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Fooling with Things: Affordances and Appalachian Wheelchair Users 玩弄事物:支持和阿巴拉契亚轮椅使用者

Journal of Appalachian studies Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.5406/23288612.29.2.04

Zach Glendening

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Journal of Appalachian studies Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.5406/23288612.29.2.09

Susan Divita

{"title":"The United Shades of America","authors":"Susan Divita","doi":"10.5406/23288612.29.2.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23288612.29.2.09","url":null,"abstract":"Nikki Giovanni, Appalachian poet of the Black revolution, replies poetically and practically with these words as she prepares chitlins with host W. Kamau Bell. Throughout the second episode of Bell's seventh season of The United Shades of America, “Black in Appalachia,” Giovanni's words are a theme that climbs up hills, travels into hollers, explores woods and farms, and eventually settles at tables, on porches, and around campfires in Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, and West Virginia. Throughout the region, Bell visits Black Appalachians who share and reflect upon this work that accompanies being Black in Appalachia and the good that exists today (though often removed from the narrative), which is the fruit of the labor of generations of Black Appalachians. Bell opens the episode with a harmonica lesson, possibly making more than a few Appalachians roll their eyes, thinking “Here we go again.” However, the episode's true beauty lies in Bell's ability to deftly and honestly navigate often stereotypical practices to embrace truths that exist beneath the customs and beliefs that define being Appalachian. Poet, founder of the news organization Black By God, and self-appointed docent of Appalachia, Crystal Good is Bell's expert and contemplative guide throughout this revelatory process. Good's contribution enhances Bell's process by inserting critical details left out of the Appalachian narrative. Early in the episode, Good explains Harper's Ferry in terms of the John Brown story, but then expands upon this established narrative to include Storer College, where the first meeting of the Niagara Movement—the foundation of the NAACP—was held. Bell, Good, and the show's creators effectively create, establish, and follow this road map: identify established narrative or cultural practice, expose meaning and underlying misconceptions, and reveal Black Appalachian elements left out of the narrative.Bell joins Marcus Oglesby in the woods at one stop in the journey for squirrel hunting and pawpaw (Asimina triloba) picking, revealing a lifestyle where necessity has taught self-sufficiency and patience, though often presented as Appalachian foolery, isolation, and lack of education. Oglesby states, “We are nature,” reflecting on not only the strength and skill it takes to sustain yourself in nature but also the right of humans to participate in the ebb and flow of the giving and taking away necessary in the circle of life. Oglesby's skills and practices are his life, yet they also serve as an act of resistance against the accepted narrative, one in which Appalachian independence is often wrongly represented—an independence that until now was rarely presented as Black.Down the road in eastern Kentucky, Dr. Bill Turner reflects on the fate of Lynch, a small town, like so many in Appalachia, dependent on coal, which has lost its young sons and daughters after being abandoned by the coal companies. He explains to Bell that one in five coal miners in Appalachia were B","PeriodicalId":93112,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Appalachian studies","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136204166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A Brief Examination of the Northernmost Appalachian Counties: Southern Tier New York 阿巴拉契亚山脉最北端县的简要考察:纽约南部

Journal of Appalachian studies Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.5406/23288612.29.2.05

Casey Jakubowski

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From the Editor 来自编辑

Journal of Appalachian studies Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.5406/23288612.29.2.01

Rebecca R. Scott

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Digital Watauga 数字瓦塔格

Journal of Appalachian studies Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.5406/23288612.29.2.11

Anne Ward

{"title":"Digital Watauga","authors":"Anne Ward","doi":"10.5406/23288612.29.2.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23288612.29.2.11","url":null,"abstract":"For centuries, an archive was the physical place where documents, artifacts, and other historical items were stored and where researchers and historians could reach back into the past to study the people, events, and records of our history. The archive was a location with an address and a room number—a place to visit in order to sift through the remnants of the past.The digital age has created new opportunities for archivists, historians, and the public. Digital Watauga is an online archive devoted to maintaining a robust, full historical record of Watauga County, located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina. The digital collection of photographs, artifacts, and documents went online in 2014 with the goal of providing an “archival memory” for Watauga County.Watauga is one of the 423 counties identified by the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) as being a part of Appalachia (ARC 2023). Prior to the arrival of white settlers, Indigenous people used this area as hunting grounds. Watauga became incorporated as a county in the state of North Carolina in 1849; the town of Boone, named for Daniel Boone, who, legend has it, hunted in the area, was chartered in 1872 (Watauga County 2023).In many ways, Watauga reflects familiar stereotypes associated with Appalachia. Poverty is a significant issue—the poverty rate in Watauga is about 22 percent (US Census 2022), and about 26 percent of the children in the public school system qualify for free or reduced-fee lunches. In some of the more rural schools in the county, the percentage of children who qualify for free and reduced-fee lunches can be more than 40 percent (Garrett Price, Director of Communications for Watauga County Schools, email to author, 2021). While the roads to Watauga have improved over the last century, the county is two hours from the nearest airport and about an hour from the nearest interstate highway, which makes it unlikely that Watauga will ever be a home for large companies seeking easy access to transportation hubs and highways.The county residents are predominantly white, but the county also includes the Junaluska community, one of the oldest Black communities in the Appalachian region. Many of the earliest Black residents of Boone were brought to Watauga as enslaved people in the nineteenth century. Until the Civil Rights era of the 1960s, Watauga was a segregated community, with separate schools for Black and white people, and limited employment options for Black people (Junaluska Heritage Association 2023).The four largest employers in Watauga are organizations that bring people of different backgrounds and beliefs to the area: Appalachian State University, Appalachian Regional Healthcare System, Watauga County Schools, and Samaritan's Purse (North Carolina Department of Commerce 2022). The rural county has become popular with second-home buyers, leading to a serious housing shortage (High Country Association of Realtors 2022). The history of Watauga County is","PeriodicalId":93112,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Appalachian studies","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136204212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Craft: An American History 《工艺:一部美国历史

Journal of Appalachian studies Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.5406/23288612.29.2.08

Philis Alvic, Thomas A. Adler

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The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry, 1925–1942 私煤叛乱:1925-1942年宾夕法尼亚矿工占领工业

Journal of Appalachian studies Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.5406/23288612.29.2.06

Lou Martin

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Wheeling's Polonia: Reconstructing Polish Community in a West Virginia Steel Town 惠灵的波洛尼亚:重建西弗吉尼亚州钢铁城的波兰人社区

Journal of Appalachian studies Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.5406/23288612.29.2.07

Teresa Meddings

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Blackalachia Blackalachia

Journal of Appalachian studies Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.5406/23288612.29.2.10

Jimmy Dean Smith

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The Deathscape of Settler Colonialism: Remembrance and Erasure through Cemeteries and Graveyards in the Upper Monongahela Valley 定居者殖民主义的死亡景观:通过上莫农加希拉山谷的墓地和墓地的记忆和抹去

Journal of Appalachian studies Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.5406/23288612.29.1.03

Travis D. Stimeling, Mary L. Linscheid

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