Description: Gone Home : Race and Roots Through Appalachia, Paperback by Brown, Karida L., ISBN 1469666065, ISBN-13 9781469666068, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK Since the 2016 presidential election, Americans have witnessed countless stories about Appalachia: its changing political leanings, its opioid crisis, its increasing joblessness, and its declining population. These stories, however, largely ignore black Appalachian lives. Karida L. Browns Gone Home offers a much-needed corrective to the current whitewashing of Appalachia. In telling the stories of African Americans living and working in Appalachian coal towns, Brown offers a sweeping look at race, identity, changes in politics and policy, and black migration in the region and beyond.
Drawn from over 150 original oral history interviews with former and current residents of Harlan County, Kentucky, Brown shows that as the nation experienced enormous transformation from the pre- to the post-civil rights era, so too did black Americans. In reconstructing the life histories of black coal miners, Brown shows the mutable and shifting nature of collective identity, the struggles of labor and representation, and that Appalachia is far more diverse than you think.
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Book Title: Gone Home : Race and Roots Through Appalachia
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Gone Home: Race and Roots Through Appalachia
Publisher: T.H.E. University of North Carolina Press
Publication Year: 2021
Subject: Social Sciences, Anthropology
Item Height: 235 mm
Type: Textbook
Author: Karida L. Brown
Subject Area: Family Sociology
Item Width: 155 mm
Format: Paperback
