Description |
1 online resource (viii, 274 pages) |
Contents |
Foreword -- Introduction -- 'Preaching Anarchy'?: A New York Shaker's Ideas for Perfecting the New South -- Go Into the Courts: The Afro-American Council's Southern Legal Struggle -- Mobilizing the Reserve Army: The Communist Party and the Unemployed in Atlanta, 1929-1934 -- Agnes "'Sis" Cunningham and Radical/Labor Songs in the 1930s South -- Poetry and Interracial Progressive Coalitions in the Post-War South -- Beluthahatchee: Stetson Kennedy's 'place of forgiveness?' or Woody Guthrie's 'last stand' -- Ben V. Olgu̕n, "Red Raza: Chicana/o Nationalism and the International Question" -- William Strickland, "The Institute of the Black World (IBW), the Political Legacy of Martin Luther King, and the Intellectual Struggle to Re-Think America's Racial Meaning" -- James Smethurst, "Black Arts South: Rethinking New Orleans and the Black Arts Movement in the Wake of Katrina" -- Pat Arnow, "Rough Roads for Southern Theaters: Brave Groups in Small Places Face Politics and Money in the '70s and '80s" -- Lynda Ann Ewen, "Radicalism in the Appalachian Coalfields." |
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Radicalism in the South since reconstruction : an introduction / Chris Green, Rachel Rubin, and James Smethurst -- The Afro-American Council and its challenge of Louisiana's grandfather clause / Shawn Leigh Alexander -- "The first anarchist that ever came to Atlanta" : Hiram F. Hover from New York to the new South / Bruce E. Baker -- Mobilizing the reserve army : the Communist party and the unemployed in Atlanta, 1929-1934 / James J. Lorence -- Agnes "Sis" Cunningham and labor songs in the Depression South / Ronald D. Cohen -- The tight rope of democracy : Don West's Clods of southern earth / Chris Green -- Black arts South : rethinking New Orleans and the Black arts movement in the wake of Hurricane Katrina / James Smethurst -- The great anti-injunction strike of 1976 : context and implications for Appalachia / Lynda Ann Ewen -- Critik : the Institute of the Black World (IBW), the political legacy of Martin Luther King, and the intellectual struggle to rethink America's racial meaning / Bill Strickland -- Southern theater for social change / Pat Arnow -- Beluthahatchee blues : an interview with Stetson Kennedy / Jorge Arévalo Mateus -- "We don't have much time" : an interview with Raúl Salinas / Rachel Rubin -- "The anti-slavery act of 2002" : an interview with Si Kahn / Rachel Rubin |
Summary |
Framing the scholarly conversation about southern radicalism, this book features essays covering a range of historical periods and topics in dialogue with each other so as to get a sense of the range of southern politics and history |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Radicalism -- Southern States -- History
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Social change -- Southern States -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Politics and government
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Radicalism
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Social change
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Social conditions
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SUBJECT |
Southern States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90004000
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Southern States -- Social conditions -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90004001
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Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1865- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125658
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Southern States
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Green, Chris, 1968- editor.
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Rubin, Rachel, 1964- editor.
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Smethurst, James Edward, editor
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ISBN |
9781403974099 |
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1403974098 |
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9780230601789 |
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0230601782 |
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1281361283 |
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9781281361288 |
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9781349534661 |
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1349534668 |
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