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| appalachian studies programs online: Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics Phil Jamison, 2015-07-15 In Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics, old-time musician and flatfoot dancer Philip Jamison journeys into the past and surveys the present to tell the story behind the square dances, step dances, reels, and other forms of dance practiced in southern Appalachia. These distinctive folk dances, Jamison argues, are not the unaltered jigs and reels brought by early British settlers, but hybrids that developed over time by adopting and incorporating elements from other popular forms. He traces the forms from their European, African American, and Native American roots to the modern day. On the way he explores the powerful influence of black culture, showing how practices such as calling dances as well as specific kinds of steps combined with white European forms to create distinctly American dances. From cakewalks to clogging, and from the Shoo-fly Swing to the Virginia Reel, Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics reinterprets an essential aspect of Appalachian culture. |
| appalachian studies programs online: After Coal Tom Hansell, 2018 What happens when fossil fuels run out? How do communities and cultures survive? Central Appalachia and south Wales were built to extract coal, and faced with coal's decline, both regions have experienced economic depression, labor unrest, and out-migration. After Coal focuses on coalfield residents who chose not to leave, but instead remained in their communities and worked to build a diverse and sustainable economy. It tells the story of four decades of exchange between two mining communities on opposite sides of the Atlantic, and profiles individuals and organizations that are undertaking the critical work of regeneration. The stories in this book are told through interviews and photographs collected during the making of After Coal, a documentary film produced by the Center for Appalachian Studies at Appalachian State University and directed by Tom Hansell. Considering resonances between Appalachia and Wales in the realms of labor, environment, and movements for social justice, the book approaches the transition from coal as an opportunity for marginalized people around the world to work toward safer and more egalitarian futures. |
| appalachian studies programs online: Studying Appalachian Studies Chad Berry, Philip J. Obermiller, Shaunna L. Scott, 2015-06-15 In this collection, contributors reflect on scholarly, artistic, activist, educational, and practical endeavor known as Appalachian Studies. Following an introduction to the field, the writers discuss how Appalachian Studies illustrates the ways interdisciplinary studies emerge, organize, and institutionalize themselves, and how they engage with intellectual, political, and economic forces both locally and around the world. Essayists argue for Appalachian Studies' integration with kindred fields like African American studies, women's studies, and Southern studies, and they urge those involved in the field to globalize the perspective of Appalachian Studies; to commit to continued applied, participatory action, and community-based research; to embrace more fully the field's capacity for bringing about social justice; to advocate for a more accurate understanding of Appalachia and its people; and to understand and overcome the obstacles interdisciplinary studies face in the social and institutional construction of knowledge. Contributors: Chris Baker, Chad Berry, Donald Edward Davis, Amanda Fickey, Chris Green, Erica Abrams Locklear, Phillip J. Obermiller, Douglas Reichert Powell, Michael Samers, Shaunna L. Scott, and Barbara Ellen Smith. |
| appalachian studies programs online: Appalachian Reckoning Anthony Harkins, Meredith McCarroll, 2019 In Hillbilly elegy, J.D. Vance described how his family moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan while navigating the collective demons of the past. The book has come to define Appalachia for much of the nation. This collection of essays is a retort, at turns rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow cast over the region and its imagining. But it also moves beyond Vance's book to allow Appalachians to tell their own diverse and complex stories of a place that is at once culturally rich and economically distressed, unique and typically American. -- adapted from back cover |
| appalachian studies programs online: Removing Mountains Rebecca R. Scott, 2010 An ethnography of coal country in southern West Virginia. |
| appalachian studies programs online: Southern Folk Medicine Phyllis D. Light, 2018-01-16 For the first time ever, an active practitioner describes the history, folklore, and remedies of Southern and Appalachian Folk Medicine in this groundbreaking guide for curious herbalists. This book is the first to describe the history, folklore, assessment methods, and remedies of Southern and Appalachian Folk Medicine—the only system of folk medicine, other than Native American, that developed in the United States. One of the system's last active practitioners, Phyllis D. Light has studied and worked with herbs, foods, and other healing techniques for more than thirty years. In everyday language, she explains how Southern and Appalachian Folk Medicine was passed down orally through the generations by herbalists and healers who cared for people in their communities with the natural tools on hand. Drawing from Greek, Native American, African, and British sources, this uniquely American folk medicine combines what is useful and practical from many traditions to create an energetic system that is coherent and valuable today. |
| appalachian studies programs online: Dwight Diller Lewis M. Stern, 2016-05-03 Dwight Hamilton Diller is a musician from West Virginia devoted to traditional Appalachian fiddle and banjo music, and a seminary-trained minister steeped in local Christian traditions. For the past 40 years, he has worked to preserve archaic fiddle and banjo tunes, teaching his percussive, primitively rhythmic style to small groups in marathon banjo workshops. This book tells of Diller's life and music, his personal challenges and his decades of teaching an elusive musical form. |
