From Jewish publishers to Appalachian poets, this cultural study reveals the role of 'Southern Mountain Whites' in American racial history and poetics
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Permissions; Introduction; Part I: Appalachia, Race, and Pluralism; Chapter 1 Evangelizing an Anglo Equality (1883-1908); Chapter 2 New York City's Cultural Pluralists (1906-1930); Chapter 3 Reactionary Regionalism versus Critical Quarterlies (1925-1945); Part II: The Social Life of Poetry; Chapter 4 Racing the Land with Jesse Stuart's Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow (1934); Chapter 5 "Authentic Folk Feeling" in James Still's Hounds on the Mountain (1937)
Chapter 6 Rebinding "The Book of the Dead" into Muriel Rukeyser's U.S. 1 (1938)Chapter 7 The Tight Rope of Democracy and Don West's Clods of Southern Earth (1946); Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z