{"product_id":"african-american-miners-and-migrants-the-eastern-kentucky-social-club-paperback-softback-9780252071645","title":"African American Miners and Migrants; The EASTERN KENTUCKY SOCIAL CLUB (Paperback \/ softback) 9780252071645","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAfrican American Miners and Migrants\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe EASTERN KENTUCKY SOCIAL CLUB\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eThomas E. Wagner (Author), Philip J. Obermiller (Author), William H Turner (Afterword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780252071645\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 9 February 2004\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e176 pages, 40 black \u0026amp; white photographs, 2 line drawings\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.4 cm, 0.254 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThomas E. Wagner and Phillip J. Obermiller's \u003ci\u003eAfrican American Miners and Migrants\u003c\/i\u003e documents the lives of Eastern Kentucky Social Club (EKSC) members, a group of black Appalachians who left the eastern Kentucky coalfields and their coal company hometowns in Harlan County. \u003cp\u003e Bound together by segregation, the inherent dangers of mining, and coal company paternalism, it might seem that black miners and mountaineers would be eager to forget their past. Instead, members of the EKSC have chosen to celebrate their Harlan County roots. \u003ci\u003eAfrican American Miners and Migrants\u003c\/i\u003e uses historical and archival research and extensive personal interviews to explore their reasons and the ties that still bind them to eastern Kentucky. The book also examines life in the model coal towns of Benham and Lynch in the context of Progressive Era policies, the practice of welfare capitalism, and the contemporary national trend of building corporate towns and planned communities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface   ix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Democracy Challenged: Demography, Technology, and Democratic Possibilities\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrian J. Gaines and Peter F. Nardulli\u003c\/i\u003e   1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Social Heterogeneity and Democracy: Challenges and Opportunities\u003cbr\u003e 2. Problems of Democratic Transition in Divided Societies\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJack Snyder\u003c\/i\u003e   11\u003cbr\u003e 3. Citizens, Identities and Democratic Dialogues: Opportunities and Challenges of Diverse Societies\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMark Q. Sawyer\u003c\/i\u003e   33\u003cbr\u003e 4. Democracy, Diversity, and Leadership\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaul M. Sniderman\u003c\/i\u003e   51\u003cbr\u003e 5. Electoral Engineering, Social Cleavages, and Democracy\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBernard Grofman and Jon Fraenkel\u003c\/i\u003e   71\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II: Technology and Democracy: Mass-Elite Linkages in the Twenty-first Century\u003cbr\u003e 6. Technological Advances and Individual Liberties: Privacy and the Reach of the State in the Twenty-first Century\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWayne V. McIntosh and Stephen A. Simon\u003c\/i\u003e   105\u003cbr\u003e 7. Engineering Consent: The Persistence of a Problematic Communication Regime\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eW. Lance Bennett\u003c\/i\u003e   131\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Internet and Political Fragmentation\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBruce Bimber\u003c\/i\u003e   155\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Contributors   171\u003cbr\u003e Index   175\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523432968472,"sku":"9780252071645","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/african-american-miners-and-migrants-the-eastern-kentucky-social-club-paperback-softback-9780252071645","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}