New This Month: August 2024

Happy August! This month marks the start of our Fall/Winter 2024 season and we’re excited to share some of the great titles we have lined up. Scroll down to browse all of the new books publishing this month, including a bunch of new paperbacks or browse our full Fall/Winter Catalog to see everything that’s coming this season.

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Sass: Black Women’s Humor and Humanity by J Finley

“Nuanced and creative . . . . an enlightening and rigorous examination of sass as a means of asserting one’s power in an oppressive world. It’s an insightful study of the politics of humor.”—Publishers Weekly

“A good read in every sense of the word. Finley gives us the depth and stakes of Black women’s humor and the frameworks for understanding how humor manages the parameters of stereotype and misogynoir.”—Bettina Judd, author of Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought

Searching for Dr. Harris: The Life and Times of a Remarkable African American Physician by Margaret Humphreys

“Humphreys has written a superb biography that makes a substantive contribution to the literature on Black people in the nineteenth century. Dr. Harris’s compelling story should matter to contemporary audiences who are interested in the antecedents of American medical training and its exclusionary structures and practices that still persist.”—Claude Clegg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

“Searching for Dr. Harris is a complex and interesting analysis of Dr. Harris’s life and times. A masterful and thorough researcher, Margaret Humphreys offers readers a compelling and significant story that adds to our understanding of Black history in the American South.”—Todd Savitt, East Carolina University

Stories I Lived to Tell: An Appalachian Memoir by Gary Carden, edited by Neal Hutcheson

“Gary Carden is the last of the lantern keepers and with him goes the flame. Stories I Lived to Tell makes me thankful for the immortality of the written word.”—David Joy, author of Those We Thought We Knew

“Gary Carden is a national treasure.”—Lee Smith, author of Dimestore: A Writer’s Life

The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba by Jennifer L. Lambe

“In this pathbreaking cultural history, Lambe studies how Cubans scripted, televised, posted, filmed, or disseminated through radio wavebands their contradictory understandings of ‘the Revolution,’ producing themselves as the subjects of the very process they sought to encapsulate. Knowledge production about ideal revolutionary subjects, forever in the making, crafted the actors who narrated the Revolution.”—Alejandro de la Fuente, author of Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana

“Lambe approaches her subject from a distinctive interpretative angle, almost a meta-angle. This highly innovative work will no doubt shake up how we study and conceive of the Cuban Revolution and perhaps revolution more broadly.”—Eric Zolov, author of The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties

Confronting Jim Crow: Race, Memory, and the University of Georgia in the Twentieth Century by Robert Cohen

“Confronting Jim Crow is an astounding contemporary exploration into the continued struggle for freedom of thought in higher education. Through its expansion of the notion of activist, this book reminds us that though the liberal student activism at UGA was far more muted than that outside the South, it was still activism—and dangerous activism at that.”—Joy Williamson-Lott, University of Washington

“This book is impeccable! Its contribution to the history of higher education will resonate with the public at a time when many southern colleges and universities are beginning to grapple with their troubled past of race and segregation.”—Derrick P. Alridge, University of Virginia

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