Children of Crisis - Volume 2 Migrants,

Since the late 1950's, Robert Coles has been studying, living with, and, above all, listening to the American poor. The result is one of the most vigorous and searching social studies ever undertaken by one man in the United States. Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers is the second volume in Dr. Coles's award-winning series, Children of Crisis. In it, he listens to three groups: the migrant workers who travel the eastern coast of this country, picking crops day after day; the sharecroppers and tenant farmers who live on isolated southern plantations, just as their ancestors did as slaves; and the mountaineers of Appalachia, whose only choice lies between coal mining and starvation. Book jacket.

Foreword	p. xi
The Setting	p. 1
The Land	p. 3
The Method	p. 25
The Children	p. 45
Uprooted Children	p. 47
Stranded Children	p. 117
Hidden Children	p. 193
The World	p. 273
The World of the Hollows	p. 275
The Miners Need Their Bosses	p. 276
No One Should Be Bossed Around	p. 285
Owning Them	p. 297
Like My Teacher	p. 305
God Cannot Be Questioned	p. 316
The People Are Weak, Weak and Run-Down	p. 325
They Near Die Down There, but They Try to Live	p. 334
Hugh McCaslin	p. 340
The World of the Black Belt	p. 359
The Bossman	p. 359
The Foreman	p. 372
The Teacher	p. 382
The Sheriff	p. 394
The Preacher	p. 400
The Yeoman Neighbor	p. 409
The World of the Wanderers	p. 422
Their Father, Their Mother, Their Everything	p. 422
The Growers	p. 439
Guarding the Animals and Children	p. 457
Selling Gas to the Children	p. 464
Teaching the Wanderers	p. 467
Saving Their Souls, Their Damned Souls	p. 473
The Rural Life	p. 479
The Rural Mind	p. 481
Whose Strengths, Whose Weaknesses	p. 481
A Proud and Fierce Spirit	p. 493
The Mind of Christ in Their Heads	p. 510
Rural Youth	p. 517
Winston	p. 517
Myrna	p. 520
Ronald	p. 523
Rural Upheaval	p. 550
Rural Religion	p. 578
References	p. 619
Index	p. 639
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Children of Crisis - Volume 2 Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers

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