Radicalism in the South Since Reconstruction

A reassessment of long-held paradigms about modern southern culture and politics and the relation of the South to political and cultural life of the United States

James Smethurst is Associate Professor of History and Afro-American Studies in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Rachel Rubin is Associate Professor of American Studies, University of Massachusetts-Boston. Chris Green is Associate Professor of English at Marshall University. He has edited Coal: A Poetry Anthology (2006), co-edited Radicalism in the South Since Reconstruction (2006), a collection of scholarly essays, and authored Rushlight: Poems (2009).