often bump into them unwittingly. This can happen when we cook vegetables, add spices to our food, brew coffee, or smell plants we use for decoration. Such interactions provide opportunity to discuss just a few of the survival strategies Tarner and Hughes explore in Hidden World.

KEVIN TARNER is a career horticulturist currently growing leafy greens with Gotham Greens. He has previously worked managing scientific research at the University of Georgia as a plant and research facilities manager with the Plant Growth Facilities, a greenhouse manager with the Plant Pathology Department, and a research technician in the Plant Biology Department. He lives in Athens, Georgia.

RACHEL HUGHES has taught at the university level for more than a decade. She is currently a senior lecturer for the Department of Biology at the University of North Georgia. She previously worked for the Department of Genetics at the University of Georgia.

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CAROLINE ROSE PEYTON is a historian of the American South, whose research specializes in the intersection of environment, technology, and society. In 2017, she was awarded the American Society for Environmental History’s Alice Hamilton Prize for the best article published outside Environmental History and the Southern Historical Association’s Jack Temple Kirby Prize for “Kentucky’s ‘Atomic Graveyard’: Maxey Flats and Environmental Inequity in Rural America,” published in the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society

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An exploration of southern interest in nuclear power that shifts the focus to the people and places near the reactors

Radioactive Dixie

A Nuclear History of the American South Caroline rose PeyTon foreword by James C. giesen and erin sTewarT

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ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY AND THE AMERICAN SOUTH

How and why did the South’s history, culture, and politics shape the region’s nuclear and energy industries? And how is that history linked to broader developments in the nuclear and energy industries—nationally and globally? Radioactive Dixie answers those questions as it traces the origins of the U.S. South’s love affair with the atom.

The South contains more nuclear reactors than any other region in the United States and much of the nation’s radioactive waste. This book shows how the South’s atomic footprint resulted from a decades-long effort by southern politicians, industry figures, universities, and government officials to transform the American South into a nuclear-oriented region. Waving the atomic talisman, the nuclear industry served as one pivotal part in a larger project of regional modernization—a process that began in the nineteenth century and lasted more than a century. From this perspective, bomb plants and nuclear reactors promised to expand the South’s economy and to cast its identity as a center of modern industry, science, and engineering and as a producer of cheap, limitless energy. Radioactive Dixie is the first book to chronicle this regional story that had national implications. Southern history informed national siting decisions, regulatory oversight, and attitudes toward the various nuclear projects that proliferated in the post–World War II period.

An analysis of the history of local television practices, policies, and debates in the United States

Local TV

Histories, Communities, and Aesthetics

ediTed by lauren herold and annie

laurie sullivan

THE PEABODY SERIES IN MEDIA HISTORY

Local TV offers critical analyses of an expansive range of practices, policies, and debates in local television histories from the United States. Television is typically perceived as a commercial and/ or national form of communication with the potential to reach millions of viewers. Yet from the earliest years of television through the present, communities have participated in the production of television, creating media relevant to their needs and concerns. This collection broadens our notion of what this medium can achieve, allowing for innovative representation and community use that disrupts the political, economic, national, and social norms of mainstream offerings. Lauren Herold and Annie Laurie Sullivan have gathered methodologically distinctive chapters that assess the possibilities and limitations of television’s mission to serve local publics. In doing so, they are attentive to the diverse histories, technologies, and functions of local television that have emerged in different cities over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Collectively, this book amplifies the use of television by marginalized groups—whose perspectives are too often sidelined or distorted in mainstream fare—as a site for community formation, cultural expression, civic engagement, and political action.

LAUREN HEROLD is an independent scholar whose research explores community media, television history, and feminist and LGBTQ cultural production. Her work has been published in Jump Cut; Television & New Media; Velvet Light Trap; Communication, Culture & Critique; and New Review of Film and Television Studies. She has a PhD in screen cultures from Northwestern University. Courtesy of the author

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ANNIE LAURIE SULLIVAN is an assistant professor in the Department of English, Creative Writing & Film at Oakland University. Her work examines the ways race, cultural identity, and locality intersect with histories of media infrastructure. She has a PhD in screen cultures from Northwestern University and lives in Ferndale, Michigan.

