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oapen-20.500.12657-864162024-01-05T12:21:20Z Too Few Tomorrows Philliber, William W. Obermiller, Phillip J. History United States State & Local South (al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, Ms, Nc, Sc, Tn, Va, Wv) bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJK History of the Americas Between the 1940s and 1970s, approxiately three million people left the Appalachian mountains in search of jobs in Midwest urban areas, such as Cincinnati, Chicago, and Detroit. Unfortunately, about a third of these people were forced into a life of long-term underclass dwellers. Struggling with questions of identity, rootlessness, and cultural negation, these people were given the name of “urban Appalachians.” Published in 1987, Too Few Tomorrows addresses some of the pressing questions regarding urban Appalachians and their story of migration to city life. 2024-01-05T11:25:34Z 2024-01-05T11:25:34Z 1987 book ONIX_20240105_9781469637075_7 9781469637075 9781469637051 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86416 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781469637075.pdf Appalachian State University Appalachian State University 5f62fab1-a84d-45f1-a476-209815796ea4 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781469637075 9781469637051 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Appalachian State University [...] Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Between the 1940s and 1970s, approxiately three million people left the Appalachian mountains in search of jobs in Midwest urban areas, such as Cincinnati, Chicago, and Detroit. Unfortunately, about a third of these people were forced into a life of long-term underclass dwellers. Struggling with questions of identity, rootlessness, and cultural negation, these people were given the name of “urban Appalachians.” Published in 1987, Too Few Tomorrows addresses some of the pressing questions regarding urban Appalachians and their story of migration to city life.
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