There are many great books and publications that have been published on the subject of the culture and gender of the people who live in Appalachia. The following is a listing of books that have been recommended by CSEGA, our affiliates, and visitors to this site. If you would like to recommend something for the reading list, please send an email to csega@marshall.edu<\/p>\n
African American Migration to Ansted, West Virginia.<\/strong> Black Coal Miners in America, 1780-1980. (1987)<\/strong> Blacks in Appalachia. (1985)<\/strong> Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (2000)<\/strong> “Blacks in West Virginia: A Critique of<\/strong> Coal, Class and<\/strong> “History Uncovers the Role of Appalachian Black Women.” In Now and Then. 3:1, pp. 13-15. (Winter 1986)<\/strong> “LOST VOICES: Rediscovering the Contributions of African-American Women to West Virginia.”<\/strong> Memphis Tennessee Garrsison: The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachia Woman. (2001)<\/strong> “The Black South and White Appalachia.” In Journal of American History. 66, pp. 832-49.<\/strong> Appalachian On Our Mind: The Southern Mountains and Mountaineers in the American Consciousness. (1978)<\/strong> Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers. (1998)<\/strong> Fighting Back in Appalachia: Traditions of Resistance and Change. (1993)<\/strong> Hillbilly Land.<\/strong> “Sustaining the Myth of the ‘Black Underclass’: Ignoring West Virginia.” In West Virginia Sociological Review. 2:1. (Fall 1996)<\/strong> Authorized to Heal: Gender, Class, and the Transformation of Medicine in Central Appalachia, 1880-1930. (2000)<\/strong> “Disorderly Women: Gender and Labor Militancy in the Appalachian South.” In Journal of American History. 73, pp. 354-382. (1968)<\/strong> Growing Up Creeker: Class and Gender in Rural Appalachia.<\/strong> “Will The Real Daisey Mae Please Stand Up?: A Methodological Essay on Gender Analysis in Appalachian Research.”<\/strong> “Images and Identities of Appalachian Women: Sorting Out the Impact<\/strong> A History of Appalachia. (2001)<\/strong> A Southern Weave of Women: Fiction of the Contemporary South.<\/strong> Bliss.<\/strong> Human Landscapes.<\/strong> Re-Membering, Re-Weaving, Re-Visioning \u2018Other\u2019 Ways: Contemporary Women Writing in Appalachia.<\/strong> (1999)<\/strong> Saga of Coe Ridge and Don\u2019t Go Up Kettle Creek.<\/strong> Seeking The Corn-Mother’s Wisdom (1993)<\/strong> Storming Heaven and The Unquiet Earth (1992)<\/strong> “Wild Sweet Notes: Fifty Years of West Virginia Poetry, 1950 – 1999.”<\/strong> Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835. (1998)<\/strong> Constructing, Fragmenting, and Reconstructing Identity: The Struggle of Appalachian Women Attempting To Reconnect To Their Native American Heritage. <\/strong> “The Reawakening of the Cherokee.”<\/strong><\/p>\n In Appalachian Journal. 2:4, pp. 276 -279. <\/p>\n Appalachian Women: An Annotated Bibliography. (1981)<\/strong> Dignity: Lower Class Women tell of their Lives and Struggles. (1985)<\/strong> Hillbilly Women: Mountain Women Speak of Stuggle and Joy in Southern Appalachia. (1972)<\/strong> Missing Chapters II: West Virginia Women in History. (1986)<\/strong> Social Reality of a Group of Rural, Low-Status, Appalachian Women: A Grounded Theory Study, Children of Poverty Series. (1993)<\/strong> “Walk-ons in the Third Act: The Role of Women in Appalachian Historiography.”<\/strong> In Journal of Appalachian Studies. 4, pp. 5-28. (1998) “The Status of Women’s History Research in West Virginia.”<\/strong> In West Virginia History: Critical Essays on the Literature. (1991)
\nAuthor: Brucella Jordan
