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Appalachian odyssey : historical perspectives on the great migration
- Title
- Appalachian odyssey : historical perspectives on the great migration / edited by Phillip J. Obermiller, Thomas E. Wagner, and E. Bruce Tucker.
- Publication
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000.
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- Description
- xxiv, 242 p.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Appalachians (People) > Appalachian Region, Southern > History > 20th century
- Appalachian Region, Southern > History > 20th century
- Appalachians (People) > Appalachian Region, Southern > Migrations
- Appalachians (People) > Appalachian Region, Southern > Ethnic identity
- Rural-urban migration > United States > History > 20th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-236) and index.
- Contents
- The great Appalachian migration. Southern white migration to the Midwest, an overview / Chad Berry -- I never thought of my life as history: a story of the "hillbilly" exodus and the price of assimilation / Rebecca J. Bailey -- The "birds of passage" phenomenon in West Virginia's out-migration / Shirley L. Stewart and Connie L. Rice -- A common ground: urban adaptation and Appalachian unity / Roger Guy -- The urban response to the newcomers. Transforming mountain folk: Roscoe Giffin and the invention of urban Appalachia / Bruce Tucker -- Imaging Appalachians: the Berea workshop on the urban adjustment of Southern Appalachian migrants / Bruce Tucker -- "Hands-across-the-Ohio": the urban initiatives of the Council of the Southern Mountains, 1954-1971 / Phillip J. Obermiller and Thomas E. Wagner -- Urban Appalachian identity. "Disgrace to the race": Hillbillies and the color line in Detroit / John Hartigan Jr. -- Toward a new ethnicity: urban Appalachian ethnic consciousness in Cincinnati, 1960-1987 / Bruce Tucker -- Revisitng urban Appalachian ethnicity / Theresa Myadze -- Urban Appalachian organization. Cincinnati's "Second minority": the emergence of Appalachian advocacy, 1953-1973 / Phillip J. Obermiller and Thomas E. Wagner -- Going home without the trip: Appalachian migrant organizations / Thomas E. Wagner and Phillip J. Obermiller.
- Call Number
- IT 01-969
- ISBN
- 0275968510 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 99054719
- OCLC
- 42771221
- Title
- Appalachian odyssey : historical perspectives on the great migration / edited by Phillip J. Obermiller, Thomas E. Wagner, and E. Bruce Tucker.
- Imprint
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-236) and index.
- Added Author
- Obermiller, Phillip J.Wagner, Thomas E.Tucker, Edward Bruce, 1948-
- Research Call Number
- IT 01-969