In the shadow of Boone and Crockett
Subtitle: race, culture, and the politics of representation in the upland South
By: Ian C. Hartman
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: The University of Tennessee Press; Univ Tennessee Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781621901693
Subjects: Race relations; History; Social conditions; Public opinion; Appalachians (People); Poor whites; Government policy; Political aspects; Politics and government; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century; HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV); HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
Description: "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 various other organizations went to in order to shun the image of poor, racially inferior Appalachia and present (and preserve) a more unified, white Appalachia. Hartman discusses the ideals of masculinity in the age of U.S. imperialism, the career of Oscar McCulloch and the Indiana Solution, sterilization laws in Virginia, and the war on poverty in the mid-twentieth century. Hartman argues that these were all attempts to preserve the racial purity of Appalachian and even Southern white populations and to raise poor whites to a position of power over other races"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: In the Shadow of Daniel Boone and David Crockett : The Troubled Legacy of Race Histories; title: Appalachian Anxiety and the Paradox of Purity in an Age of Empire; title: The Strange Career of Oscar McCulloch : The Problem with Upland Southerners and the Progressivism of the "Indiana Plan"; title: A Pioneer Dance : Virginia's Search for Purity in the Interwar Years; title: West Virginia Mountaineers, Kentucky Frontiersmen, and the Rhetoric of  Postwar Liberalism; title: Primetime Hillbillies : Upland Southern Whiteness and Popular Culture in the Civil Rights Era; title: The Limits of Liberalism and the Changing Face of Poverty : The Collapse  of the Kennedy-Johnson Coalition; title: Conclusion: The Persistence of a Region, the Power of Mythology.