WVU Libraries: Appalachian Bibliography

Migration, Population, Urban Appalachians

Appalachia Counts: The Region in the 2000 Census [10 articles]. 2004. Guest editor, Phillip J. Obermiller. Introduction by Phillip J. Obermiller and Richard A. Couto. Special issue, Journal of Appalachian Studies 10, no. 3: 243-420.

Bailey, Rebecca J. 2000. “I Never Thought of My Life as History: A Story of the ‘Hillbilly’ Exodus and the Price of Assimilation” [ Chicago]. In Appalachian Odyssey: Historical Perspectives on the Great Migration, eds. P. Obermiller, T. Wagner, and E. Tucker, 27-37. Westport, Conn.: Praeger.

Baugh, Carol. 2000. “ Think College: Preparing Urban Appalachian Students for Learning in the Twenty-First Century” [ Dayton, Ohio]. Journal of Appalachian Studies 6 nos. 1-2 (Spring/Fall): 162-171.

Berry , Chad. 1996. “The Great ‘White’ Migration, Alcohol, and the Transplantation of Southern Protestant Churches” [from Ky.]. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 94 (Summer): 265-296.

Berry , Chad. 2000. “Southern White Migration to the Midwest, an Overview” [oral histories; tables]. In Appalachian Odyssey: Historical Perspectives on the Great Migration, eds. P. Obermiller, T. Wagner, and E. Tucker, 3-26. Westport, Conn.: Praeger.

Berry , Chad. 2000. Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles [Appalachian focus; 1930s-60s]. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 264 pp.

Borman, Kathryn M., and Phillip J. Obermiller, eds. 1994. From Mountain to Metropolis: Appalachian Migrants in American Cities. Westport, CT: Greenwood. 226 pp.

Breen, T. H. 1997. “The Great Wagon Road” [18 th century; Pa. to N.C.; Moravians and Scotch Irish]. Southern Cultures 3 (Spring): 22-57.

Brown, Lawrence A., Linda Lobao, and Scott Digiacinto. 1999. “Economic Restructuring and Migration in an Old Industrial Region” [ Ohio Valley; tables, maps]. In Migration and Restructuring in the United States: A Geographic Perspective, eds. K. Pandit and S. Withers, 37-58. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield.

Cushing, Brian. 1999. “Migration and Persistent Poverty in Rural America” [southern W.Va., 1980s; tables]. In Migration and Restructuring in the United States: A Geographic Perspective, eds. K. Pandit and S. Withers, 15-36. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield.

deMarrais, Kathleen Bennett. 1998. “Urban Appalachian Children: An ‘Invisible’ Minority in City Schools.” In Invisible Children in the Society and Its Schools, ed. S. Books, 89-110. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Dublin, Thomas. 1998. “Working-Class Families Respond to Industrial Decline: Migration from the Pennsylvania Anthracite Region Since 1920.” International Labor and Working-Class History 54: 40-56

Dyer, Joyce. 2003. Gum-Dipped: A Daughter Remembers Rubber Town [1950s-60s outmigrant company town, Akron; Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.]. Series on Ohio History and Culture. Akron, Oh.: University of Akron Press. 223 pp.

Feather, Carl E. 1998. Mountain People in a Flat Land: A Popular History of Appalachian Migration to Northeast Ohio, 1940-1965 [Ashtabula Co.]. Athens: Ohio University Press. 200 pp.

Frazier, Kevan D. 1998. “Outsiders in the Land of the Sky: City Planning and the Transformation of Asheville, North Carolina, 1921-1929.” Journal of Appalachian Studies 4 (Fall): 299-316.

Guy, Roger. 1997. “Down Home: Perception and Reality Among Southern White Migrants in Post World War II Chicago.” Oral History Review 24 (Winter): 35-52.

Guy, Roger. 2000. “A Common Ground: Urban Adaptation and Appalachian Unity” [ Chicago; 1950s-60s; maps, tables]. In Appalachian Odyssey: Historical Perspectives on the Great Migration, eds. P. Obermiller, T. Wagner, and E. Tucker, 49-66. Westport, Conn.: Praeger.

Guy, Roger. 2000. “The Media, the Police, and Southern White Migrant Identity in Chicago, 1955-1970.” Journal of Urban History 26 (March): 329-349.

Halperin, Rhoda H. 1998. Practicing Community: Class Culture and Power in an Urban Neighborhood [ Cincinnati]. Austin: University of Texas Press. 352 pp.

Hansel, Pauletta. 1999. “Where the Personal Is Political: Lessons From an Urban Appalachian Community’s Struggle for Environmental Justice” [ Cincinnati’s Lower Price Hill Environmental Leadership Coalition]. Journal of Appalachian Studies 5 (Fall): 263-268.

Hartigan, John, Jr. 1997. “Green Ghettos and the White Underclass” [ Detroit; Briggs neighborhood]. Social Research 64 (Summer): 339-365.

Hartigan, John, Jr. 1997. “Name Calling: Objectifying ‘Poor Whites’ and ‘White Trash’ in Detroit.” In White Trash: Race and Class in America, eds. Matt Wray and Annalee Newitz, 41-56. New York: Routledge.

