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Премия имени Лиллиан Смит - самая старая и самая известная книжная премия Юга США в жанре художественной и документальной литературы.

В 1968 году Южным региональным Советом (Southern Regional Council) была учреждена премия в честь самой либеральной и откровенной писательницы середины двадцатого века по вопросам социальной и расовой несправедливости Лилиан Смит (1897-1966). В то время, когда южные либералы наметили осторожный курс на расовые изменения, Смит смело и настойчиво призывала к прекращению сегрегации в США. За такую ​​смелость ее часто осуждали и критиковали. И все же она продолжала писать и высказываться за улучшение человеческих отношений и социальную справедливость.

Эта премия чествует тех авторов, которые своими выдающимися произведениями об американском Юге продолжают наследие Лилиан Смит, описывая и разъясняя проблемы расового и социального неравенства и предлагая видение справедливости и человеческого понимания. Премия вручается за книги, посвященные социальной справедливости, гражданским правам и правам человека, образованию и социализации молодежи, нарушению молчания среди репрессированных групп людей.

С февраля 2004 года премию стали курировать Библиотеки Университета Джорджии, что позволило наградам стать доступнее для более широкой аудитории.

Спонсором премии сейчас также является и Публичная библиотека округа ДеКалб (DeKalb County Public Library).

Награды вручаются ежегодно. Исключением был 2003 год, когда Южный региональный Совет испытывал дефицит финансирования. С 1972 года ежегодно награждается два лауреата. В отдельные годы - три и больше.

Жанры: Зарубежная публицистика, Современная зарубежная литература, Документальная литература, Современная проза Страны: США Язык: Английский Первое вручение: 1968 г. Последнее вручение: 2024 г. Официальный сайт: https://web.archive.org/web/20060901120950/http%3A//www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett/lilliansmith/lsawardwinners.html

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Премия Лилиан Смит
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Премия Лилиан Смит
Charleston: Race, Water, and the Coming Storm
Susan Crawford 0.0
"Crawford’s book stands apart from its predecessors because of its sustained focus on one threatened city. Charleston is a fascinating and haunted locale, and Crawford is gifted at sketching its grossness and grace." — New York Times Book Review

An unflinching look at a beautiful, endangered, tourist-pummeled, and history-filled American city.

At least thirteen million Americans will have to move away from American coasts in the coming decades, as rising sea levels and increasingly severe storms put lives at risk and cause billions of dollars in damages. In Charleston, South Carolina, denial, boosterism, widespread development, and public complacency about racial issues compound; the city, like our country, has no plan to protect its most vulnerable. In these pages, Susan Crawford tells the story of a city that has played a central role in America's painful racial history for centuries and now, as the waters rise, stands at the intersection of climate and race.

Unbeknownst to the seven million mostly white tourists who visit the charming streets of the lower peninsula each year, the Holy City is in a deeply precarious position. Weaving science, narrative history, and the family stories of Black Charlestonians, Charleston chronicles the tumultuous recent past in the life of the city—from protests to hurricanes—while revealing the escalating risk in its future. A bellwether for other towns and cities, Charleston is emblematic of vast portions of the American coast, with a future of inundation juxtaposed against little planning to ensure a thriving future for all residents.

In Charleston, we meet Rev. Joseph Darby, a well-regarded Black minister with a powerful voice across the city and region who has an acute sense of the city's shortcomings when it comes to matters of race and water. We also hear from Michelle Mapp, one of the city's most promising Black leaders, and Quinetha Frasier, a charismatic young Black entrepreneur with Gullah-Geechee roots who fears her people’s displacement. And there is Jacob Lindsey, a young white city planner charged with running the city’s ten-year “comprehensive plan” efforts who ends up working for a private developer. These and others give voice to the extraordinary risks the city is facing.

The city of Charleston, with its explosive gentrification over the last thirty years, crystallizes a human tendency to value development above all else. At the same time, Charleston stands for our need to change our ways—and the need to build higher, drier, more densely-connected places where all citizens can live safely.

Illuminating and vividly rendered, Charleston is a clarion call and filled with characters who will stay in the reader’s mind long after the final page.
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Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street
Victor Luckerson 0.0
A multigenerational saga of a family and a community in Tulsa’s Greenwood district, known as “Black Wall Street,” that in one century survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, urban renewal, and gentrification

“The scope, the elegance, and the power of Victor Luckerson’s tale is simply breathtaking and empowering.”—Carol Anderson, author of White Rage

When Ed Goodwin moved with his parents to Greenwood, Tulsa, in 1914, his family joined a growing community on the cusp of becoming a national center of black life. But, just seven years later, on May 31, 1921, the teenaged Ed hid in a bathtub as a white mob descended on his neighborhood, laying waste to thirty-five blocks and murdering as many as three hundred people. The Tulsa Race Massacre was one of the most brutal acts of racist violence in U.S. history, a ruthless attempt to smother a spark of black independence.

But that was never the whole story of Greenwood. The Goodwins and their neighbors soon rebuilt it into “a Mecca,” in Ed’s words, where nightlife thrived, small businesses flourished, and an underworld economy lived comfortably alongside public storefronts. Prosperity and poverty intermixed, and icons from W.E.B. Du Bois to Muhammad Ali ambled down Greenwood Avenue, alongside maids, doctors, and every occupation in between. Ed grew into a prominent businessman and bought a newspaper called the Oklahoma Eagle to chronicle Greenwood’s resurgence and battles against white bigotry. He and his wife, Jeanne, raised an ambitious family, and their son Jim, an attorney, embodied their hopes for the Civil Rights Movement in his work. But by the 1970s, urban renewal policies had nearly emptied the neighborhood, even as Jim and his neighbors tried to hold on to it. Today, while new high-rises and encroaching gentrification risk wiping out Greenwood’s legacy for good, the family newspaper remains, and Ed’s granddaughter Regina represents the neighborhood in the Oklahoma state legislature, working alongside a new generation of local activists.

In Built from the Fire , journalist Victor Luckerson moves beyond the mythology of Black Wall Street to tell the story of an aspirant black neighborhood that, like so many others, has long been buffeted by racist government policies. Through the eyes of dozens of race massacre survivors and their descendants, Luckerson delivers an honest, moving portrait of this potent national symbol of success and solidarity—and weaves an epic tale about a neighborhood that refused, more than once, to be erased.
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