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The Harlan Renaissance - Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns (Paperback)
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The Harlan Renaissance - Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns (Paperback)
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A personal remembrance from the preeminent chronicler of Black life
in Appalachia. The Harlan Renaissance is an intimate remembrance of
kinship and community in eastern Kentucky's coal towns written by
one of the luminaries of Appalachian studies, William Turner.
Turner reconstructs Black life in the company towns in and around
Harlan County during coal's final postwar boom years, which built
toward an enduring bust as the children of Black miners, like the
author, left the region in search of better opportunities. The
Harlan Renaissance invites readers into what might be an unfamiliar
Appalachia: one studded by large and vibrant Black communities,
where families took the pulse of the nation through magazines like
Jet and Ebony and through the news that traveled within Black
churches, schools, and restaurants. Difficult choices for the
future were made as parents considered the unpredictable nature of
Appalachia's economic realities alongside the unpredictable nature
of a national movement toward civil rights. Unfolding through
layers of sociological insight and oral history, The Harlan
Renaissance centers the sympathetic perspectives and critical eye
of a master narrator of Black life.
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