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Nicolle Duran
reviewed Creating a Hoosier Self-Portrait: The Federal Writers' Project in Indiana, 1935-1942 on December 05, 2015
Creating a Hoosier Self-Portrait: The Federal Writers' Project in Indiana, 1935-1942
I read this book for a class that I am taking, and to be frank I did not like it that much. The book focuses on the second rising of the KKK, basically its revival in 1915, and not the original movement itself. What I found extremely irritating is that the majority of the data have been extracted from the KKK's own newspaper ˆThe Imperial Night-Hawkˆ.
It does provide a very different view on KKK - it offers a macrostructural framework of analysis, and the book tries to elucidate the three different components that incited the KKK's mobilization. McVeigh poses a new social movement analysis theory "the power devaluation model" through which he tries to explain how privileged groups, when feeling threatened politically, economically, and socially by other groups try to preserve or regain their privileges.
It's an interesting read to some extent, but I got annoyed from the lack of historical background for the general reader [such as myself:]...
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Add Creating a Hoosier Self-Portrait: The Federal Writers' Project in Indiana, 1935-1942, From 1935 to 1942, the Indiana office of the Federal Writers' Program hired unemployed writers as field workers to create a portrait in words of the land, the people, and the culture of the Hoosier state. This book tells the story of the project and its, Creating a Hoosier Self-Portrait: The Federal Writers' Project in Indiana, 1935-1942 to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add Creating a Hoosier Self-Portrait: The Federal Writers' Project in Indiana, 1935-1942, From 1935 to 1942, the Indiana office of the Federal Writers' Program hired unemployed writers as field workers to create a portrait in words of the land, the people, and the culture of the Hoosier state. This book tells the story of the project and its, Creating a Hoosier Self-Portrait: The Federal Writers' Project in Indiana, 1935-1942 to your collection on WonderClub |