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Appalachia Revisited

Author : William Schumann
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813166985
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Appalachia Revisited written by William Schumann and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known for its dramatic beauty and valuable natural resources, Appalachia has undergone significant technological, economic, political, and environmental changes in recent decades. Home to distinctive traditions and a rich cultural heritage, the area is also plagued by poverty, insufficient healthcare and education, drug addiction, and ecological devastation. This complex and controversial region has been examined by generations of scholars, activists, and civil servants -- all offering an array of perspectives on Appalachia and its people. In this innovative volume, editors William Schumann and Rebecca Adkins Fletcher assemble both scholars and nonprofit practitioners to examine how Appalachia is perceived both within and beyond its borders. Together, they investigate the region's transformation and analyze how it is currently approached as a topic of academic inquiry. Arguing that interdisciplinary and comparative place-based studies increasingly matter, the contributors investigate numerous topics, including race and gender, environmental transformation, university-community collaborations, cyber identities, fracking, contemporary activist strategies, and analyze Appalachia in the context of local-to-global change. A pathbreaking study analyzing continuity and change in the region through a global framework, Appalachia Revisited is essential reading for scholars and students as well as for policymakers, community and charitable organizers, and those involved in community development.

High Mountains Rising

Author : Richard A. Straw
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252092600
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book High Mountains Rising written by Richard A. Straw and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is the first comprehensive, cohesive volume to unite Appalachian history with its culture. Richard A. Straw and H. Tyler Blethen's High Mountains Rising provides a clear, systematic, and engaging overview of the Appalachian timeline, its people, and the most significant aspects of life in the region. The first half of the fourteen essays deal with historical issues including Native Americans, pioneer settlement, slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, industrialization, the Great Depression, migration, and finally, modernization. The remaining essays take a more cultural focus, addressing stereotypes, music, folklife, language, literature, and religion. Bringing together many of the most prestigious scholars in Appalachian studies, this volume has been designed for general and classroom use, and includes suggestions for further reading.

LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia

Author : Jeff Mann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia written by Jeff Mann and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection, the first of its kind, gathers original and previously published fiction and poetry from lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer authors from Appalachia. Like much Appalachian literature, these works are pervaded with an attachment to family and the mountain landscape, yet balancing queer and Appalachian identities is an undertaking fraught with conflict. This collection confronts the problematic and complex intersections of place, family, sexuality, gender, and religion with which LGBTQ Appalachians often grapple. With works by established writers such as Dorothy Allison, Silas House, Ann Pancake, Fenton Johnson, and Nickole Brown and emerging writers such as Savannah Sipple, Rahul Mehta, Mesha Maren, and Jonathan Corcoran, this collection celebrates a literary canon made up of writers who give voice to what it means to be Appalachian and LGBTQ.

Power and Place

Author : Melinda Bollar Wagner
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813197740
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Power and Place written by Melinda Bollar Wagner and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rural life and culture hold a practical and symbolic importance in American society. A central tenet of the survival of our cherished values—and of ourselves as a species—is the stewardship of cultural diversity and the places that foster it, like rural America. These may be the places that teach us to use land to make a living and to make a life, to forge and carry on our identities, and to feel history. They may yield a harvest of policies for managing an environmental balancing act that will preserve essential resources for America's children's children. Power and Place: Preservation, Progress, and the Culture War over Land examines the ongoing culture wars that pit conservation against economic progress. For author Melinda Bollar Wagner, what began as a study of Appalachia's long-standing and continuing status as an energy sacrifice zone evolved into a twenty-four-year research project that sheds new light on the physical and emotional parameters of cultural attachment to land. Drawing on interviews with more than 220 residents from ten communities in five Appalachian counties, Power and Place gives voice to rural citizens whose place at the table is far from assured with regard to critical energy, environmental, and infrastructure decisions.

Unwhite

Author : Meredith McCarroll
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 082035337X
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Unwhite written by Meredith McCarroll and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appalachia resides in the American imagination at the intersections of race and class in a very particular way, in the tension between deep historic investments in seeing the region as “pure white stock” and as deeply impoverished and backward. Meredith McCarroll’s Unwhite analyzes the fraught location of Appalachians within the southern and American imaginaries, building on studies of race in literary and cinematic characterizations of the American South. Not only do we know what “rednecks” and “white trash” are, McCarroll argues, we rely on the continued use of such categories in fashioning our broader sense of self and other. Further, we continue to depend upon the existence of the region of Appalachia as a cultural construct. As a consequence, Appalachia has long been represented in the collective cultural history as the lowest, the poorest, the most ignorant, and the most laughable community. McCarroll complicates this understanding by asserting that white privilege remains intact while Appalachia is othered through reliance on recognizable nonwhite cinematic stereotypes. Unwhite demonstrates how typical characterizations of Appalachian people serve as foils to set off and define the “whiteness” of the non-Appalachian southerners. In this dynamic, Appalachian characters become the racial other. Analyzing the representation of the people of Appalachia in films such as Deliverance, Cold Mountain, Medium Cool, Norma Rae, Cape Fear, The Killing Season, and Winter’s Bone through the critical lens of race and specifically whiteness, McCarroll offers a reshaping of the understanding of the relationship between racial and regional identities.

