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Author Turner, William Hobart, author.

Title The Harlan renaissance : stories of Black life in Appalachian coal towns / William H. Turner.

Publication Info. Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2021.

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Contents Alex Haley-The Taproot -- Between Alex Haley, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ed Cabbell, and the Affrilachian Poets -- Black Mountain Mantrips and Woman Trips -- What's in a Name? -- Black Folk Done Lost Their Stuff -- The Common Narrative of Black Appalachian Coal-Camp Families -- Blacks Moving between Central Alabama and Central Appalachia -- Close-Knit Central Appalachian Coal Camp Black Communities -- On Trash-Talking and Signifying along Looney Creek -- In a Coal Mine, Everybody Is Black; Outside, Not So Much -- School Integration Was Worse than a Kick in the Head by an Alabama Mule -- The Principal of the White School Became a Lifelong Friend -- Not Bad for Some Colored Kids from Harlan County, Kentucky -- King Coal Leaves the Throne -- The Graying of the Eastern Kentucky Social Club -- Meditating on the Future at the Mountaintop.
Summary 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.
Subject Turner, William Hobart -- Family.
Turner, William Hobart.
Children of coal miners -- Kentucky -- Lynch -- Biography.
African Americans -- Appalachian Region -- History -- 20th century.
Lynch (Ky.) -- Biography.
Harlan County (Ky.) -- Social life and customs.
Appalachian Region -- Social conditions.
Appalachian Region -- Race relations.
Appalachian Region -- History.
Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
Children of coal miners. (OCoLC)fst00855330
African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
Kentucky -- Lynch. (OCoLC)fst01252216
Kentucky -- Harlan County. (OCoLC)fst01221432
Appalachian Region. (OCoLC)fst01240092
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Other Form: Print version. Turner, William Hobart. Harlan renaissance. First edition. Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2021 9781952271205 (DLC) 2021009493 (OCoLC)1246284158
ISBN 9781952271229 (electronic book)
1952271223 (electronic book)
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