KAREN M. MORIN is Presidential Professor of Geography Emerita at Bucknell University and adjunct professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University (Toronto). She is the author of Carceral Space, Prisoners and Animals; Civic Discipline: Geography in America, 1860–1890; and Frontiers of Femininity: A New Historical Geography of the Nineteenth-Century American West; and coeditor, with Dominique Moran, of Historical Geographies of Prisons: Unlocking the Usable Carceral Past and, with Jeanne Kay Guelke, of Women, Religion, & Space: Global Perspectives on Gender and Faith.

An alternative origin story for the United States cattle beef industry

Cattle Trails and Animal Lives

The Founding of an American Carceral Archipelago Karen m. morin

ANIMAL VOICES / ANIMAL WORLDS

“Morin’s extraordinary book makes visceral the historical experience of cows who lived and died in the making of the settler colonial nation state. In a wholly unique analysis, we’re transported through the archives, connecting us not only to individual animals as historical subjects but also to their contemporary ancestors who continue to be caught up in the violence of animal agriculture. This book movingly renarrates the historical record, honoring those whose stories have, for so long, been all but erased.”—Kathryn Gillespie, author of The Cow with Ear Tag #1389

“This book will make a significant contribution to the field of animal studies and be essential reading for scholars interested in the fields of food production, animal welfare, and environmental history.”—Kristen Guest, Professor English, University of Northern British Columbia

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Cattle Trails and Animal Lives remaps the historical and empirical geography of the emergent cattle industry as a series of carceral sites and nodes in the American West, focusing on the experiences of animals living and eventually dying under intense carceral structures, practices, technologies, and tools. This work shifts the narratives of the Old West cattle kingdoms from cowboys, ranchers, and cattle barons to the lived experiences of cattle caught within the rural “carceral archipelago” of the emergent U.S. beef industry. The work focuses on these animals’ forced movement over land and sea—their experiences, lives, and agency as formerly free-roaming animals who were captured, enclosed, moved, and eventually shipped by railroad to slaughterhouses in Chicago and beyond. The spatial nodes and sites of the carceral archipelago include the open range, the ranch, the cattle trail, the cattle town, and the intense human carceral controls enacted within them. The work further interprets how these animal lives are culturally renarrated to contemporary audiences through living history sites, other touristic and artistic re-creations of historic cattle drives, Hollywood westerns, and museum exhibits featuring material carceral artifacts. Together these not only perpetuate heroic myths of the Old West but normalize and even celebrate the carceral experiences of animals.

A detailed study of the connection between Black murals, protest, and empowerment in the United States

A Monument to Blackness

Murals and Black Liberation, from the Harlem Renaissance to Black Lives Matter

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A Monument to Blackness offers an in-depth excavation of Black murals across the United States, from interior murals in the South to street murals predominantly in the North and West. It shows us how Black murals were—and remain—an integral but commonly overlooked artistic expression in the movement for Black liberation across the country. Focusing on works from 1930 to the present day, Hannah E. Jeffery illuminates the elusive connection between Black politics, public art, memory, and space to reveal how murals created unprecedented interactive sites of Black imagination and empowerment within Black communities. Showcasing Black life, Black love, Black Power, and Black history and painting it onto buildings in the streets, muralists creatively transformed walls of isolated Black neighborhoods into spaces of education, ritual, performance, and commemoration. By tracing the genealogy of Black muralism throughout the movement for Black liberation, A Monument to Blackness excavates how, why, and when murals became catalysts for inspiring community interaction, and it unearths a largely unwritten narrative of Black visual protest in the fight for twentieth- and twenty-first-century Black liberation.

Jeffery calls on original artist testimony, extensive archival research, and the fields of Black, visual, and American studies to underscore how walls in racially isolated Black communities became inspirational, imaginative, and subversive spaces for residents to protest against social, racial, and political oppression; contest geographical confinement; celebrate Blackness; and commemorate a Black history. Not only does A Monument to Blackness help deepen our understanding of the movement for Black liberation by uncovering an overlooked expression of Black community art, but it arrives at a moment in America’s history when understanding the deeper roots of this powerful mural movement will help contextualize the current wave of murals sweeping across the nation in this age of Black Lives Matter.

