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Women and Children in Poverty By Diana Pearce Vol. 8, No. 1, 1986 pp. 1-2, 16-20 Two out of three adults in poverty today are women. Three-fourths of America’s more than 34 million poor consist of women and their children.
American Poverty, World Poverty By Ray Marshall Vol. 8, No. 1, 1986, pp. 3-7 For poor people in this country, and in the world, the outlook is not good. And because the lives of the poor are joined together with
Casualty Count. The War Against the Poor By Robert Greenstein Vol. 8, No. 1, 1986, pp. 7-10 If you look at the statistics of American poverty today, one set–the figures for children’s poverty–hits you over the head. Fifteen years ago
In Country, a novel by Bobbie Ann Mason. Harper &Row 247 pp. $15.95 Reviewed by John Egerton Vol. 8, No.1, 1986, pp. 20-22 The tumultuous decade of the 1960s still hovers over us like a great gray cloud, a mighty
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Southern Liberal Journalists and the Issue of Race, 1920-1944 by John T. Kneebone. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1985. Reviewed by Patricia Sullivan Vol. 8, No. 1, 1986, pp. 22-24 The term “liberal” often obscures more than
Gradualism, South Africa, and Civil Rights By Steven F. Lawson Vol. 8, No. 1, 1986, pp. 1-3 In February 1986, a white student from the University of Cape Town in South Africa paid a visit to my campus at the
Women in the Rural South: Scraping a Living from Two-bit Jobs By Barbara Ellen Smith Vol. 8, No. 1, 1986, pp. 5-8 Southern working class women are survivors. No message emerges as vividly from the stories in this booklet, Picking
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Women in the Rural South: Toward Economic Equity By Leslie Lilly Vol. 8, No. 2, 1986, pp. 5, 8-11 There is a sense of place and time about the South that distorts even as it amplifies its outward character to
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Maggie Lee Sayre–A Glimpse of Shantyboat Life By Tom Rogers Vol. 8, No. 1, 1986, pp. 12-14 Maggie Lee Sayre, born deaf, never heard water slap boat thwarts. Yet during her half century on the Tennessee River she compiled an
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The Risks at Oak Ridge By Joanne Thompson Vol. 8, No. 2, 1986, pp. 15-16 Ever since World War II, under the protective umbrella of national security, nuclear facilities at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, have operated with minimal outside scrutiny. Companies