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Appalachia on our minds
Appalachia on Our Mind is not a history of Appalachia. It is rather a history of the American idea of Appalachia. The author argues that the emergence of this idea has little to do with the realities of mountain life but was the result of a need to reconcile the "otherness" of Appalachia, as decribed by local-color writers, tourists, and home missionaries, with assumptions about the nature of America and American civilization.
Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon
by Anthony Harkins (Author) "The twentieth-century hillbilly image had its origins in three ...
Hillbilly Book Barn
We are a small bookstore - (family owned and operated) located on Hwy 11E in Bluff City, Tn in the Crossroad Shoppes. Opening in 2004, we had a burden for homeschoolers. We are supplying a place to purchase and sell used books throughout the year.
Hillbillyland
What the Movies Did to the Mountains and What the Mountains Did to the Movies
Hillbilly women by Kathy Kahn
This is not a very sophisticated or subtle book. Rather, it's as powerful and direct as a bulldozer. Kathy Kahn just turned on the tape recorder and let them talk -- these brave, enduring hillbilly women, the daughters and wives and widows of the dirt poor, sometimes unemployed, sometimes maimed and disabled miners from Harlan County, Kentucky, and Tennessee and West Virginia. Talk about their ...
Meghatározás
Gyakran pejoratív értelemben használt szó elsősorban az amerika déli államaiban, a hegyekben élő, elmaradott, vidéki emberekre. Amíg a redneck vagy a cracker kifejezés azokra a fehér amerikaiakra utal, akik beilleszkedtek a társadalomba, a hillbillyk a domináns kultúrától elszigetelten élnek.