| appalachian studies programs online: Aunt Arie Linda Garland Page, Eliot Wigginton, 2000-11-09 Of all the people documented by the Foxfire students since 1966, none has been more appealing to readers than Arie Carpenter. For all those who have read and cherished the Foxfire books, here is a loving portrait of a fondly remembered friend. This book is not just about Aunt Arie; it is Aunt Arie. In her own words, she discusses everything from planting, harvesting, and cooking to her thoughts about religion and her feelings about living alone. Also included are testimonials from many who knew her and a wealth of photographs. |
| appalachian studies programs online: A Foxfire Christmas Eliot Wigginton, 2010-02-15 New in paperback This captivating book of recollections celebrates the holiday traditions of Appalachian families as passed from one generation to the next. Based on Foxfire students' interviews with neighbors and family members, the memories shared here are from a simpler time, when gifts were fewer but perhaps more precious, and holiday tables were laden with traditional favorites. More than just reminiscences, however, A Foxfire Christmas includes instructions for recreating many of the ornaments, toys, and recipes that make up so many family traditions, from Chicken and Dumplings to Black Walnut Cake, and from candy pulls to corn husk dolls and hand-whittled toy cars. |
| appalachian studies programs online: All the Great Territories Matthew Austin Wimberley, 2020-02-14 Winner, Watherford Award for Best Books about Appalachia, 2020 In 2012 Matthew Wimberley took a two-month journey, traveling and living out of his car, during which time he had planned to spread his father’s ashes. By trip’s end, the ashes remained, but Wimberley had begun a conversation with his deceased father that is continued here in his debut collection. All the Great Territories is a book of elegies for a father as well as a confrontation with the hostile, yet beautiful landscape of southern Appalachia. In the wake of an estranged father’s death, the speaker confronts that loss while celebrating the geography of childhood and the connections formed between the living and the dead. The narrative poems in this collection tell one story through many: a once failed relationship, the conversations we have with those we love after they are gone. In an attempt to make sense of the father-son relationship, Wimberley embraces and explores the pain of personal loss and the beauty of the natural world. Stitching together sundered realms—from Idaho to the Blue Ridge Mountains and from the ghost of memory to the iron present of self—Wimberley produces a map for reckoning with grief and the world’s darker forces. At once a labor of love and a searing indictment of those who sensationalize and dehumanize the people and geography of Appalachia, All the Great Territories sparks the reader forward, creating a homeland all its own. “Because it’s my memory I can give it to you,” Wimberley’s speaker declares, and it’s a promise well kept in this tender and remarkable debut. |
| appalachian studies programs online: Degrees of Elevation Charles Dodd White, Page Seay, 2010 16 stories of Appalachia today by some of our top writers. This collection brings us into the present with its struggles and beauty. Human character remains strong in these stories of life in Appalachia. Writers include: Rusty Barnes, Sheldon Lee Compton, Jarrid Deaton, Richard Hague, Silas House, Chris Holbrook, Denton Loving, Mindy Beth Miller, John McManus, Jim Nichols, Valerie Nieman, Chris Offutt, Mark Powell, Ron Rash, Alex Taylor, Crystal Wilkinson |
| appalachian studies programs online: Challenge and Change in Appalachia Jess Stoddart, 2002-12-01 The first and most successful rural social settlement school in the United States lies at the forks of Troublesome Creek in Knott County, Kentucky. Since its founding in 1902 by May Stone and Katherine Pettit, the Hindman Settlement School has received accolades for the quality of its education, health, and community services that have measurably improved the lives of people in the region. Challenge and Change in Appalachia is the story of a groundbreaking center for education that transformed a community. The School's farms and extension work brought modern methods to the area. At the same time, the School encouraged preservation of the region's crafts and music. Today, unique programs for dyslexic children, work in adult education, and cultural heritage activities make the School a model for rural redevelopment. |
| appalachian studies programs online: Love Valley Conrad Eugene Ostwalt, 1998 Love Valley is a small town in rural North Carolina. Its genesis in 1954 marked the fulfillment of a dream for founder Andy Barker. Barker cultivated two visions as a young man--he wanted to build a Christian community, and he wanted to be a cowboy. The result of his vision is Barker's utopian experiment. The town boasts a saloon, general store, hitching posts, and rodeos. Yet, above all of this stands a little church--the heart of what Barker conceived as his Christian utopia. This unique combination has led to more than forty years of philanthropic ventures, controversial events such as the Love Valley Rock Festival, stories and legends, and political ambition. Love Valley: An American Utopia captures the history of this town in narrative form while arguing that Love Valley's founders were motivated by utopian goals. |
| appalachian studies programs online: Comprehensive Literacy for All Karen A. Erickson, Karen Erickson, David Koppenhaver, 2019-12-17 An essential resource for educators, speech-language pathologists, and parents--and an ideal text for courses that cover literacy and significant disabilities--this book will help you ensure that all students have the reading and writing skills they need to unlock new opportunities and reach their potential. |
