UGA Press-Series

The New Southern Studies

After decades of being both celebrated and dismissed as the exception within American exceptionalism, the South is emerging as central to debates in fields ranging from American Studies and African American Studies to cultural studies and postcolonial theory. Engaged with these debates from the outset, the new Southern Studies, as Houston A. Baker Jr. named the field, thus only secondarily reinvigorates the old. Rather, as its scholars look at the South afresh, their chief aim is a floor-to-ceiling rethinking of some of the central ideas of the last twenty years of critical theory: objecthood, identity, space, nation, region, abjection, the body, empire. The books in this interdisciplinary, methodologically rigorous, and iconoclastic series will, as a result, engage scholars and students in a wide variety of fields.

Jon Smith is an associate professor of English at Simon Fraser University. His chief scholarly interests involve the study of the U.S. South from global, cultural-studies, and postcolonial perspectives to interrogate both American exceptionalism in American Studies and careless divisions between global north and global south in postcolonial theory. Smith is the coeditor of Look Away! The U.S. South in New World Studies and several special journal issues on the South. His work has appeared in American Literature, American Literary History, and other scholarly publications. He is currently working on a study titled (tentatively} "Alabama and the Future of American Cultural Studies."

Riché Richardson, an associate professor of Africana studies at Cornell University, has ongoing interests in the role of the South in formations of identity in the African American context, transnational and diasporan perspectives in southern studies, and African American literature. The author of Black Masculinity and the U.S. South, she is currently working on a number of other book projects, including one on southern rap. Richardson has published essays in journals such as American Literature, the Mississippi Quarterly, and the Forum for Modern Language Studies.

Books in this series

American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary
Edited by Deborah Barker and Kathryn McKee

Apples and Ashes
Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America
Coleman Hutchison

Black Masculinity and the U.S. South
From Uncle Tom to Gangsta
Riché Richardson

Disturbing Calculations
The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912–2002
Melanie Benson Taylor

Grounded Globalism
How the U.S. South Embraces the World
James L. Peacock

Latining America
Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies
Claudia Milian

The Nation’s Region
Southern Modernism, Segregation, and U.S. Nationalism
Leigh Anne Duck

Reading for the Body
The Recalcitrant Materiality of Southern Fiction, 1893–1985
Jay Watson

Reconstructing the Native South
American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause
Melanie Benson Taylor

Southern Civil Religions
Imagining the Good Society in the Post-Reconstruction Era
Arthur Remillard

Series editors

Jon Smith
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Riché Richardson
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Series Advisory Board

Houston A. Baker Jr.
Vanderbilt University

Leigh Anne Duck
University of Memphis

Jennifer Greeson
University of Virginia

Trudier Harris
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill

Tara McPherson
University of Southern California

John T. Matthews
Boston University

Studies in Security and International Affairs

The University of Georgia Press in collaboration with the University of Georgia’s Center for International Trade and Security and Department of International Affairs created this series to publish outstanding scholarship on some of the most pressing challenges of the twenty-first century. This series grows out of the dramatic internationalization of the University of Georgia: the creation of a new School of Public and International Affairs, the establishment of a new Department of International Affairs, and the continued growth of the Center for International Trade and Security and related programs.

We are particularly interested in work that presents important new perspectives on the crises in American foreign policy and global governance; democratization, civil society, and the rule of law; rising powers and regional hotspots such as the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America; new security threats, including terrorism and responses to it; defense policy; postconflict reconstruction; multilateralism and international institutions; and the U.S. role in the world. Books in this series draw from the fields of comparative politics, foreign policy, international relations, and security policy. The series crosses disciplines and attempts to bridge gaps, including those between the academy and government and between nations and “civilizations.”

Gary K. Bertsch is University Professor Emeritus of International Affairs and Director Emeritus of the Center for International Trade and Security at the University of Georgia. He is the author or editor of over twenty books, including Dangerous Weapons, Desperate States and Engaging India.

Howard J. Wiarda is Dean Rusk Professor of International Relations at the University of Georgia. His many books include Latin American Politics and Development and Development on the Periphery.

Books in this series

Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction
The Future of International Nonproliferation Policy
Edited by Nathan E. Busch and Daniel H. Joyner

Containing Russia’s Nuclear Firebirds
Harmony and Change at the International Science and Technology Center
Glenn E. Schweitzer

Enduring Territorial Disputes
Strategies of Bargaining, Coercive Diplomacy, and Settlement
Krista E. Wiegand

From Superpower to Besieged Global Power
Restoring World Order after the Failure of the Bush Doctrine
Edited by Edward A. Kolodziej and Roger E. Kanet

Nonproliferation Norms
Why States Choose Nuclear Restraint
Maria Rost Rublee

Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate
Memories of Empire in a New Global Context
Charles Horner

Slaying the Nuclear Dragon
Disarmament Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Tanya Ogilvie-White and David Santoro

Stuck
Rwandan Youth and the Struggle for Adulthood
Marc Sommers

Understanding Life in the Borderlands
Boundaries in Depth and in Motion
Edited by I. William Zartman

Unfinished Business
Why International Negotiations Fail
Edited by Guy Olivier Faure

Wars of Disruption and Resilience
Cybered Conflict, Power, and National Security
Chris C. Demchak

Women, Gender, and Terrorism
Edited by Laura Sjoberg and Caron E. Gentry

Series Advisory Board

Dr. Pauline H. Baker
President, The Fund for Peace

Dr. Eliot Cohen
Robert E. Osgood Professor
of Strategic Studies,
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies,
The Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Eric Einhorn
Professor of Comparative Politics,
Center for Public Policy and Administration,
University of Massachusetts

Dr. John J. Hamre
President and CEO,
The Center for Strategic and
International Studies

Dr. Josef Joffe
Publisher, Die Zeit
Abramowitz Fellow, Hoover Institution
Distinguished Fellow, Institute for International Studies,
Stanford University

Dr. Lawrence J. Korb
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

Dr. William J. Long
Chair and Professor,
Sam Nunn School
of International Affairs,
Georgia Institute of Technology

Dr. Jessica Tuchman Mathews
President, Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace

Dr. Scott D. Sagan
Professor of Political Science,
and Codirector, Center for
International Security
and Cooperation, Stanford University

Dr. Lawrence Scheinman
Distinguished Professor,
Monterey Institute of International Studies

Dr. David Shambaugh
Professor of Political Science
and International Affairs,
The Elliott School
of International Affairs,
George Washington University

Dr. Jessica Stern
John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University