Radicalism in the South Since Reconstruction

2006. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-349-53466-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 361 g

This book broadly frames the scholarly conversation about southern radicalism, putting 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smethurst, J.

Rubin, R.

Green, C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte: Ereignisse und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte Regionalgeschichte der USA: Einzelne Staaten, Städte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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. Olguín, "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, "Radicalismin the Appalachian Coalfields"

Über Autor(innen)

JAMES SMETHURST is Associate Professor of History and Afro-American Studies in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA. RACHEL RUBIN is Associate Professor of American Studies, University of Massachusetts-Boston, USA. CHRIS GREEN is Assistant Professor of English, Marshall University, USA.