Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns

ISBN-13: 9781952271205 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 352 str.

William H. Turner

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• Foreword by Loyal Jones
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Alex Haley—The Taproot
• 2. Between Alex Haley, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ed Cabbell, and the Affrilachian Poets
• 3. Black Mountain Mantrips and Woman Trips
• 4. What's in a Name?
• 5. Black Folk Done Lost Their Stuff
• 6. The Common Narrative of Black Appalachian Coal-Camp Families
• 7. Blacks Moving between Central Alabama and Central Appalachia
• 8. Close-Knit Central Appalachian Coal-Camp Black Communities
• 9. On Trash-Talking and Signifying along Looney Creek
• 10. In a Coal Mine, Everybody Is Black; Outside, Not So Much
• 11. School Integration Was Worse than a Kick in the Head by an Alabama Mule
• 12. The Principal of the White School Became a Lifelong Friend
• 13. Not Bad for Some Colored Kids from Harlan County, Kentucky
• 14. King Coal Leaves the Throne
• 15. The Graying of the Eastern Kentucky Social Club
• 16. Meditating on the Future at the Mountaintop
• Notes
• Index