African American Miners and Migrants

African American Miners and Migrants

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Thomas E. Wagner, Wagner
University of Illinois Press
EAN: 9780252092732
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Thomas E. Wagner and Phillip J. Obermiller's African American Miners and Migrants documents the lives of Eastern Kentucky Social Club (EKSC) members, a group of black Appalachians who left the eastern Kentucky coalfields and their coal company hometowns in Harlan County. Bound together by segregation, the inherent dangers of mining, and coal company paternalism, it might seem that black miners and mountaineers would be eager to forget their past. Instead, members of the EKSC have chosen to celebrate their Harlan County roots. African American Miners and Migrants uses historical and archival research and extensive personal interviews to explore their reasons and the ties that still bind them to eastern Kentucky. The book also examines life in the model coal towns of Benham and Lynch in the context of Progressive Era policies, the practice of welfare capitalism, and the contemporary national trend of building corporate towns and planned communities.
EAN 9780252092732
ISBN 0252092732
Typ produktu Ebook
Vydavateľ University of Illinois Press
Dátum vydania 1. októbra 2010
Stránky 176
Jazyk English
Krajina Uruguay
Autori Philip J. Obermiller, Obermiller; Thomas E. Wagner, Wagner