New This Week: August 27th

It’s Tuesday and you know what that means: new books! Today’s new books include a book that explores the University of Georgia’s long history of racism and the struggle to overcome it and a new book in our envisioning Cuba series. Check them out below and browse all of our new books this month here.

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

“Robert Cohen’s fascinating account of the riot that in 1961 sought to bar the first Black students from the University of Georgia reminds us that there is nothing new about current efforts to suppress the teaching of ‘divisive’ subjects and that such miseducation can breed ignorance, bigotry, and violence. Yet Cohen also invites us to admire the courage of these students, which stood in sharp contrast to the retrograde policies of Georgia’s political and university leadership and to the behavior of so many white students. Essential reading for anyone interested in the contested future of American education.”—Eric Foner, Columbia University

“This book is impeccable!”—Derrick P. Alridge, University of Virginia

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

Envisioning Cuba Series

“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