University Of Georgia Press: 447 books
by Sonja Livingston
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
“When you eat soup every night, thoughts of bread get you through.” Ghostbread makes real for us the shifting homes and unending hunger that shape the life of a girl growing up in poverty during the 1970s.
One of seven children brought up by a single mother, Sonja Livingston was raised...
An Uncommon Faith
A Pragmatic Approach to the Study of African American Religion
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
With An Uncommon Faith Eddie S. Glaude Jr. makes explicit his pragmatic approach to the study of African American religion. He insists that scholars take seriously what he calls black religious attitudes, that is, enduring and deep-seated dispositions tied to a transformative ideal that compel individuals...
Revolting New York
How 400 Years of Riot, Rebellion, Uprising, and Revolution Shaped a City
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Occupy Wall Street did not come from nowhere. It was part of a long history of riot, revolt, uprising, and sometimes even revolution that has shaped New York City. From the earliest European colonization to the present, New Yorkers have been revolting. Hard hitting, revealing, and insightful, Revolting...
Liberation in Print
Feminist Periodicals and Social Movement Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
This is the first analysis of periodicals’ key role in U.S. feminism’s formation as a collective identity and set of political practices in the 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, more than five hundred different feminist newsletters and newspapers were published in the United States. Agatha Beins shows...
The Future of Just War
New Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Just War scholarship has adapted to contemporary crises and situations. But its adaptation has spurned debate and conversation—a method and means of pushing its thinking forward. Now the Just War tradition risks becoming marginalized. This concern may seem out of place as Just War literature is...
Relational Poverty Politics
Forms, Struggles, and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
This collection examines the power and transformative potential of movements that fight against poverty and inequality. Broadly, poverty politics are struggles to define who is poor, what it means to be poor, what actions might be taken, and who should act. These movements shape the sociocultural...
The Politics of the Encounter
Urban Theory and Protest under Planetary Urbanization
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The Politics of the Encounter is a spirited interrogation of the city as a site of both theoretical inquiry and global social struggle. The city, writes Andy Merrifield, remains "important, virtually and materially, for progressive politics." And yet, he notes, more than forty years have passed since...
An Everglades Providence
Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
No one did more than Marjory Stoneman Douglas to transform the Everglades from the country's most maligned swamp into its most beloved wetland. By the late twentieth century, her name and her classic The Everglades: River of Grass had become synonymous with Everglades protection. The crusading resolve...
They Saved the Crops
Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
At the outset of World War II, California agriculture seemed to be on the cusp of change. Many Californians, reacting to the ravages of the Great Depression, called for a radical reorientation of the highly exploitative labor relations that had allowed the state to become such a productive farming...
Black, White, and Green
Farmers Markets, Race, and the Green Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Farmers markets are much more than places to buy produce. According to advocates for sustainable food systems, they are also places to “vote with your fork” for environmental protection, vibrant communities, and strong local economies. Farmers markets have become essential to the movement for...
Bulldozer Revolutions
A Rural History of the Metropolitan South
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
By examining the metropolitan fringes of Houston in Montgomery County, Texas, and Washington, D.C., in Loudoun County, Virginia, this book combines rural, environmental, and agricultural history to disrupt our view of the southern metropolis.
Andrew C. Baker examines the local boosters, gentlemen...
Beyond the Mountains
Commodifying Appalachian Environments
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Beyond the Mountains explores the ways in which Appalachia often served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American conceptions of nature. The region operated alternately as frontier, wilderness, rural hinterland, region of subsistence agriculture, bastion of yeoman farmers, and place...
A People's War on Poverty
Urban Politics, Grassroots Activists, and the Struggle for Democracy in Houston, 1964-1976
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
In A People’s War on Poverty, Wesley G. Phelps investigates the on-the-ground implementation of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty during the 1960s and 1970s. He argues that the fluid interaction between federal policies, urban politics, and grassroots activists created a significant site...
Creolization and Contraband
Curaçao in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
When Curaçao came under Dutch control in 1634, the small island off South America’s northern coast was isolated and sleepy. The introduction of increased trade (both legal and illegal) led to a dramatic transformation, and Curaçao emerged as a major hub within Caribbean and wider Atlantic networks....