The Harlan Renaissance
West Virginia University Press (Verlag)
978-1-952271-20-5 (ISBN)
A personal remembrance from the preeminent chronicler of Black life in Appalachia.
The Harlan Renaissance is an intimate remembrance of kinship and community in eastern Kentucky's coal towns written by one of the luminaries of Appalachian studies, William Turner. Turner reconstructs Black life in the company towns in and around Harlan County during coal's final postwar boom years, which built toward an enduring bust as the children of Black miners, like the author, left the region in search of better opportunities.
The Harlan Renaissance invites readers into what might be an unfamiliar Appalachia: one studded by large and vibrant Black communities, where families took the pulse of the nation through magazines like Jet and Ebony and through the news that traveled within Black churches, schools, and restaurants. Difficult choices for the future were made as parents considered the unpredictable nature of Appalachia's economic realities alongside the unpredictable nature of a national movement toward civil rights.
Unfolding through layers of sociological insight and oral history, The Harlan Renaissance centers the sympathetic perspectives and critical eye of a master narrator of Black life.
William H. Turner is a sociologist now based near Houston, Texas. He received a lifetime of service award from the Appalachian Studies Association in 2009, which joined other career highlights that include induction into the Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.08.2021 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 30 b&w images |
| Verlagsort | Morganstown |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 127 x 203 mm |
| Gewicht | 519 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Technik ► Bergbau | |
| Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-952271-20-7 / 1952271207 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-952271-20-5 / 9781952271205 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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