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Bøger i Series in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia serien

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  • af Jeff Mann
    243,95 - 513,95 kr.

    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
    af William M. Drennen
    222,95 - 443,95 kr.

    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
    af Joe William, Otis Trotter & Jr. Trotter
    243,95 - 901,95 kr.

    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
    af Memphis Tennessee Garrison
    343,95 - 688,95 kr.

    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
    af Meredith Sue Willis
    243,95 - 693,95 kr.

    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
    af Emma Bell Miles
    286,95 - 741,95 kr.

    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
    af Linda Tate
    388,95 - 763,95 kr.

    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
    af Erica Abrams Locklear
    397,95 - 813,95 kr.

    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
    af Joyce M. Barry
    312,95 - 1.098,95 kr.

    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
    af Linda Spatig & Layne Amerikaner
    388,95 - 613,95 kr.

    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
     
    901,95 kr.

  • - Identity, Work, and Activism
     
    448,95 kr.

  • - Stories from an Appalachian Family
    af Sarah Beth Childers
    243,95 - 687,95 kr.

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

  • af Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt
    358,95 - 563,95 kr.

    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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