The Invisible Minority: Urban Appalachians

Since 1950 more than three million people have left their homes in Appalachia in search of better jobs and a better life in the cities of the Midwest and Southeast. Today they constitute one of the largest minorities in many of those cities. Yet they have been largely overlooked as a social group and ignored as a potential political force, partly because so little has been written about them. This important book is the first to explore the Appalachian migration and its impact on the cities, on

• | Author: William W. Philliber
• | Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• | Publication Date: Jul 15, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 208 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0813153956
• | ISBN-13: 9780813153957