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\nAuthor: Ronald Lewis
\nPublisher: University Press of Kentucky<\/p>\n
\nEditors: William H. Turner and Edward J. Cabbell
\nPublisher: University Press of Kentucky<\/p>\n
\nAuthor: Patricia Hill-Collins
\nPublisher: Routledge. New York. 2nd ed.<\/p>\n
\nthe Secondary Literature and a Survey of the Primary Sources.” In West Virginia<\/strong>
\nHistory: Critical Essays on the Literature. (1993)<\/strong>
\nEditors: Ronald Lewis and John Hennen
\nPublisher: Kendall-Hunt Publishing Co.;
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\nHonoring Our Past: Proceedings of the First Two Conferences on West Virginia’s<\/strong>
\nBlack History. (1991)<\/strong>
\nEditors: Joe W. Trotter and Ancella Radford Bickley
\nPublisher: Alliance for the Collection, Preservation, & Dissemination of West
\nVirginia’s Black History.<\/p>\n
\nColor: Blacks in Southern West Virginia 1915-32 (1990)<\/strong>
\nAuthor: Joe Trotter
\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press<\/p>\n
\nAuthor: Edward J. Cabbell<\/p>\n
\nMarshall University 1996 Summer Honors Class
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\nEditors: Ancella R. Bickley and Lynda Ann Ewen
\nPublisher: Ohio University Press
\nhttp:\/\/www.ohio.edu\/oupress\/memphisgarrison.htm<\/p>\n
\nAuthor: James C. Klotter<\/p>\n\nEthnicity & Identity<\/h2>\n
\nAuthor: Henry David Shapiro
\nPublisher:University of North Carolina Press<\/p>\n
\nEditor: Joyce Dyer
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\nEditor: S.L. Fisher
\nPublisher: Temple University Press<\/p>\n
\nAuthor: Jerry Williamson
\nPublisher:<\/p>\n
\nAuthor: Lynda Ann Ewen<\/p>\n\nGender<\/h2>\n
\nAuthor: Sandra Lee Barney
\nPublisher: University of North Carolina Press<\/p>\n
\nAuthor: Jacqueline Dowd Hall
\nPublisher:<\/p>\n
\nAuthor: Linda DeRosier
\nPublicist: Leila Saulsbury<\/p>\n
\nIn Appalachian Journal. 21:2, pp. 136-150.
\nAuthor: Sally Ward Maggard<\/p>\n
\nof Class, Gender, and Cultural Heritage.” In Down Home, Downtown:<\/strong>
\nUrban Appalachians Today.<\/strong>
\nEditor: Phillip J. Obermille, pp. 29-46. (1995)
\nAuthor: Roberta Campbell
\nPublisher: Kendall\/Hunt Publishing Company<\/p>\n\nHistory<\/h2>\n
\nAuthor: Richard D. Drake
\nPublisher: The University Press of Kentucky
\nhttp:\/\/www.kentucypress\/books\/apphistory.htm<\/p>\n\nLiterature<\/h2>\n
\nAuthor: Linda Tate
\nPublisher: The University of Georgia Press<\/p>\n
\nAuthor: Jeff Mann
\nPublisher: Brick House Books<\/p>\n
\nAuthor: Edwina Pendarvis
\nPublisher: Bottom Dog Press<\/p>\n
\nAuthors: Shirley Lumpkin, Laura Tussey, Jan Adkins-Bills, Edwina Pendarvis
\nPublisher: The Drinko Academy (book) Marshall University & The Drinko Academy (cd-rom)<\/p>\n
\nAuthor: Lynwood Montell<\/p>\n
\nAuthor: Marilou Awiakta
\nPublisher: Fulcrum Publishers<\/p>\n
\nAuthor: Denise Giardina
\nPublisher:W.W. Norton<\/p>\n
\nEditors: Kirk Judd and Barbara Smith
\nPublisher: Publishers Place<\/p>\n\nNative Americans<\/h2>\n
\nAuthor: Theda Perdue
\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press<\/p>\n
\nUnpublished Thesis (2001)
\nAuthor: Linda Burcham Trollinger
\nPublisher:
\nWill be available online soon.<\/p>\n
\n(Summer 1975)<\/p>\n\nWomen<\/h2>\n
\nAuthor: Sidney S. Farr
\nPublisher: University Press of Kentucky<\/p>\n
\nAuthor: F.L. Buss
\nPublisher: University of Michigan Press<\/p>\n
\nAuthor: Kathy Kahn
\nPublisher: Doubleday and Co.<\/p>\n
\nEditor: Frances Hensley
\nPublisher: West Virginia Women’s Co<\/p>\n
\nAuthor: Judith I. Fiene
\nPublisher: Garland Publishing, Inc.<\/p>\n
\nAuthor: Barbara Ellen Smith
\nPublisher:<\/p>\n
\nAuthor: Barb Howe
\nPublisher: Kendall-Hunt Publishing Co.<\/p>\n