Reading Appalachia from Left to Right : Conservatives and the 1974 Kanawha County Textbook Controversy.
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- 9780801459856
- Textbooks -- West Virginia -- Kanawha County
- Multicultural education -- Curricula -- West Virginia -- Kanawha County
- Language arts -- Curricula -- West Virginia -- Kanawha County
- Culture conflict -- West Virginia -- Kanawha County
- Ethnic conflict -- West Virginia -- Kanawha County
- Community and school -- West Virginia -- Kanawha County
- 379.1/560975437
- LB3047.5.W4 -- M37 2009eb
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Reading Appalachia -- Soul on Appalachian Ice -- A Modern American Confl ict -- True Sons of Appalachia -- Sweet Alice and Secular Humanism -- Reproducing the Souls of White Folk -- The Right Soul -- Writing Appalachia -- Keywords -- Notes -- Sources and Selected Bibliography -- Index.
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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