Books published by University of Georgia Press

This is a portrait of one of Atlanta's most prominent African American families, illustrating Alonzo Herndon's ascent from slavery to the business elite. Their story is one of by-the-bootstraps resolve, tough compromises in the face of racism and lasting contributions to their city.

This work tells how the first generation of Protestant fundamentalists embraced the modern business and entertainment techniques of marketing, advertising, drama, film, radio, and publishing to spread the gospel.

At once criminal and saviour, clown and creator, antagonist and mediator, the character of trickster has made frequent appearances in works by writers the world over. Trickster Lives offers thirteen new and challenging interpretations of trickster in American writing, including essays on works by African American, Native American, Pacific Rim, and Latino writers.

John Walden, a young black man, decides to pass for white in order to earn what he feels is his share of the American dream. Without sentimentality, this novel probes deeply into the white South's obsessions with race and privilege.

From age four to 18, Sue William Silverman was sexually abused by her father, a high-ranking government official. This is an often graphic memoir of those years which recounts how Silverman's mother ignored her distress, thus conspiring in an attempt to keep the situation unreported and undetected.

Welcome to McAfee County, home to a large gathering of characters whose stories are as intertwined as kudzu. Moving in and out of each other's lives in profound, often shocking, ways, the men and women in these stories form a vibrant community.

Julia Peterkin pioneered in demonstrating the literary potential for serious depictions of the African-American experience. In her novels and stories, she taps the richness of rural southern black culture and oral traditions to capture conflicting realities and reveal grace and courage.

Aims to show readers that any conclusions about former American president Jimmy Carter's leadership and its adequacy to his challenges as president cannot ignore the moral quandary that vexed the American nation not only under Carter but ever since.

The memoir of the youth of Donald Windham in Depression-era Atlanta. The recollections describe the pleasant memories of his childhood as well as the less happy ones, and recount Windham's increasing desire for a world beyond Atlanta.

Looking closely at both the slaves' and masters' worlds in low, middle, and up-country South Carolina, this volume covers a wide range of economic and social topics related to the opportunities given to slaves to produce and trade their own food, once the master's assigned work was done.