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AFR/HIS 286: Black and Indigenous Appalachia - Klanderud (Fall 2020)

Week One

"Mississippia: Native Appalachia."
Davis, Donald Edward
"Kituah - Cherokee Appalachia."
Davis, Donald Edward
"Red and Black in the Southern Appalachians."
Perdue, Theda

Week Two

"Founding Greater Appalachia" and "Appalachia Spreads West."
Woodard, Collin.
"Land Speculators vs Indians and the Privy Council."
Holton, Woody
"The Wars for Appalachia"
Drake, Richard B.

Week Three

"Free Virginians vs Slaves and Governor Dunmore."
Holton, Woody
"John Locke's Lubberland: The Settlements of Carolina and Georgia."
Isenberg, Nancy
"Freedom and Slavery in Appalachian America."
Woodson, Carter G.
"Between Berea and Birmingham."
Turner, William H.

Week Four

"“NOT QUITE CONSTITUTIONALIZED” The Meanings of “Civilization” and the Limits of Native American Citizenship."
Kantrowitz, Stephen
"Slave Resistance, Sectional Crisis, and Political Factionalism in Antebellum Indian Territory."
Krauthamer, Barbara
"The Treaty of 1866 Emancipation and the Conflicts over Citizenship Rights and Indian Nations' Sovereign."
Krauthamer, Barbara

Week Five

"“Life for Me Ain’t Been No Crystal Stair”: African Americans in Coal Towns."
Wagner, Thomas E. and Phillip J. Obermiller
"“What Kept You Standing, Why Didn’t You Fall?”: African Americans in Benham and Lynch."
Wagner, Thomas E. and Phillip J. Obermiller
"“One Close Community”: The Eastern Kentucky Social Club."
Wagner, Thomas E. and Phillip J. Obermiller
"The Great Migration Escape."
Brown, Karida L.

Week Six

"White Power and the Performance of Assimilation."
White, Louellen
"Introduction."
Trotter, Joe William
"Memories of Parents and Places."
Trotter, Joe William
"Troubled Waters of Vallscreek."

Week Seven

"The Original Rainbow Coalition."
Williams, Jakobi
"Appalachian Diversity."
Hayden, Wilburn, Jr.
"Lessons from Appalachia in the 20th Century: Poverty, Power, and the "Grassroots"."
Anglin, Mary K.