Poor People's Movements

Poor People's Movements
Author: Frances Fox Piven
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2012-02-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 030781467X

Have the poor fared best by participating in conventional electoral politics or by engaging in mass defiance and disruption? The authors of the classic Regulating The Poor assess the successes and failures of these two strategies as they examine, in this provocative study, four protest movements of lower-class groups in 20th century America: -- The mobilization of the unemployed during the Great Depression that gave rise to the Workers' Alliance of America -- The industrial strikes that resulted in the formation of the CIO -- The Southern Civil Rights Movement -- The movement of welfare recipients led by the National Welfare Rights Organization.

Pages from a Black Radical's Notebook

Pages from a Black Radical's Notebook
Author: James Boggs
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780814332566

Stephen M. Ward is assistant professor at the University of Michigan in the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies and the Residential College. --Book Jacket.

Southern Food

Southern Food
Author: John Egerton
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 599
Release: 2014-06-18
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0307834565

This lively, handsomely illustrated, first-of-its-kind book celebrates the food of the American South in all its glorious variety—yesterday, today, at home, on the road, in history. It brings us the story of Southern cooking; a guide for more than 200 restaurants in eleven Southern states; a compilation of more than 150 time-honored Southern foods; a wonderfully useful annotated bibliography of more than 250 Southern cookbooks; and a collection of more than 200 opinionated, funny, nostalgic, or mouth-watering short selections (from George Washington Carver on sweet potatoes to Flannery O’Connor on collard greens). Here, in sum, is the flavor and feel of what it has meant for Southerners, over the generations, to gather at the table—in a book that’s for reading, for cooking, for eating (in or out), for referring to, for browsing in, and, above all, for enjoying.