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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787212703321

Titolo

Blacks in Appalachia / / edited by William H. Turner and Edward J. Cabbell ; foreword by Nell Irvin Painter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1985

©1985

ISBN

0-8131-5045-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Disciplina

974/.00496073

Soggetti

African Americans - Appalachian Region - History

Appalachian Region History

Appalachian Region Race relations

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.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; List of Abbreviations; Part One. Basic Approaches; 1. Black Invisibility and Racism in Appalachia: An Informal Survey; 2. Between Berea (1904) and Birmingham (1908): The Rock and Hard Place for Blacks in Appalachia; Part Two. Historical Perspectives; 3. Red and Black in the Southern Appalachians; 4. Freedom and Slavery in Appalachian America; 5. Boyhood Days; 6. The Black South and White Appalachia; Part Three. Community Studies; 7. The Negro Miner in West Virginia

8. The Black Community in a Company Town: Alcoa, Tennessee, 1919-19399. Class over Caste: Interracial Solidarity in the Company Town; Part Four. Race Relations; 10. A Judicious Mixture: Negroes and Immigrants in the West Virginia Mines, 1880-1917; 11. The Sociohistorical Roots of White/ Black Inequality in Urban Appalachia: Knoxville and East Tennessee; Part Five. Black Coal Miners; 12. The Black Worker; 13. The Coal Mines; 14. Race and the United Mine Workers' Union in Tennessee: Selected Letters of William R. Riley, 1892-1895

15. The Collapse of Biracial Unionism: The Alabama Coal Strike of 1908Part Six. Blacks and Local Politics; 16. The Vanishing Appalachian: How to ""Whiten"" the Problem; 17. Not Just Whites in Appalachia; Part Seven. Personal Anecdotal Accounts of Black Life; 18. Conversations



with the ""Ole Man"": The Life and Times of a Black Appalachian Coal Miner; 19. The Mountain Negro of Hazard, Kentucky; 20. ""If I Could Go Back..."": An Interview with Dobbie Sanders; Part Eight. Selected Demographic Aspects; 21. The Demography of Black Appalachia: Past and Present; Selected Bibliography; Resource Guide

Sources and Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Although southern Appalachia is popularly seen as a purely white enclave, blacks have lived in the region from early times. Some hollows and coal camps are in fact almost exclusively black settlements. The selected readings in this new book offer the first comprehensive presentation of the black experience in Appalachia.Organized topically, the selections deal with the early history of blacks in the region, with studies of the black communities, with relations between blacks and whites, with blacks in coal mining, and with political issues. Also included are a section on oral accounts of black