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Dixie Heretic: The Civil Rights Odyssey of Renwick C. Kennedy [Hardback]

  • Formāts: Hardback, 528 pages, height x width: 229x152 mm, weight: 272 g, 19 B&W Figures, 3 maps
  • Sērija : Religion and American Culture
  • Izdošanas datums: 30-Sep-2023
  • Izdevniecība: The University of Alabama Press
  • ISBN-10: 0817321616
  • ISBN-13: 9780817321611
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 528 pages, height x width: 229x152 mm, weight: 272 g, 19 B&W Figures, 3 maps
  • Sērija : Religion and American Culture
  • Izdošanas datums: 30-Sep-2023
  • Izdevniecība: The University of Alabama Press
  • ISBN-10: 0817321616
  • ISBN-13: 9780817321611
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A life-and-times biography of the minister and social reformer Renwick C. Kennedy
 
Drawn from some 5,000 letters, six decades of daily-diary writings, and extensive interviews, Dixie Heretic: The Civil Rights Odyssey of Renwick C. Kennedy offers a life-and-times biography of the Alabama Black Belt minister, Renwick C. Kennedy (1900–1985). Here, Tennant McWilliams gives an unvarnished account of Kennedy’s tortuous efforts to make his congregants and other southern whites “better Christians.”

Kennedy came from “upcountry” South Carolina, a place rife with Scotch-Irish Associate Reformed Presbyterians—people of biblical infallibility and individual piety and salvation. In 1927, after a life-changing theology education at Princeton, he moved to Camden, Alabama, county seat of Wilcox County. There, he came to believe that God had a mandate for him: to change the “Half Christian” conservative, and the often violent, racial behaviors around him. As a neo-orthodox Protestant, Kennedy never rejected literal approaches to the Bible. Still, out of the “Full Christian” Social Gospel, he urged changed racial behavior. Ultimately this led him to publish confrontational short stories and essays in Christian Century and New Republic—most set in fictitious “Yaupon County.”

In World War II, Kennedy served as a chaplain with the famed 102nd Evacuation Hospital. He came home hoping the Allied victory would spur Americans to fight racial segregation just as they had fought racial fascism in Europe. The 1948 Dixiecrat movement dashed these hopes, turning much of his neo-orthodox optimism to cynicism. His hope found fleeting resurgence in the civil rights movement, and saw Kennedy quietly leading desegregation of Troy University, where he was an administrator. But the era’s assassinations, combined with George Wallace and the rise of southern white Republicans, regularly returned him to the frustrated hopes of 1948 and fostered a pessimism about truly changed hearts that he took to his grave in 1985.
 


A life-and-times biography of the minister and social reformer Renwick C. Kennedy
 

Recenzijas

Renwick Kennedy was a significant intellectual of Depression-era and postwar Alabama, and the author makes clear his relevance for a variety of issues in the South and the nation. Kennedys name has long been associated with the Black Belt, and he shows up in most studies of the region. No one before has given the sustained and smart attention as the author here has done. Charles Reagan Wilson author of Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause and Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis

Tennant McWilliams is dean and professor emeritus of history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and today teaches occasionally at the University of South Alabama. His previous writings include The New South Faces the World, The Chaplains Conflict: Good and Evil in a War Hospital, and Alabama and the Problem of Change.