Hartigan, John, Jr. 2000. “‘Disgrace to the Race’: Hillbillies and the Color Line in Detroit” [1940s-50s; identity]. In Appalachian Odyssey: Historical Perspectives on the Great Migration, eds. P. Obermiller, T. Wagner, and E. Tucker, 143-158. Westport, Conn.: Praeger.

Hartigan, John. 1999. Racial Situations: Class Predicaments of Whiteness in Detroit [Briggs neighborhood; Corktown; Warrendale]. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 354 pp.

Johnson, Susan Allyn. 2000. “How the ‘ Rubber City’ Became the ‘Capital of West Virginia’: A Case Study of Early Appalachian Migration” [ Akron, Ohio; 1900-1930s ]. Journal of Appalachian Studies 6 nos. 1-2 (Spring/Fall): 109-120.

Jones, Robert Emmet, J. Mark Fly, James Talley, and H. Ken Cordell. 2003. “Green Migration into Rural America: The New Frontier of Environmentalism?” [survey data; inmigrants place higher priority on environmental protection]. Society and Natural Resources 16 (March): 221-238.

Kyriakoudes, Louis M. 2003. The Social Origins of the Urban South: Race, Gender, and Migration in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, 1890-1930. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 226 pp.

Laudun, John. 2000. “‘There’s Not Much to Talk About When You’re Taking Pictures of Houses’: The Poetics of Vernacular Spaces” [Cincinnati; Charlie Kraft’s house; place and identity]. Southern Folklore 57 (no. 2): 135-158.

Lewandowski, James P., and Mark E. Reisinger. 1997. “Pennsylvania Migration 1985-1995: Responses to the State’s Changing Space-Economy.” Pennsylvania Geographer 35 (Spring): 5-22.

Liftig, Anya E. 2000. “A Clear Connection: A Young Woman Tries to Bridge the Communication Gap Between Lost Creek, Ky., and Manhattan.” Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 17 (Summer): 41-44.

Maloney, Michael. 1999. “Evaluating Education Advocacy Work by the Urban Appalachian Council” [ Cincinnati]. Journal of Appalachian Studies 5 (Spring): 129-132.

Mann, Ralph. 1996. "Mountain Settlement: Appalachian and National Modes of Migration." Journal of Appalachian Studies 2 (Fall): 337-345.

Miller, Zane L., and Bruce Tucker. 1998. Changing Plans for America’s Inner Cities: Cincinnati’s Over-The - Rhine and Twentieth-Century Urbanism. Urban Life and Urban Landscape Series. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. 227 pp.

Morrill, Richard, and Anthony Falit-Baiamonte. 1999. “Social and Economic Change and Intrametropolitan Migration” [ Atlanta; North Georgia; maps, tables]. In Migration and Restructuring in the United States: A Geographic Perspective, eds. K. Pandit and S. Withers, 59-94. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield.

Myadze, Theresa. 2000. “Revisiting Urban Appalachian Ethnicity” [class; culture]. In Appalachian Odyssey: Historical Perspectives on the Great Migration, eds. P. Obermiller, T. Wagner, and E. Tucker, 181-189. Westport, Conn.: Praeger.

Obermiller, Phillip J. 2001 [1999]. “Paving the Way: Urban Organizations and the Image of Appalachians.” In Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes, eds. D. Billings, G. Norman, and K. Ledford, 251-266. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. Originally published as Confronting Appalachian Stereotypes.

Obermiller, Phillip J. 2004. “Migration” [history]. In High Mountains Rising: Appalachia in Time and Place, eds. R. Straw and H. Blethen, 88-100. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Obermiller, Phillip J., and Steven R. Howe. 2001. “New Paths and Patterns of Appalachian Migration, 1975-1990” [one quarter population turnover]. Journal of Appalachian Studies 7 (Fall): 331-348.

Obermiller, Phillip J., and Steven R. Howe. 2004. “ Moving Mountains: Appalachian Migration Patterns, 1995-2000” [tables]. Journal of Appalachian Studies 10, no. 3: 359-371.

Obermiller, Phillip J., and Thomas E. Wagner. 1999. “Hands-Across-The-Ohio: The Urban Initiatives of the Council of the Southern Mountains, 1954-1971.” Journal of Appalachian Studies 5 (Spring): 5-26.

Obermiller, Phillip J., and Thomas E. Wagner. 2000. “ Cincinnati’s ‘Second Minority’: The Emergence of Appalachian Advocacy, 1953-1973.” In Appalachian Odyssey: Historical Perspectives on the Great Migration, eds. P. Obermiller, T. Wagner, and E. Tucker, 193-214. Westport, Conn.: Praeger.

Obermiller, Phillip J., and Thomas E. Wagner. 2000. “‘Hands-Across-The-Ohio’: The Urban Initiatives of the Council of the Southern Mountains, 1954-1971” [ Chicago]. In Appalachian Odyssey: Historical Perspectives on the Great Migration, eds. P. Obermiller, T. Wagner, and E. Tucker, 121-140. Westport, Conn.: Praeger.

