Author: Louis Mazzari
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 080713189X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
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Louis Mazzari brings to the fore one of the most important figures of the southern regionalist movement in the New Deal era. His is the first biography of Arthur Raper, a progressive sociologist, writer, and public intellectual who advocated racial and social justice in the South when such views were not only unpopular but dangerous, effectively laying a foundation for the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.Raper was one of the first white southern scholars to speak out against lynching, sharecropping, and tenant farming in his pioneering and highly influential books The Tragedy of Lynching(1933), Preface to Peasantry (1936), Sharecroppers All (1941), and Tenants of the Almighty (1943). He also contributed significantly to Gunnar Myrdal's important study of U.S. race relations, An American Dilemma (1944). Mazzari carefully dissects Raper's works, casting them in a larger historical context and examining both the acclaim and anger they elicited in the South. He portrays Raper as a political and social radical fighting against southern racial and economic problems during the country's transition from an agrarian culture to a modern one, in an effort to keep the region from falling even further behind in an increasingly sophisticated world. Hostility toward his beliefs eventually led Raper to leave the South. He worked on the reconstruction of Japan after World War II and in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East at the height of the Cold War, promoting the same mix of federal planning and local control he had practiced in the New Deal South.In the life of Arthur Raper, Mazzari locates a larger story of liberalism in the white South. Raised on a North Carolina tobacco farm and educated at Chapel Hill under Howard Odum, Raper was remarkable for taking up issues of race and class to advocate modern views in a part of the world where adherence to the past was almost pathological -- and then going on to advance a liberal modernist version of Jeffersonian democracy throughout the Third World. He looked critically at the causes of racial violence and successfully conveyed scientific sociology into broad circulation through mass culture.
Author: Jack Temple Kirby
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807876607
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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The American South is generally warmer, wetter, weedier, snakier, and more insect infested and disease prone than other regions of the country. It is alluring to the scientifically and poetically minded alike. With Mockingbird Song, Jack Temple Kirby offers a personal and passionate recounting of the centuries-old human-nature relationship in the South. Exhibiting violent cycles of growth, abandonment, dereliction, resettlement, and reconfiguration, this relationship, Kirby suggests, has the sometimes melodious, sometimes cacophonous vocalizations of the region's emblematic avian, the mockingbird. In a narrative voice marked by the intimacy and enthusiasm of a storyteller, Kirby explores all of the South's peoples and their landscapes--how humans have used, yielded, or manipulated varying environments and how they have treated forests, water, and animals. Citing history, literature, and cinematic portrayals along the way, Kirby also relates how southerners have thought about their part of Earth--as a source of both sustenance and delight.
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Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Author: Arthur Franklin Raper
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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The story of Greene county, Georgia, and its unified farm program. cf. Foreword.
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Author: Thomas Stapleton
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Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Author: Thomas Stapleton
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Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Author: New York (State). Court of Appeals.
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1404
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Volume contains: (Watchtower Bible & Tract Society, Inc,et al v Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.) (Watchtower Bible & Tract Society, Inc,et al v Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.) (Watchtower Bible & Tract Society, Inc,et al v Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.) (Watchtower Bible & Tract Society, Inc,et al v Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.) (Watchtower Bible & Tract Society, Inc,et al v Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.) (Miss Susan,Inc & Victor Brown Undies, Inc v Enterprise & Century Undergarment Co., Inc ) (Miss Susan,Inc & Victor Brown Undies, Inc v Enterprise & Century Undergarment Co., Inc ) (Miss Susan,Inc & Victor Brown Undies, Inc v Enterprise & Century Undergarment Co., Inc ) (Tams-Witmark Musci Library, Inc, v The New Opera Co, Inc, et al) (Tams-Witmark Musci Library, Inc, v The New Opera Co, Inc, et al) (Tams-Witmark Musci Library, Inc, v The New Opera Co, Inc, et al) (Jerome Tanenbaum,et al v Consolidated Edison co of NY, Inc; Frances G. Amella, et al v Consolidated Edison Co. of NY, Inc) (Jerome Tanenbaum,et al v Consolidated Edison co of NY, Inc; Frances G. Amella, et al v Consolidated Edison Co. of NY, Inc) (Albert Tartaglia & Philomena Tartaglia v Hon. Harold J. Mclauglin & Samuel Perlman) (Albert Tartaglia & Philomena Tartaglia v Hon. Harold J. Mclauglin & Samuel Perlman) (Albert Tartaglia & Philomena Tartaglia v Hon. Harold J. Mclauglin & Samuel Perlman) (Albert Tartaglia & Philomena Tartaglia v Hon. Harold J. Mclauglin & Samuel Perlman) (Albert Tartaglia & Philomena Tartaglia v Hon. Harold J. Mclauglin & Samuel Perlman) (Samuel & Louis Tobkes v John F. O'connell, et al) (Samuel & Louis Tobkes v John F. O'connell, et al)
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Languages : en
Pages : 1330
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Author: Elmer Anderson Carter
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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