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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hartman, Ian C. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2015]
Edition:First edition.
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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.