Papers by william marling
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Jan 15, 2008
NYU Press eBooks, Feb 15, 2022
In 1961 Hennacy moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, with Mary Lathrop, to start the Joe Hill House of ... more In 1961 Hennacy moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, with Mary Lathrop, to start the Joe Hill House of Hospitality, a homeless shelter on skid row. Initially the Mormons were open, but the local Catholic hierarchy was not, making Mary’s life so uncomfortable that she left. Hennacy attracted students and local supporters such as Ethel Hale, and Joan Thomas came to live with him in 1962. While he was protesting against the Dugway Proving Grounds and the war in Vietnam, Hennacy’s shelter drew scrutiny from the police, fire, and health departments, which hounded him out of three successive houses. In 1965 he married Thomas and began a more relaxed life centered on the third Joe Hill House. He had a heart attack while picketing and died in January 1970.
Cambridge University Press eBooks, May 6, 2010
Oxford University Press eBooks, May 1, 2016
Modern Fiction Studies, 2009
black) as the basis for American identities. In this section and in the concluding chapter, he of... more black) as the basis for American identities. In this section and in the concluding chapter, he offers "polycultural," a term he borrows from Robin Kelley via Vijay Prashad's Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting, as a way to move beyond the limitations of multiculturalism. For Partridge, polyculturalism allows for the hybridity of postmodernism without jettisoning the importance of antiracist collectivities that have fought against the material and historical forces of racism. Partridge's Beyond Literary Chinatown is a sustained consideration of how Euro-American reading publics attribute meanings to Chinese American literature, structuring in important ways at material and symbolic levels what kinds of stories are published and read. His particular interest, though, is in how some Chinese American authors push against this literary Chinatown effect by offering new perspectives and direct challenges to multicultural platitudes about ethnic difference, reinserting commentary on the impact of racism while playing with white readers' expectations for foreign and apolitical familial stories. This book contributes substantively to the work of Asian American literary studies in understanding how Chinese American literature moves in the world outside its academic reception. As an example of reception studies, the book also foregrounds the marketing apparatus of the publishing industry as an important consideration in understanding the cultural work of Chinese American literature.
Resources for American Literary Study, 1989
NYU Press eBooks, Feb 15, 2022
Convicted in 1917 of advocating draft resistance, Hennacy was sent to the Atlanta Penitentiary. T... more Convicted in 1917 of advocating draft resistance, Hennacy was sent to the Atlanta Penitentiary. There he met his hero, the anarchist Alexander Berkman, whose fortitude he modeled to survive nine months in solitary for leading a food strike. He survived a predatory cellmate, depression, thoughts of suicide, and abuse by guards and the deputy warden by adopting the Sermon on the Mount as his credo. On release March 19, 1919, he served a second nine-month sentence in Columbus, Ohio, for refusing the second draft call. There he read Tolstoy, formulating a Christian anarchist philosophy, and exchanged romantic letters and poems with Selma Melms.
NYU Press eBooks, Feb 15, 2022
Moving to Arizona to learn more about the Hopis, Hennacy worked as a migrant in the cotton and ve... more Moving to Arizona to learn more about the Hopis, Hennacy worked as a migrant in the cotton and vegetable fields, writing evocative articles for the Catholic Worker. He found permanent work with Lin Orme, outside Phoenix, which allowed him to picket in that city and collaborate with the Hopis, for whom he became a major advocate. Following Gandhi, he integrated fasting and war-tax protests with his picketing. He debated Platt Cline and Frank Brophy on Arizona radio and appeared in the national media. Under Dorothy Day’s influence, he became Catholic in 1952, and moved to New York after Orme’s death the next year to pursue his romance with her and to write for the Catholic Worker.
NYU Press eBooks, Feb 15, 2022
NYU Press eBooks, Feb 15, 2022
Hennacy followed his wife to Denver and then to New Mexico, working at dairies to support them. S... more Hennacy followed his wife to Denver and then to New Mexico, working at dairies to support them. Selma drew their daughters into the I AM movement, shunning him. Hennacy was arrested in Denver for passing out the Catholic Worker, but in Albuquerque he worked for Simms’s and Shirk’s dairies and wrote for the paper his “Life at Hard Labor” articles. He became an acequiero (irrigation expert) and interested himself in his Latinx neighbors and the Isleta pueblo. He visited the Doukhobors, a Russian anarchist sect, in Canada, and his daughters Carmen and Sharon in Los Angeles just before the atomic bomb was dropped. He cared for the Black poet Claude McKay and developed an idea of Native American anarchism based on the Hopis.
American Literary History, Jul 29, 2022
Oxford University Press eBooks, May 1, 2016
Christian Anarchist
A shell-shocked Hennacy emerged from prison and followed Selma to New York, where both had schola... more A shell-shocked Hennacy emerged from prison and followed Selma to New York, where both had scholarships to the Rand School during the Roaring ’20s. However, neither the school’s socialism nor the city’s bohemianism appealed to them. They married and, after several moves and many jobs, set off on a two-year jaunt around the United States, modeled on Vachel Lindsay’s hikes. They met thousands of people and covered over ten thousand miles. They spent time in Atlanta, at the Fairhope Colony in Alabama, and in Berkeley, where Ammon again worked for Fuller Brush. They returned to Milwaukee in 1925, having decided to homestead and raise a family.
&quot;We are not a multi-national, we are a multi-local.&quot;
Christian Anarchist
Hennacy became a personage in New York, holding forth on streetcorners from Wall Street to Fordha... more Hennacy became a personage in New York, holding forth on streetcorners from Wall Street to Fordham University. When The Autobiography of a Catholic Anarchist appeared, he went on a nationwide speaking tour. When arrested for protesting and fasting, which he once did for forty days, he wrote vivid accounts for the Catholic Worker. However, his romance with Dorothy Day cooled. Hennacy was arrested and sentenced to six months at Sandstone for protesting nuclear missiles near Omaha in 1959, emerging with redoubled fame. He protested at New London against nuclear submarines and in Las Vegas against a new round of atomic testing. His fame attracted young women such as Mary Lathrop and Joan Thomas.
Christian Anarchist
Ammon and Selma bought land near Waukesha, Wisconsin, from “Old Man Zicher” and built a house, pl... more Ammon and Selma bought land near Waukesha, Wisconsin, from “Old Man Zicher” and built a house, planted a garden, and bought a cow. Ammon worked a thriving Fuller Brush route while Selma bore Carmen and Selma and home schooled them. Ammon was shocked back into politics by the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti. He tried to get Selma interested in Christianity, but when the Great Depression hit, they lost the farm and moved to Milwaukee, where Ammon worked for the Social Services Department. They had their first split over the girls’ education. Selma secretly joined the I AM movement, while Ammon discovered Dorothy Day and began to write for the Catholic Worker. Selma moved to New York, then Denver, as Ammon began his practice of voluntary poverty after a humiliating trial for draft resistance during World War II.
American National Biography Online, 2000
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