Selected Readings on Appalachian Migration and Urban Appalachians
compiled by Phillip J. Obermiller
The following is a list of sources that may be helpful for policy makers, researchers, and training program participants. The list is by no means comprehensive, but is meant to introduce users to the subject matter and to provide a beginning point for further exploration. The entries are listed in chronological order of publication and updated regularly. Comments or ideas for additional entries can be submitted to solotso@aol.com.
Also available is an Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) version of this bibliography. This requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader software which can be downloaded from the Adobe web site.
Books, Articles, Reports, Websites, and Dissertations
“Urban Adjustment of Migrants from the Southern Appalachian Plateaus,” Grace G. Leybourne. 1937. Social Forces 16 (2):238-246.
“The Southern White Laborer Migrates to Michigan,” Erdman Doane Beynon. 1938. American Sociological Review 3 (93): 333-343.
“The Effects of Southern White Workers on Race Relations in Northern Plants,” Lewis M. Killian. 1952. American Sociological Review, 17 (3): 327-330
Report of a Workshop on the Southern Mountaineer in Cincinnati, April 29, 1954. Roscoe Giffin. 1954. Mimeo. Cincinnati, Ohio: Mayor’s Friendly Relations Committee.
“The Great Migration, 1940-1960,” James S. Brown, and George A. Hillary, Jr. 1962. pp. 54-78 in Thomas R. Ford, ed., The Southern Appalachian Region: A Survey. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press.
“The Unaccepted Baltimoreans: A Report on the White Southern Rural Migrants,” Mrs. Fred Kolodner. 1961. (Mimeo) Baltimore Section of the National Council of Jewish Women.
The Other America. Michael Harrington. 1962. Macmillan.
The South Goes North. Robert Coles. 1967. Little, Brown and Co.
“The Uptown Story,” Bill Montgomery. 1968. Mountain Life and Work, 44: 8-18.
Uptown: Poor Whites in Chicago. Todd Gitlin and Nanci Hollander. 1970. Evanston: Harper and Row.
White Southerners. Lewis Killian. 1970. University of Massachusetts Press.
Mountain Families in Transition. Harry K. Schwarzweller, James S. Brown, and J. J. Mangalam. 1971. Pennsylvania State University Press.
The South Goes North. Vol. 3 of Children in Crisis. Robert Coles. 1971. Boston: Little, Brown and Company.
Hard Living on Clay Street. Joseph Howell. 1973. Anchor Books.
The Social Areas of Cincinnati: An Analysis of Social Needs. First Edition. Michael E. Maloney 1974. Cincinnati Human Relations Commission.
Appalachian Migrants in Urban America. William Philliber. 1981. Praeger.
The Invisible Minority. William Philliber & Clyde McCoy, eds. 1981. University Press of Kentucky.
"Urban Appalachians and Canadian Maritime Migrants: A Comparative Study of Emergent Ethnicity," Martin N. Marger and Phillip J. Obermiller. 1983. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 24:229-243.
The Social Areas of Cincinnati: An Analysis of Social Needs. Second Edition. Michael E. Maloney 1987. Cincinnati Human Relations Commission.
Too Few Tomorrows. Phillip Obermiller and William Philliber, eds. 1987. Appalachian Consortium Press.
"Health, Education, and Pollution in Lower Price Hill," Pauletta Hansel, Katie Brown, et.al. 1990. A Report by the Lower Price Hill Task Force. Urban Appalachian Council.
"Country Comes to Town: A Survey of Appalachian Literature," Danny Miller. 1990. Pages 35-38 in Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine. Volume 8, Number 2.
From Mountain to Metropolis. Kathryn Borman and Phillip Obermiller, eds. 1994. Bergin and Garvey.
Down Home, Downtown: Urban Appalachians Today. Phillip Obermiller, ed. 1996. Kendall/Hunt.
“Early school leaving: An analysis across three generations of Appalachian women.” Patricia Timm. 1996. D. Ed. dissertation, University of Cincinnati.
"From Diversity to Unity: Uptown's Southern Migrants, 1950-1970." Roger S. Guy. 1996. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.
Perceptions of Home: The Urban Appalachian Spirit. Malcom J. Wilson and Don Corathers. 1996. Urban Appalachian Council.
The Social Areas of Cincinnati: An Analysis of Social Needs. Third Edition. Michael E. Maloney and Janet Bueloh. 1997. University of Cincinnati.
"Migration and Persistent Poverty in Rural America: A Case Study from Central America," Brian Cushing. 1997. Research Paper 9732, Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University.
Mountain People in a Flat Land: A Popular History of Appalachian Migration to Northeast Ohio, 1940-1965. Carl Feather, 1998. Ohio University Press.
Practicing Community: Class Culture, and Power in an Urban Neighborhood. Rhoda Halperin. 1998. University of Texas Press.
Valuing Our Past, Creating Our Future: The Founding of the Urban Appalachian Council. Thomas Wagner and Phillip Obermiller. 1999. Berea College Press.
"Paving the Way: Urban Organizations and the Image of Appalachians," Phillip Obermiller. Pages 251-266 in Billings, Norman, and Ledford, eds., Confronting Appalachian Stereotypes: Back Talk from an American Region. 1999. University Press of Kentucky.
Racial Situations: Class Predicaments of Whiteness in Detroit. John Hartigan, Jr. 1999. Princeton University Press.
