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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462643403321

Autore

Wagner Thomas E

Titolo

African American miners and migrants [[electronic resource] ] : the Eastern Kentucky Social Club / / Thomas E. Wagner and Phillip J. Obermiller ; afterword by William H. Turner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2004

ISBN

1-283-60915-0

9786613921604

0-252-09273-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (175 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ObermillerPhillip J

Disciplina

305.896/0730769154

Soggetti

African Americans - Societies, etc

African Americans

African American coal miners - Kentucky - Social life and customs

Mining camps - Kentucky - History

Rural-urban migration - United States

Mountain life - Kentucky

Electronic books.

Kentucky Social life and customs

Benham (Ky.) Biography

Lynch (Ky.) Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-153) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""1. ""Coming Up on the Rough Side of the Mountain"": African Americans and Coal Camps in Appalachia""; ""2. ""Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair"": African Americans in Coal Towns""; ""3. ""I Don't Know Where To, but We're Moving"": African American Survival Strategies in Coal Towns""; ""4. ""Sing a Song of 'Welfare'"": Corporate Communities and Welfare Capitalism in Southeastern Kentucky""; ""5. ""Living Tolerably Well Together"": Life in Model Towns along Looney Creek""

""6. ""What Kept You Standing, Why Didn't You Fall?"": African



Americans in Benham and Lynch""""7. ""One Close Community"": The Eastern Kentucky Social Club""; ""8. ""They Love Coming Home"": Appalachian Ties That Bind""; ""Afterword: Values, Spoken and Unspoken""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""