HANNAH E. JEFFERY is a senior researcher at a social policy research institute in Glasgow, Scotland. She recently completed a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She has been the recipient of a Baird Fellowship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery, and she recently won a BA/Leverhulme Small Grants award to create a digital archive to preserve Black Lives Matter murals around the world, titled Say Their Names: The Murals of Black Lives Matter. She also contributed to an exhibition of Frederick Douglass murals on display at the Boston Museum of African American History titled, Picturing Frederick Douglass: The Most Photographed American of the 19th Century.

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A look into challenges multiracial churches face in terms of race, racism, and social activism

Original Sin?

The Reproduction of Racism in a Multiracial Church willie barnes Jr. and J. sCoTT CarTer

SOCIOLOGY OF RACE AND ETHNICITY

“Barnes and Carter bring analytical clarity and fresh perspective to ongoing debates about the role of multiracial faith-based organizations in achieving Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of a ‘beloved community.’ Drawing upon rich ethnographic and interview data, the authors reveal how members and leaders of the South Florida multiracial church they studied fall short of their own professed goals for social justice. As Barnes and Carter demonstrate, multiracial churches themselves must be understood and analyzed within the larger racial order in which they are situated and serve as key institutions for reproducing the racial status quo.”—James M. Thomas, author of The Souls of Jewish Folk

Original Sin? explores the ways that a multiracial church struggles with race, racism, and social activism during a turbulent time in U.S. history. In the shadow of the murder of George Floyd, the authors show how members and leaders of Without Walls Church, a multiracial church claiming over thirty-six thousand members, perpetuate a racial ideology based in color-blind theological teachings that minimizes teachings on racism in the church and social activism outside the church. Barnes and Carter also shed light on church practices and policies that reproduce racial inequality and shaped the church’s early response to the murder of George Floyd. Original Sin? shows us that despite being diverse places of worship and despite shifting demographics, churches like this one face challenges that lead to the reproduction of the racial status quo.

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WILLIE BARNES JR. holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Central Florida and a master of divinity from Yale Divinity School. He also serves as a pastor in the nation’s oldest Black denomination, the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

J. SCOTT CARTER is a professor of sociology at the University of Central Florida. He is coauthor of The Death of Affirmative Action? Racialized Framing and the Fight against Racial Preference in College Admissions and coeditor of Protecting Whiteness: Whitelash and the Rejection of Racial Equality. His work focuses on race and politics and has been published in various journals, including Annual Review of Sociology, Social Problems, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, and Social Science Research, among others.

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An examination of race and the relationship between immigration authorities and civilians

Enforcing Order on the Border

Race, Policing, and Immigration Enforcement in South Texas

eriC gamino

SOCIOLOGY OF RACE AND ETHNICITY

As a lifelong resident of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Eric Gamino has always been curious why some U.S.-born Latinos were indifferent toward Latino immigrants, especially since both groups lived within the same majority Latino-origin community—the Rio Grande Valley of Texas (RGV). Enforcing Order on the Border offers a personal, ethnographic examination of Gamino’s life as a resident of the RGV coupled with his experience as a police officer for two different police departments in the region. Gamino reveals how the concept of race functions within a predominantly Latino-origin community.

Gamino unpacks the interplay between local police, federal immigration officials, and civilians as they encounter immigration. Enforcing Order on the Border illustrates how institutional practices such as immigration enforcement occur on the South Texas–Mexico borderlands as collaborative efforts between local police and the U.S. Border Patrol from an institutional perspective. Consequently, this collaborative effort in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands creates a distinctive method of policing, which he tellingly refers to as “constitution-free policing.” Gamino provides a unique perspective on how the concept of race in a predominantly Latino-origin community complicates intraracial/intraethnic relations on the South Texas–Mexico borderlands.

ERIC GAMINO is an associate professor of criminology and justice studies at California State University, Northridge.

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JEROME SCOTT is a former autoworker, labor organizer in Detroit auto plants, and member of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. The founding director of Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide, he is a contributing author or editor of popular education toolkits and books, including The United States Social Forum: Perspectives of a Movement and The Roots of Terror, among others.

