Reading Appalachia from left to right
Subtitle: conservatives and the 1974 Kanawha County textbook controversy
By: Carol Mason.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780801447280
Subjects: Textbooks -- West Virginia -- Kanawha County; Multicultural education -- Curricula -- West Virginia -- Kanawha County; Language arts -- Curricula -- West Virginia -- Kanawha County; Culture conflict -- West Virginia -- Kanawha County; Ethnic conflict -- West Virginia -- Kanawha County; Community and school -- West Virginia -- Kanawha County
Description: In this work, Carol Mason examines the legacies of a pivotal 1974 curriculum dispute in West Virginia that heralded the rightward shift in American culture and politics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : reading Appalachia; title: Introduction : soul on Appalachian ice; title: A modern American conflict; title: True sons of Appalachia; title: Sweet Alice and secular humanism; title: Reproducing the souls of white folk; title: The right soul; title: Epilogue : writing Appalachia.