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Jeff Biggers

@JeffRBiggers

Jeff Biggers is a journalist and author of The United States of Appalachia: How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America (Counterpoint); Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland (Nation Books); and State Out of the Union: Arizona and the Final Showdown Over the American Dream (Nation Books).

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Stripmining Black History Month

Resource Types: Articles
In “Stripmining Black History Month,” Jeff Biggers writes that “the neglect and degradation of a region and its history have always mirrored the neglect and abuse of the land.” And there is no more abused land in the United States than Appalachia, where coal companies continue to scrape away mountains to get at the thin coal seams buried within. The coal companies call everything that is not coal, “overburden” — streams, trees, animals, plants. Surely history itself is also a burden for the coal companies, because if we knew our history, we would know the rich legacy of activism that has characterized Appalachia — activism that does not conform to the whitewashed ignorant “hillbilly” stereotypes that the rich and powerful have found so convenient to promote.

Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland

Resource Types: Books: Non-Fiction
Page Length: 328
Book — Non-fiction. By Jeff Biggers. 2014 (2nd edition). 328 pages.
The untold history of coal mining in the U.S. through the lens of race, labor, and the environment.
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