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

• Autore: Wagner Thomas E
• Pubblicazione: Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (175 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.896/0730769154
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Kentucky Social life and customs; Benham (Ky.) Biography; Lynch (Ky.) Biography
• Altri autori: ObermillerPhillip J
• 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""
• Sommario/riassunto: Thomas E. Wagner and Phillip J. Obermiller's African American Miners and Migrants documents the lives of Eastern Kentucky Social Club (EKSC) members, a group of black Appalachians who left the eastern Kentucky coalfields and their coal company hometowns in Harlan County. Bound together by segregation, the inherent dangers of mining, and coal company paternalism, it might seem that black miners and mountaineers would be eager to forget their past. Instead, members of the EKSC have chosen to celebrate their Harlan County roots. African American Miners and Migrants uses historical and archival research and extensive personal interviews to explore their reasons and the ties that still bind them to eastern Kentucky. The book also examines life in the model coal towns of Benham and Lynch in the context of Progressive Era policies, the practice of welfare capitalism, and the contemporary national trend of building corporate towns and planned communities.
• Titolo autorizzato: African American miners and migrants
• ISBN: 9786613921604; 9781283609159; 1283609150; 9780252092732; 0252092732
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910959217203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II