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):

Social conditions.

Race relations--Political aspects.

Race relations.

Public opinion.

Poor white people.

Politics and government.

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

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

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

Appalachians (People)--Public opinion.

Appalachians (People).

United States.

Southern Appalachian Region.

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

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

Appalachian Region, Southern--Public opinion.

Appalachian Region, Southern.

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

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

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages): illustrations ;

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:

Introduction: In the Shadow of Daniel Boone and David Crockett : The Troubled Legacy of Race Histories

Appalachian Anxiety and the Paradox of Purity in an Age of Empire

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

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

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

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

The Limits of Liberalism and the Changing Face of Poverty : The Collapse of the Kennedy-Johnson Coalition

Conclusion: The Persistence of a Region, the Power of Mythology.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781621901693

1621901696

OCLC:

1498869514