Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia - Couverture rigide

Brown, Karida L.

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ISBN 10 : 1469647036 ISBN 13 : 9781469647036

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2018

Synopsis

Since the 2016 presidential election, Americans have witnessed countless stories about Appalachia: its changing political leanings, its opioid crisis, its increasing joblessness, and its declining population. These stories, however, largely ignore Black Appalachian lives. Karida L. Brown's Gone Home offers a much-needed corrective to the current whitewashing of Appalachia. In telling the stories of African Americans living and working in Appalachian coal towns, Brown offers a sweeping look at race, identity, changes in politics and policy, and Black migration in the region and beyond.

Drawn from over 150 original oral history interviews with former and current residents of Harlan County, Kentucky, Brown shows that as the nation experienced enormous transformation throughout the pre- and post-Civil Rights Era, so too did black Americans. In reconstructing the life histories of Black coalminers, Brown shows the mutable and shifting nature of collective identity, the struggles of labor and representation, and that Appalachia is far more diverse than you think.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Karida L. Brown is assistant professor of sociology and African American studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1469647036
• ISBN 13: 9781469647036
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
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• Personne responsable: non disponible