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Gone home : race and roots through Appalachia / Karida L. Brown.
Van Pelt Library E185.92.K4 B76 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Karida L., 1982- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Kentucky--History.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Kentucky--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- History.
- Coal mines and mining.
- Race relations.
- Kentucky--Race relations.
- Kentucky.
- African Americans--Appalachian Region, Southern--History.
- African Americans--Appalachian Region, Southern--Social conditions.
- Appalachian Region, Southern--Race relations.
- Appalachian Region, Southern.
- Migration, Internal--United States--History--20th century.
- Migration, Internal.
- United States.
- Coal mines and mining--Kentucky--History.
- Appalachian Region, Southern--Social conditions--History.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- Southern Appalachian Region.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 252 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Karida L. Brown's Gone Home offers a much-needed corrective to the current white-washing of Appalachia. In telling the stories of Appalachian African Americans living and working in steel and coal towns, Brown offers a deep and sweeping look at race, the formation of identity, changes in politics and policy, and black migration in the region and beyond"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The coming of the coal industry
- The great migration escape
- Home
- Children, and black children
- The colored school
- A change gone come
- Gone home.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781469647036
- 1469647036
- OCLC:
- 1028581815
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