In the shadow of Boone and Crockett : race, culture, and the politics of representation in the upland South /
As Theodore Roosevelt's lofty image of frontier whites in the mold of Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett lost its luster, a realistic image of poor, isolated Appalachians rose to the forefront of America's cultural mindset. Hartman traces the disparaging lengths that state governments and vari...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Knoxville :
University of Tennessee Press,
[2015]
|
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: In the Shadow of Daniel Boone and David Crockett : The Troubled Legacy of Race Histories
- Appalachian Anxiety and the Paradox of Purity in an Age of Empire
- The Strange Career of Oscar McCulloch : The Problem with Upland Southerners and the Progressivism of the "Indiana Plan"
- A Pioneer Dance : Virginia's Search for Purity in the Interwar Years
- West Virginia Mountaineers, Kentucky Frontiersmen, and the Rhetoric of Postwar Liberalism
- Primetime Hillbillies : Upland Southern Whiteness and Popular Culture in the Civil Rights Era
- The Limits of Liberalism and the Changing Face of Poverty : The Collapse of the Kennedy-Johnson Coalition
- Conclusion: The Persistence of a Region, the Power of Mythology.