Add to ORKGThe Appalachian region of the United States has been a region surrounded by controversy for the last two hundred years. Many geographic, anthropological and economic studies have taken place in Appalachia to analyze the differing culture and history of poverty. Academic studies in Appalachia, no matter the specific field, tend to apply expertise bias to the region and lack an actual understanding of the culture, institutions and economy of the region. Using The Anglo- Saxons of the Kentucky Mountains: A study in Anthropogeography (1901), The Vanity of the Philosopher: From Equality to Hierarchy in Post- Classical Economics (2005), Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of The Wealth of Nations (1776), Hillbilly Elegy: A Family and Cultur...
This paper explores how preconceived notions of the Appalachian population as poor, bigoted, ill-edu...
The United States prides itself as a nation that offers equity and opportunity to its citizens. Howe...
In Appalachia’s Path to Dependency, Paul Salstrom examines the evolution of economic life over time ...
Appalachia has long been stereotyped as a region of feuds, moonshine stills, mine wars, environmenta...
Poverty is as closely associated with the Appalachian region as coal mining and the hammer dulcimer....
Material culture is an understudied aspect of social life in Appalachian Studies, the multi- discipl...
If, as Henry Shapiro argues, Appalachia truly is a construct, “a strange land inhabited by a peculia...
By most government statistical definitions, Central Appalachia is one of the most impoverished regio...
Most Americans know Appalachia through stereotyped images: moonshine and handicrafts, poverty and il...
Traditionally Appalachia has been stereotyped as a backwards region that is behind the times. Accor...
Appalachia has played a complex and often contradictory role in the unfolding of American history. C...
Appalachians are portrayed in the media and scholarship as politically fatalistic, but in reality th...
Appalachian population trends over the last century have fluctuated from large gains to enormous los...
The Appalachian region, extending from Alabama in the South up to the Allegheny highlands of Pennsyl...
In the course of the 1960\u27s, Appalachia was rediscovered as a social problem region. Efforts of m...
This paper explores how preconceived notions of the Appalachian population as poor, bigoted, ill-edu...
The United States prides itself as a nation that offers equity and opportunity to its citizens. Howe...
In Appalachia’s Path to Dependency, Paul Salstrom examines the evolution of economic life over time ...
Appalachia has long been stereotyped as a region of feuds, moonshine stills, mine wars, environmenta...
Poverty is as closely associated with the Appalachian region as coal mining and the hammer dulcimer....
Material culture is an understudied aspect of social life in Appalachian Studies, the multi- discipl...
If, as Henry Shapiro argues, Appalachia truly is a construct, “a strange land inhabited by a peculia...
By most government statistical definitions, Central Appalachia is one of the most impoverished regio...
Most Americans know Appalachia through stereotyped images: moonshine and handicrafts, poverty and il...
Traditionally Appalachia has been stereotyped as a backwards region that is behind the times. Accor...
Appalachia has played a complex and often contradictory role in the unfolding of American history. C...
Appalachians are portrayed in the media and scholarship as politically fatalistic, but in reality th...
Appalachian population trends over the last century have fluctuated from large gains to enormous los...
The Appalachian region, extending from Alabama in the South up to the Allegheny highlands of Pennsyl...
In the course of the 1960\u27s, Appalachia was rediscovered as a social problem region. Efforts of m...
This paper explores how preconceived notions of the Appalachian population as poor, bigoted, ill-edu...
The United States prides itself as a nation that offers equity and opportunity to its citizens. Howe...
In Appalachia’s Path to Dependency, Paul Salstrom examines the evolution of economic life over time ...