The Southern Regional Council
(SRC) recently announced that thirty-nine books have been nominated for the Lillian Smith
Book Awards for 2013 to be presented in Decatur, Georgia on September 1,
2013.
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 2012 were Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long
History of the Civil Rights Movement by
Tomiko Brown-Nagin and Writing the South Through the Self: Explorations in Southern Autobiography by
John Inscoe.
The
2013 nominees include:
BOOK TITLE
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AUTHOR
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PUBLISHER
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“Multiplication is
for White People”: Raising Expectations
for Other People’s Children
|
Lisa Delpit
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The New Press
|
Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left
|
Martin Duberman
|
The New Press
|
Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today
|
Vijay Prashad
|
The New Press
|
The New Feminist
Agenda: Defining the Next Revolution
for Women, Work, and Family
|
Madeleine M. Kunin
|
Chelsea Green
Publishing Company
|
The Tree of
Forgetfulness: A Novel
|
Pam Durban
|
LSU Press
|
Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence, and Memory in African
American History
|
Gregory D. Smithers
|
University Press of
Florida
|
Communists and
Perverts Under the Palms: The Johns
Committee in Florida, 1956-1965
|
Stacy Braukman
|
University Press of
Florida
|
Race, Rape, and
Injustice: Documenting and Challenging
Death Penalty Cases in the Civil Rights Era
|
Barrett J. Foerster
|
University of
Tennessee Press
|
Down Bohicket
Road: An Artist’s Journey
|
Mary Whyte
|
University of South
Carolina Press
|
Blood and Bone:
Truth and Reconciliation in a Southern Town
|
Jack Shuler
|
University of South
Carolina Press
|
The Cutting
Season: A Novel
|
Attica Locke
|
HarperCollin
Publishers
|
American
Tapestry: The Story of the Black,
White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama
|
Rachel L. Swarns
|
HarperCollins
Publishers
|
Strom Thurmond’s
America
|
Joseph Crespino
|
Hill and Wang
|
Eden Rise: A Novel
|
Robert J. Norrell
|
NewSouth Books
|
State Out of the
Union: Arizona and the Final Showdown
Over the America Dream
|
Jeff Biggers
|
Nation Books
|
Equal Time: Television and the Civil Rights Movement
|
Aniko Bodroghkozy
|
University of
Illinois Press
|
Psychology Comes to
Harlem: Rethinking the Race Question
in Twentieth-Century America
|
Jay Garcia
|
Johns Hopkins
University Press
|
Klansville,
U.S.A.: The Rise and Fall of the Civil
Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan
|
David Cunningham
|
Oxford University
Press
|
Ain’t Scared of Your
Jail: Arrest, Imprisonment, and the
Civil Rights Movement
|
Zoe A. Colley
|
University Press of
Florida
|
Disorderly Notions
|
Tom Darby
|
Iguana Books
|
Murder Ballad
|
Jane Springer
|
Alice James Books
|
Family or
Freedom: People of Color in the
Antebellum South
|
Emily West
|
University Press of
Kentucky
|
Cultivating
Race: The Expansion of Slavery in
Georgia, 1750-1860
|
Watson W. Jennsion
|
University Press of
Kentucky
|
Death Blow to Jim
Crow: The National Negro Congress and
the Rise of Militant Civil Rights
|
Erik S. Gellman
|
University of North
Carolina Press
|
Crossroads at
Clarksdale: The Black Freedom Struggle
in the Mississippi Delta after World War II
|
Françoise N. Hamlin
|
University of North
Carolina Press
|
Benjamin Elijah
Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography
|
Randal Maurice Jelks
|
University of North
Carolina Press
|
Help Me to Find My
People: The African American Search
forFamily Lost in Slavery
|
Heather Andrea
Williams
|
University of North
Carolina Press
|
Fraternity
|
Diane Brady
|
Spiegel & Grau
|
Dear Marcus: A Letter to the Man Who Shot Me
|
Jerry McGill
|
Spiegel & Grau
|
Representing the
Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights
Lawyer
|
Kenneth W. Mack
|
Harvard University
Press
|
Snow-Storm in
August: Washington City, Francis Scott
Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835
|
Jefferson Morley
|
Doubleday
|
The Healing: A Novel
|
Jonathan Odell
|
Doubleday
|
History and Other
Poems
|
Brenda Marie Osbey
|
Time Being Books
|
Some of My Best
Friends Are Black: The Strange Story
of Integration in America
|
Tanner Colby
|
Viking
|
The Amistad
Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of
Slavery and Freedom
|
Marcus Rediker
|
Viking
|
The Injustice
System: A Murder in Miami and a Trial
Gone Wrong
|
Clive Stafford Smith
|
Viking
|
The Problem
South: Region, Empire, and the New
Liberal State, 1880-1930
|
Natalie J. Ring
|
University of
Georgia Press
|
The Nashville
Way: Racial Etiquette and the Struggle
for Social Justice in a Southern City
|
Benjamin Houston
|
University of
Georgia Press
|
The Land Was Ours:
African American Beaches from Jim Crow to the Sunbelt South
|
Andrew W. Kahrl
|
Harvard University
Press
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