Thirty-Nine Books Nominated for Lillian Smith Book Awards for 2013

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	AUTHOR	PUBLISHER
“Multiplication is for White People”:  Raising Expectations for Other People’s Children	Lisa Delpit	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