To Live Here, You Have to Fight

How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice

AvJessica Wilkerson

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Engelska, 2018

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Launched in 1964, the War on Poverty quickly took aim at the coalfields of southern Appalachia. There, the federal government found unexpected allies among working-class white women devoted to a local tradition of citizen caregiving and seasoned by decades of activism and community service.

Jessica Wilkerson tells their stories within the larger drama of efforts to enact change in the 1960s and 1970s. She shows white Appalachian women acting as leaders and soldiers in a grassroots war on poverty--shaping and sustaining programs, engaging in ideological debates, offering fresh visions of democratic participation, and facing personal political struggles. Their insistence that caregiving was valuable labor clashed with entrenched attitudes and rising criticisms of welfare. Their persistence, meanwhile, brought them into unlikely coalitions with black women, disabled miners, and others to fight for causes that ranged from poor people''s rights to community health to unionization.

Inspiring yet sobering, To Live Here, You Have to Fight reveals Appalachian women as the indomitable caregivers of a region--and overlooked actors in the movements that defined their time.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-12-30
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:280
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780252050923
Förlag:University of Illinois Press
Serie:Working Class in American History

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Jessica Wilkerson is an associate professor and Joyce and Stuart Robbins Chair in the Department of History at West Virginia University.

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Herbert G. Gutman Award, Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA), 2015Finalist, OAH Mary Nickliss Prize in Women's or Gender History, 2020Honorable Mention, Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, 2020H.L. Mitchell Award for Distinguished Book on the Southern Working Class, Southern Historical Association, 2020— Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA)Herbert G. Gutman Award, Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA), 2015Finalist, OAH Mary Nickliss Prize in Women's or Gender History, 2020Honorable Mention, Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, 2020H.L. Mitchell Award for Distinguished Book on the Southern Working Class, Southern Historical Association, 2020— OAH Mary Nickliss Prize in Women's or Gender HistoryHerbert G. Gutman Award, Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA), 2015Finalist, OAH Mary Nickliss Prize in Women's or Gender History, 2020Honorable Mention, Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, 2020H.L. Mitchell Award for Distinguished Book on the Southern Working Class, Southern Historical Association, 2020— Philip Taft Labor History Book AwardHerbert G. Gutman Award, Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA), 2015Finalist, OAH Mary Nickliss Prize in Women's or Gender History, 2020Honorable Mention, Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, 2020H.L. Mitchell Award for Distinguished Book on the Southern Working Class, Southern Historical Association, 2020— Southern Historical Association

Innehållsförteckning

CoverTitleCopyrightDedicationContentsAcknowledgmentsAcronymsIntroduction1. The Political and Gender Economy of the Mountain South, 1900–19642. "I Was Always Interested in People's Welfare": Bringing the War on Poverty to Kentucky3. "In the Eyes of the Poor, the Black, the Youth": Poverty Politics in Appalachia4. March for Survival: The Appalachian Welfare Rights Movement5. "The Best Care in History": Interdependence and the Community Health Movement6. "I'm Fighting for My Own Children That I'm Raising Up": Women, Labor, and Protest in Harlan County7. "Nothing Worse than Being Poor and a Woman": Feminism in the Mountain SouthEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex