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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...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
1981.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Maps; Acknowledgments; Introduction/Urban Appalachians: Unknown and Unnoticed; Part I: Appalachians as an Urban Ethnic Group; 1 The Question of Appalachian Ethnicity; 2 Stereotypes of Appalachian Migrants; Part II: Migration of Appalachians to Urban Areas; 3 Appalachian Migration to Midwestern Cities; 4 The Residential Distribution of Urban Appalachians; 5 Population Changes and Trends in Appalachia; 6 Implications of Changes in Appalachia for Urban Areas; Part III: Attainments of Appalachians in Urban Areas.
- 7 Economic Costs and Returns of Appalachian Out-Migration8 Occupational Patterns of Appalachian Migrants; 9 Occupational Adjustment of Appalachians in Cleveland; 10 Accounting for the Occupational Placements of Appalachian Migrants; Conclusion The Prospects for Urban Appalachians; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Contributors.