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by Stetson Kennedy. 372 pgs.

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Contributors:

Stetson Kennedy

Publisher:

Doubleday & Company, Inc

Place of Publication:

Garden City, NY

Publication Year:

1946

Subjects:

Southern States--Politics And Government--1865-1950, Southern States--Social Conditions--1865-1945

Table of contents

	CONTENTS
	1. The Problem of the South
	THE SQUALID SOUTH	1
	Problem I, Section 1	1
	No Ready-made Money	3
	Grits without Gravy	6
	Lethal Statistics	7
	Be It Ever So Humble	11
	Man and Land	14
	THE NEW ORDER OF SLAVOCRACY	19
	THE PERVERSION OF POPULISM	37
	FREEDOM ROAD--CLOSED	48
	LAST HIRED, FIRST FIRED	63
	BOOK LARNIN', IN BLACK AND WHITE	68
	WHITE MAN'S COUNTRY	78
	THE 7.7 DEMOCRACY OF THE SOUTH	92
	The Plutocracy of Polltaxia	94
	"Votin' Is White Folk's Business	112
	THE SOUTHERN EVOLT	127
	Constitutional Democracy Crusaders	113
	Common Citizens Radio Committee	135
	American Democratic National Committee	143
	Dud or Time Bomb?	155
	THE VISIBLE EMPIRE	162
	KINGFISH AND SMALL FRY	187
	MANY THINGS MONEY CAN BUY	264
	WHOSE GOOD EARTH?	275
	TVA LEADS THE WAY	282
	THE SOUTH JOINS THE UNIONS	288
	BROTHERHOOD--UNION MADE	302
	FAIR EMPLOYMENT FOREVER!	315
	THE RACE RACKET	326
	Prejudice Is Made, Not Born	326
	Myth of the Master Race	329
	James Crow, Ph.D	334
	TOTAL EQUALITY, AND HOW TO GET IT	341
	To MAKE THE SOUTH SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY	356
	INDEX	365

I: ROMANTICISM AND RESISTANCE

Mary Favret

He died, and the world showed no outward sign. . . . He died, and his place . . . has never been filled up. Mary Shelley, Preface to The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Any objective method, duly verified, belies the initial contact with the object. It must first scrutinize everything...

II: CULTURE AND CRITICISM

Laurie Langbauer

Writing in the first issue of Cultural Studies , the Australian critic Jennifer Craik cites Stuart Hall and Tony Bennett to argue that "the development of cultural studies has seen an uneasy alliance. . . which overlooks the intrinsic incommensurability...

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Southern Exposure
Book by Stetson Kennedy; Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1946
Subjects:	Southern States--Politics And Government--1865-1950, Southern States--Social Conditions--1865-1945
...equitably through national legislation. But the way the United States went severally about it was all wrong. The Southern states were by no means the only offenders; for instance Maryland went so far as to enact a work-or-fight statute under which...were sometimes paroled into the custody of their employers. South Carolina also adopted a work-or-fight law, and many Southern governors, mayors, and sheriffs took it upon themselves to issue "decrees" and "edicts" to the same effect. Some of...electrified barbed wire and keep em there!" The history of work-or-fight in Florida is most illuminating. In January of 1945 Governor Millard Caldwell sent a letter to all sheriffs in the state calling upon them to "use their good offices" to...

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Book by William A. Link; University of North Carolina Press, 1992
Subjects:	Progressivism (United States Politics), Southern States--Politics And Government--1865-1950, Southern States--Social Conditions
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The Road to Redemption: Southern Politics, 1869-1879
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Subjects:	Reconstruction, Southern States--Politics And Government--1865-1950
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Man over Money: The Southern Populist Critique of American Capitalism
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Hoover, Blacks, & Lily-Whites: A Study of Southern Strategies
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Bibliography: A Checklist of Scholarship on Southern Literature for 1992
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