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The Harlan renaissance : stories of Black life in Appalachian coal towns /

A personal remembrance from the preeminent chronicler of Black life in Appalachia. The Harlan Renaissance is an intimate remembrance of kinship and community in eastern Kentucky's coal towns written by one of the luminaries of Appalachian studies, William Turner. Turner reconstructs Black life...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Turner, William Hobart (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2021.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Alex Haley-The Taproot
  • Between Alex Haley, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ed Cabbell, and the Affrilachian Poets
  • Black Mountain Mantrips and Woman Trips
  • What's in a Name?
  • Black Folk Done Lost Their Stuff
  • The Common Narrative of Black Appalachian Coal-Camp Families
  • Blacks Moving between Central Alabama and Central Appalachia
  • Close-Knit Central Appalachian Coal Camp Black Communities
  • On Trash-Talking and Signifying along Looney Creek
  • In a Coal Mine, Everybody Is Black; Outside, Not So Much
  • School Integration Was Worse than a Kick in the Head by an Alabama Mule
  • The Principal of the White School Became a Lifelong Friend
  • Not Bad for Some Colored Kids from Harlan County, Kentucky
  • King Coal Leaves the Throne
  • The Graying of the Eastern Kentucky Social Club
  • Meditating on the Future at the Mountaintop.