Gone Home Race and Roots through Appalachia / Karida L. Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Karida L., 1982- author.

Series:

North Carolina scholarship online.

North Carolina scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coal mines and mining--Kentucky--History.

Coal mines and mining.

Migration, Internal--United States--History--20th century.

Migration, Internal.

African Americans--Appalachian Region, Southern--Social conditions.

African Americans.

African Americans--Appalachian Region, Southern--History.

African Americans--Kentucky--Social conditions.

African Americans--Kentucky--History.

Appalachian Region, Southern--Social conditions--History.

Appalachian Region, Southern.

Appalachian Region, Southern--Race relations.

Kentucky--Race relations.

Kentucky.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : 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:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908554-6-6

979-88-908554-7-3

1-4696-4704-4

1-4696-4705-2

OCLC:

1048346842