Back Talk from Appalachia

Author : Dwight B. Billings
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813190010
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Back Talk from Appalachia written by Dwight B. Billings and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2000-11-16 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Various authors examine and dispute the stereotypes of Appalachia.

Hungry Roots

Author : Ashli Quesinberry Stokes
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1643364758
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Hungry Roots written by Ashli Quesinberry Stokes and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2024-04-25 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey through Southern Appalachia to explore the complex messages food communicates about the region Depictions of Appalachian food culture and practices often romanticize people in the region as good, simple, and, often, white. These stereotypes are harmful to the actual people they are meant to describe as well as to those they exclude. In Hungry Roots: How Food Communicates Appalachia's Search for Resilience, Ashli Quesinberry Stokes and Wendy Atkins-Sayre tell a more complicated story. The authors embark on a cultural tour through food and drinking establishments to investigate regional resilience in and through the plurality of traditions and communities that form the foodways of Southern Appalachia.

Appalachia

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Appalachia written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Handbook to Appalachia

Author : Grace Toney Edwards
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572334595
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book A Handbook to Appalachia written by Grace Toney Edwards and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Handbook to Appalachia provides a clear, concise first step toward understanding the expanding field of Appalachian studies, from the history of the area to its sometimes conflicted image, from its music and folklore to its outstanding literature. Also includes information on African Americans, Asheville, (North Carolina), ballads, baskets, bluegrass music, blues music, Cherokee Indians, Cincinnati (Ohio), Churches, Civil War, coal, cultural diversity, death, folk culture, food, Georgia, health, immigration, industry, Irish, Kentucky, Midwest, migration, Melungeons, Native Americans, North Carolina, out-migration, politics, population, poverty, Radford University, schools, Scotch-Irish, Scotland, South Carolina, storytelling, strip mining, Tennessee, Ulster Scots, Virginia, West Virginia, Women, etc.

Appalachian Reckoning

Author : Anthony Harkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781946684790
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Appalachian Reckoning written by Anthony Harkins and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hillbilly elegy, J.D. Vance described how his family moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan while navigating the collective demons of the past. The book has come to define Appalachia for much of the nation. This collection of essays is a retort, at turns rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow cast over the region and its imagining. But it also moves beyond Vance's book to allow Appalachians to tell their own diverse and complex stories of a place that is at once culturally rich and economically distressed, unique and typically American. -- adapted from back cover

Multivocality

Author : Katherine Meizel PhD
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190621494
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Multivocality written by Katherine Meizel PhD and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multivocality frames vocality as a way to investigate the voice in music, as a concept encompassing all the implications with which voice is inscribed-the negotiation of sound and Self, individual and culture, medium and meaning, ontology and embodiment. Like identity, vocality is fluid and constructed continually; even the most iconic of singers do not simply exercise a static voice throughout a lifetime. As 21st century singers habitually perform across styles, genres, cultural contexts, histories, and identities, the author suggests that they are not only performing in multiple vocalities, but more critically, they are performing multivocality-creating and recreating identity through the process of singing with many voices. Multivocality constitutes an effort toward a fuller understanding of how the singing voice figures in the negotiation of identity. Author Katherine Meizel recovers the idea of multivocality from its previously abstract treatment, and re-embodies it in the lived experiences of singers who work on and across the fluid borders of identity. Highlighting singers in vocal motion, Multivocality focuses on their transitions and transgressions across genre and gender boundaries, cultural borders, the lines between body and technology, between religious contexts, between found voices and lost ones.

Remediating Region

Author : Gina Caison
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807176699
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Remediating Region written by Gina Caison and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2021-12-08 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather than a media history of the region or a history of southern media, Remediating Region: New Media and the U.S. South formulates a critical methodology for studying the continuous reinventions of regional space across media platforms. This innovative collection demonstrates that structures of media undergird American regionalism through the representation of a given geography’s peoples, places, and ideologies. It also outlines how the region answers back to the national media by circulating ever-shifting ideas of place via new platforms that allow for self-representation outside previously sanctioned media forms. Remediating Region recognizes that all media was once new media. In examining how changes in information and media modify concepts of region, it both articulates the virtual realities of the twenty-first-century U.S. South and historicizes the impact of “new” media on a region that has long been mediated. Eleven essays examine media moments ranging from the nineteenth century to the present day, among them Frederick Douglass’s utilization of early photography, video game representations of a late capitalist landscape, rural queer communities’ engagement with social media platforms, and contemporary technologies focused on revitalizing Indigenous cultural practices. Interdisciplinary in scope and execution, Remediating Region argues that on an increasingly networked planet, concerns over the mediated region continue to inform how audiences and participants understand their entrée into a global world through local space.

