Back Talk from Appalachia
Subtitle: Confronting Stereotypes
Contributors: Dwight B. Billings (Editor); Gurney Norman (Editor); Katherine Ledford (Editor)
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: January 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780813190013
Subjects: Essays, journals, letters & other prose works; Places & peoples: general interest; United States - State & Local - General; History; Appalachians (People); United States; Sociology; Virginia; Western & Pacific Coast states; Social conditions; Anthropology - Cultural; Ethnic Studies - General; Ethnic identity; Stereotype (Psychology); Stereotypes (Social psychology)
First sentence: This book began as a series of responses to a play, Robert Schenkkan's The Kentucky Cycle, and to the latest round of stereotyping of Appalachian peoples and their cultures that such works exemplify.