| appalachian studies programs online: An Environmental History of the Civil War Judkin Browning, Timothy Silver, 2020-02-20 This sweeping new history recognizes that the Civil War was not just a military conflict but also a moment of profound transformation in Americans' relationship to the natural world. To be sure, environmental factors such as topography and weather powerfully shaped the outcomes of battles and campaigns, and the war could not have been fought without the horses, cattle, and other animals that were essential to both armies. But here Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver weave a far richer story, combining military and environmental history to forge a comprehensive new narrative of the war's significance and impact. As they reveal, the conflict created a new disease environment by fostering the spread of microbes among vulnerable soldiers, civilians, and animals; led to large-scale modifications of the landscape across several states; sparked new thinking about the human relationship to the natural world; and demanded a reckoning with disability and death on an ecological scale. And as the guns fell silent, the change continued; Browning and Silver show how the war influenced the future of weather forecasting, veterinary medicine, the birth of the conservation movement, and the establishment of the first national parks. In considering human efforts to find military and political advantage by reshaping the natural world, Browning and Silver show not only that the environment influenced the Civil War's outcome but also that the war was a watershed event in the history of the environment itself. |
| appalachian studies programs online: A Place in the Sky Richard David Wissolik, David Wilmes, 2001 The history of the Arnold Palmer Regional airport in Latrobe, Westmoreland Country, Pennsylvania. |
| appalachian studies programs online: Helen Matthews Lewis Helen Matthews Lewis, 2012-03-14 Often referred to as the leader of inspiration in Appalachian studies, Helen Matthews Lewis linked scholarship with activism and encouraged deeper analysis of the region. Lewis shaped the field of Appalachian studies by emphasizing community participation and challenging traditional perceptions of the region and its people. Helen Matthews Lewis: Living Social Justice in Appalachia, a collection of Lewis's writings and memories that document her life and work, begins in 1943 with her job on the yearbook staff at Georgia State College for Women with Mary Flannery O'Connor. Editors Patricia D. Beaver and Judith Jennings highlight the achievements of Lewis's extensive career, examining her role as a teacher and activist at Clinch Valley College (now University of Virginia at Wise) and East Tennessee State University in the 1960s, as well as her work with Appalshop and the Highland Center. Helen Matthews Lewis connects Lewis's works to wider social movements by examining the history of progressive activism in Appalachia. The book provides unique insight into the development of regional studies and the life of a dynamic revolutionary, delivering a captivating and personal narrative of one woman's mission of activism and social justice. |
| appalachian studies programs online: Looking Beyond the Ivy League Loren Pope, 2007-12-18 The celebrated book that revolutionized the way Americans choose colleges-now fully revised and updated An invaluable guide with virtually no competition, this book helped to establish Loren Pope as one of the nation's most respected experts on the college application process. Now fully revised and updated, Looking Beyond the Ivy League offers a step-by-step guide to selecting the right institution, a checklist of specific questions to ask when visiting a college, the secrets to creating good applications and good applicants, and much more. With as few as one-third of college students remaining at the institution they entered as freshmen, finding the right college is harder than ever before. This book makes it easier for students and their parents. |
| appalachian studies programs online: Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers Ronald D. Eller, 1982 As a benchmark book should, this one will stimulate the imagination and industry of future researchers as well as wrapping up the results of the last two decades of research... Eller's greatest achievement results from his successful fusion of scholarly virtues with literary ones. The book is comprehensive, but not overlong. It is readable but not superficial. The reader who reads only one book in a lifetime on Appalachia cannot do better than to choose this one... No one will be able to ignore it except those who refuse to confront the uncomfortable truths about American society and culture that Appalachia's history conveys. -- John A. Williams, Appalachian Journal. |
| appalachian studies programs online: Black Bone Bianca Lynne Spriggs, Jeremy Paden, 2018-02-23 The Appalachian region stretches from Mississippi to New York, encompassing rural areas as well as cities from Birmingham to Pittsburgh. Though Appalachia's people are as diverse as its terrain, few other regions in America are as burdened with stereotypes. Author Frank X Walker coined the term Affrilachia to give identity and voice to people of African descent from this region and to highlight Appalachia's multicultural identity. This act inspired a group of gifted artists, the Affrilachian Poets, to begin working together and using their writing to defy persistent stereotypes of Appalachia as a racially and culturally homogenized region. After years of growth, honors, and accomplishments, the group is acknowledging its silver anniversary with Black Bone. Edited by two newer members of the Affrilachian Poets, Bianca Lynne Spriggs and Jeremy Paden, Black Bone is a beautiful collection of both new and classic work and features submissions from Frank X Walker, Nikky Finney, Gerald Coleman, Crystal Wilkinson, Kelly Norman Ellis, and many others. This illuminating and powerful collection is a testament to a groundbreaking group and its enduring legacy. |
