The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought
Contents
ARTICLES
Psychobiography: Case History or Life History?
Crabgrass and Bureaucrats
The Iowa Caucuses: Carter's Early Campaign for the Presidential Nomination
The Americans for Democratic Action and Civil Rights in 1948: Conscience in Politics or Politics in Conscience?
Black Resistance to Segregation in the Wichita Public Schools, 1870-1912
Frank Chin: The Chinatown Cowboy and His Backtalk
POEMS
Genealogy
In the Little Theatre I am Seized with Weltschmerz
Bearing Children
Three Scenes
The Stroke
Near Stonington
March
Abstract
in this issue . . .
RICHARD W. NOLAND, who examines the relatively new genre and discipline called psychobiography, received his M.D. from Emory and his Ph. D. from Columbia. He is chairman of the English Department at The University of Massachusetts and has published a number of articles on literature and psychology.
CONRAD JOYNER, who suggests the elimination of the civil service system as a means of making our public servants more responsive to the will of the voters, received his Ph. D. from The University of Florida and teaches political science at the University of Arizona. He is a member of the Pima County Board of Supervisors and the author of a number of books and articles on American politics.
JOHN J. HAVIC, who describes, with Florence Heffron, Carter's campaign in Iowa, received his Ph. D. from the University of Iowa and teaches political science at Georgia Tech. He has published a number of articles.
FLORENCE HEFFRON, John J. Havic's collaborator, received her Ph. D. from The University of Colorado and teaches political science at The University of Idaho. She has received a number of research grants.
PETER J. KELLOG, who looks into the involvement of the ADA in the civil rights issue in 1948, teaches in the Department of Urban Analysis at The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
SONDRA VAN MEETER, who investigates the history of segregation in the Wichita schools, teaches American History at Wichita State University. She has published a history of Marion County, Kansas, and one of the Wichita Schools, which is reviewed in this issue.
ELAINE H. KIM, who examines the works of Frank Chin, received her Ph. D. from The University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches in the Asian-American studies program. She has published numerous articles on Asian-American literature and culture.
JACK FLAVIN is a librarian in Springfield, Massachusetts. His poems have appeared in numerous magazines.
GARY MARGOLIS is director of Counseling at Middlebury College. He has published a number of poems.
RALPH J. MILLS, JR. teaches at The University of Illinois, Chicago Circle.
MICHAELE. CONNAUGHTON, who reviews Frank D. McConnell's book on postwar American novelists, received his Ph. D. from Indiana University and teaches English at Pittsburg State University.
GENE DeGRUSON, who reviews Stanley Plumly' s new poems, is in charge of special collections at the Pittsburg State University library. His articles and poems have appeared in a number of magazines.
CHARLES CAGLE, who reviews Christopher Howell's book of poems, teaches English at Pittsburg State University.
TOM HEMMENS, who reviews Sondra Van Meeter's history of the Wichita schools, received his Ph. D. from Michigan State University and teaches English at Pittsburg State University, where he is involved in the teacher preparation program. He has published a number of articles in that field.
Recommended Citation
Noland, Richard W.; Joyner, Conrad; Havic, John J.; Heffron, Florence; Kellog, Peter J.; Meeter, Sondra Van; Kim, Elaine H.; Flavin, Jack; Margolis, Gary; Mills, Ralph J. Jr.; and Midwest Quarterly Editors
(1978)
"The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 20 No. 1,"
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