Children of Crisis: Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers

by Robert Coles

Overview

Since the late 1950's, Robert Coles has been studying, living with, and, above all, listening to the American poor. The result is one of the most vigorous and searching social studies ever undertaken by one man in the United States. Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers is the second volume in Dr. Coles's award-winning series, Children of Crisis. In it, he listens to three groups: the migrant workers who travel the eastern coast of this country, picking crops day after day; the sharecroppers and tenant farmers who live on isolated southern plantations, just as their ancestors did as slaves; and the mountaineers of Appalachia, whose only choice lies between coal mining and starvation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316151764
Publisher:	Little, Brown and Company
Publication date:	03/30/1973
Series:	Children of Crisis Series , #2
Pages:	653
Product dimensions:	5.41(w) x 8.24(h) x 1.40(d)

Table of Contents

	Foreword	xi
1	The Setting	1
I.	The Land	3
II.	The Method	25
2	The Children	45
III.	Uprooted Children	47
IV.	Stranded Children	117
V.	Hidden Children	193
3	The World	273
VI.	The World of the Hollows	275
1.	The Miners Need Their Bosses	276
2.	No One Should Be Bossed Around	285
3.	Owning Them	297
4.	Like My Teacher	305
5.	God Cannot Be Questioned	316
6.	The People Are Weak, Weak and Run-Down	325
7.	They Near Die Down There, but They Try to Live	334
8.	Hugh McCaslin	340
VII.	The World of the Black Belt	359
1.	The Bossman	359
2.	The Foreman	372
3.	The Teacher	382
4.	The Sheriff	394
5.	The Preacher	400
6.	The Yeoman Neighbor	409
VIII.	The World of the Wanderers	422
1.	Their Father, Their Mother, Their Everything	422
2.	The Growers	439
3.	Guarding the Animals and Children	457
4.	Selling Gas to the Children	464
5.	Teaching the Wanderers	467
6.	Saving Their Souls, Their Damned Souls	473
4	The Rural Life	479
IX.	The Rural Mind	481
1.	Whose Strengths, Whose Weaknesses	481
2.	A Proud and Fierce Spirit	493
3.	The Mind of Christ in Their Heads	510
X.	Rural Youth	517
1.	Winston	517
2.	Myrna	520
3.	Ronald	523
XI.	Rural Upheaval	550
XII.	Rural Religion	578
	References	619
	Index	639