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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788006503321

Autore

Rippelmeyer Kay <1953->

Titolo

The Civilian Conservation Corps in Southern Illinois, 1933-1942 / / Kay Rippelmeyer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbon [Illinois] : , : Southern Illinois University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8093-3366-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (372 p.)

Collana

Shawnee Books

Classificazione

HIS036060HIS036090NAT011000

Disciplina

333.73/16097739

Soggetti

Soil conservation - Illinois - History - 20th century

Forest conservation - Illinois - History - 20th century

Interviews - Illinois

Labor camps - Illinois - History - 20th century

Shawnee National Forest (Ill.) History 20th century

Illinois History, Local

Illinois Environmental conditions

Illinois Geography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Shawnee books."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Camp Map and Roster -- Part One. Background, Beginnings, and the Impact of the CCC -- The Old Forest and the Timber Industry in Southern Illinois -- The Great Depression in Southern Illinois and the Establishment of the Shawnee National Forest -- The Establishment of the Civilian Conservation Corps -- CCC Work Projects in Southern Illinois -- Life in the CCC Camps -- The Last Years and Legacies of the CCC -- Part Two. The Southern Illinois CCC Camp Compendium -- The Forest Service Camps: Camp Cadiz, DF-9, F-9; Camp Delta, F-3; Camp Eddyville, F-4; Camp Glenn, F-1; Camp Herod, DF-7, F-7; Camp Hicks, F-5; Camp Hutchins, F-8; Camp Kedron, F-6; Camp Pomona, F-2; Camp Shawneetown, F-11, PE-64, SCS-17; Camp Simpson, F-12; Camp Union, S-51, F-10 -- The Private Erosion and Soil Conservation Service Camps:  CCC Camp Benton, SCS-22; CCC Camp Dixon Springs, SCS-1; Camp Grayville, SCS-6; CCC Camp Marion, PE-72, SCS-27; Camp Metropolis, DPE-68; CCC Camp Mill Creek, PE-71, SCS-21; Camp



Mounds, DPE-69, SCS-29; Camp Murphysboro "Riverside," PE-66, SCS-20; Camp Norris City, SCS-24; Camp Pinckneyville, PE-66; Camp Randolph, PE-53; Camp Saline (Eldorado), PE-52; Camp Sparta, SCS-34; Camp Waterloo, PE-73, SCS-23; note: the histories of the State Park Camps Giant City, SP-11 and Stonefort, SP-41 are detailed in a separate work by this author, Giant City State Park and the Civilian Conservation Corps -- Appendixes.

Sommario/riassunto

"Drawing on more than thirty years of meticulous research, Kay Rippelmeyer details the Depression-era history of the simultaneous creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois. Through the stories of the men who worked in CCC camps devoted to soil and forest conservation projects, she offers a fascinating look into an era of utmost significance to the identity, citizens, wildlife, and natural landscape of the region. Rippelmeyer outlines the geologic and geographic history of southern Illinois, from Native American uses of the land to the timber industry's decimation of the forest by the 1920s. Detailing both the economic hardships and agricultural land abuse plaguing the region during the Depression, she reveals how the creation of the CCC under Franklin Delano Roosevelt coincided with the regional campaign for a national forest and how locals first became aware of and involved with the program. Rippelmeyer mined CCC camp records from the National Archives, newspaper accounts and other correspondence and conducted dozens of oral interviews with workers and their families to re-create life in the camps. An extensive camp compendium augments the volume, featuring numerous photographs, camp locations and dates of operation, work history, and company rosters. Satisfying public curiosity and the need for factual information about the camps in southern Illinois, this is an essential contribution to regional history and a window to the national impact of the CCC"--



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910305553003321

Autore

Kunnie Julian

Titolo

Is apartheid really dead? pan Africanist working class cultural critical perspectives / / by Julian Kunnie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , [2018]

©2000

ISBN

0-429-49960-4

0-429-97923-1

0-429-96815-9

1-4294-8867-0

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 pages)

Disciplina

305.896/068

Soggetti

Black people - South Africa - Social conditions - 20th century

South Africa Economic conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

chapter 1 A Comprehensive History of the South African Struggle / Julian Kunnie -- chapter 2 Why Apartheid Changed Its Character in 1990 / Julian Kunnie -- chapter 3 Neocolonial Political Economy in South Africa / Julian Kunnie -- chapter 4 A Pan-Africanist/Black Working-Class Critical Perspective on / Julian Kunnie -- chapter 5 Pan-Africanism and the Struggle Against Colonialism and Neocolonialism / Julian Kunnie -- chapter 6 Black Union Praxis and Worker Culture: Revolutionary Prospects and Limitations / Julian Kunnie -- chapter Epilogue / Julian Kunnie.

Sommario/riassunto

Is Apartheid Really Dead? Pan Africanist Working Class Cultural Critical Perspectives is an engaging and incisive book that radically challenges the widespread view that post-apartheid society is a liberated society, specifically for the Black working class and rural peasant populations. Julian Kunnie's central contention in this book is that the post-apartheid government was the product of a serious compromise between the former ruling white-led Nationalist Party and the African National Congress, resulting in a continuation of the erstwhile system of monopoly capitalism and racial privilege, albeit revised by the



presence of a burgeoning Black political and economic elite. The result of this historic compromise is the persistent subjugation and impoverishment of the Black working class by the designs of global capital as under apartheid, this time managed by a Black elite in collaboration with the powerful white capitalist establishment in South Africa.Is Apartheid Really Dead? engages in a comprehensive analysis of the South African conflict and the negotiated settlement of apartheid rule, and explores solutions to the problematic of continued Black oppression and exploitation. Rooted in a Black Consciousness philosophical framework, unlike most other works on post-apartheid South Africa, this book provides a carefully delineated history of the South African struggle from the pre-colonial era through the present. What is additionally distinctive is the author's reference to and discussion of the Pan Africanist movement in the global struggle for Black liberation, highlighting the aftermath of the 1945 Pan African meeting in Manchester. The author analyzes the South African struggle within the context of Pan Africanism and the continent-wide movement to rid Africa of colonialism's legacy, highlighting the neo-colonial character of much of Africa's post-independence nations, arguing that South Africa has followed similar patterns.One of the attractive qualities of this book is that it discusses correctives to the perceived situation of neo-colonialism in South Africa, by delving into issues of gender oppression and the primacy of women's struggle, working class exploitation and Black worker mobilization, environmental despoliation and indigenous religio-cultural responses, and educational disenfranchisement and the need for radically new structures and policies in educational transformation. Ultimately, Is Apartheid Really Dead? postulates revolutionary change as a solution, undergirded with all of the aforementioned ingredients. While anticipating and articulating a revolutionary socialist vision for post-apartheid South Africa, this book is tempered by a realistic appraisal of the dynamics of the global economy and the legacy of colonial oppression and capitalism in South Africa.