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Autore |
Wagner Thomas E |
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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 |
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Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-60915-0 |
9786613921604 |
0-252-09273-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (175 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
Kentucky Social life and customs |
Benham (Ky.) Biography |
Lynch (Ky.) Biography |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-153) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""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 |
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