WALDA KATZ-FISHMAN is a scholar activist and professor of sociology at Howard University. A founding member and former board chair of Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide, she is a contributing author or editor of popular education toolkits and books, including The United States Social Forum: Perspectives of a Movement and The Roots of Terror, among others

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An inside look at how the experiences of Black workers created lifelong revolutionaries

Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries

The Story of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers

Jerome sCoTT and walda KaTZ-fishman

SOCIOLOGY OF RACE AND ETHNICITY

“Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries is an essential contribution to the understanding of a transformative period in post–World War II United States capitalism. It reveals, in deeply personal narratives, the formation of a workers’ movement in the automotive industry that challenges both race and class oppression in the factories and within the UAW. It’s a history that few are aware of, but all can learn from. It’s history that matters. Today.”—Gene Bruskin, activist, veteran labor organizer, and playwright

“Every social justice activist and proletarian intellectual must read it and discuss how to apply the lessons of our revolutionary parents, grandparents, and ancestors to the contemporary working-class struggle for an end to capitalist exploitation and to the racism, sexism, and other oppressions that capitalism generates.”—William I. Robinson, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of California at Santa Barbara and author of Epochal Crisis: The Exhaustion of Global Capitalism

Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries offers a fresh perspective on class, race, and revolution in the United States. Drawing on more than forty hours of interviews with former members of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, Scott and Katz-Fishman share the rich story of the League, including the women and students. That story includes the history of the automotive industry in Detroit, the 1967 Detroit Rebellion, and the wildcat strike that sparked the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM). The authors describe the rise of the League from 1968 to 1971. They explore the centrality of struggle and political education as the League split and a section of League comrades moved into revolutionary organizations and social movement spaces, many of which remain active today. League comrades share their analysis of the current moment and staying the course of revolutionary struggle.

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How unexpected global actors affected the American Civil War

Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria

How Pirates, Smugglers, and Scoundrels Almost Saved the Confederacy beau Cleland

Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria recenters our understanding of the Civil War by framing it as a hemispheric affair, deeply influenced by the actions of a network of private parties and minor officials in the Confederacy and British territory in and around North America. John Wilkes Booth likely would not have been in a position to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, for example, without the logistical support and assistance of the proConfederate network in Canada. That network, to which he was personally introduced in Montreal in the fall of 1864, was hosted and facilitated by willing colonials across the hemisphere. Many of its Confederate members arrived in British North America via a long-established transportation and communications network built around British colonies, especially Bermuda and the Bahamas, whose primary purpose was running the blockade. It is difficult to overstate how essential blockade running was for the rebellion’s survival, and it would have been impossible without the aid of sympathetic colonials. The operations of this informal, semiprivate network were of enormous consequence for the course of the war and its aftermath, and our understanding of the Civil War is incomplete without a deeper reckoning with the power and potential for chaos of these private networks imbued with the power of a state.

BEAU CLELAND is an assistant professor of history at the University of Calgary and a research fellow at the Centre for Military, Strategic, and Security Studies, where he teaches and researches about pirates, smugglers, raiders, and scoundrels and how they shaped the history of North America and beyond. He served as an artillery officer in the U.S. Army, with combat duty in Afghanistan and Iraq, and before that he played mediocre football at Georgia Tech. He lives in Calgary, Alberta, with his wife and a bewildering array of children, dogs, and cats.

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SYLVIA D. HOFFERT was a professor of history at both UNC Chapel Hill and Texas A&M University. She is the author of several books, including When Hens Crow: The Woman’s Rights Movement in Antebellum America; A History of Gender in America; Jane Grey Swisshelm: An Unconventional Life; and Alva Vanderbilt Belmont: Unlikely Champion of Women’s Rights. Hoffert lives and writes in the North Carolina piedmont.

A microhistory that reveals the importance of gossip and rumors to small-town life in the antebellum South

Wagging Tongues and Tittle Tattle

Gossip, Rumor, and Reputation in a Small Southern Town sylvia d. hofferT

In Wagging Tongues and Tittle Tattle, Sylvia Hoffert calls on a particularly rich collection of primary sources, including diaries, letters, oral histories, census data, court documents, church records, and psychiatric hospital logs, all relating to Hillsborough, North Carolina, to argue that gossip and rumor were central to the formation of interpersonal relationships and an integral part of small-town life in the antebellum South. They exposed the insecurities and anxieties of the town’s inhabitants. Indeed, they served as important weapons in the power struggle between the white slaveholding elite—who tried to exert, maintain, and consolidate their control over community life—and the Black, white, and mixed-race men and women, free and enslaved, who did their best to challenge the socioeconomic status quo. And they exposed fissures in the social fabric that discretion, good manners, and historical amnesia could not obscure.

