Series in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia – serie
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Memphis Tennessee Garrison
The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman
Av Memphis Tennessee Garrison, Ancella R. Bickley m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
605 kr
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As a black Appalachian woman, Memphis Tennessee Garrison belonged to a demographic category triply ignored by historians.The daughter of former slaves, she moved to McDowell County, West Virginia, at an early age and died at ninety-eight in Huntington. The coalfields of McDowell County were among …
Memphis Tennessee Garrison
The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman
Av Memphis Tennessee Garrison, Ancella R. Bickley m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
291 kr
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As a black Appalachian woman, Memphis Tennessee Garrison belonged to a demographic category triply ignored by historians.The daughter of former slaves, she moved to McDowell County, West Virginia, at an early age and died at ninety-eight in Huntington. The coalfields of McDowell County were among …
Tangled Roots of Feminism, Environmentalism, and Appalachian Literature
Häftad, 2003
364 kr
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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. Effie Waller Smith, an African American woman writing of her love for the Appalachian mountains, …
Loving Mountains, Loving Men
Memoirs of a Gay Appalachian
Av Jeff Mann
Häftad, 2005
418 kr
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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. Jeff Mann tells the story of one who left and then …
Power in the Blood
A Family Narrative
Av Linda Tate
Inbunden, 2009
725 kr
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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. In her search for the truth of her own past, Tate …
Power in the Blood
A Family Narrative
Av Linda Tate
Häftad, 2009
336 kr
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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. In her search for the truth of her own past, Tate …
Out of the Mountains
Appalachian Stories
Inbunden, 2010
656 kr
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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 …
Out of the Mountains
Appalachian Stories
Häftad, 2010
332 kr
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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 …
Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment
Appalachian Women's Literacies
Inbunden, 2011
785 kr
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In many parts of Appalachia, family ties run deep, constituting an important part of an individual's sense of self. In some cases, when Appalachian learners seek new forms of knowledge, those family ties can be challenged by the accusation that they have gotten above their raisings, a charge that …
Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment
Appalachian Women's Literacies
Häftad, 2011
413 kr
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In many parts of Appalachia, family ties run deep, constituting an important part of an individual's sense of self. In some cases, when Appalachian learners seek new forms of knowledge, those family ties can be challenged by the accusation that they have gotten above their raisings, a charge that …
Standing Our Ground
Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal
Inbunden, 2012
908 kr
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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. Mountaintop removal coal mining, which involves demolishing the tops of hills and mountains to provide access to coal seams, …
Thinking Outside the Girl Box
Teaming Up with Resilient Youth in Appalachia
Av Linda Spatig, Layne Amerikaner
Inbunden, 2014
739 kr
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Thinking Outside the Girl Box is a true story about a remarkable youth development program in rural West Virginia. Based on years of research with adolescent girls—and adults who devoted their lives to working with them—Thinking Outside the Girl Box reveals what is possible when young people are …
Thinking Outside the Girl Box
Teaming Up with Resilient Youth in Appalachia
Av Linda Spatig, Layne Amerikaner
Häftad, 2014
317 kr
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Thinking Outside the Girl Box is a true story about a remarkable youth development program in rural West Virginia. Based on years of research with adolescent girls—and adults who devoted their lives to working with them—Thinking Outside the Girl Box reveals what is possible when young people are …
Shake Terribly the Earth
Stories from an Appalachian Family
Inbunden, 2013
785 kr
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Sarah Beth Childers grew up listening to stories. She heard them riding to school with her mother, playing Yahtzee in her Granny's nicotine cloud, walking to the bowling alley with her grandfather, and eating casseroles at the family reunions she attended every year.In a thoughtful, humorous voice …
Shake Terribly the Earth
Stories from an Appalachian Family
Häftad, 2013
329 kr
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Sarah Beth Childers grew up listening to stories. She heard them riding to school with her mother, playing Yahtzee in her Granny's nicotine cloud, walking to the bowling alley with her grandfather, and eating casseroles at the family reunions she attended every year.In a thoughtful, humorous voice …
Once I Too Had Wings
The Journals of Emma Bell Miles, 1908–1918
Av Emma Bell Miles, Steven Cox
Inbunden, 2014
850 kr
