Description
Book SynopsisAn ethnography of coal country in southern West Virginia.
Trade Review"Rebecca R. Scott takes us into the coalfields, mining the cultural poetics that give rise to conflicts over the meaning and significance of this disturbing technology. Her careful excavations reveal the roles that gender, race, and class play in shaping people’s sense of belonging both in their local environments and in the larger modern world. These are deep—and sometimes deeply contradictory—cultural processes that are all but invisible to those content to stay on the surface. Scott strips away the easy answers and finds hard questions underneath." —Matt Wray, Temple University
Table of ContentsContents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Logic of Extraction
1. Hillbillies and Coal Miners: Representations of a National Sacrifice Zone
2. Men Moving Mountains: Coal Mining Masculinities and Mountaintop Removal
3. The Gendered Politics of Pro-Mountaintop Removal Discourse
4. ATVs in Action: Transgression, Property Rights, and Tourism on the Hatfield-McCoy Trail
5. Coal Heritage/Coal History: Appalachia, America, and Mountaintop Removal
6. Traces of History: "White" People, Black Coal
Conclusion: Coal Facts
Appendix: Guide to Participants
Notes
Bibliography
Index
