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Bøker i Series in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia-serien

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  • av Jeff Mann
    279 - 509,-

    Loving Mountains, Loving Men is the first book-length treatment of a topic rarely discussed or examined: gay life in Appalachia. Appalachians are known for their love of place, yet many gays and lesbians from the mountains flee to urban areas.

  • - A Dual Memoir of Race and Class in Appalachia
    av William M. Drennen
    279 - 509,-

    A groundbreaking approach to studying not only cultural linguistics but also the cultural heritage of a historic time and place in America. It gives witness to the issues of race and class inherent in the way we write, speak, and think.

  • - A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine
    av Joe William, Otis Trotter & Jr. Trotter
    294 - 862,-

    Organized around the life histories, medical struggles, and recollections of Otis Trotter and his thirteen siblings, Keeping Heart is a personal account of an African American family's journey north during the second Great Migration.

  • - The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman
    av Memphis Tennessee Garrison
    309 - 671,-

    This oral history, based on interview transcripts, is the untold story of African American life in West Virginia, as seen through the eyes of a remarkable woman: Memphis Tennessee Garrison, an innovative teacher, administrative worker at US Steel, and vice president of the National Board of the NAACP at the height of the civil rights struggle.

  • - Appalachian Stories
    av Meredith Sue Willis
    279 - 671,-

    Meredith Sue Willis's Out of the Mountains is a collection of thirteen short stories set in contemporary Appalachia. Firmly grounded in place, the stories voyage out into the conflicting cultural identities that native Appalachians experience as they balance mainstream and mountain identities.

  • - The Journals of Emma Bell Miles, 1908-1918
    av Emma Bell Miles
    319 - 705,-

    Previously examined only by a handful of scholars, the journals of Emma Bell Miles (1879-1919) contain poignant and incisive accounts of nature and a woman's perspective on love and marriage, death customs, child raising, medical care, and subsistence on the land in southern Appalachia in the early twentieth century.

  • - A Family Narrative
    av Linda Tate
    351 - 749,-

    Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative traces Linda Tate's journey to rediscover the Cherokee-Appalachian branch of her family and provides an unflinching examination of the poverty, discrimination, and family violence that marked their lives.

  • - Appalachian Women's Literacies
    av Erica Abrams Locklear
    344 - 812,-

    Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment blends literacy studies with literary criticism to analyze the central female characters in the works of Harriette Simpson Arnow, Linda Scott DeRosier, Denise Giardina, and Lee Smith.

  • - Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal
    av Joyce M. Barry
    266 - 994,-

    Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal examines women's efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia.

  • - Teaming Up with Resilient Youth in Appalachia
    av Linda Spatig & Layne Amerikaner
    380 - 705,-

    Written in an accessible, engaging style and drawing on collaborative ethnographic research that the girls themselves helped conduct, Thinking Outside the Girl Box tells the true story of an innovative program determined to challenge the small, disempowering "boxes" girls and women are so often expected to live in.

  • - Identity, Work, and Activism
     
    862,-

  • - Identity, Work, and Activism
     
    383,-

  • - Stories from an Appalachian Family
    av Sarah Beth Childers
    279 - 653,-

    Reveals some of the ways that historical moments of the twentieth century affected the entire region.

  • av Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt
    349 - 653,-

    Contemporaries were shocked when author Mary Noailles Murfree revealed she was a woman, but modern readers may be more surprised by her cogent discussion of community responses to unwanted development.

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