Word: appalachia
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...only studied black children affected by the civil rights upheavals of the early sixties, but he brok through the constraints of liberal social science and also tried to understand the hopes and fears of white Southerners buffeted about as the pace of social change increased. Then to Appalachia, the land of hollows and coal mines, where some of the children of the first English settlers in America live in abject poverty, and he talked to a proud people bewildered by an America that had passed them by. And as the black southerners and the white mountain people traveled North...
...stereotyping could have practical effects on Government efforts to aid the poor, because, as Coles sees it, shallow labels lead to shallow programs, or no programs at all. If, for example, Appalachia's poverty is attributed to the mountaineers' "backwardness" and "suspiciousness," efforts to help are bound to be misdirected?and thus bound to fail. If deprived people are thought to have no values worth preserving, then they will continue to be treated with condescension. As one ghetto woman complained to Coles: "They tell you they want to help you, but if you ask me they want to make...
When men and women from Appalachia come up to the cities, the problems they face are not so different from those that confront transplanted blacks. As they soon find out, a man's skill, in itself, counts for nothing: "If you have only your strong arms, it's no good. I can build a house, but I didn't have the references they wanted." There are problems with unskilled jobs, too. "They'll say you spend too many minutes trying to be perfect. I had a job washing cars, but the man said I cleaned each car like...
...ecologically minded era of recycling, surely the mutually beneficial solution to hunger in Appalachia and unwanted fetuses in New York is Jonathan Swift's "Modest Proposal" that "a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout." Let those who will, stomach this solution...
...months is difficult. G.I. wives lose out to German nationals who can work at Army jobs for less than the U.S. federal minimum wage. "Towards the end of the month," says one sympathetic officer, "lots of enlisted families are living on macaroni. It's like a scene from Appalachia...