I'm a Southerner, sojorning in the North, and conducting historical research without adult supervision.  My current projects involve the history of the Southern United States and the South's popular image, both in the mass culture and in the minds of Southerners.  I believe we need to replace our old myths (both favorable and unfavorable) about the South.  Many of those myths were created to serve politico-social agendas that have become irrelevant in modern society, and most of them tend to make modern Southerners (of all "races") uneasy, at best, about their identity as Southerners.  I believe there must be beneficial alternatives to reactionary defensiveness, on the one hand, and assimilation with the (originally Northern) corporate mass culture, on the other.  I'm interested in helping modern Southerners (and anybody else who's interested) understand the South as a distinctive, diverse, inherently valuable society, a unique and complex blending of European and African cultures (among others), with a history and character distinct from, and overall no less admirable or important than, those of the North.

I have previously read extensively in American labor history, with a particular emphasis on the Industrial Workers of the World.  I have posted on the web (see URL below) a collection of historical documents by or relating to the I.W.W. , but I"m no longer actively maintaining that site.

Location

Long Island City, NY, USA

Disciplines

• History
• Law

Affiliation

None

Website

http://www.workerseducation.org/crutch