The result was that, on a day-to-day basis, the shady streets of Hillsborough may have seemed peaceful to the casual observer. But underneath all that tranquility, the town was ripe with competition and conflict as the inhabitants used gossip to negotiate relationships with their neighbors and make places for themselves in the social, economic, and political hierarchy of the community.

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A timely exploration of the long history of how Black students and teachers shaped the Black freedom struggle

Protest and Pedagogy

Charlottesville’s Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School

aleXander d. hyres

POLITICS AND CULTURE IN THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY SOUTH

Protest and Pedagogy traces how, and in what ways, high school teachers and students sustained and propelled the Black freedom struggle in Charlottesville, Virginia. It centers the relationship between protest and pedagogy within classrooms and the surrounding community of Charlottesville. The story spotlights the resistance of Black teachers and students in the American high school throughout the nation during the twentieth century. Rather than act simply as passive participants in the Black freedom struggle—or outright opponents—Black high school teachers and their students, this book argues, employed a variety of organizing and protest strategies to make schools and communities more just and equitable spaces. Black teachers’ pedagogical approaches in the classroom underpinned protest within and beyond schools. At the same time, Black teacher and student organizing, activism, and protest led to pedagogical reforms in classrooms and schools.

ALEXANDER D. HYRES is an assistant professor in the history of U.S. education at the University of Utah. His career in education started as a secondary social studies and English teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area. He earned a PhD in social foundations at the University of Virginia. He is a research affiliate for the Teachers in the Movement Oral History Project at the University of Virginia. He was a 2022 National Academy of Education / Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and received a 2024 Early Career Teaching Award from the University of Utah.

JANUARY 6 X 9 | 220 pp. 7 B&W iMages, 5 taBles, 1 Map

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JUSTIN RAYCRAFT is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Lethbridge. He received his PhD from McGill University and was a visiting postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Program on Science, Technology, and Society. His past honors include the Peter K. New Award First Prize by the Society for Applied Anthropology and the Salisbury Award from the Canadian Anthropology Society. He has been carrying out ethnographic research on the human dimensions of conservation in Tanzania since 2014.

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The first anthropological account of a conservation area in Tanzania that serves the interests of its local community

Conservation in Common

Managing Wildlife and Sustaining Community on the Maasai Steppe

JusTin rayCrafT

GEOGRAPHIES OF JUSTICE AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

Wildlife conservation in Tanzania is fraught with conflicts between the state, international organizations, private investors, and local communities over the rights to rangeland resources and the benefit streams associated with safari tourism. This book takes up the question of how a Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Tanzania’s Tarangire ecosystem is viewed from the bottom up, by the people who are directly affected by its implementation. Based on historically grounded ethnographic research, Justin Raycraft documents a shift in local attitudes toward Randilen WMA—from fear and protest to widespread support. He analyzes this process of transformation in the context of empathetic management practices that have fostered feelings of trust and uncovered common ground between conservation stakeholders. Raycraft shows that although WMAs are not fully devolved to the local level, pastoral communities can use them to defend the things they value most: their land and livelihoods. Conservation in Common makes a much-needed intervention in critical political ecology literature by providing the first account of a conservation area in Tanzania that serves the interests of its local community, thereby making the case that protecting wildlife habitat and safeguarding human well-being are not mutually exclusive activities.

Leanne

An examination of the struggle and reorganization of social reproduction during the multifaceted crisis

in Greece

Infrastructures of Caring Citizenship

Commoning Social Reproduction in Crisis-Ridden Athens, Greece isabel guTiÉrreZ

sÁnCheZ

GEOGRAPHIES OF JUSTICE AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

Infrastructures of Caring Citizenship examines instances of collective struggle and (re)organization of social reproduction against the backdrop of the crisis that followed the international banking crash in 2008. Drawing on a long-term engagement with four grassroots initiatives, a social kitchen, a social clinic, and an accommodation center with refugees and a community center, Gutiérrez Sánchez introduces the concept of Infrastructures of Caring Citizenship (ICCs) as a theoretical tool for the examination of spaces of collective resistance where new commons are formed that enable the sustenance of everyday life. Furthermore, the book unpacks how such resistance challenges crisis governmentalities, shedding light on how self-organized groups understand the stakes of their practices and the potential for radical social change embedded in them.