| appalachian studies programs online: Mountain Days Paul M. Fink, 2019-08 In 1974, Paul M. Fink published Backpacking Was the Only Way, a memoir of exploration in the Smoky Mountain backcountry that is long out of print. The basis of the book was a journal kept from 1914 to 1938, combined with evocative photographs that Fink compiled into a manuscript he called Mountain Days. The manuscript is now considered to be a unique and insightful first-person account of the region. Containing rare historical accounts of the manways, camps, and cabins once used by adventurers exploring the mountains before the advent of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, this is the first widely-accessible publication of Mountain Days. This edition features a new foreword by Ken Wise, professor and director of the Great Smoky Mountain Regional Project at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville's John C. Hodges Library. An open access edition of Mountains Days is available from the Hunter Library at Western Carolina University. |
| appalachian studies programs online: Belonging Nora Krug, 2019-09-17 * Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award * Silver Medal Society of Illustrators * * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Comics Beat, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal This “ingenious reckoning with the past” (The New York Times), by award-winning artist Nora Krug investigates the hidden truths of her family’s wartime history in Nazi Germany. Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow over her childhood and youth in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany. Yet she knew little about her own family’s involvement; though all four grandparents lived through the war, they never spoke of it. After twelve years in the US, Krug realizes that living abroad has only intensified her need to ask the questions she didn’t dare to as a child. Returning to Germany, she visits archives, conducts research, and interviews family members, uncovering in the process the stories of her maternal grandfather, a driving teacher in Karlsruhe during the war, and her father’s brother Franz-Karl, who died as a teenage SS soldier. In this extraordinary quest, “Krug erases the boundaries between comics, scrapbooking, and collage as she endeavors to make sense of 20th-century history, the Holocaust, her German heritage, and her family's place in it all” (The Boston Globe). A highly inventive, “thoughtful, engrossing” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) graphic memoir, Belonging “packs the power of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and David Small’s Stitches” (NPR.org). |
| appalachian studies programs online: They Say There was a War Richard David Wissolik, Katie Killen, 2005 A collection of the personal memoirs of a variety of American soldiers who served in the 2nd World War. |
| appalachian studies programs online: Unwhite Meredith McCarroll, 2018-10-15 Appalachia resides in the American imagination at the intersections of race and class in a very particular way, in the tension between deep historic investments in seeing the region as “pure white stock” and as deeply impoverished and backward. Meredith McCarroll’s Unwhite analyzes the fraught location of Appalachians within the southern and American imaginaries, building on studies of race in literary and cinematic characterizations of the American South. Not only do we know what “rednecks” and “white trash” are, McCarroll argues, we rely on the continued use of such categories in fashioning our broader sense of self and other. Further, we continue to depend upon the existence of the region of Appalachia as a cultural construct. As a consequence, Appalachia has long been represented in the collective cultural history as the lowest, the poorest, the most ignorant, and the most laughable community. McCarroll complicates this understanding by asserting that white privilege remains intact while Appalachia is othered through reliance on recognizable nonwhite cinematic stereotypes. Unwhite demonstrates how typical characterizations of Appalachian people serve as foils to set off and define the “whiteness” of the non-Appalachian southerners. In this dynamic, Appalachian characters become the racial other. Analyzing the representation of the people of Appalachia in films such as Deliverance, Cold Mountain, Medium Cool, Norma Rae, Cape Fear, The Killing Season, and Winter’s Bone through the critical lens of race and specifically whiteness, McCarroll offers a reshaping of the understanding of the relationship between racial and regional identities. |
| appalachian studies programs online: Colonialism in Modern America Helen Matthews Lewis, Linda Johnson, Donald Askins, 2017 Colonialism in Modern America is a series of essays exploring the economic and social problems of the region within the context of colonialism. It is a relatively simple task to document the social ills and the environmental ravage that beset the people and land of Appalachia. However, it is far more difficult and problematic to uncover the causes of these tragic conditions. |
| appalachian studies programs online: Engaging Appalachia Rebecca Adkins Fletcher, Rebecca-Eli Long, William Schumann, 2023-03-07 Inclusive campus-community collaborations provide critical opportunities to build community capacity—defined as a community's ability to jointly respond to challenges and opportunities—and sustainability. Through case studies from across all three subregions of Appalachia from Georgia to Pennsylvania, Engaging Appalachia: A Guidebook for Building Capacity and Sustainability offers diverse perspectives and guidance for promoting social change through campus-community relationships from faculty, community members, and student contributors. This volume explores strategies for creating more inclusive and sustainable partnerships through the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. In representing diverse areas, environments, and issues, three relatable themes emerge within a practice viewpoint that is scalable to communities beyond Appalachia: fostering student leadership, asset-building, and needs fulfillment within community engagement. Engaging Appalachia presents collaborative approaches to regional community engagement and offers important lessons in place-based methods for achieving sustainable and just development. Written with practicality in mind, this guidebook embraces hard-earned experiences from decades of work in Appalachia and sets forth new models for building community resilience in a changing world. |
