“The Reference Collection” at The Center for U.S. Rural Cultures Studies is an ongoing project aimed at gathering current, living examples organized into categories relevant for the Center’s work.
The compilation and organization process is currently underway. What is listed here is always already partial, curated, and edited. Relevant, vetted contributions are gratefully accepted and included.
Authoritarianism (Power-Stealing and Hoarding)
Modes of Authoritarianism: White Supremacy and White Nationalism
Authoritarian Standards: Whiteness and Toxic Masculinity
Authoritarian Tools: NRA, Militia, and Guns
Modes of Democracy (Power-Sharing)
Capitalism Eats Unprotected Democracies
Rural Oregon and Josephine County (Joco)
The Sea Ranch/Sea Ranch
RURAL SPECIFICS
Cultural Analysis more relevant than Economic Analysis: https://www.agriculture.com/news/culture-more-than-economics-divides-rural-and-urban-america
No Signal = Rural Isolation: https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5cb4cdb2e4b098b9a2d822a8
Electoral College Favors Rural Regions: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/09/us-democracy-trump-white-rural-minority-majority?CMP=share_btn_link
Yet Another Example of Economic Rural Analysis: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/aug/13/dollar-general-walmart-buhler-haven-kansas
Another Example of Economic Framing of Rural Issues: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/six-charts-illustrate-divide-rural-urban-america
Cancer Prevention and Treatment Inferior in Rural Areas: http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/27/11/1240.abstract
Opioid Treatment Inferior in Rural Areas: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jrh.12141
Rural America is in a Bubble: https://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/im-a-coastal-elite-from-the-midwest-the-real-bubble-is-rural-america
Rural Youth Culture Description: http://cultureandyouth.org/rural-culture/articles-rural-culture/rural-youth-u-s
Poor Rural Healthcare Resources=Poor Health: https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12913-015-1053-3
Dumping Toxins on Rural America: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/08/climate-changed-racism-environment-south
The Rural Purge, Wiki Version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_purge
The Rural Purge, Medium Version
Rural Diversity: Why we can’t Ignore These Americans: https://www.salon.com/2017/02/26/rural-america-broadens-our-economic-intellectual-cultural-diversity-we-cant-ignore-its-residents_partner
Colleges in Rural America Offer No Classes in Ag: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/jan/30/rural-colleges-agriculture-industry-skills?CMP=share_btn_link
The Invisible Rural Ghettos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_ghetto
Conservatives Despise Rural Americans
White Rural Poverty Ignored by the Left: http://inthesetimes.com/rural-america/entry/18526/why-the-left-isnt-talking-about-rural-american-poverty
The New Rural Demographics, Much More Diversity: https://www.wsj.com/articles/rural-america-is-the-new-inner-city-1495817008
Most Rural Analysis is Urban-Centered
Rural Cultures, Values, and Immigration: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/national/rural-america/?utm_term=.016b6e4d3b56
All Rurals are Socially Different: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK56967
Yet another rural analysis that reduces it all down to economics: https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2005/november/education-as-a-rural-development-strategy
Yet Another Economic Analysis of Rural America: http://prospect.org/article/new-culture-rural-america
Colleges Boost Small Town Econ (culturally marginalizing “native” rural populations) https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/rural-economies-colleges-development/525114/
AUTHORITARIANISM (POWER-STEALING & HOARDING)
U.S. Surrounded by Authoritarian States
Evidence Supports the claim that the GOP is authoritarian
Authoritarian Parenting: General Search
National Security Experts warn: U.S. is sliding into authoritarianism
MODES OF AUTHORITARIANISM: WHITE SUPREMACY & WHITE NATIONALISM
Price of Speaking Up in Authoritarian Cultures: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/11/the-white-women-who-flipped-the-price-of-changing-your-conservative-views
White Nationalists Infiltrating Workplaces: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/03/21/are-white-nationalists-infiltrating-our-workplaces-%E2%80%98secret-agents%E2%80%99
Yet Another Macho Undercover Drama, The White Nationalist Convention: https://www.thestranger.com/news/2017/10/04/25451102/we-snuck-into-seattles-super-secret-white-nationalist-convention
Yet Another Macho Undercover Drama, White Supremacist Groups: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/opinion/alt-right-neo-nazis.html?referer=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/03/21/are-white-nationalists-infiltrating-our-workplaces-%E2%80%98secret-agents%E2%80%99
White Women Tormenting Black Men and Women: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/08/gardening-while-black-lawsuit-marc-peeples
Racist White Women: https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/mothers-of-massive-resistance-white-supremacist-women
White Men Torturing Black Men and Women: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/mar/08/chicago-reparations-won-police-torture-school-curriculum
White Nationalist in the Coast Guard Plot, Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/02/christopher-hasson-coast-guard-neo-nazi-far-right
White Nationalist in the Coast Guard Plot, HuffPost: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-supremacist-coast-guard-terror-attack-christopher-hasson_n_5c6dddb1e4b0f40774cbd0bc?ncid=engmodushpmg00000006
White Supremacy and Nationalism in Sports: https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/corbin-smith
Alabama News Editor Calls on KKK to “Clean Up”: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/goodloe-sutton-kkk-washington_n_5c6b7ce6e4b01cea6b889c4d
U.S. White House Senior Policy Advisor, Stephen Miller, is a White Nationalist: https://www.gq.com/story/stephen-miller-is-a-white-nationalist
