American Crisis, Southern Solutions : From Where We Stand, Peril and Promise

by Dunbar, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9781588382283
• ISBN10: 1588382281
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-28
• Publisher: John F Blair Pub

Summary

Editor Anthony Dunbar and more than a dozen Southern writers, historians, business and labor-watchers, and philosophers reexamine some of the issues raised in the 2004 collection of essays, Where We Stand, Voices of Southern Dissent, which warned of the dangers of reelecting George W. Bush and of white Southerners unquestioningly casting their political lot with fundamentalism and conservatism. In this new collection, those essayists and new ones offer thoughtful, provocative suggestions for a fresh path America should follow in governance, international affairs, the environment, workplace security, freedom of the press, and immigration reform. They present "Southern Solutions," based upon southern experience, to a nation that has drifted far off course. Economist and former U.S. Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall anchors the book, and editor Dunbar writes the introduction. Jason Berry, Charles Bussey, Dan Carter, Danny Duncan Collum, Doug Davis, Leslie W. Dunbar, Glenn A. Feldman, Dan Pollitt, Susan Ford-Wiltshire, and Frye Gailiard are among the contributors.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 9
Introduction	p. 18
Hope from Southern Voices	p. 27
To Rescue Our Heritage	p. 40
Education and Economic Justice	p. 70
Politics and Religion	p. 78
Towards Home	p. 96
The Tupelo Solution	p. 110
Can a Third World Town Be Saved?	p. 123
Hospitality or Exile?	p. 152
Labor's Failure in the South	p. 169
On Human Rights & Immigration	p. 190
Reducing Environmental Burdens	p. 200
Dixie Reaches the Boiling Point	p. 212
"Ballot Security"	p. 224
Lessons from the Bayou	p. 234
Our Appointment with Destiny	p. 244
Afterword	p. 255
Notes	p. 263
Acknowledgments	p. 280
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