Obermiller, Phillip J., and Thomas J. Wagner. 1997. “ Cincinnati’s ‘Second Minority’: The Emergence of Appalachian Advocacy, 1953-1973.” Appalachian Journal 24 (Spring): 274-295.

Obermiller, Phillip J., ed. 1996. Down Home, Downtown: Urban Appalachians Today. Dubuque, Ia: Kendall/Hunt. 224 pp.

Obermiller, Phillip J., Thomas E. Wagner, and E. Bruce Tucker, eds. 2000. Appalachian Odyssey: Historical Perspectives on the Great Migration [12 essays]. Introduction, xi-xxiv. Selected Bibliography, 231-236. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 242 pp.

Pandit, Kavita. 1997. “The Southern Migration Turnaround and Current Patterns.” Southeastern Geographer 37 (November): 238-250.

Pierce, Dan. 1998. “The Barbarism of the Huns: Family and Community Removal in the Establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 57 (Spring/Summer): 62-79.

Rowles, Graham D., and John F. Watkins. 1995. Demographic Change in Appalachia: Patterns and Trends: Final Report. Washington: Appalachian Regional Commission. 16 pp.

Schnell, George A. 1996. “ Pike County’s Location, Second-Home Population, and Retired In-Migrants: A Prescription for Continued Rapid Growth” [ Pa.]. Pennsylvania Geographer 35 (Spring): 23-37.

Schwartz, Tammy A. 2003. “Urban Appalachian Girls and Writing: Institutional and ‘Other/Ed’ Identities” [eight fifth-graders]. Pedagogy, Culture & Society 11 (no.1): 69-87.

Stewart, Shirley L., and Connie Rice. 2000. “The ‘Birds of Passage’ Phenomenon in West Virginia’s Out-Migration” [Chicago; Cleveland]. In Appalachian Odyssey: Historical Perspectives on the Great Migration, eds. P. Obermiller, T. Wagner, and E. Tucker, 39-47. Westport, Conn.: Praeger.

Tucker, Bruce. 2000. “Imagining Appalachians: The Berea Workshop on the Urban Adjustment of Southern Appalachian Migrants” [1959-60s; Council of Southern Mountains; annual workshops perpetuated an invented narrative about migrants]. In Appalachian Odyssey: Historical Perspectives on the Great Migration, eds. P. Obermiller, T. Wagner, and E. Tucker, 97-120. Westport, Conn.: Praeger.

Tucker, Bruce. 2000. “Toward a New Ethnicity: Urban Appalachian Ethnic Consciousness in Cincinnati, 1950-1987.” In Appalachian Odyssey: Historical Perspectives on the Great Migration, eds. P. Obermiller, T. Wagner, and E. Tucker, 159-180. Westport, Conn.: Praeger.

Tucker, Bruce. 2000. “Transforming Mountain Folk: Roscoe Giffin and the Invention of Urban Appalachia” [1950s “dysfunctional subculture argument”]. In Appalachian Odyssey: Historical Perspectives on the Great Migration, eds. P. Obermiller, T. Wagner, and E. Tucker, 69-95. Westport, Conn.: Praeger.

Turner, John, Erin Molenda, and Bernie Westendorff. 1996. "Migrants in Appalachia". [Avery, Ashe, Alleghany, and Watauga Counties, N.C.] Journal of Appalachian Studies 2 (Spring): 123-130.

Wagner, Thomas E., and Phillip J. Obermiller. 2000. “Going Home without the Trip: Appalachian Migrant Organizations” [ Ill.; Mich.; Ohio]. In Appalachian Odyssey: Historical Perspectives on the Great Migration, eds. P. Obermiller, T. Wagner, and E. Tucker, 215-230. Westport, Conn.: Praeger.

Wagner, Thomas E., and Phillip J. Obermiller. 1999. Valuing Our Past, Creating Our Future: The Founding of the Urban Appalachian Council [1973; Cincinnati]. Berea, Ky.: Berea College Press. 106 pp.

Walker, Gregory Wayne. 1997. “The White Urban Appalachian: A Call for a Study on Whiteness” [race and social class interaction]. Paper delivered at the 1997 Annual Meeting of The American Sociological Association, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, August 9-13. Sociological Abstracts 45 (December): 97S33335.

Watkins, John F., Graham D. Rowles, and Shannon L. Bowles. 2004. “Population Age Structure: Spatial Patterns and Change in Appalachia” [tables; 2000 Census]. Journal of Appalachian Studies 10, no. 3: 255-267.

Werner, Tammy, and Joanna Badagliacco. 2004. “Appalachian Households and Families in the New Millennium: An Overview of Trends and Policy Implications” [population tables; female-headed households; poverty]. Journal of Appalachian Studies 10, no. 3: 373-388.

Williams, John R. 1997. “‘Up Here, We Never See the Sun’: Homeplace and Crime in Urban Appalachian Narratives.” In Usable Pasts: Traditions and Group Expressions in North America, ed. T. Tuleja, 215-231. Logan: Utah State University Press.