Southern Modernist: Arthur Raper from the New Deal to the Cold War

by Louis Mazzari

Louis Mazzari brings to the fore one of the most important figures of the southern regionalist movement in the New Deal era. His is the first biography of Arthur Raper, a progressive sociologist, writer, and public intellectual who advocated racial and social justice in the South when such views were not only unpopular but dangerous, effectively laying a foundation for the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.Raper was one of the first white...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080713189X
• ISBN13: 9780807131893
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.2"