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Vol. 11, No. 4: Winter 2005

Where We Stand: Voices of Southern Dissent, ed. Anthony Dunbar (Review)

by E.M. Beck

NewSouth Books, 2004

This slender volume, edited by Anthony Dunbar and with a foreword by former President Jimmy Carter, contains twelve essays by well-known and highly respected progressive southerner activists and academics. While white southerners are often stereotyped as extreme right-wingers and hard-rock Bible thumpers, these essays are contrary evidence that the southern progressive tradition of dissent is alive.

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