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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.
Organized topically, the selections deal with the early history
of blacks in the region, with studies of the black communities,
with relations between blacks and whites, with blacks in coal
mining, and with political issues. Also included are a section on
oral accounts of black experiences and an analysis of black
Appalachian demography. The contributors range from Carter Woodson
and W. E. B. Du Bois to more recent scholars such as Theda Perdue
and David A. Corbin. An introduction by the editors provides an
overall context for the selections.
Blacks in Appalachia focuses needed attention on a neglected
area of Appalachian studies. It will be a valuable resource for
students of Appalachia and of black history.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
Chesapeake Boyhood is an account of growing up on the lower Eastern
Shore of the Chesapeake during the years following the Great
Depression. Turner's stories include rousing tales of 'coon
hunting, crabbing, boat building, duck hunting, oyster tonging, and
Saturday jaunts to town. Turner brings the characters, experiences,
waterscape, and landscape of rural Virginia to life as no one has
done before or is likely ever to do again. His own drawings
illustrate the stories, and they, too, win us over with their
honesty and charm. "Its chief virtue (besides its highly literate
style), it seems to me, is its intimate, sensory knowledge of a
vanishing Chesapeake landscape: its sounds and smells, the way
things feel to the touch, the lore lodged in the names of the
commonest creatures and activities . . . At one point Turner likens
the local farmers and fishermen sitting around the table in the
country store to fixed positions on a compass, with all the
cardinal points taken, ' and I think of this book] as a kind of
compass too, that describes one man's orientation to the Eastern
Shore."--Andrea Hammer, St. Mary's College "Modern outdoor writing
has enough anemic adventures by faint-hearted writers reared in the
suburbs. What it needs more of is the droll wit of an Ed Zern, the
robust foolishness of a Patrick McManus, and the lean prose of an
Ernest Hemingway. It gets all three in the tales of Bill
Turner."--George Regier, author of Heron Hill Chronicle and
Wanderer on My Native Shore "Storms, boat wrecks, childhood pranks
and even old dogs are remembered with a sense of humor in Turner's
book. He has captured the rhythms of country life in a time before
fast cars, credit cards, and air pollution."-Waterman's Gazette
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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