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This article considers the materiality of poverty in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia between 1865 and 1920. It problematizes the stereotypes of Appalachia as poor and white, and examines the dialectics in which groups that have power in a social system influence the allocation of different types of resources, such as land. With an emphasis on the landscape, I consider the intersections of poverty, race, and class in the material lives of African American landowners and tenants by comparing material remains as well as access and control of resources.
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Barnes, J.A. Land Rich and Cash Poor: The Materiality of Poverty in Appalachia. Hist Arch 45, 26–40 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03376845
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