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Emma Bell Miles (1879–1919) was a gifted writer, poet, naturalist, and artist with a keen perspective on Appalachian life and culture. She and her husband Frank lived on Walden's Ridge in southeast Tennessee, where they struggled to raise a family in the difficult mountain environment. Between 1908 …
Once I Too Had Wings
The Journals of Emma Bell Miles, 1908–1918
Av Emma Bell Miles, Steven Cox
Häftad, 2014
337 kr
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Emma Bell Miles (1879–1919) was a gifted writer, poet, naturalist, and artist with a keen perspective on Appalachian life and culture. She and her husband Frank lived on Walden's Ridge in southeast Tennessee, where they struggled to raise a family in the difficult mountain environment. Between 1908 …
Standing Our Ground
Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal
Häftad, 2014
275 kr
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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. Mountaintop removal coal mining, which involves demolishing the tops of hills and mountains to provide access to coal seams, …
Women of the Mountain South
Identity, Work, and Activism
Av Connie Park Rice, Marie Tedesco
Inbunden, 2015
908 kr
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Scholars of southern Appalachia have largely focused their research on men, particularly white men. While there have been a few important studies of Appalachian women, no one book has offered a broad overview across time and place. With this collection, editors Connie Park Rice and Marie Tedesco …
Women of the Mountain South
Identity, Work, and Activism
Av Connie Park Rice, Marie Tedesco
Häftad, 2015
401 kr
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Scholars of southern Appalachia have largely focused their research on men, particularly white men. While there have been a few important studies of Appalachian women, no one book has offered a broad overview across time and place. With this collection, editors Connie Park Rice and Marie Tedesco …
Keeping Heart
A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine
Av Otis Trotter
Inbunden, 2015
935 kr
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"After saying our good-byes to friends and neighbors, we all got in the cars and headed up the hill and down the road toward a future in Ohio that we hoped would be brighter," Otis Trotter writes in his affecting memoir, Keeping Heart: A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine.Organized …
Keeping Heart
A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine
Av Otis Trotter
Häftad, 2015
278 kr
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"After saying our good-byes to friends and neighbors, we all got in the cars and headed up the hill and down the road toward a future in Ohio that we hoped would be brighter," Otis Trotter writes in his affecting memoir, Keeping Heart: A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine.Organized …
Loving Mountains, Loving Men
Memoirs of a Gay Appalachian
Av Jeff Mann
Häftad, 2023
289 kr
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A Gay man chronicles his relationship to his native Appalachian culture and society.Appalachians are known for their love of place, yet many LGBTQ+ people from the mountains flee to urban areas in search of community and broader acceptance. Jeff Mann tells his story as one who left and then …
Loving Mountains, Loving Men
Memoirs of a Gay Appalachian
Av Jeff Mann
E-bok, 2023
406 kr
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A Gay man chronicles his relationship to his native Appalachian culture and society.Appalachians are known for their love of place, yet many LGBTQ+ people from the mountains flee to urban areas in search of community and broader acceptance. Jeff Mann tells his story as one who left and then …
Out of the Mountains
Appalachian Stories
E-bok, 2010
525 kr
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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 …
Power in the Blood
A Family Narrative
Av Linda Tate
E-bok, 2009
533 kr
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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. In her search for the truth of her own past, Tate …
Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment
Appalachian Women's Literacies
E-bok, 2011
657 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In many parts of Appalachia, family ties run deep, constituting an important part of an individual's sense of self. In some cases, when Appalachian learners seek new forms of knowledge, those family ties can be challenged by the accusation that they have gotten above their raisings, a charge that …
Standing Our Ground
Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal
E-bok, 2012
433 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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. Mountaintop removal coal mining, which involves demolishing the tops of hills and mountains to provide access to coal seams, …
Thinking Outside the Girl Box
Teaming Up with Resilient Youth in Appalachia
Av Linda Spatig, Layne Amerikaner
E-bok, 2014
492 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Thinking Outside the Girl Box is a true story about a remarkable youth development program in rural West Virginia. Based on years of research with adolescent girls—and adults who devoted their lives to working with them—Thinking Outside the Girl Box reveals what is possible when young people are …
Shake Terribly the Earth
Stories from an Appalachian Family
E-bok, 2013
497 kr
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Sarah Beth Childers grew up listening to stories. She heard them riding to school with her mother, playing Yahtzee in her Granny's nicotine cloud, walking to the bowling alley with her grandfather, and eating casseroles at the family reunions she attended every year.In a thoughtful, humorous voice …
