Three University of Illinois Press books were selected for inclusion in Choice magazine’s annual Outstanding Academic Title list, which will appear in the January 2012 issue of Choice.

Benching Jim Crow: The Rise and Fall of the Color Line in Southern College Sports, 1890-1980 by Charles H. Martin, Nettl’s Elephant by Bruno Nettl, and Queer Pollen: White Seduction, Black Male Homosexuality, and the Cinematic by David A. Gerstner are this year’s UIP honorees. 

Congratulations to Charles H. Martin, Bruno Nettl, and David A. Gerstner.