Reading Appalachia from Left to Right Conservatives and the 1974 Kanawha County Textbook Controversy

Name: Reading Appalachia from Left to Right Conservatives and the 1974 Kanawha County Textbook Controversy
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ISBN: 9780801475818

ISBN-10: 0801475813

ISBN-13: 9780801475818

Edition: 2011

Authors: Carol Mason

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In Reading Appalachia from Left to Right, Carol Mason examines the legacies of a pivotal 1974 curriculum dispute in West Virginia that heralded the rightward shift in American culture and politics. At a time when black nationalists and white conservatives were both maligned as extremists for opposing education reform, the wife of a fundamentalist preacher who objected to new language-arts textbooks featuring multiracial literature sparked the yearlong conflict. It was the most violent textbook battle in America, inspiring mass marches, rallies by white supremacists, boycotts by parents, and strikes by coal miners. Schools were closed several times due to arson and dynamite while national…

Book details

List price: $63.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 7/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Prologue: Reading Appalachia


Introduction: Soul on Appalachian Ice



A Modern American Conflict



True Sons of Appalachia



Sweet Alice and Secular Humanism



Reproducing the Souls of White Folk



The Right Soul


Epilogue: Writing Appalachia


Appendix: Keywords


Notes


Sources and Selected Bibliography


Index