Vol. 25 No. 3/4 - Fall/Winter 1997

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New Writing from the Working-Class South

• From the Editor

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• Roundup

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• Job Equity in the Downsized South

  What kind of jobs are there? Who has them? And who benefits? Institute for Southern Studies

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• Introduction

  Writing from the Bottom Up: A Southern Tradition. By Gary Ashwill, Chris Kromm and Jordan Green

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• Surprises

  By Barbara Barnett

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• Deviled Eggs

  By Crystal Wilkinson

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• Kentucky Blues

  By Ron Whitehead

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• Temporary Balance

  By Tony Peacock

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• Contacts, Pain and Pleasure

  By Laverne Zabielski

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• I am

  By Sharon Shelton

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• I was a Wal-Mart CareBear Wannabe

  By Lisa Martinovich

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• Stone at the Tomb

  By Evelyn Miller

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• Writing With Class: An Interview with Denise Giardina

  By Jordan Green

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• Making Change in a Closed Little Town

  By Sara White

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• Working Class Kitchen Manifesto

  By Laverne Zabielski

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• My Vita, Or How I Became a Blue-Collar Writer

  By Nancy Peacock

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• Photo Essay: We Are All Housekeepers

  A documentary history of struggle in the new freedom movement. By Susan Suchman Simone and Jeff Jones

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• Junebug: Southern Exposure's Storyteller: America's Blackest Child

  By Junebug Jabbo Jones

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• Blueprint for Change: Using Film as an Organizing Tool

  By Judith Helfand

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• Reviews of Southern Media

  The Activist Cookbook by Andrew Pearson; Dixie Rising by Pronita Gupta

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• Still the South: The Tea Belt

  By Mary Lee Kerr

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