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Sixteen essays document the extent and variety of community resistance and struggle in Appalachia since 1960, and the origins and factors contributing to success or failure of particular efforts. They also relate the study of Appalachian dissent to issues informing scholarly discussions of dissent nationally. Of particular educational relevance are chapters describing: the role of the Highlander Research and Education Center in eastern Tennessee in encouraging activist networks and the creation of a social movement in Appalachia; organizations providing job training and advocacy for women seeking to enter traditional male occupations; cultural education and the rebirth of regional culture as a force in regional identity and community organizing; and the emergence of Appalachian studies, and related political implications of postmodernist thought. Chapters are: "Stopping the Bulldozers: What Difference Did It Make?" (M. B. Bingman); "Like a Flower Slowly Blooming: Highlander and the Nurturing of an Appalachian Movement" (J. M. Glen); "Racism and Organizing in Appalachia" (D. Manning-Miller); "From Fussin' to Organizing: Individual and Collective Resistance at Yellow Creek" (S. Cabl

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Author

Stephen L. Fisher

Publisher

Temple University Press, Broad & Oxford Streets, USB 305, Philadelphia, PA 19112 (clothbound: ISBN-0-87722-976-7, $49.95; paperback: ISBN-0-87722-977-5, $19.95)

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9781439901571

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Sociology, Social Science