Coal, Class, and Color
Author | : Joe William Trotter |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780252061196 |
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Author | : Joe William Trotter |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780252061196 |
Author | : Joe William Trotter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : African American coal miners |
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Author | : Eugene Robinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Robinson, an editor with the Washington Post, compares race relations and racial identity in the United States and Brazil.
Author | : J. William Fell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joe William Trotter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781959000129 |
Essays by the foremost labor historian of the Black experience in the Appalachian coalfields. This collection brings together nearly three decades of research on the African American experience, class, and race relations in the Appalachian coal industry. It shows how, with deep roots in the antebellum era of chattel slavery, West Virginia's Black working class gradually picked up steam during the emancipation years following the Civil War and dramatically expanded during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From there, African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry highlights the decline of the region's Black industrial proletariat under the impact of rapid technological, social, and political changes following World War II. It underscores how all miners suffered unemployment and outmigration from the region as global transformations took their toll on the coal industry, but emphasizes the disproportionately painful impact of declining bituminous coal production on African American workers, their families, and their communities. Joe Trotter not only reiterates the contributions of proletarianization to our knowledge of US labor and working-class history but also draws attention to the gender limits of studies of Black life that focus on class formation, while calling for new transnational perspectives on the subject. Equally important, this volume illuminates the intellectual journey of a noted labor historian with deep family roots in the southern Appalachian coalfields.
Author | : Deborah R. Weiner |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2023-02-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0252054946 |
The stories of vibrant eastern European Jewish communities in the Appalachian coalfields Coalfield Jews explores the intersection of two simultaneous historic events: central Appalachia’s transformative coal boom (1880s-1920), and the mass migration of eastern European Jews to America. Traveling to southern West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and southwestern Virginia to investigate the coal boom’s opportunities, some Jewish immigrants found success as retailers and established numerous small but flourishing Jewish communities. Deborah R. Weiner’s Coalfield Jews provides the first extended study of Jews in Appalachia, exploring where they settled, how they made their place within a surprisingly receptive dominant culture, how they competed with coal company stores, interacted with their non-Jewish neighbors, and maintained a strong Jewish identity deep in the heart of the Appalachian mountains. To tell this story, Weiner draws on a wide range of primary sources in social, cultural, religious, labor, economic, and regional history. She also includes moving personal statements, from oral histories as well as archival sources, to create a holistic portrayal of Jewish life that will challenge commonly held views of Appalachia as well as the American Jewish experience.
Author | : Nicholas P Cheremisinoff |
Publisher | : William Andrew |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2012-07-10 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1437778151 |
Clean Electricity Through Advanced Coal Technologies focuses on the environmental damages caused by power plant operations and the environmental issues with solid waste, air and impoundment issues such as the massive TVA spill in Kingston, TN.
Author | : |
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Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Dyes and dyeing |
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Author | : Reniqua Allen |
Publisher | : Bold Type Books |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2019-01-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 156858587X |
Young Black Americans have been trying to realize the promise of the American Dream for centuries and coping with the reality of its limitations for just as long. Now, a new generation is pursuing success, happiness, and freedom -- on their own terms. In It Was All a Dream, Reniqua Allen tells the stories of Black millennials searching for a better future in spite of racist policies that have closed off traditional versions of success. Many watched their parents and grandparents play by the rules, only to sink deeper and deeper into debt. They witnessed their elders fight to escape cycles of oppression for more promising prospects, largely to no avail. Today, in this post-Obama era, they face a critical turning point. Interweaving her own experience with those of young Black Americans in cities and towns from New York to Los Angeles and Bluefield, West Virginia to Chicago, Allen shares surprising stories of hope and ingenuity. Instead of accepting downward mobility, Black millennials are flipping the script and rejecting White America's standards. Whether it means moving away from cities and heading South, hustling in the entertainment industry, challenging ideas about gender and sexuality, or building activist networks, they are determined to forge their own path. Compassionate and deeply reported, It Was All a Dream is a celebration of a generation's doggedness against all odds, as they fight for a country in which their dreams can become a reality.
Author | : Stephen M. Timko |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Coal |
ISBN | : 9781582485225 |