Appalachia : Social Context Past and Present

by Obermiller, Phillip J.; Maloney, Michael E.; Obermiller, Phillip J.

• ISBN13: 9780787291365
• ISBN10: 0787291366
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Kendall Hunt Pub Co

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Fourth Edition	ix
Loyal Jones
Preface to the Fourth Edition	xi
I What Is Appalachia?	1	(42)
``Appalachia''	3	(12)
Richard A. Couto
``The Sociology of Southern Appalachia''	15	(10)
David S. Walls
Dwight B. Billings
``Appalachian Studies, Resistance, and Postmodernism''	25	(11)
Alan Banks
Dwight Billings
Karen Tice
``Appalachia and the Idea of America: The Problem of the Persisting Frontier''	36	(7)
Henry D. Shapiro
II Appalachian Diversity	43	(44)
``The Eastern Cherokees in Southern Appalachia: Principal People, Persistent People''	45	(12)
Betty J. Duggan
``Race and Racism in Nineteenth-Century Southern Appalachia: Myths, Realities, and Ambiguities''	57	(14)
John C. Inscoe
``Gender, Class and Self Image''	71	(9)
Judith Ivy Fiene
``Out in the Mountains: Exploring Lesbian and Gay Lives''	80	(7)
Kate Black
Marc A. Rhorer
III Migration and Urbanization	87	(22)
``New Paths and Patterns of Appalachian Migration, 1975-1990''	89	(9)
Phillip J. Obermiller
Steven R. Howe
``We ain't Agoin' Back': A Retrospective Look At Urban Appalachians in Greater Cincinnati''	98	(6)
Phillip J. Obermiller
Michael E. Maloney
``Seeing Appalachian Cities''	104	(5)
Emily Satterwhite
IV Appalachian Stereotypes	109	(28)
``Hillbilly Culture: The Appalachian Mountain Folk In History and Popular Culture''	111	(6)
John Solomon Otto
``From Stereotype to Regional Hype: Strategies For Changing Media Portrayals of Appalachia''	117	(5)
Jean Haskell Speer
``Beyond Isolation and Homogeneity: Diversity and the History of Appalachia''	122	(15)
Ronald L. Lewis
V The New Appalachian Culture	137	(54)
``Diversity In The Mountains Regional And Cultural Identity''	139	(5)
Gordon B. Mckinney
``Appalachian Music and American Popular Culture: The Romance That Will not Die''	144	(6)
Bill C. Malone
``Dialect as A Deterrent To Cultural Stripping: Why Appalachian Migrants Continue to Talk That Talk''	150	(5)
Patricia Smith Jones
``Some Observations''	155	(6)
Loyal Jones
``Appalachia's New Crisis: No Kids''	161	(5)
Ron Crouch
``Constructing and Staffing the Cultural Bridge: The School As Change Agent In Rural Appalachia''	166	(17)
Alan J. DeYoung
``There Ain't No Starbucks in Appalachia: The Election of 2000''	183	(8)
David Sutton
VI Health and the Environment	191	(24)
``Bringing Modern Medicine to the Mountains: Scientific Medicine and the Transformation of Health Care in Southern West Virginia, 1880-1910''	193	(9)
Sandra Barney
``Family Health in A Rural Appalachian Ohio County''	202	(6)
Sharon A. Denham
``Rape of the Appalachians''	208	(7)
Jedediah S. Purdy
VII The Political Economy of Appalachia	215	(90)
``Poverty''	217	(22)
Richard A. Couto
``Four Perspectives on Appalachian Culture and Poverty''	239	(8)
Roger A. Lohmann
``From Farm to Coal Camp to Back Office and Mcdonald's: Living in the Midst of Appalachia's Latest Transformation''	247	(11)
Sally Ward Maggard
``Social Class and Economic Development in Southeast Kentucky, 1820-1880''	258	(22)
Mary Beth Pudup
``A New Sustainable Cash Crop for Mountain Farmers''	280	(5)
Carl G. Kilbourne
``The Mountain Crafts: Romancing the Marketplace''	285	(4)
Garry Barker
``A New Wave Of Colonization: the Economics of the Tourism and Travel Industry in Appalachian Kentucky''	289	(9)
Stephen Paul Whitaker
``Prospects for the UMWA''	298	(7)
Maier B. Fox
VIII Policy Issues	305	(30)
``Policies and Programs''	307	(11)
Richard A. Couto
``A Political Approach To Regional Development''	318	(14)
Michael Bradshaw
``New Federal Welfare Law: No Hands for Picking Beans?''	332	(3)
Michael Miskowiec
IX Resistance and Community Organizing	335	(38)
``The Grass Roots Speak Back''	337	(6)
Stephen L. Fisher
``The Kentucky Way: Resistance to Dependency Upon Capitalism in an Appalachian Region''	343	(8)
Rhoda H. Halperin
``Practical Lessons in Community Organizing in Appalachia: What We've Learned at Kentuckians for the Commonwealth''	351	(12)
Joe Szakos
``'It Has to Come from the People': Responding to Plant Closings in Ivanhoe Virginia''	363	(10)
Maxine Waller
Helen M. Lewis
Clare Mcbrien
Carroll L. Wessinger
X References	373	(54)
XI A Selected Bibliography of Books on Appalachia, 1991-2001	427	(8)
Stephen L. Fisher
XII Selected Filmography	435	(10)
Jack Wright
XIII Selected Websites	445	(4)
Roy Silver
About the Contributors	449