Blacks in Appalachia

by Cabbell, Edward J. Turner, William Hobart

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"Although southern Appalachia is popularly seen as a purely white enclave, blacks have lived in the region from early times. Some hollows and coal camps are in fact almost exclusively black settlements. The selected readings in this new book offer the first comprehensive presentation of the black experience in Appalachia"....Amazon.

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Title Statements

Full title :Blacks in Appalachia / edited by William H. Turner and Edward J. Cabbell ; foreword by Nell Irvin Painter.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1985.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University Press of Kentucky
Place of Publication:Lexington, Ky
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1985.

The Physical Object

Description:xxiii, 277 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0813115183, 9780813115184, 081310162X, 9780813101620
oclc:ocm11532916
LC Classification:E185.912
Dewey Decimal:974/.00496073

Foreword / Nell Irvin Painter -- Preface -- Introduction / William H. Turner -- Part One. Basic Approaches. 1. Black Invisibility and Racism in Appalachia: An Informal Survey / Edward J. Cabbell -- 2. Between Berea (1904) and Birmingham (1908): The Rock and Hard Place for Blacks in Appalachia / William H. Turner -- Part Two. Historical Perspectives. 3. Red and Black in the Southern Appalachians / Theda Perdue -- 4. Freedom and Slavery in Appalachian America / Carter G. Woodson -- 5. Boyhood Days / Booker T. Washington -- 6. The Black South and White Appalachia / James C. Klotter -- Part Three. Community Studies. 7. The Negro Miner in West Virginia / James T. Laing -- 8. The Black Community in a Company Town: Alcoa, Tennessee, 1919-1939 / Russell D. Parker -- 9. Class over Caste: Interracial Solidarity in the Company Town / David A. Corbin -- Part Four. Race Relations. 10. A Judicious Mixture: Negroes and Immigrants in the West Virginia Mines, 1880-1917 / Kenneth R. Bailey -- 11. The Sociohistorical Roots of White/ Black Inequality in Urban Appalachia: Knoxville and East Tennessee / John H. Stanfield -- Part Five. Black Coal Miners. 12. The Black Worker / W.E.B. Du Bois -- 13. The …

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African Americans African Americans -- History. -- Appala… Appalachen -- Süd Appalaches -- Histoire Appalachian Region Appalachian Region -- History Appalachian Region -- Race relations Aufsatzsammlung Geschichte History Noirs américains -- Histoire. -- Appala… Race relations Schwarze