| appalachian studies programs online: The Cancer Crisis in Appalachia Nathan L. Vanderford, Lauren Hudson, Chris Prichard, 2020-04-07 Kentucky has more cancer diagnoses and cancer-related deaths than any other state in the nation, and most of these cases are concentrated in the fifty-four counties that constitute the Appalachian region of the commonwealth. These high rankings can be attributed to factors such as elevated smoking rates, unhealthy eating habits, lower levels of education, and limited access to health care. What is lost in the statistics is just how life-changing cancer can be—something that editors Nathan L. Vanderford, Lauren Hudson, and Chris Prichard have endeavored to address. The Cancer Crisis in Appalachia features essays written by a group of twenty high school and five undergraduate students, all of whom are residents of Kentucky's Appalachian region and are participants in the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center's Appalachian Career Training in Oncology (ACTION) program, which is funded by the National Cancer Institute's Youth Enjoy Science Program. These authentic and candid student essays detail the effects of cancer diagnoses and deaths on individuals, families, friends, and communities, and proclaim these cases as more than nameless statistics. The authors shed light on personal cancer stories in hopes of inspiring readers to avoid cancer-risk behaviors, get involved with cancer-prevention initiatives, give generously, and uplift cancer patients and their loved ones. |
| appalachian studies programs online: Hollows, Peepers, and Highlanders George Constantz, 1994 This eclectic collection of essays exposes the natural conflicts that underlie the beauty and mystery of Appalachian life. The heart of the book explores the quirky, even bizarre, adaptations of selected Appalachian plants and animals -- violence among fireflies, sexual parasitism within frog choruses, and deception by flowers. |
| appalachian studies programs online: An Appalachian New Deal Jerry Bruce Thomas, 2010-03 In this paperback edition of An Appalachian New Deal: West Virginia in the Great Depression, Jerry Bruce Thomas examines the economic and social conditions of the state of West Virginia before, during, and after the Great Depression. Thomas's exploration of personal papers by leading political and social figures, newspapers, and the published and unpublished records of federal, state, local, and private agencies, traces a region's response to an economic depression and a presidential stimulus program. This dissection of federal and state policies implemented under Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal program reveals the impact of poverty upon political, gender, race, and familial relations within the Mountain State—and the entire country. Through An Appalachian New Deal, Thomas documents the stories of ordinary citizens who survived a period of economic crisis and echoes a message from our nation's past to a new generation enduring financial hardship and uncertainty. |
| appalachian studies programs online: Power and Powerlessness John Gaventa, 1982 Explains to outsiders the conflicts between the financial interests of the coal and land companies and the moral rights of the vulnerable mountaineers. |
| appalachian studies programs online: Dear Appalachia Emily Satterwhite, 2011-10-01 Much criticism has been directed at negative stereotypes of Appalachia perpetuated by movies, television shows, and news media. Books, on the other hand, often draw enthusiastic praise for their celebration of the simplicity and authenticity of the Appalachian region. Dear Appalachia: Readers, Identity, and Popular Fiction since 1878 employs the innovative new strategy of examining fan mail, reviews, and readers’ geographic affiliations to understand how readers have imagined the region and what purposes these imagined geographies have served for them. As Emily Satterwhite traces the changing visions of Appalachia across the decades, from the Gilded Age (1865–1895) to the present, she finds that every generation has produced an audience hungry for a romantic version of Appalachia. According to Satterwhite, best-selling fiction has portrayed Appalachia as a distinctive place apart from the mainstream United States, has offered cosmopolitan white readers a sense of identity and community, and has engendered feelings of national and cultural pride. Thanks in part to readers’ faith in authors as authentic representatives of the regions they write about, Satterwhite argues, regional fiction often plays a role in creating and affirming regional identity. By mapping the geographic locations of fans, Dear Appalachia demonstrates that mobile white readers in particular, including regional elites, have idealized Appalachia as rooted, static, and protected from commercial society in order to reassure themselves that there remains an “authentic” America untouched by global currents. Investigating texts such as John Fox Jr.’s The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908), Harriette Arnow’s The Dollmaker (1954), James Dickey’s Deliverance (1970), and Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain (1997), Dear Appalachia moves beyond traditional studies of regional fiction to document the functions of these narratives in the lives of readers, revealing not only what people have thought about Appalachia, but why. |
| appalachian studies programs online: An Appalachian Reawakening Jerry Bruce Thomas, 2010 As the long boom of post-World War II economic expansion spread across the globe, dreams of white picket fences, democratic ideals, and endless opportunities flourished within the United States. Middle America experienced a period of affluent stability built upon a modern age of industrialization. Yet for the people of Appalachia, this new era brought economic, social, and environmental devastation, preventing many from realizing the American Dream. Some families suffered in silence; some joined a mass exodus from the mountains; while others, trapped by unemployment, poverty, illness, and injury became dependent upon welfare. As the one state most completely Appalachian, West Virginia symbolized the region's dilemma, even as it provided much of the labor and natural resources that fueled the nation's prosperity. An Appalachian Reawakening: West Virginia and the Perils of the New Machine Age, 1945-1972 recounts the difficulties the state of West Virginia faced during the post-World War II period. While documenting this turmoil, this valuable analysis also traces the efforts of the New Frontier and Great Society programs, which stimulated maximum feasible participation and lead to the ultimate rise of grass roots activities and organizations that improved life and labor in the region and undermined the notion of Appalachian fatalism. |
