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surrounding Orange's decision to leave ing the book a pure biography Basing school to play professional football befoie his narrative on the stories and lore of finishing his academic work Grange's contemporaries,and the work of Cairoll believes the legend of the historians, and other scholars, Cairoll exGalloping Ghost" was born October 8, pounds on Grange's life experiences as a 1924, when Illinois defeated the Michi- whole, smartly shying awav from the tragan Wolverines by a score of 3914 ditional model of biographies The result is a more oblective perspective on the life Grange scored four rushing touchdowns of a true sportinG legend in the first twelve minutes,astonishing all b D in attendance with his magnificent display Unfortunately,the mystique of sports of athleticism and skill One of the first fioures such as Red Orange seems increasb malor sporting events to be broadcast on itlgly irrelevant to the current generation, the radio,word spread as far as Washing- saturated as it is by images of contempoton , D.C, sparking disbelief among some rary social and sport heroes with little or of those in listening range A hero was no historical context As a result, respect born, and where Red Grange went, the for and acknowledgment of the men and masses followed women who paved the way for today's Though the first chapter delICS 1ntO successful athletes is in decline Carroll' s Grange' s boyhood, Carroll avoids mak- text piovides a model for others to follow, providing an objective account of the creation of an American sports hero * IE„* I»' 1* 0«. SEGREGATION *' Alex Krasnick Pennsylvania State University 0 ..' . 09* 8' T John C. Inscoe, ed. Appalacbians and E Race:Ube Mountain South from Slavery f to Segregation. Lexington The University Press of Kentucky, 2001, reprint 1 2005 344 pp ISBN 081319270 ( paper), 22 00 r etween the covers of Appaladolans Band Race ' Die Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation,editor John C InAh scoe has assembled an impressive range of essays While " race" in the title refers h 0 to blackwhite relations, the collection SUMMER 2006 71 BOOK REVIEWS nonetheless coveis i broad range of topics in its eighteen essays, as the book' s subtitle suggests. Adost of the essays in this book were published previously as journal articles or book chapters, so their arguments will be fiamiliar to those well versed in the histoi-iography of Appalachia ( the reprinted material dates from 1975 to 1996). But for new students of the region, the book provides a convenient introduction to the topic.As Inscoe notes in his introd uction, historians of Appalachia neglected the subject of race throughout most ofthe twentieth century 2). The essays ]17 this book are a testament to a dramatic :shift in the historiography Although most of the contributors are historians,sociologists, folklorists, and a professor of religion have contributed essays. ' Ihe result is an intriguing range of topics under the rubric of race,including labor history, political history, and musicology,as well as a variety of methodological approaches, including close reading of literary texts ( as in the editor's contribution, an an:llysis of the writings ofFrederick Law Olmsted)and statistical analysis ( as in Kathleen Blee and Dwight Billings's portrait of poverty in Clay County,Kentucky). In every case, the essays are wellre searched and written in plain prose, free ofjargon. Several of the essays are particularly concerned with how race relations in Appalachia may or may not have been unique compared to the remainder of the South. Wilma Dunaway, for example, highlights southern Appalachia' s place at the " geographical heart of major slave trading routes. W. Fitz. hugh Brundage finds that racial violence and lynchings were not particularly different from their counterparts elsewhere in the South. Because Appalachia lacked the grand plantations of the lower South, some of the most interesting essays concern the diversity of slave experience in antebellum Appalachia . In particular,essays by David Williams ( on gold miners), John Stealey on the salt industry), Charles Dew ( on ironworkers), and Kenneth Noe ( on railroads )ably illustrate the wide range ofindustries into which slavery was integrated . Steadley' s essay demonstrates that the salt industry was not faced with...

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