Too Few Tomorrows: Urban Appalachians in the 1980's
 


Citation

Obermiller, Phillip J. and Philliber, William W., “Too Few Tomorrows: Urban Appalachians in the 1980's,” Appalachian State University Libraries Digital Collections, accessed December 7, 2024, https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/items/show/43695.


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Title

Too Few Tomorrows: Urban Appalachians in the 1980's

Description

Between the 1940s and 1970s, approxiately three million people left the Appalachian mountains in search of jobs in Midwest urban areas, such as Cincinnati, Chicago, and Detroit. Unfortunately, about a third of these people were forced into a life of long-term underclass dwellers. Struggling with questions of identity, rootlessness, and cultural negation, these people were given the name of “urban Appalachians.” Published in 1987, Too Few Tomorrows addresses some of the pressing questions regarding urban Appalachians and their story of migration to city life.

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Subject

Ethnicity--Appalachian Region, Southern
Ethnology--Appalachian Region, Southern
Regionalism--Appalachian Region, Southern
Appalachian Region, Southern--Social conditions
Appalachian Region, Southern--Social life and customs

Creator

Obermiller, Phillip J.
Philliber, William W.

Publisher

Appalachian Consortium Press

Date

1987

Format

PDF
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Language

English

Type

Text

Coverage

Appalachia

Spatial Coverage

https://www.geonames.org/12212302/appalachia.html

Temporal Coverage

1980s

Digital Publisher

Appalachian State University

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