Back Talk from Appalachia : Confronting Stereotypes /

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Various authors examine and dispute the stereotypes of Appalachia.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Ledford, Katherine, Norman, Gurney, 1937-, Billings, Dwight B., 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2001]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Stereotypes > États-Unis.
Stereotypes (Social psychology)
Social conditions.
Appalachians (People) > Social conditions.
Appalachians (People) in literature.
Appalachians (People) > Ethnic identity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Stereotypes (Social psychology) > United States.
Appalaches (Sud) > Conditions sociales.
United States.
Southern Appalachian Region.
Appalachian Region, Southern > Social conditions.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Dwight B. Billings
  • Beyond isolation and homogeneity: diversity and the history of Appalachia / Ronald L. Lewis
  • A landscape and a people set apart: narratives of exploration and travel in early Appalachia / Katherine Ledford
  • "Deadened color and colder horror": Rebecca Harding Davis and the myth of Unionist Appalachia / Kenneth W. Noe
  • The racial "innocence" of Appalachia: William Faulkner and the mountain south / John C. Inscoe
  • A judicious combination of incident and psychology: John Fox Jr. and the southern mountaineer motif / Darlene Wilson
  • When "bloodshed is a pastime": mountain feuds and Appalachian stereotyping / Kathleen M. Blee and Dwight B. Billings
  • Where did hillbillies come from? Tracing sources of the comic hillbilly fool in literature / Sandra L. Ballard
  • The "r" word: what's so funny (and not so funny) about redneck jokes / Anne Shelby
  • Appalachian images: a personal history / Denise Giardina
  • Up in the country / Fred Hobson
  • On being "country": one Affrilachian woman's return home / Crystal E. Wilkinson
  • Appalachian stepchild / Stephen L. Fisher
  • If there's one thing you can tell them, it's that you're free / Eula Hall
  • The grass roots speak back / Stephen L. Fisher
  • Miners talk back: labor activism in southeastern Kentucky in 1922 / Alan Banks
  • Coalfield women making history / Sally Ward Maggard
  • Paving the way: urban organizations and the image of Appalachians / Phillip J. Obermiller
  • Stories of AIDS in Appalachia / Mary K. Anglin
  • America needs hillbillies: the case of The Kentucky cycle / Finlay Donesky
  • The view from the castle: reflections on The Kentucky cycle phenomenon / Rodger Cunningham
  • Regional consciousness and political imagination: the Appalachian connection in an anxious nation / Herbert Reid
  • Notes on The Kentucky cycle / Gurney Norman.

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