Appalachia: Social Context Past and Present
Edition: 5
Copyright: 2007
Pages: 434
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Appalachia--land and people--is one of the most complex subjects any writer ever attempted to understand, let alone explain to others. John C. Campbell, one of the earliest writers to take on the task, said "more is known about the place that isn't so than about any other place," and stereotypes had not fully taken hold at the time he wrote. Some expert witnesses say that there actually is no "Appalachia," that the name just represents a figment of the academic imagination. Yet Appalachia is not nothing. A portion of the geographical region extends through New England to Nova Scotia, but it is not New England.
Nor is it the South, the Mississippi Delta or the Midwest, even though parts of it extend through these regions as well. If Appalachia is not nothing, then what is it? Appalachia: Social Context, Past and Present examines these issues in thirty-nine chapters that cover a broad range of subjects. This book will be of interest to students, human service workers, educators, researchers, librarians, reporters, administrators, and policy makers.
Appalachia: Social Context, Past and Present, Fifth Edition, edited by Phillip J. Obermiller and Michael E. Maloney provides a new perspective on Appalachia. The essays reflect thoughtful definitions and analyses by scholars, activists, service providers, and community leaders who have joined the growing public dialogue about the region. It also contains sophisticated theoretical analyses of the region and of similar places worldwide that have emerged from that public discourse. These essays show not an isolated region and insular people, but rather Appalachia as a part of the global order.
This widely used reader is now available in a fifth edition featuring new entries in the areas of migration, politics, health, poverty, welfare reform and participatory research. Data from the 2000 census are used throughout. The volume also features individual sections on selected Appalachian publications, videos and Web sites. The new edition continues a tradition of presenting "a new look at an old region" and is designed to serve as a textbook for Appalachian studies courses. With 37 chapters in nine topical areas, many find it useful as a general referenec book on contemporary Appalachia as well.
Foreword to the Fifth Edition by Chad Berry
About the Contributors
Preface to the Fifth Edition
I. What Is Appalachia?
1. "Appalachia" by Richard A. Couto
2. "The Sociology of Southern Appalachia" by David S. Walls and Dwight B. Billings
3. "Appalachian Studies, Resistance, and Postmodernism" by Alan Banks, Dwight B. Billings, and Karen Tice
II. Appalachian Diversity
4. "The Eastern Cherokees in Southern Appalachia: Principal People, Persistent People" by Betty J. Duggan
5. "Race and Racism in Nineteenth-Century Southern Appalachia: Myths, Realities, and Ambiguities" by John C. Inscoe
6. "Gender, Class and Self-Image" by Judith Ivy Fiene
7. "Out in the Mountains: Exploring Lesbian and Gay Lives" by Kate Black and Marc A. Rhorer
III. Migration and Urbanization
8. "Moving Mountains: Appalachian Migration Patterns, 1995-2000" by Phillip J. Obermiller and Steven R. Howe
9. "`We ain't agoin' back': A Retrospective Look at Urban Appalachians in Greater Cincinnati" by Phillip J. Obermiller and Michael E. Maloney
10. "Seeing Appalachian Cities" by Emily Satterwhite
IV. Appalachian Stereotypes
11. "`Hillbilly Culture': The Appalachian Mountain Folk in History and Popular Culture" by John Solomon Otto
12. "From Stereotype to Regional Hype: Strategies for Changing Media Portrayals of Appalachia" by Jean Haskell Speer
13. "Beyond Isolation and Homogeneity: Diversity and the History of Appalachia" by Ronald L. Lewis
V. The New Appalachian Culture
14. "Diversity in the Mountains and Regional and Cultural Identity" by Gordon B. McKinney
15. "Appalachian Music and American Popular Culture: The Romance That Will Not Die" by Bill C. Malone
16. "Dialect as a Deterrent to Cultural Stripping: Why Appalachian Migrants Continue to Talk That Talk" by Patricia Smith Jones
17. "Some Observations" by Loyal Jones
18. "Constructing and Staffing the Cultural Bridge: The School as Change Agent in Rural Appalachia" by Alan J. DeYoung
19. "`Living Poor and Voting Rich' in Appalachia" by David Sutton
VI. Health and the Environment
20. "Work, Poverty, and Health in Appalachia" by Richard A. Couto, Phillip J. Obermiller and Julia C. DeBruicker
21. "Family Health in a Rural Ohio Appalachian County" by Sharon A. Denham
22. "Rape of the Appalachians" by Jedediah S. Purdy
VII. The Political Economy of Appalachia
23. "Poverty and Income in Appalachia" by Deborah Thorne, Ann Tickamyer and Mark Thorne
24. "Four Perspectives on Appalachian Culture and Poverty" by Roger A. Lohmann
25. "From Farm to Coal Camp to Back Office and McDonald's: Living in the Midst of Appalachia's Latest Transformation" by Sally Ward Maggard
26. "A New Sustainable Cash Crop for Mountain Farmers" by Carl G. Kilbourne
27. "The Mountain Crafts: Romancing the Marketplace" by Garry Barker
28. "A New Wave of Colonization: The Economics of the Tourism and Travel Industry in Appalachian Kentucky" by Stephen Paul Whitaker
29. "Prospects for the UMWA" by Maier B. Fox
VIII. Policy Issues
30. "Policies and Programs" by Richard A. Couto
31. "A Political Approach to Regional Development" by Michael Bradshaw
32. "Where All the Counties Are Above Average: Top Down versus Bottom Up Perspectives on Welfare Reform" by Ann Tickamyer, Julie White, Barry Tadlock, and Debra Henderson
IX. Resistance and Community Organizing
33. "The Grass Roots Speak Back" by Stephen L. Fisher