Bøger i Series in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia serien
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258,95 - 688,95 kr. Loving Mountains, Loving Men is the first book-length treatment of a topic rarely discussed or examined: gay life in Appalachia. Appalachians are known for their love of place, yet many gays and lesbians from the mountains flee to urban areas.
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- 258,95 kr.
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- A Dual Memoir of Race and Class in Appalachia
243,95 - 443,95 kr. A groundbreaking approach to studying not only cultural linguistics but also the cultural heritage of a historic time and place in America. It gives witness to the issues of race and class inherent in the way we write, speak, and think.
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- 243,95 kr.
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- A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine
298,95 - 920,95 kr. Organized around the life histories, medical struggles, and recollections of Otis Trotter and his thirteen siblings, Keeping Heart is a personal account of an African American family's journey north during the second Great Migration.
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- 298,95 kr.
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- The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman
343,95 - 688,95 kr. This oral history, based on interview transcripts, is the untold story of African American life in West Virginia, as seen through the eyes of a remarkable woman: Memphis Tennessee Garrison, an innovative teacher, administrative worker at US Steel, and vice president of the National Board of the NAACP at the height of the civil rights struggle.
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- 343,95 kr.
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- Appalachian Stories
243,95 - 693,95 kr. Meredith Sue Willis's Out of the Mountains is a collection of thirteen short stories set in contemporary Appalachia. Firmly grounded in place, the stories voyage out into the conflicting cultural identities that native Appalachians experience as they balance mainstream and mountain identities.
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- 243,95 kr.
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- The Journals of Emma Bell Miles, 1908-1918
328,95 - 757,95 kr. Previously examined only by a handful of scholars, the journals of Emma Bell Miles (1879-1919) contain poignant and incisive accounts of nature and a woman's perspective on love and marriage, death customs, child raising, medical care, and subsistence on the land in southern Appalachia in the early twentieth century.
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- 328,95 kr.
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- A Family Narrative
388,95 - 763,95 kr. Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative traces Linda Tate's journey to rediscover the Cherokee-Appalachian branch of her family and provides an unflinching examination of the poverty, discrimination, and family violence that marked their lives.
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- 388,95 kr.
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- Appalachian Women's Literacies
406,95 - 813,95 kr. Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment blends literacy studies with literary criticism to analyze the central female characters in the works of Harriette Simpson Arnow, Linda Scott DeRosier, Denise Giardina, and Lee Smith.
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- 406,95 kr.
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- Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal
318,95 - 1.098,95 kr. Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal examines women's efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia.
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- 318,95 kr.
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- Teaming Up with Resilient Youth in Appalachia
388,95 - 613,95 kr. Written in an accessible, engaging style and drawing on collaborative ethnographic research that the girls themselves helped conduct, Thinking Outside the Girl Box tells the true story of an innovative program determined to challenge the small, disempowering "boxes" girls and women are so often expected to live in.
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- 388,95 kr.
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- 921,95 kr.
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- 458,95 kr.
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- Stories from an Appalachian Family
243,95 - 702,95 kr. Reveals some of the ways that historical moments of the twentieth century affected the entire region.
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- 243,95 kr.
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358,95 - 563,95 kr. Contemporaries were shocked when author Mary Noailles Murfree revealed she was a woman, but modern readers may be more surprised by her cogent discussion of community responses to unwanted development.
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- 358,95 kr.