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Liberia, South Carolina : an African American Appalachian community /

"In 2007, while researching mountain culture in upstate South Carolina, anthropologist John M. Coggeshall stumbled upon the small community of Liberia, in the Blue Ridge foothills. There he met Mable Owens Clarke and her family, the remaining members of a small African American community still...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Coggeshall, John M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Shifting Paradigms: Understanding the Liberia Community; 2. You Zip Your Lips: Life in Slavery; 3. The Times Ahead Are Fearful: The Late Nineteenth Century; 4. The Whites Got the Best: The Early Twentieth Century; 5. It Really Wasn't a Bad Life: The Mid-Twentieth Century; 6. Because Hatred Is All It Was: Death and Resurrection; 7. This Is My Home: Into the Twenty-First Century; 8. It's Sacred Ground: The Cultural Meaning of Land; Appendix 1. Soapstone Baptist Church Cemetery Grave Names; Appendix 2. Partial Kinship Chart of Mable Owens Clarke.
  • Appendix 3. Names of Contemporary InformantsNotes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z; Photographs.