In the shadow of Boone and Crockett : race, culture, and the politics of representation in the upland South / Ian C. Hartman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hartman, Ian C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race relations.

History.

Poor white people.

Government policy.

Appalachians (People).

Public opinion.

Social conditions.

Appalachian Region, Southern--Race relations--History--20th century.

Appalachian Region, Southern.

Appalachian Region, Southern--Social conditions--20th century.

Appalachian Region, Southern--Public opinion.

Appalachians (People)--Public opinion.

Poor white people--Appalachian Region, Southern--History--20th century.

Poor white people--Government policy--United States--History--20th century.

United States--Race relations--Political aspects--History--20th century.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--20th century.

Politics and government.

Public opinion--United States--History--20th century.

Southern Appalachian Region.

Physical Description:

xi, 266 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2015]

Summary:

"As Theodore Roosevelt's lofty image of frontier whites in the mold of Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett lost its luster, a realistic image of poor, isolated Appalachians rose to the forefront of America's cultural mindset. Hartman traces the disparaging lengths that state governments and various other organizations went to in order to shun the image of poor, racially inferior Appalachia and present (and preserve) a more unified, white Appalachia. Hartman discusses the ideals of masculinity in the age of U.S. imperialism, the career of Oscar McCulloch and the Indiana Solution, sterilization laws in Virginia, and the war on poverty in the mid-twentieth century. Hartman argues that these were all attempts to preserve the racial purity of Appalachian and even Southern white populations and to raise poor whites to a position of power over other races"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Appalachian Anxiety and the Paradox of Purity in an Age of Empire 13

Chapter 2 The Strange Career of Oscar McCulloch: The Problem with Upland Southerners and the Progressivism of the "Indiana Plan" 35

Chapter 3 A Pioneer Dance: Virginia's Search for Purity in the Interwar Years 55

Chapter 4 West Virginia Mountaineers, Kentucky Frontiersmen, and the Rhetoric of Postwar Liberalism 81

Chapter 5 Primetime Hillbillies: Upland Southern Whiteness and Popular Culture in the Civil Rights Era 105

Chapter 6 The Limits of Liberalism and the Changing Face of Poverty: The Collapse of the Kennedy-Johnson Coalition 133.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781621901693

1621901696

OCLC:

911179947