Appalachia : Social Context Past and Present,9780787291365

Appalachia : Social Context Past and Present

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Edition: 4th
ISBN13: 9780787291365
ISBN10: 0787291366
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-02-01
Publisher(s): Kendall Hunt Pub Co
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Table of Contents

Foreword to the Fourth Edition ix
Loyal Jones
Preface to the Fourth Edition xi
I What Is Appalachia? 1(42)
``Appalachia''
3(12)
Richard A. Couto
``The Sociology of Southern Appalachia''
15(10)
David S. Walls
Dwight B. Billings
``Appalachian Studies, Resistance, and Postmodernism''
25(11)
Alan Banks
Dwight Billings
Karen Tice
``Appalachia and the Idea of America: The Problem of the Persisting Frontier''
36(7)
Henry D. Shapiro
II Appalachian Diversity 43(44)
``The Eastern Cherokees in Southern Appalachia: Principal People, Persistent People''
45(12)
Betty J. Duggan
``Race and Racism in Nineteenth-Century Southern Appalachia: Myths, Realities, and Ambiguities''
57(14)
John C. Inscoe
``Gender, Class and Self Image''
71(9)
Judith Ivy Fiene
``Out in the Mountains: Exploring Lesbian and Gay Lives''
80(7)
Kate Black
Marc A. Rhorer
III Migration and Urbanization 87(22)
``New Paths and Patterns of Appalachian Migration, 1975-1990''
89(9)
Phillip J. Obermiller
Steven R. Howe
``We ain't Agoin' Back': A Retrospective Look At Urban Appalachians in Greater Cincinnati''
98(6)
Phillip J. Obermiller
Michael E. Maloney
``Seeing Appalachian Cities''
104(5)
Emily Satterwhite
IV Appalachian Stereotypes 109(28)
``Hillbilly Culture: The Appalachian Mountain Folk In History and Popular Culture''
111(6)
John Solomon Otto
``From Stereotype to Regional Hype: Strategies For Changing Media Portrayals of Appalachia''
117(5)
Jean Haskell Speer
``Beyond Isolation and Homogeneity: Diversity and the History of Appalachia''
122(15)
Ronald L. Lewis
V The New Appalachian Culture 137(54)
``Diversity In The Mountains Regional And Cultural Identity''
139(5)
Gordon B. Mckinney
``Appalachian Music and American Popular Culture: The Romance That Will not Die''
144(6)
Bill C. Malone
``Dialect as A Deterrent To Cultural Stripping: Why Appalachian Migrants Continue to Talk That Talk''
150(5)
Patricia Smith Jones
``Some Observations''
155(6)
Loyal Jones
``Appalachia's New Crisis: No Kids''
161(5)
Ron Crouch
``Constructing and Staffing the Cultural Bridge: The School As Change Agent In Rural Appalachia''
166(17)
Alan J. DeYoung
``There Ain't No Starbucks in Appalachia: The Election of 2000''
183(8)
David Sutton
VI Health and the Environment 191(24)
``Bringing Modern Medicine to the Mountains: Scientific Medicine and the Transformation of Health Care in Southern West Virginia, 1880-1910''
193(9)
Sandra Barney
``Family Health in A Rural Appalachian Ohio County''
202(6)
Sharon A. Denham
``Rape of the Appalachians''
208(7)
Jedediah S. Purdy
VII The Political Economy of Appalachia 215(90)
``Poverty''
217(22)
Richard A. Couto
``Four Perspectives on Appalachian Culture and Poverty''
239(8)
Roger A. Lohmann
``From Farm to Coal Camp to Back Office and Mcdonald's: Living in the Midst of Appalachia's Latest Transformation''
247(11)
Sally Ward Maggard
``Social Class and Economic Development in Southeast Kentucky, 1820-1880''
258(22)
Mary Beth Pudup
``A New Sustainable Cash Crop for Mountain Farmers''
280(5)
Carl G. Kilbourne
``The Mountain Crafts: Romancing the Marketplace''
285(4)
Garry Barker
``A New Wave Of Colonization: the Economics of the Tourism and Travel Industry in Appalachian Kentucky''
289(9)
Stephen Paul Whitaker
``Prospects for the UMWA''
298(7)
Maier B. Fox
VIII Policy Issues 305(30)
``Policies and Programs''
307(11)
Richard A. Couto
``A Political Approach To Regional Development''
318(14)
Michael Bradshaw
``New Federal Welfare Law: No Hands for Picking Beans?''
332(3)
Michael Miskowiec
IX Resistance and Community Organizing 335(38)
``The Grass Roots Speak Back''
337(6)
Stephen L. Fisher
``The Kentucky Way: Resistance to Dependency Upon Capitalism in an Appalachian Region''
343(8)
Rhoda H. Halperin
``Practical Lessons in Community Organizing in Appalachia: What We've Learned at Kentuckians for the Commonwealth''
351(12)
Joe Szakos
``'It Has to Come from the People': Responding to Plant Closings in Ivanhoe Virginia''
363(10)
Maxine Waller
Helen M. Lewis
Clare Mcbrien
Carroll L. Wessinger
X References 373(54)
XI A Selected Bibliography of Books on Appalachia, 1991-2001 427(8)
Stephen L. Fisher
XII Selected Filmography 435(10)
Jack Wright
XIII Selected Websites 445(4)
Roy Silver
About the Contributors 449

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