Where We Stand

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This timely and provocative book contains essays from twelve leading Southern historians, activists, civil rights attorneys, law professors, and theologians. They discuss militarism, religion, the environment, voting rights, the Patriot Act, the economy, prisons and crime, and other subjects significant to the South and the Nation in the ongoing debate about the future of the United States. The writers come from, or have been active in the affairs of, each of the former Confederate states. The twelve share the ...
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This timely and provocative book contains essays from twelve leading Southern historians, activists, civil rights attorneys, law professors, and theologians. They discuss militarism, religion, the environment, voting rights, the Patriot Act, the economy, prisons and crime, and other subjects significant to the South and the Nation in the ongoing debate about the future of the United States. The writers come from, or have been active in the affairs of, each of the former Confederate states. The twelve share the beliefs that the current policies of our national administration sacrifice the interests of the poor and the people who work for a living to the interests of a privileged elite, that the power of money and the military must be tethered, that the natural environment must be sheltered, and that racial justice matters. A common sentiment is dismay at the deepening chasm that now divides America -- and specifically the South -- into hostile armies whose leaders are fast losing whatever motivation they ever had to pursue compromise and cooperation, and the common good. As former President Jimmy Carter writes in his Foreword, "The writers of this volume are all concerned about democracy and human rights, and they offer wide-ranging and incisive essays. Some are inspiring; some are disturbing. I am sure that readers will be provoked by them and will learn from them, as I have."
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Editorial Reviews

Edwin M. Yoder, Jr.
In Where We Stand: Voices of Southern Dissent edited by Anthony Dunbar, 12 eminent Southern lawyers and academicians register their dissent from the present Republican ascendancy … there are serious and compelling essays by Dan Carter on the war in Iraq, Gene Nichols on Southern income disparities, Dan Pollitt on the Ashcroftian experiments with our liberties. They make a case that the Dixie Rip van Winkles have overslept.
— The Washington Post
Library Journal
In this collection of 12 essays, the authors-all proud, white, liberal Southerners-present their cases for why the United States is headed in the wrong direction and offer ideas on how to correct its course. Among the authors are historians, lawyers, and activists, such as Sheldon Hackney, Daniel Pollitt, and Constance Curry. In the style of the classic I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition (1930), the essayists hope to convince not only their fellow Southerners but also the rest of America of the need for change. The essays vary in length and detail, but all are fervently written and unapologetically committed to advancing a liberal agenda. The writers are highly critical of the dominant social, political, and economic values (some of which originated in the South) that celebrate selfishness, dogmatism, and American exceptionalism in foreign affairs, preferring instead equality, compromise, and cooperation abroad. Recommended for public libraries with large budgets.-Thomas J. Baldino, Wilkes Univ., Wilkes-Barre, PA Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781588381699
  • Publisher: NewSouth, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 6/28/2004
  • Pages: 250
  • Product dimensions: 5.86 (w) x 8.46 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword 9
Introduction 12
Confronting the war machine 21
Standing on the promises : absolutes and imagination in southern religion 45
Ignoring inequality 61
My yellow ribbon town : a meditation on my country and my home 70
Our imperiled union 87
Beyond capitalism 103
Civil liberties in a time of crises : the dark side 121
The intolerable burden 147
A postcard from Norway : how America looks from here 155
Democracy cannot be exported if it is not secure at home 169
Identity politics, southern style 181
The southernization of American politics 197
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