Making a unique contribution to debates connecting care and the commons, this book offers a theoretical framework grounded in a compelling narrative, inspiring insights for a new social imagination and practice beyond the conventional view of chronic crisis.

ISABEL GUTIÉRREZ SÁNCHEZ

is a postdoctoral researcher with a background in architecture and anthropology. She currently works at the Department of Anthropology of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Her work has appeared in the Urban Studies Journal; Environment and Planning: Society and Space; Care and the City: Encounters with Urban Studies; and Urban Informality and the Built Environment: Infrastructure, Exchange and Image

Courtesy of the author

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All Geographers Should Be Feminist Geographers

LINDSAY NAYLOR is a feminist political geographer and the author of the award-winning book Fair Trade Rebels: Coffee Production and Struggles for Autonomy in Chiapas. She is a cofacilitator of the Embodiment Lab in the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences at the University of Delaware.

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An examination of the role—and importance—of feminism in the academy and beyond

All Geographers Should Be Feminist Geographers

Creating Care-Full Academic Spaces

lindsay naylor

wiTh emerald l. ChrisToPher, eden KinKaid, Carolina faria, and laToya e. eaves

GEOGRAPHIES OF JUSTICE AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

Although care is a critical component of human life, it has remained on the margins of higher education and theory, heightening unequal relations along gender, race, and class lines. In All Geographers Should Be Feminist Geographers, Lindsay Naylor argues for a feminist approach in geography that is both world-dismantling and world-making, pushing back against a neoliberal academy. Care in this context is examined through reproductive labor, social reproduction, relations of exchange, and affect. Care is an everyday practice that takes place in public, private, and liminal spaces.

Naylor unpacks the promise and challenges of feminisms to address the care-less academy and the longstanding violent and exclusionary character of geography. Her fundamental premise: geography is well placed for this moment as we study and explain difference while “writing the earth.” This book attends to such matters. While feminist geography has long been a subdiscipline within geography, Lindsay Naylor makes the case that a feminist approach to the academy, and geography specifically, should form the foundation of all the work we do.

Kathy F. Atkinson, University of Delaware

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AUTHOR INDEX

28 BARNES, WILLIE, JR., AND J. CARTER SCOTT | original sin?

14 BURCH, PAUL | meridian rising

1 CHANOFF, DAVID | anthony benezet

11 CHRISTOPHER, ROY | the medium picture

31 CLELAND, BEAU | between king cotton and queen victoria

8 DAVIS, REN, AND HELEN DAVIS | land of everlasting hills

29 GAMINO, ERIC | enforcing order on the border

20 GREENE, HARLAN | porgy’s ghost

35 GUTIÉRREZ SÁNCHEZ, ISABEL | infrastructures of caring citizenship

25 HEROLD, LAUREN, AND ANNIE LAURIE SULLIVAN, EDS. | local tv

32 HOFFERT, SYLVIA D. | wagging tongues and tittle tattle

33 HYRES, ALEXANDER D. | protest and pedagogy

2 JAMISON, WES | my corpse inside

27 JEFFERY, HANNAH E. | a monument to blackness

18 JOHNSON, TOM | driven

12 LITREL, ANN, AND CHARLES SEABROOK | 35 natural wonders of georgia to see before you die

16 MARSHALL, MIKE | no place for pilgrims

13 MARTIN, C. BRENDEN | the most controversial state park

26 MORIN, KAREN M. | cattle trails and animal lives

6 MUIA, A. | a desert between two seas

36 NAYLOR, LINDSAY | all geographers should be feminist geographers

17 OCASIO, RAFAEL, ED. | peach pit corazón

24 PEYTON, CAROLINE ROSE | radioactive dixie

34 RAYCRAFT, JUSTIN | conservation in common

7 RORIPAUGH, LEE HORIKOSHI | unmothered, untongued

30 SCOTT, JEROME, AND WALDA KATZ-FISHMAN | motown and the making of working-class revolutionaries

4 SEALS, SONNY | more historic rural churches of georgia

22 TARNER, KEVIN, AND RACHEL HUGHES | hidden world

3 THOMPSON, CLIFFORD | jazz june

21 TOMLINSON, ROBERT | black montmartre in the jazz age

10 WHITE, AJ | blue loop

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