Gone home : race and roots through Appalachia

Brown, Karida 1982- (author.).

Summary: "Karida L. Brown's Gone Home offers a much-needed corrective to the current white-washing of Appalachia. In telling the stories of Appalachian African Americans living and working in steel and coal towns, Brown offers a deep and sweeping look at race, the formation of identity, changes in politics and policy, and black migration in the region and beyond"--

Record details

OCLC: on1048346842
ISBN: 1469647044
ISBN: 9781469647043
ISBN: 1469647036
ISBN: 9781469647036
ISBN: 1469647052
ISBN: 9781469647050
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Published: Chapel Hill :University of North Carolina Press,[2018]
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]

Content descriptions

Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:	The coming of the coal industry -- The great migration escape -- Home -- Children, and black children -- The colored school -- A change gone come -- Gone home.