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The Harlan Renaissance : Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns
Title
The Harlan Renaissance : Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns / William H. Turner.
ISBN
9781952271229
9781952271212
9781952271205
Edition
First edition.
Publication
Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2021.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©2021.
Physical Description
1 online resource (390 pages).
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
"William Turner's memoir focusing on Black life in the coal company towns in and around Harlan County, Kentucky, during coal's postwar boom years" Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Contents
Alex Haley-The Taproot
Between Alex Haley, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ed Cabbell, and the Affrilachian Poets
Black Mountain Mantrips and Woman Trips
What's in a Name?
Black Folk Done Lost Their Stuff
The Common Narrative of Black Appalachian Coal-Camp Families
Blacks Moving between Central Alabama and Central Appalachia
Close-Knit Central Appalachian Coal Camp Black Communities
On Trash-Talking and Signifying along Looney Creek
In a Coal Mine, Everybody Is Black; Outside, Not So Much
School Integration Was Worse than a Kick in the Head by an Alabama Mule
The Principal of the White School Became a Lifelong Friend
Not Bad for Some Colored Kids from Harlan County, Kentucky
King Coal Leaves the Throne
The Graying of the Eastern Kentucky Social Club
Meditating on the Future at the Mountaintop.
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Genre/Form
History.
Biographies.
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