Appalachian Regional Commission Archives

Appalachian Regional Commission Archives
Title Appalachian Regional Commission Archives PDF eBook
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Pages 386
Release 1990
Genre Appalachian Region
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Guide to the repository collection for the Commission's library and archives on economic development in Appalachia since 1965.

Semiannual Report of the Inspector General

Semiannual Report of the Inspector General
Title Semiannual Report of the Inspector General PDF eBook
Author United States. Department of Commerce. Office of the Inspector General
Publisher
Pages 108
Release 2001
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Appalachia North

Appalachia North
Title Appalachia North PDF eBook
Author Matthew J. Ferrence
Publisher
Pages 300
Release 2019
Genre Biography & Autobiography
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Appalachia North is the first book-length treatment of the cultural position of northern Appalachia--roughly the portion of the official Appalachian Regional Commission zone that lies above the Mason-Dixon line. For Matthew Ferrence this region fits into a tight space of not-quite: not quite "regular" America and yet not quite Appalachia. Ferrence's sense of geographic ambiguity is compounded when he learns that his birthplace in western Pennsylvania is technically not a mountain but, instead, a dissected plateau shaped by the slow, deep cuts of erosion. That discovery is followed by the diagnosis of a brain tumor, setting Ferrence on a journey that is part memoir, part exploration of geology and place. Appalachia North is an investigation of how the labels of Appalachia have been drawn and written, and also a reckoning with how a body always in recovery can, like a region viewed always as a site of extraction, find new territories of growth.

The Southern Appalachians

The Southern Appalachians
Title The Southern Appalachians PDF eBook
Author Susan L. Yarnell
Publisher DIANE Publishing
Pages 52
Release 1998
Genre Agriculture
ISBN 1428953736

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Voices from the Headwaters

Voices from the Headwaters
Title Voices from the Headwaters PDF eBook
Author Patricia D. Beaver
Publisher
Pages 358
Release 2013-12-01
Genre Meat Camp (N.C.)
ISBN 9780978730529

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Blacks in Appalachia

Blacks in Appalachia
Title Blacks in Appalachia PDF eBook
Author William H. Turner
Publisher University Press of Kentucky
Pages 465
Release 2021-03-17
Genre History
ISBN 0813181526

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Although southern Appalachia is popularly seen as a purely white enclave, blacks have lived in the region from early times. Some hollows and coal camps are in fact almost exclusively black settlements. The selected readings in this new book offer the first comprehensive presentation of the black experience in Appalachia. Organized topically, the selections deal with the early history of blacks in the region, with studies of the black communities, with relations between blacks and whites, with blacks in coal mining, and with political issues. Also included are a section on oral accounts of black experiences and an analysis of black Appalachian demography. The contributors range from Carter Woodson and W. E. B. Du Bois to more recent scholars such as Theda Perdue and David A. Corbin. An introduction by the editors provides an overall context for the selections. Blacks in Appalachia focuses needed attention on a neglected area of Appalachian studies. It will be a valuable resource for students of Appalachia and of black history.

Who Owns Appalachia?

Who Owns Appalachia?
Title Who Owns Appalachia? PDF eBook
Author Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
Publisher University Press of Kentucky
Pages 277
Release 2014-07-15
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0813161932

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Long viewed as a problem in other countries, the ownership of land and resources is becoming an issue of mounting concern in the United States. Nowhere has it surfaced more dramatically than in the southern Appalachians where the exploitation of timber and mineral resources has been recently aggravated by the ravages of strip-mining and flash floods. This landmark study of the mountain region documents for the first time the full scale and extent of the ownership and control of the region's land and resources and shows in a compelling, yet non-polemical fashion the relationship between this control and conditions affecting the lives of the region's people. Begun in 1978 and extending through 1980, this survey of land ownership is notable for the magnitude of its coverage. It embraces six states of the southern Appalachian region—Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Alabama. From these states the research team selected 80 counties, and within those counties field workers documented the ownership of over 55,000 parcels of property, totaling over 20 million acres of land and mineral rights. The survey is equally significant for its systematic investigation of the relations between ownership and conditions within Appalachian communities. Researchers compiled data on 100 socioeconomic indicators and correlated these with the ownership of land and mineral rights. The findings of the survey form a generally dark picture of the region—local governments struggling to provide needed services on tax revenues that are at once inadequate and inequitable; economic development and diversification stifled; increasing loss of farmland, a traditional source of subsistence in the region. Most evident perhaps is the adverse effect upon housing resulting from corporate ownership and land speculation. Nor is the trend toward greater conglomerate ownership of energy resources, the expansion of absentee ownership into new areas, and the search for new mineral and energy sources encouraging. Who Owns Appalachia? will be an enduring resource for all those interested in this region and its problems. It is, moreover, both a model and a document for social and economic concerns likely to be of critical importance for the entire nation.