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The Invisible minority, urban Appalachians /
Since 1950 more than three million people have left their homes in Appalachia in search of better jobs and a better life in the cities of the Midwest and Southeast. Today they constitute one of the largest minorities in many of those cities. Yet they have been largely overlooked as a social group an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
©1981.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Since 1950 more than three million people have left their homes in Appalachia in search of better jobs and a better life in the cities of the Midwest and Southeast. Today they constitute one of the largest minorities in many of those cities. Yet they have been largely overlooked as a social group and ignored as a potential political force, partly because so little has been written about them. This important book is the first to explore the Appalachian migration and its impact on the cities, on Appalachia, and on the migrants themselves, from the perspectives of sociology, economics, geography, |
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| Notas: | Papers from a conference sponsored by the Academy for Contemporary Problems and the Urban Appalachian Council, held in Columbus, Ohio, Mar. 27-29, 1974. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (192 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-183) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813164014 081316401X |