The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought
Contents
ARTICLES
The Political Ideology of Marcus Garvey
The Labor Exchange Movement: An Episode in Self-help
American Conspiracy: Formula in Popular Fiction
Who Created Whom? The Myth of State Sovereignty
Black Diplomats to Haiti, Prejudice, and Henry Watson Furniss
John Stuart Mill's Ideas on Liberty and Democracy: A Critical Assessment
POEMS
Burn
On a View of Paradise Ridge from a Rented House
Written in Winter
Ark & Covenant
Moving from Clear Creek
At a Window
State Fishkill on Shirey Bay, 1963
Late Word from Corcomroe Abbey
The Scholar Turns Forty
The Scholar Turns Forty Again
Fixing the House
Bad Knees
REVIEWS
Roland N. Stromberg; Redemption by War: The Intellectuals and 1914
William Meissner; Learning to Breathe Underwater
Abstract
in this issue . . .
BRUCE DANIEL joins The Midwest Quarterly as the new Book Review Editor and replaces Michael Connaughton who, after valiant service to Pittsburg State University and to this journal, has moved on to St. Cloud University in Minnesota. Bruce Daniel is professor of physics and director of the Kelce Planetarium at Pittsburg State. He studied music at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, taught violin in Kansas City, and served nine years as concertmaster of the university symphony. He holds a B.S. degree in engineering physics, M.S. in radiation biophysics, and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Kansas. Most of his publications and editorial work are in applied physics. His interests include science education, the fine arts, photography, and history. He is a commercial pilot and flight instructor and an admirer of classic cars and uppity women.
Responding to increasing overpopulation, race prejudice, and the struggle for survival, Marcus Garvey, in the view of ROBERT M. KAHN, fashioned a philosophy of black nationalism to protect and further American blacks. Kahn, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Mansfield Campus of Ohio State University, has recently published a study of Malcolm X's political ideology.
H. ROGER GRANT chronicles the rise and decline of the Labor Exchange, a turn-of-the-century cooperative venture to ease the plight of the hard-working poor in America. Most recently author of Insurance Reform: Consumer Action in the Progressive Era, and Professor of History at the University of Akron, Grant is presently finishing a history of the Chicago Great Western Railroad Company.
JAMES FULCHER examines the contemporary conspiracy novel and reveals the ways in which these bestsellers manipulate public fascination with deception and violence. Fulcher teaches American Studies and English at Lincoln College in Illinois and has published studies of ethnic literature, popular culture, and 19th century American literature.
ROBERT DANA is on leave from Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa, after a semester as visiting poet in the creative writing program at Wichita State University. His most recent collection of poems is In a Fugitive Season (Swallow/Ohio, 1980).
MICHAEL BURNS teaches at Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield. He is completing a first book of poems.
GIBBONS RUARK will spend part of this spring in residence at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, an artists' retreat in County Monaghan, Ireland. His new book, Keeping Company, will appear this fall from Johns Hopkins University Press.
MICHAEL J. KELLY teaches at Slippery Rock State College in Pennsylvania. He is currently at work on a book-length collection of sestinas.
Arguing that the central government created the states, not the other way around, ROY LECHTRECK provides a leaven for the notion that the states are somehow inherently good and the federal authority is innately evil. Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Montevallo in Alabama, Lechtreck combines scholarship on a variety of topics, including a 1966 Midwest Quarterly article on colonial statesmanship in the Gold Coast of Africa, with editorial work on Educational Freedom, a small circulation journal presenting scholarly arguments for government assistance to parents who send children to non-tax supported schools.
In focusing on the appointment of blacks to foreign service posts in Haiti during the Republican ascendancy from Grant to Taft, CHARLES E. WYNES highlights the story of Henry Watson Furniss, a medical doctor and diplomat. Wynes, Professor of History at the University of Georgia, and author of Race Relations in Virginia, 1870-1902, among other works, contributed an article on Thorny Lafon to the Winter, 1981, issue of The Midwest Quarterly.
According to NARASINGHA PROSAD SIL, John Stuart Mill embraced democracy despite several reservations and continues to influence modem political thinkers troubled about the exercise of democratic rule. An educator who has taught history in India, Ethiopia, and Oregon, and is now Senior Lecturer in History. at the University of Benin in Nigeria, Sil has published articles on politics and philosophy in journals around the globe.
V. J. EMMETT, JR. teaches Victorian and modern literature at Pittsburg State University. He has published critical and scholarly articles on, among others, Lawrence, Forster, and Conrad.
THERESE M. JONES, who recently completed an M.A. in English at Pittsburg State University, is a graduate assistant and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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Recommended Citation
Kahn, Robert M.; Grant, H. Roger; Fulcher, James; Lechtreck, Roy; Wynes, Charles E.; Sil, Narasingha Prosad; Dana, Robert; Burns, Michael; Ruark, Gibbons; Kelly, Michael J.; Emmett, V. J. Jr.; Jones, Therese M.; and Midwest Quarterly Editors
(1983)
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