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| appalachian studies programs online: The Poverty and Education Reader Paul C. Gorski, Julie Landsman, 2023-07-03 Through a rich mix of essays, memoirs, and poetry, the contributors to The Poverty and Education Reader bring to the fore the schooling experiences of poor and working class students, highlighting the resiliency, creativity, and educational aspirations of low-income families. They showcase proven strategies that imaginative teachers and schools have adopted for closing the opportunity gap, demonstrating how they have succeeded by working in partnership with low-income families, and despite growing class sizes, the imposition of rote pedagogical models, and teach-to-the-test mandates. The contributors—teachers, students, parents, educational activists, and scholars—repudiate the prevalent, but too rarely discussed, deficit views of students and families in poverty. Rather than focusing on how to “fix” poor and working class youth, they challenge us to acknowledge the ways these youth and their families are disenfranchised by educational policies and practices that deny them the opportunities enjoyed by their wealthier peers. Just as importantly, they offer effective school and classroom strategies to mitigate the effects of educational inequality on students in poverty. Rejecting the simplistic notion that a single program, policy, or pedagogy can undo social or educational inequalities, this Reader inspires and equips educators to challenge the disparities to which underserved communities are subjected. It is a positive resource for students of education and for teachers, principals, social workers, community organizers, and policy makers who want to make the promise of educational equality a reality. |
| appalachian studies programs online: Cyberactivism on the Participatory Web Martha McCaughey, 2014-04-16 Cyberactivism already has a rich history, but over the past decade the participatory web—with its de-centralized information/media sharing, portability, storage capacity, and user-generated content—has reshaped political and social change. Cyberactivism on the Participatory Web examines the impact of these new technologies on political organizing and protest across the political spectrum, from the Arab Spring to artists to far-right groups. Linking new information and communication technologies to possibilities for solidarity and action—as well as surveillance and control—in a context of global capital flow, war, and environmental crisis, the contributors to this volume provide nuanced analyses of the dramatic transformations in media, citizenship, and social movements taking place today. |
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| appalachian studies programs online: Safe, Seen, and Stretched in the Classroom Julie Schmidt Hasson, 2021-11-29 Everyone remembers their favorite teacher, but why? What makes some teachers so memorable? Julie Schmidt Hasson spent a year interviewing people about teachers who’ve shaped their lives, and the result is this captivating book. She shares stories that are both inspirational, highlighting the ways a teacher’s actions can make a lasting impact, and also informational, providing models to help teachers make a more consistent impact on the students they serve. Chapters cover topics such as commitment, vulnerability, power, connection, expectations, community, identity, and equity, while underscoring the importance of making students feel safe, seen, and stretched. In each chapter, the author brings you along as she conducts interviews and hears emotional stories. She also offers practical takeaways and applications for educators of all levels of experience. With this uplifting book, you will be reminded that your seemingly ordinary interactions in the classroom have extraordinary implications, and that you indeed have the power to influence students’ lives – each and every day. |
| appalachian studies programs online: When Winter Come Frank X. Walker, 2008-02-01 A sequel to the award-winning Buffalo Dance offers a dramatic and poetic reimagining of the Lewis and Clark expedition into the unexplored wilderness of the American West in a series of poems that share the narrator York's perspectives on the members of the party and the people and places they encounter along the way. Simultaneous. |
| appalachian studies programs online: Appalachian Homilies Roberta Teague Herrin, 2024-06-06 Appalachian Homilies is a collection of short essays which addresses a variety of topics, such as institutions, foodways, music, urbanity, industry, justice, and cultural fabric. These pithy writings are suitable for brief sittings, each one inspiring the reader to think deeply and creatively about Appalachia--to think beyond the usual regional cliches. Their brevity makes them ideal for stimulating discussion in any setting, from book clubs to Sunday schools, and they make superb writing prompts for classrooms above grade seven. The essays originally appeared in Now & Then magazine, a publication of the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services at East Tennessee State University. |
| appalachian studies programs online: Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology Michelle D. Miller, 2022 Concise, nontechnical explanations of major principles of memory and attention, plus ideas for handling technology use in the classroom-- |
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Why are boys more likely to be "hits or misses?" - Politics and …
This has always been a feature of maleness. It may have something to do with the effects of testosterone which can amplify both good and bad features in a person.