Appalachian Odyssey: Historical Perspectives on the Great Migration. Phillip Obermiller, Thomas Wagner & Bruce Tucker, eds. 2000. Praeger.
Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles. Chad Berry. 2000. University of Illinois Press.
"Appalachian Migration Patterns, 1975-1980 and 1985-1990," Phillip J. Obermiller and Steven R. Howe. Appalachian Regional Commission. 2001. http://www.arc.gov/index.do?nodeId=1064
"Great Migrations: Race and Community in the Southern Exodus, 1917-1970." J.Trent Alexander. 2001. Ph.D. Dissertation, Carnegie Mellon University.
“’Write me’: A participatory action research project with urban Appalachian girls.” Tammy Schwartz. 2001. D. Ed. dissertation, University of Cincinnati.
"New Paths and Patterns of Appalachian Migration, 1975-1990," Phillip J. Obermiller and Steven R. Howe. 2002. Pages 89-97 in Phillip J. Obermiller and Michael E. Maloney, eds., Appalachia: Social Context Past and Present. Kendall Hunt.
Reading Lives: Working-Class Children and Literacy Learning. Deborah Hicks. 2002. New York: Teachers College Press.
"'We ain't agoin' back': A Retrospective Look at Urban Appalachians in Greater Cincinnati," Phillip J. Obermiller and Michael E. Maloney. 2002. Pages 98-103 in Phillip J. Obermiller and Michael E. Maloney, eds., Appalachia: Social Context Past and Present. Kendall Hunt.
"Migration," Phillip Obermiller. Pages 88 - 100 in Straw and Blethen, eds., High Mountains Rising: Appalachia in Time and Place. 2004. University of Illinois Press.
"Readin', Writin', and Route 21: The Road from West Virginia to Ohio," David Giffels. Pages 142 -150 in Evans, Santelli, and George-Warren, eds., The Appalachians: America's First and Last Frontier. 2004. Random House.
The Social Areas of Cincinnati: An Analysis of Social Needs. Patterns for Four Census Decades. Fourth Edition. Michael Maloney and Christopher Auffrey. 2004. University of Cincinnati, School of Planning. http://www.socialareasofcincinnati.org.
African American Miners and Migrants: The Eastern Kentucky Social Club. Thomas Wagner and Phillip Obermiller. 2004. University of Illinois Press.
"'They're never here more than a year': Return Migration in the Southern Exodus, 1940-1970," J. Trent Alexander. 2005. Pages 653-671 in volume 38 of the Journal of Social History.
"Urban Appalachian Experience." Michael E. Maloney and Phillip J. Obermiller, eds. (a section of the Encyclopedia of Appalachia). 2006. University of Tennessee Press.
"Appalachians Outside the Region," Phillip J. Obermiller, Michael E. Maloney and Pauletta Hansel. Pages 237-252 in Edwards, Asbury and Cox, eds., A Handbook to Appalachia. 2006. University of Tennessee Press.
"Defining the Diaspora: Appalachians in the Great Migration," J. Trent Alexander.2006. Pages 219-247 in volume 37 of the Journal of Interdisciplinary History.
Celebrating, Honoring, and Valuing Rich Traditions: The History of the Ohio Appalachian Arts Program. Wayne Rapp. 2006. Lucky Press and the Ohio Arts Council.
Moving Mountains: Appalachian Migration Patterns, 1995-2000, by Phillip J. Obermiller and Steven R. Howe. 2007. In Phillip J. Obermiller and Michael E. Maloney, eds., Appalachia: Social Context Past and Present, 5th edition, Kendall/Hunt.
From Diversity to Unity: Southern and Appalachian Migrants in Uptown Chicago, 1950-1970. Roger Guy. 2007. Lexington Books.
Serials
The Appalachian Connection, a monthly newspaper published in Cincinnati by Media Associates in cooperation with the Urban Appalachian Council.
Mountain Life and Work published three special issues on Appalachian migrants: v.44, n. 8, September, 1968; v.52, n. 8, August, 1976.; v.64, n. 4, October-December, 1988.
Now and Then published a special issue on Urban Appalachia, v.8, n.2, Summer, 1990.
People's Appalachia published a special issue on urban migrants, n.2, July, 1972.
Audio Tapes, Films, Videos, and DVDs
The Newcomers. 1963. George C. Stoney. Board of Missions of the Methodist Church.
The Southern Mountaineer: An Audio-Study of a People, a Place, and a Condition. 1963. WCKY Radio Public Affairs Project.
Long Journey Home. 1987. Elizabeth Barret. Appalshop.
Although Our Fields Were Streets. 1991. Peter Allison. P. Allison Productions.
Appalachians: The Silent Majority. 1996. Roy Flynn. Greater Dayton Public Television, Inc.
Mountain Shadow: Four Appalachian Artists. 1997. Jane Goetzman and Dorothy Weil. TV Image, Inc.
Keeping Community: East End Voices. 2000. Jane Goetzman and Dorothy Weil. TV Image, Inc.
The Will to Read: Estill Sizemore's Story. 2000. Thomas Law. Voyager Media Group, Inc.
Neighborhood Images: Hopes, Dreams, Voices. 2001. Lower Price Hill Teen Video Project. Urban Appalachian Council.
The Faces of Environmental Injustice in Cincinnati. 2001. Sierra Club, UAC, CUFA. Sunshine Productions, H.C.
Last updated September 24, 2007.
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