ISBN:
9780252092732
,
0252092732
,
9780252028960
,
0252028961
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xii, 158 p. :)
,
ill., maps.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als African American miners and migrants
DDC:
305.8960730769154
Keywords:
Eastern Kentucky Social Club Biography
;
Eastern Kentucky Social Club Biography
;
Eastern Kentucky Social Club Biography
;
Eastern Kentucky Social Club
;
African Americans Societies, etc
;
African Americans Interviews
;
African American coal miners Social life and customs
;
Kentucky
;
Mining camps History
;
Kentucky
;
Rural-urban migration United States
;
Mountain life Kentucky
;
African Americans Societies, etc
;
African Americans Interviews
;
African American coal miners Social life and customs
;
Mining camps History
;
Rural-urban migration
;
Mountain life
;
Mountain life
;
Rural-urban migration
;
Mining camps
;
HISTORY ; United States ; General
;
African Americans
;
African Americans ; Societies, etc
;
Manners and customs
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; African American Studies
;
Biographies
;
History
;
Interviews
;
Kentucky Social life and customs
;
Benham (Ky.) Biography
;
Lynch (Ky.) Biography
;
Lynch (Ky.) Biography
;
Kentucky Social life and customs
;
Benham (Ky.) Biography
;
Kentucky
;
Kentucky ; Benham
;
Kentucky ; Lynch
;
United States
;
Electronic book
;
Electronic books
;
Biografie
;
Biografie
Abstract:
6. What Kept You Standing, Why Didn't You Fall?: African Americans in Benham and Lynch7. 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
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-153) and index
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