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programs. This also bodes well for this Communication Studies degree graduate program to continue to grow and flourish. The long term and short term goals of this degree program are …
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Appalachian Studies, Minor
Appalachian Studies is an interdisciplinary program that brings together courses taught by a diverse group of faculty from the Arts, Environmental ... Other Appalachia-specific courses …
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Appalachian Studies Program faculty affiliate. APP 399 is pass/fail. 001 This partial term practicum course will be centered around the theme “Environment & Health in Appalachia.” …
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The Appalachian Studies minor gives students the chance to understand Appalachia from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Professors from fields as diverse as history, sociology, biology, …
Undergraduate Academic Catalog - mhu.edu
6 Mars Hill University Undergraduate Academic Catalog 2024-25 About the University The physical campus of Mars Hill University is an eclectic blend of the old and the new, the …
AN AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC CURRICULUM FOR …
AN AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC CURRICULUM FOR APPALACHIAN STUDIES: MERGING HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE THEORIES AND METHODS . A Thesis . by . DONNA …
An Economic Analysis of the Appalachian Coal Industry …
the Appalachian Coal Industry Ecosystem West Virginia University and The University of Tennessee Human Capital and the CIE Prepared for the ... All the Appalachian states have …
Board of Governors - Shepherd University
d. Approval of Intent to Plan for Master of Arts, Appalachian Studies e. Approval of 2017-2018 Academic Program Reviews 4:35 p.m. 5. President’s Report (President Hendrix) 4:45 p.m. 6. …
Entrepreneurial Appalachia: Case Studies in Evolving …
Congress in 1965, ARC is composed of the governors of the 13 Appalachian states and a federal co-chair, who is appointed by the president. ARC’s mission is to be a strategic partner and …
Appalachian Studies (APS) - Virginia Tech
2 Appalachian Studies (APS) APS 4414 - Issues in Appalachian Studies (3 credits) Research conducted by students on issues relevant to local or regional sustainability in contemporary …
2022 – 2023 Catalog & Student Handbook - Appalachian …
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BS, Communication, Communication Studies, 585A Department of Communication Appalachian State University College of Fine & Applied Arts 2023-2024 Program of Study Community …
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Strategic Planning to Strengthen Appalachian Studies Programs in the Twenty- First Century. Panel, co-presenters Theresa L. Burriss, Alice Jones, Robert Gipe, and Amy Clark. …
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Paper Award at the 2016 Appalachian Studies Association meeting. JAS 22_2 text.indd 187 11/17/16 12:39 PM. 188 Journal of appalachian StudieS volume 22 number 2 Counties are …
UG 10-11 Course Descriptions - East Tennessee State University
employment related to African/African American Studies. *AFAM 3999 Internship/Cooperative Education (1-3 credits)— Prerequisite(s): Permission of program advisor. An extension of a …
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Journal of Studies Bibliography 2010 - JSTOR
218 JournalofAppalachianStudies Volume17Numbers1&2 1(Fall): 36-45.Identifies "several approaches to eliciting Appalachian identity." "The question 'Where is Appalachia?' is subtly …
Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going? A History of the …
Appalachian Journal appreciates the efforts of a number of readers who reviewed this manuscript and offered valuable suggestions. We invite letters to the editor to comment on this history. In …
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Undergraduate Academic Catalog - mhu.edu
6 Mars Hill University Undergraduate Academic Catalog 2023-24 Mars Hill University Undergraduate Academic Catalog 2023-24 7 About the University The physical campus of …
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Appalachian Studies, MA (Appalachian Communities, Appalachian Culture and Heritage) Art, MFA (Studio Art) Biological Sciences, MS ... For information about online programs and …
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Appalachian Studies is a relatively new academic field in the northern tier. Compared to scholarship in the southern and central tiers, the academic ... IUP departments, programs, …
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Mar 3, 2016 · in the chosen theme with the exceptions of “Appalachian Mountains: Community, Culture, and Land” and “Experiencing Inquiry: How to Ask Questions.” LIBERAL STUDIES …
Exploring Bright Spots in Appalachian Health: Case Studies
