03563nam 2200697 450 991079757450332120230807221619.00-8214-4544-8(CKB)3710000000465790(EBL)3564509(SSID)ssj0001544601(PQKBManifestationID)16134714(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001544601(PQKBWorkID)14355598(PQKB)11068263(MiAaPQ)EBC3564509(Au-PeEL)EBL3564509(CaPaEBR)ebr11090990(OCoLC)918984130(EXLCZ)99371000000046579020151123h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrKeeping heart a memoir of family struggle, race, and medicine /Otis Trotter ; introduction by Joe William Trotter JrAthens, Ohio :Ohio University Press,2015.©20151 online resource (238 p.)Series in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in AppalachiaDescription based upon print version of record.0-8214-2189-1 0-8214-2188-3 ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1: Memories of Parents and Places""; ""2: Troubled Waters of Vallscreek""; ""3: The Newcomers""; ""4: New Lease on Life""; ""5: Life on the Avenue /Bitter and Sweet""; ""6: Navigating Heart Disease as a Teenager""; ""7: College and Career""; ""8: The Struggle Continues"""'After saying our good-byes to friends and neighbors, we all got in the cars and headed up the hill and down the road toward a future in Ohio that we hoped would be brighter,' Otis Trotter writes in Keeping Heart : A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine. Organized around the life histories, medical struggles, and recollections of Trotter and his thirteen siblings, the story begins in 1914 with his parents. By tracing the family's movement northward after the unexpected death of his father, this engaging chronicle illuminates the journeys not only of a black man born with heart disease in the southern Appalachian coalfields, but of his family and community. This testament to the importance of ordinary lives fills a gap in the literature on an underexamined aspect of American experience: the lives of African Americans in rural Appalachia and in the nonurban endpoints of the Great Migration"--Provided by publisher.Ohio University Press series in race, ethnicity, and gender in Appalachia.African AmericansBiographyAfrican American familiesBiographyHeartDiseasesPatientsUnited StatesBiographyAfrican AmericansMigrationsHistory20th centuryMigration, InternalUnited StatesHistory20th centuryWest VirginiaBiographyOhioBiographyAppalachian Region, SouthernBiographyAfrican AmericansAfrican American familiesHeartDiseasesPatientsAfrican AmericansMigrationsHistoryMigration, InternalHistory305.896/073092SOC001000SOC026000SOC053000bisacshTrotter Otis1954-1543350Trotter Joe WilliamMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797574503321Keeping heart3796742UNINA