Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I BUILDING GRASSROOTS CITIZEN ORGANIZATIONS; 1 Stopping the Bulldozers: What Difference Did It Make?; 2 Like a Flower Slowly Blooming: Highlander and the Nurturing of an Appalachian Movement; 3 Racism and Organizing in Appalachia; 4 From Fussin' to Organizing: Individual and Collective Resistance at Yellow Creek; 5 Save Our Cumberland Mountains: Growth and Change Within a Grassroots Organization; 6 Practical Lessons in Community Organizing in Appalachia: What We've Learned at Kentuckians For The Commonwealth
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12 Sowing on the Mountain: Nurturing Cultural Roots and Creativity for Community Change13 Engendering the Struggle: Women's Labor and Traditions of Resistance in Rural Southern Appalachia; 14 Appalachian Studies, Resistance, and Postmodernism; 15 Politics, Expressive Form, and Historical Knowledge in a Blue Ridge Resistance Movement; 16 Conclusion: New Populist Theory and the Study of Dissent in Appalachia; Dissent in Appalachia: A Bibliography; Directory of Organizations; List of Contributors
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7 The Community Farm Alliance in Kentucky: The Growth, Mistakes, and Lessons of the Farm Movement of the 1980sPART II NEW STRATEGIES IN LABOR STRUGGLES; 8 Appalachian Women Fight Back: Organizational Approaches to Nontraditional Job Advocacy; 9 The Memory of Miners and the Conscience of Capital: Coal Miners' Strikes as Free Spaces; 10 Singing Acmss Dark Spaces: The Union/Community Takeover of Pittston's Moss 3 Plant; 11 The People's Respirator: Coalition Building and the Black Lung Association; PART III CULTURE, CLASS, AND GENDER IN APPALACHIAN RESISTANCE MOVEMENTS
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Sixteen original essays document the extent and variety of citizen resistance and struggle in the Appalachian region since 1960. The contributors-all organizers or activist intellectuals-describe how and why some of the dramatic Appalachian resistance efforts and strategies have arisen.Contributors: Bill Allen, Mary K. Anglin, Fran Ansley, Alan Banks, Dwight Billings, Mary Beth Bingman, Sherry Cable, Guy and Candie Carawan, Richard A. Couto, Stephen William Foster, John M. Glen, Hal Hamilton, Bennett M. Judkins, Don Manning-Miller, Ellen Ryan, Jim Sessions, Joe Szakos, Karen Ti.