Grant County’s performance does indicate that certain county conditions or programs may be helping generate better-than-expected outcomes—and that other resource-challenged …
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contemporary Appalachian studies scholars, “our regional definitions are Stewart Scales is an instructor in the Department of Geography at Virginia Tech. Emily Satterwhite is Associate …
Appalachian Studies (APP) - Eastern Kentucky University
Prerequisite: 12 hours. Appalachian Studies or instructor approval. In-depth analysis of current social, political, economic or environmental issues in the Appalachian region through a …
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Center for Appalachian Studies Program Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies NOTE: Although the requirements for most degree programs at Appalachian can be met within the …
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Appalachian Studies programs assisted by the Comndssion and other groups ere providing additional youth with the leadership skills and pi/lie advocacy resources they need to have a …
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Jan 1, 2015 · Degree Programs Number of Students Enrolled: Full-Time: 152 Evening: 0 Part-Time: 2 Other: 0 ... offer a joint program for a Certificate of Graduate Studies in Natural …
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Journal of Appalachian Health - University of Kentucky
Part of the Appalachian Studies Commons, Inequality and Stratification Commons, Public Health Commons, Regional Economics Commons, Regional Sociology Commons, and the Rural …
Frances P. McVay. Documenting Appalachian Culture: The …
Appalachian communities. Appalachia received more attention during the formation of President Johnson‟s Great Society welfare legislation of the 1960s, and the following decade saw the …
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Survey of Appalachian Studies II (3 credit hours), and HUM 204 Appalachian Seminar (3 credit hours), will form the core for the Appalachian Studies certificate and will provide a basic …
Women Of Appalachia: Common Ground, Different Matriarch
what Appalachian women, and therefore Appalachians in general, are capable of being, doing, and accomplishing. Appalachian studies scholarship, up until this point, has explored the ways …
SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS COOPERATIVE …
Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU). This continuation of the Southern Appalachian Mountains CESU is implemented by mutual consent of the parties and is consistent with the prior Agreement …
The Crisis of Opiates in Appalachia - Marshall University
The opiate abuse crisis gripping the Appalachian region is one of the most challenging health ... fail, and relapse into drug use again, and then recycle through the treatment programs. The …
Program Evaluation of the Appalachian Regional …
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Sustaining Our Region-Wide Conversation: Founding …
number of Appalachian Studies courses on college campuses across the region. The growing respectability of Appalachian Studies as a multidisciplinary intellectual field, enhanced by the …
Running the Health Care Marathon: An Ethnography of a …
May 20, 2017 · Appalachian Community _____ A thesis . presented to . the faculty of the Department of Appalachian Studies . East Tennessee State University . In partial fulfillment . …
Enduring music: Migrant Appalachian communities and the …
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A REGIONAL STUDIES REVIEW - Appalachian Journal
with the region of the Appalachian Mountains. AppalJ, founded in 1972 and published quarterly by the Center for Appalachian Studies at Appalachian State University, invites appropriate …
Global Adjustments, Throw aw ay Regions , Appalachian …
238 Journal of Appalachian Studies Volume 2 Number 2 40, 28). This is all we need from Robertson's analysis to begin to focus the larger picture for the HBO television controversy in …
Four Perspectives on Appalachian Culture and Poverty - JSTOR
of the Appalachian poor is the sense of resignation and fatalism. Irelan (1966) summarized studies of social attitudes, family patterns, education levels, health, and consumer practices …
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nation’s oldest, recognized Sustainable Development and Appropriate Technology academic programs, Appalachian rethinks common practices and implements state-of-the –art …
Electives for MSW
Below are a number of departments and programs that offer graduate courses of interest to ASU’s MSW students. These are examples of courses that may be considered as electives, but ...
COMMUNITY FOOD RESILIENCE IN THE TIME OF COVID: AN …
Wolfson and Leung (2020) describe federal programs designed to combat stag-gering levels of food insecurity during the pandemic as “patchwork” and criticize the US government for …
