Bøger af Kenneth C. Barnes

The conventional view of religion is that the basic truths were settled long ago, that all we have to do is to accept them and behave accordingly. First published in 1975, Barnes maintains that this is a sterile condition of mind. It follows that if art and science can be creative and originative, so also must religion be, if it is real.

Traces the explosion of white nationalism in Arkansas in the 1920s and its impact on the state's development. In documenting this history, Kenneth Barnes shows how the Klan's early success still casts a long shadow on the state to this day.

Journey of Hope, Kenneth C. Barnes explains why so many black Arkansas sharecroppers dreamed of Africa and how their dreams of Liberia differed from the reality. This rich narrative also examines the role of poor black farmers in the creation of a black nationalist identity and the importance of the symbolism of an ancestral continent.

The "singing family" of which Jean Ritchie writes is that of her parents, Balis and Abigail Ritchie, and their fourteen children, all born and reared in Viper, Kentucky, deep in the Cumberland Mountains. Singing Family of the Cumberlands is both an appealing account of family life and a treasury of American folklore and folksong.

Traces patterns of political violence in the American South.