The Invisible minority, urban Appalachians /William W. Philliber and Clyde B. McCoy, editors, with Harry C. Dillingham.

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Subject: Since 1950 more than three million people have left their homes in Appalachia in search of better jobs and a better life in the cities of the Midwest and Southeast. Today they constitute one of the largest minorities in many of those cities. Yet they have been largely overlooked as a social group and ignored as a potential political force, partly because so little has been written about them. This important book is the first to explore the Appalachian migration and its impact on the cities, on Appalachia, and on the migrants themselves, from the perspectives of sociology, economics, geography,

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Papers from a conference sponsored by the Academy for Contemporary Problems and the Urban Appalachian Council, held in Columbus, Ohio, Mar. 27-29, 1974.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Maps; Acknowledgments; Introduction/Urban Appalachians: Unknown and Unnoticed; Part I: Appalachians as an Urban Ethnic Group; 1 The Question of Appalachian Ethnicity; 2 Stereotypes of Appalachian Migrants; Part II: Migration of Appalachians to Urban Areas; 3 Appalachian Migration to Midwestern Cities; 4 The Residential Distribution of Urban Appalachians; 5 Population Changes and Trends in Appalachia; 6 Implications of Changes in Appalachia for Urban Areas; Part III: Attainments of Appalachians in Urban Areas.

7 Economic Costs and Returns of Appalachian Out-Migration8 Occupational Patterns of Appalachian Migrants; 9 Occupational Adjustment of Appalachians in Cleveland; 10 Accounting for the Occupational Placements of Appalachian Migrants; Conclusion The Prospects for Urban Appalachians; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Contributors.

Since 1950 more than three million people have left their homes in Appalachia in search of better jobs and a better life in the cities of the Midwest and Southeast. Today they constitute one of the largest minorities in many of those cities. Yet they have been largely overlooked as a social group and ignored as a potential political force, partly because so little has been written about them. This important book is the first to explore the Appalachian migration and its impact on the cities, on Appalachia, and on the migrants themselves, from the perspectives of sociology, economics, geography,