Appalachia : Social Context Past and Present

, by Obermiller, Phillip J.; Maloney, Michael E.; Obermiller, Phillip J.

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ISBN: 9780787291365 | 0787291366
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Copyright: 2/1/2002

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Supplemental Materials

Foreword to the Fourth Edition

Loyal Jones

Preface to the Fourth Edition

I What Is Appalachia?

(42)

``Appalachia''

(12)

Richard A. Couto

``The Sociology of Southern Appalachia''

(10)

David S. Walls

Dwight B. Billings

``Appalachian Studies, Resistance, and Postmodernism''

(11)

Alan Banks

Dwight Billings

Karen Tice

``Appalachia and the Idea of America: The Problem of the Persisting Frontier''

(7)

Henry D. Shapiro

II Appalachian Diversity

(44)

``The Eastern Cherokees in Southern Appalachia: Principal People, Persistent People''

(12)

Betty J. Duggan

``Race and Racism in Nineteenth-Century Southern Appalachia: Myths, Realities, and Ambiguities''

(14)

John C. Inscoe

``Gender, Class and Self Image''

(9)

Judith Ivy Fiene

``Out in the Mountains: Exploring Lesbian and Gay Lives''

(7)

Kate Black

Marc A. Rhorer

III Migration and Urbanization

(22)

``New Paths and Patterns of Appalachian Migration, 1975-1990''

(9)

Phillip J. Obermiller

Steven R. Howe

``We ain't Agoin' Back': A Retrospective Look At Urban Appalachians in Greater Cincinnati''

(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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