Tag: University Of Georgia Press

  • Johnson’s novel provocatively engages with political and cultural strains still prevalent in American discourse today, and it remains in print over a century after its initial publication. “New Perspectives” contains fresh essays that analyze the book’s reverberations, the contexts within which it was created and received, the aesthetic and intellectual developments of its author, and…

  • Paisley Rekdal Wins the 2016 AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction University of Georgia Press 2016-10-05 Paisley Rekdal (photo credit: Austen Diamond) Congratulations to Paisley Rekdal for winning this year’s Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction with her work The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam.…

  • Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence University of Georgia Press May 2016 336 pages Trim size: 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8203-4956-5 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-4957-2 Author Website Edited by: Chad Williams, Associate Professor of African & Afro-American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Kidada E. Williams, Associate Professor of History Wayne State University,…

  • Exploring the geographies, genealogies, and concepts of race and gender of the African diaspora produced by the Atlantic slave trade

  • Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery: William and Ellen Craft in Cultural Memory University of Georgia Press 2015-05-15 136 pages 8 b&w photos Trim size: 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8203-3802-6 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-4724-0 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8203-4832-2 Barbara McCaskill, Associate Professor of English and co-director of the Civil Rights Digital Library University of Georgia How William…

  • Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean: Irish, Africans, and the Construction of Difference University of Georgia Press 2013-11-15 256 pages 18 b&w photos, 1 map Trim size: 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8203-4505-5 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-4662-5 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8203-4634-2 Jenny Shaw, Assistant Professor of History University of Alabama A new examination of the experiences…

  • William Wells Brown: A Reader University of Georgia Press 2008-12-15 488 pages 6 b&w photos Trim size: 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8203-3223-9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-3224-6 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8203-3634-3 William Wells Brown (1814–1884) Edited by: Ezra Greenspan, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of English Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas Born into slavery in…

  • Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia University of Georgia Press June 2012 192 pages 6 b&w photos, 1 map Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8203-3229-1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-3230-7 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8203-4364-8 Eva Sheppard Wolf, Associate Professor of History San Francisco State University In Almost Free, Eva Sheppard Wolf…

  • The life story of a man who crossed the color line to fight for civil rights

  • Charles W. Chesnutt and the Fictions of Race University of Georgia Press 2002-12-02 280 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8203-2435-7 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8203-2724-2 Dean McWilliams (1939-2006), J. Richard Hamilton/Baker and Hostetler Professor of Humanities and professor of English Ohio University The first extended exploration of the construction of racial identity in Chesnutt’s writings Charles…