Bookstore - Highlander Connections
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GRASSROOTS ACTION FOR GLOBAL CHANGE: RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZERS IN APPALACHIA
Compiled by Susan Williams and Kristi Disney
The search of developing healthy and sustainable alternatives to corporate-driven globalization can be unraveled with this in-depth list of annotated resources (books, videos, organizations) which includes immigrant rights, economic democracy, organizing, etc. With separate sections and brief explanations of each subject, this guide is easy to understand and use. Grassroots Action for Global Change provides information and inspiration.
Also available online at www.highlandercenter.org/r-global-change.asp.
Highlander Center, 95 pages, 2005. $12.00 |
GRINGO: THE MAKING OF A REBEL
By Emil Willimetz
"Emil, an early Highlander filmmaker and organizer, writes with wit and keen observation of the pressures on our country during the Depression years, World War Two, and through labor and civil rights organizing in the 1940's and 1950's. He illuminates the important centers of education and activity like Black Mountain College and the Highlander Folk School." -Candie and Guy Carawan.
Peter E. Randall Publisher, hardcover, 536 Pages with black and white photos, 2003. $26.95 |
INTERPRETATION AND TRANSLATION: POWER TOOLS FOR SHARING POWER IN GRASSROOTS LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
By Alice Johnson
This guide is written about El Centro Hispano, a grassroots Latino leadership center in Durham, NC. Focusing on English and Spanish, it is a discussion of how the strategic use of language interpretation and translation impacted El Centro's leadership development work. The guide discusses which kinds of interpretation to use in different community and social justice work settings, what to expect from the interpreters, and a nuts and bolts reference section for setting up a multilingual gathering.
Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, spiral bound, 35 pages, 2002. $5.00 |
IT COMES FROM THE PEOPLE: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND LOCAL THEOLOGY
By Mary Ann Hinsdale, Helen Lewis, Maxine Waller
Photos, stories, songs, poems, and drama, telling the story of how citizens in a small southwest Virginia community organized to revitalize the town and demand participation in its future. It also tells how the community discovered its own local theology and growing consciousness of its cultural and religious values. It candidly reflects on the complex relationships with friends, allies, researchers, and consultants. Long-time Highlander staff person Helen Lewis and Highlander alumnus Maxine Waller are two of the authors.
Temple University Press, paperback, 400 pages, 1995. $27.95 |
NEITHER SEPARATE NOR EQUAL: WOMEN, RACE, AND CLASS IN THE SOUTH
Edited by Barbara Ellen Smith
This unique collection approaches differences of race and class not as forms of separation among women, but as social - be they often contentious, difficult, or exploitative - relationships. The focus on the South's historical legacies includes the tensions between long-standing patterns of regional distinctiveness and the disruptions of globalization. Neither Separate Nor Equal offers searching empirical studies of Southern women and a conceptual model for feminist scholarship as a whole.
Temple University Press, paperback, 286 pages, 1999. $24.95 |
NO LONESOME ROAD: SELECTED PROSE AND POEMS
By Don West-One of the original Highlander Co-founders!
Edited by Jeff Biggers and George Brosi
No Lonesome Road is the landmark publication of the work of Appalachia's legendary poet-activist, Don West (1906-1992). A best-selling literary phenomenon, Appalachian historian, political militant, and labor organizer, West is perhaps best known as the co-founder of Highlander in Tennessee and the founder of the Appalachian South Folklife Center in West Virginia. This book is divided into two sections - prose and poetry - and spans more than five decades of West's literary career.
University of Illinois Press, paperback, 227 pages, 2004. $25.00 |
POWER AND POWERLESSNESS: QUIESCIENCE AND REBELLION IN AN APPALACHIAN VALLEY
By John Gaventa
Winner of Woodrow Wilson, W.O. Weatherford, and Lillian Smith book awards, Gaventa's study of a single valley poses broad questions about the politics of poverty, working class consciousness, and multinational corporate power in America. It documents the development of power relations in Clear Fork Valley, a mining area which for eighty years was owned and dominated by a British company.
University of Illinois Press, paperback, 263 pages, 1980. $20.00 |
READY FROM WITHIN: SEPTIMA CLARK AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
By Septima Clark. Edited and Introduced by Cynthia Stokes Brown.
This first person narrative portrays the story of Septima Clark's involvement with the Civil Rights Movement. Often unrecognized, Ms. Clark developed many Citizenship Schools throughout the South while working for the Highlander Folk School. Then, in the 60's, she worked with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and was a close associate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Africa World Press, paperback, 134 pages, 3rd printing 1999. $14.95 |
TO MOVE A MOUNTAIN: FIGHTING THE GLOBAL ECONOMY IN APPALACHIA
By Eve S. Weinbaum
To Move a Mountain is an inspirational account of how a group of Appalachian men and women, politicized by the disaster of local plant closings, became unlikely activists in the Tennessee statehouse and the protests in Seattle. Weinbaum's firsthand look at the devastation wrought by the closings of community-sustaining factories become moving stories in the age of corporate globalization. With striking portraits of managers, workers, organizers, and local officials, the book uncovers a government and economic leadership whose policies show little regard for the workers they leave behind. Yet despite the repeated defeat of the workers, an astonishingly fiery economic justice movement sprung up in Tennessee as factory workers transformed themselves into activists.
New Press, hardcover, 340 pages, 2003. $25.95 |
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