Portland Police & Alt-Right: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/15/joey-gibson-portland-police-relationship-cooperation-text-messages
Portland Police & The Proud Boys: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/14/proud-boys-far-right-portland-oregon?CMP=share_btn_link
White People’s Intentional Ignorance: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/16/white-fragility-racism-interview-robin-diangelo?CMP=share_btn_link
Analysis of Portland’s Alt-Right Problem: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/16/portland-proud-boys-rightwing-march-liberal-city
No Domestic Terror Unit for White Nationalists/Supremacists: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/domestic-terrorism-fbi-white-supremacy_n_5ce6e695e4b0a2f9f28ba855
“All Hate Speech Matters” Hides White Nationalists and Supremacists: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/congress-held-a-hearing-on-white-nationalism-and-left-questioning-its-existence_n_5cacd268e4b043f7925c2995?ncid=engmodushpmg00000006
U.S. Domestic Terror Unit Disbanded: https://www.thedailybeast.com/homeland-security-disbands-domestic-terror-intelligence-unit?ref=home
Yet Another Example of Police Hiding White Nationalists/Supremacists: https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5ae5d552e4b02baed1bb2050
NFL Players: They need you more than you need them, Speak UP: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/25/dear-black-nfl-players-protest-power
Federal Bureau of Investigation Hides White Nationalists/Supremacists: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/01/sacramento-rally-fbi-kkk-domestic-terrorism-california
AUTHORITARIAN STANDARDS: WHITENESS & TOXIC MASCULINITY
MODES OF DEMOCRACY (POWER-SHARING)
Sharing Recognition is democratic: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/28/excellent-overrated-good-enough-modern-quest-damaging?CMP=share_btn_link
Stripped of all his power and in the face of overwhelming power, this man tries to take his personal power back. Some find this funny. If you’ve ever had zero power while facing overwhelming power–while multiple guns are pointed at you–you might not find this so funny. You might see this differently. https://www.thedailybeast.com/police-chase-ends-in-suspect-breakdancing-at-gunpoint-video
Sometimes, leaving is the only way to take back stolen power: https://www.forbes.com/sites/lawrencehunter/2012/06/03/freedom-to-leave-may-stop-oppressive-government
New Zealand: Sharing access to human well-being is deeply democratic
General: Share Power with Young People
General: Parenting that Shares Power
Healing and Learning from Authoritarian Parenting (parenting that steals power)
One Way to Enforce Power-Sharing: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/discriminating-against-incompetent-men-leaders_n_5c7d5b26e4b0614614dd5efc
Ask The Teachers! https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/17/counter-far-right-extremism-germany-uk-teachers?CMP=share_btn_link
Giving the Stolen Power Back: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/01/defend-smacking-children-abuse-power-parents
A New Generational Compact: It’s not either/or, child or adult. It is always already both/and: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/23/old-people-enemies-young-generational-compact
Community Media Shares Power: https://www.npr.org/2018/11/26/670058419/digging-deep-into-local-news-a-small-newspaper-in-rural-oregon-is-thriving
Local Rural Giving Shares Power: https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2018/6/26/myths-and-opportunities-whats-happening-in-rural-philanthropy
AUTHORITARIAN (POWER-STEALING) TOOLS: NRA, MILITIA, & GUNS
Militia Terrorizes Immigrants: https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/19/us/border-militia-migrants/index.html
NRA Pretends to be Bigger than it is (And it invokes ALL white people’s power if they don’t signal otherwise.)
Bolton’s Cozy Relationship with the NRA: https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5ab45053e4b054d118e15380
THE SPECTACLE: THE 45th
The 45th Grabs for Control of the U.S. Military
The Democracy is Stronger than the 45th: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/opinion/michael-cohen-trump.html
The 45th’s 2nd Amendment People: https://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/08/09/clinton-trump-s-second-amendment-people-remark-dangerous
The Women who Support the 45th: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/10/women-for-trump-michigan-supporters-grassroots-organizing?CMP=share_btn_link
HUMANS CAPITALISM GROWS
Business People Who Make Subprime Loans to Children
Americans with Years Hoarding Power and Resources: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/america-baby-boomer-old-generation_n_5c82db8de4b0ed0a00136b0c
Americans with Years who Ignore Solutions for Climate Change: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/25/adults-room-climate-change-dianne-feinstein
HUMAN RELATIONS AND CHANGE
Healthy Relational Communication Necessary for Change in Rural Areas, Enabling Conditions: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877705816323359
RURAL OREGON AND JOSEPHINE COUNTY (JOCO)
“Josephine County is somewhat unique in Oregon counties in being named for a woman…”
Narrative bites: Gender Justice in Rural Oregon
Reducing Josephine County’s Challenges to Econ, again
Another macho “undercover” rural story, Oregon Tale, the Medium Version
2014 Joco: No Tax Dollars, Little Law Enforcement
Our Land, the Patriot Movement, and the Bundys: https://www.opb.org/news/series/burns-oregon-standoff-bundy-militia-news-updates/this-land-is-our-land-podcast-patriot-movement-family/
Land Use: 7 Differences Between State and Public Lands (from Protect Our Public Lands): https://www.protectourpublicland.org/news-collection/2015/7/28/7-differences-between-state-lands-and-public-lands
Gender Discrimination case in Grants Pass: https://www.opb.org/news/article/appeals-court-sides-with-woman-in-gender-discrimination-case/
State vs. Federal Land Management in the West: https://www.perc.org/2015/03/03/divided-lands-state-vs-federal-management-in-the-west/