Lexington Books
Pages: 140
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7391-1834-4 • Paperback • July 2009 • $45.99 • (£35.00)
Roger Guy is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Prelude to Departure
Chapter 2 Chapter 1. Hitting Hillbilly Highway: Leaving Home Behind
Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Destination Uptown: A Rocky Evolution
Chapter 4 Chapter 3. A Common Ground: Urban Adaptation and Migrant Identity
Chapter 5 Chapter 4. Hillbilly Jungle and Hillbilly Heaven: A Tale of Perceptions
Chapter 6 Chapter 5. Unity, Community, and the Chicago Southern Center
Chapter 7 Chapter 6. Southern Unity and Social Protest in Uptown
Chapter 8 Chapter 7. The Migrant Generation: From Unity to Invisibility
An imaginative, subtle, and sensitive study of southern white migrants to Chicago after World War II. Roger Guy combines an interdisciplinary array of sources with the words of the migrants themselves to create a portait of a community and a people in the making. Guy weaves the broader story of postwar development in Chicago with the more intimate portrait of white southern migrants, a relatively neglected portion of America's Great Migrations of the twentieth century.
— David Goldfield, University of North Carolina - Charlotte
Guy provides a compelling look at the experiences of southern Americans in the postwar urban North, confronting a new environment and crafting a cohesive community identity in the process.
— H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online, April 2008
Valuable for undergraduate and graduate courses on ethnicity, adaption of migrants, urban community studies, and urban politics. Highly recommended. All academic levels/libraries.
— Choice
Guy's case study of Uptown is a useful addition to the literature on urban Appalachian and Southern migrants.
— David Walls; Contemporary Sociology
From Diversity to Unity makes a major contribution on the histroy of southern white migration to the North. Guy is especially insightful on the experiences of female migrants as family members, workers, and community activists.
— Joseph A. Rodriguez, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Todd Gitlin and Nanci Hollander's Uptown: Poor Whites in Chicago (1970) announced the emergence of the white southern community in Chicago. From Diversity to Unity documents its development, maturity, and demise.
— Journal Of Appalachian Studies