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Obermiller, Phillip J., Ed.; Philliber, William W., Ed. – 1987
Between 1940 and 1970, an estimated three million people left their home places in Appalachia to migrate to industrial centers in search of jobs. Many became long-time dwellers in the urban underclass. Others who found secure employment struggled with questions of identity and cultural negation and continued to consider their rural origins as…
Descriptors: Appalachian Studies, Cultural Differences, Culture Conflict, Elementary Secondary Education
Direct linkPostiglione, Gerard A., Ed. – M.E. Sharpe Inc, 2006
Market reform, financial decentralization, and economic globalization have greatly accentuated China's social and regional inequalities. Education is expected to address these inequalities in a context of rapid social change, including the rise of an urban middle class, changed status of women, resurgence of ethnic identities, growing rural to…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Free Enterprise System, Global Approach, Social Stratification
Download full textObermiller, Phillip J., Ed. – 1996
This book contains selected presentations from a conference on urban Appalachians held in Cincinnati, Ohio, in September 1995. The papers present diverse perspectives on the migration from rural Appalachia to industrial centers, questions of Appalachian culture and identity, community development in Appalachian neighborhoods, and rural Appalachian…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Education, Appalachian Studies, Community Development
