38 Books Nominated for Lillian Smith Book Awards for 2012

The Southern Regional Council (SRC) recently announced that thirty-eight books have been nominated for the Lillian Smith Book Awards for 2012, to be presented in Decatur, Georgia on September 2, 2012.

SRC is an inter-racial organization founded in 1919 to combat racial injustice in the South. SRC initiated the Lillian Smith Book Awards shortly after Smith's death in 1966 to recognize authors whose writing extends the legacy of the outspoken writer, educator and social critic who challenged her fellow Southerners and all Americans on issues of social and racial justice. Since 2004 the awards have been presented by SRC in a partnership with the University of Georgia Libraries, whose Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library houses a historic collection of Lillian Smith's letters and manuscripts. The Georgia Center for the Book became a partner in 2007, when the awards ceremony first became part of the Decatur Book Festival.

The award recipients for 2011 were Sacrifice Zones by Steve Lerner and At the Dark End of the Street by Danielle McGuire.

The 2012 nominees include:

TITLE	AUTHOR	PUBLISHER
New Destination Dreaming: Immigration, Race, and Legal Status in the Rural American South	Helen B. Marrow	Stanford University Press
Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age	Virginia Eubanks	The MIT Press
The Book of Sarah: Poems	Amy Benson Brown	WordTech Communications LLC/ DBA Turning Point
Still A Man and Other Stories	James E. Cherry	Aquarius Press/Willow Books
Legacy: The Secret History of Proto-Fascism in America’s Greatest Little City	Scott Smith	Createspace
The Last Will and Testament of Rosetta Sugars Tramble	Myra McLarey	Ink Brush Press
Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement	Tomiko Brown-Nagin	Oxford University Press
Dancing with Gravity: A Novel	Anene Tressler	Blank Slate Press
Tobacco Capitalism: Growers, Migrant Workers, and the Changing Face of a Global Industry	Peter Benson	Princeton University Press
The Red Market: On the Trail of the World’s Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers and Child Traffickers	Scott Carney	William Morrow, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
The End of Anger: A New Generation’s Take on Race and Rage	Ellis Cose	Ecco, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale, an Activist Finds Her Calling and Heals Herself	Rachel Lloyd	Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
All Labor Has Dignity	Edited by Michael K. Honey	Beacon Press
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparkled the Civil War	Tony Horwitz	Henry Holt and Company
Hey, Shorty! A Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment and Violence in Schools and on the Streets	Joanne N. Smith, Mandy Van Deven, and Meghan Huppuch	The Feminist Press
Critical Race Consciousness: Reconsidering American Ideologies of Racial Justice	Gary Peller	Paradigm Publishers
Black and White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene “Bull” Connor	Larry Dane Brimner	Boyds Mills Press
Brothers (And Me): A Memoir of Loving and Giving	Donna Britt	Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group
The Night Train: A Novel	Clyde Edgerton	Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group
The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time	David Sloan Wilson	Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group
White Flight/Black Flight: The Dynamics of Racial Change in an American Neighborhood	Rachael A. Woldoff	Cornell University Press
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention	Manning Marable	Viking/Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
Upheaval in Charleston: Earthquake and Murder on the Eve of Jim Crow	Susan Millar Williams and Stephen G. Hoffius	University of Georgia Press
Elbert Parr Tuttle: Chief Jurists of the Civil Rights Revolution	Anne Emanuel	University of Georgia Press
Civil Rights History From the Ground Up: Local Struggles, A National Movement	Edited by Emilye Crosby	University of Georgia Press
Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching	Julie Buckner Armstrong	University of Georgia Press
The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family	Mark Auslander	University of Georgia Press
Writing the South through the Self: Explorations in Southern Autobiography	John C. Inscoe	University of Georgia Press
Alabama Getaway: The Political Imaginary and the Heart of Dixie	Allen Tullos	University of Georgia Press
Detained without Cause: Muslims’ Stories of Detention and Deportation in American After 9/11	Irum Shiekh	Palgrave Macmillan
No Room of Her Own: Women’s Stories of Homelessness, Life, Death, and Resistance	Desiree Hellegers	Palgrave Macmillan
Head Off & Split: Poems	Nikky Finney	Northwestern University Press
Gust: Poems	Greg Alan Brownderville	Northwestern University Press
The Stranger You Seek: A Novel	Amanda Kyle Williams	Ballantine/Bantam Dell A Division of Random House, Inc.
Diary of an Eco-Outlaw: An Unreasonable Woman Breaks the Law for Mother Earth	Diane Wilson	Chelsea Green Publishing
The Trials of Eroy Brown: The Murder Case that Shook the Texas Prison System	Michael Berryhill	The University of Texas Press
Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence, and the Last Lynching in America	B.J. Hollars	University of Alabama Press
Civil Rights in New York City: From World War II to the Giuliani Era	Edited by Clarence Taylor	Fordham University Press