Ramp Hollow

Author : Steven Stoll
Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 : 1429946970
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Ramp Hollow written by Steven Stoll and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the United States underdeveloped Appalachia Appalachia—among the most storied and yet least understood regions in America—has long been associated with poverty and backwardness. But how did this image arise and what exactly does it mean? In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll launches an original investigation into the history of Appalachia and its place in U.S. history, with a special emphasis on how generations of its inhabitants lived, worked, survived, and depended on natural resources held in common. Ramp Hollow traces the rise of the Appalachian homestead and how its self-sufficiency resisted dependence on money and the industrial society arising elsewhere in the United States—until, beginning in the nineteenth century, extractive industries kicked off a “scramble for Appalachia” that left struggling homesteaders dispossessed of their land. As the men disappeared into coal mines and timber camps, and their families moved into shantytowns or deeper into the mountains, the commons of Appalachia were, in effect, enclosed, and the fate of the region was sealed. Ramp Hollow takes a provocative look at Appalachia, and the workings of dispossession around the world, by upending our notions about progress and development. Stoll ranges widely from literature to history to economics in order to expose a devastating process whose repercussions we still feel today.

Field & Stream

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Field & Stream written by and published by . This book was released on 1973-09 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FIELD & STREAM, America’s largest outdoor sports magazine, celebrates the outdoor experience with great stories, compelling photography, and sound advice while honoring the traditions hunters and fishermen have passed down for generations.

Storytelling in Queer Appalachia

Author : Hillery Glasby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781949199475
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book Storytelling in Queer Appalachia written by Hillery Glasby and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part I. The heart over the head: queer-affirming epistles and queerphobic challenges -- A letter to Appalachia / Amanda Hayes -- Challenging dominant Christianity's queerphobic rhetoric / Justin Ray Dutton -- Part II. Queer diaspora: existence and erasure in Appalachia -- A drowning in the foothills / Adam Denney -- A pedagogy of the flesh: deconstructing the "quare" Appalachian archetype / Matthew Thomas-Reid -- Pickin' and grinnin': quare hillbillies, counter rhetorics, and the recovery of home / Kim Gunter -- Part III. Both/and: intersectional understandings of Appalachian queers -- The crik is crooked: Appalachia as movable queer space / Lydia McDermott -- "Are y'all homos?": Mêtis as method for queer Appalachia / Caleb Pendygraft and Travis A. Rountree -- Queering trauma and resilience, Appalachian style! / delfin bautista -- Part IV. Queer media: radical acts of embodiment and resistance -- Working against the past: queering the Appalachian narrative / Tijah Bumgarner -- Writing the self: trans zine making in Appalachia / Savi Ettinger, Katie Manthey, Sonny Romano, and Cynthia Suryawan -- Queer Appalachia: a homespun praxis of rural resistance in Appalachian media / Gina Mamone and Sarah E. Meng.

Proving Ground

Author : Edward Steven Slavishak
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421425394
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Proving Ground written by Edward Steven Slavishak and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Appalachian Mountains attracted an endless stream of visitors in the twentieth century, each bearing visions of the realm that they would encounter on high. The name "Appalachia" became shorthand for a series of moral and economic calculations and pop culture references. Well before large numbers of tourists took to the mountains in the latter half of the century, however, networks of missionaries, sociologists, folklorists, doctors, artists, and conservationists made Appalachia their primary site for fieldwork. Proving Ground studies a collection of these professionals in transit to show that the travelers' tales were the foundation of powerful forms of insider knowledge. The visitors represented occupational and recreational groups that used Appalachia to gain precious expertise, and it was to these groups that they became insiders. They were not immersing themselves in a regional culture, but rather in their own professional cultures. These were people who used the mountains to help themselves. Proving Ground is a cultural history of expertise, an environmental history of the Appalachian Mountains, and a historical geography of spaces and places in the twentieth century. By using these frameworks to analyze the personal papers, professional records, and popular works of these budding experts, the book presents mountain landscapes as a fluid combination of embodied sensation, narrative fantasy, and class privilege. It will attract students of Appalachian Studies who are interested in the phenomena of cultural and environmental intervention, environmental historians concerned with the construction of hybrid landscapes, and mobility scholars who recognize the organizational power derived from access and movement"--

Hydronarratives

Author : Matthew S. Henry
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496234340
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Hydronarratives written by Matthew S. Henry and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of water in the United States is one of ecosystemic disruption and social injustice. From the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and Flint, Michigan, to the Appalachian coal and gas fields and the Gulf Coast, low-income communities, Indigenous communities, and communities of color face the disproportionate effects of floods, droughts, sea level rise, and water contamination. In Hydronarratives Matthew S. Henry examines cultural representations that imagine a just transition, a concept rooted in the U.S. labor and environmental justice movements to describe an alternative economic paradigm predicated on sustainability, economic and social equity, and climate resilience. Focused on regions of water insecurity, from central Arizona to central Appalachia, Henry explores how writers, artists, and activists have creatively responded to intensifying water crises in the United States and argues that narrative and storytelling are critical to environmental and social justice advocacy. By drawing on a wide and comprehensive range of narrative texts, historical documentation, policy papers, and literary and cultural scholarship, Henry presents a timely project that examines the social movement, just transition, and the logic of the Green New Deal, in addition to contemporary visions of environmental justice.