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    it never succumbs to the morbid or maudlin."—The Observer"... gripping and extremely moving..."—FourFourTwo"... one of the best oral histories ever produced..."—Oral History

    It burst on the scene again during the 1972-73 Brookside strike, an event chronicled in the Academy Award-winning film, Harlan County, U.S.A. In this book the author brings the American reader up to date on this interesting community by documenting the everyday lives of Harlan miners and their families in the mid-1980s.Using a neo-Marxian perspective, Two Sides to Everything characterizes the nature, limitations, and transformative potential of class consciousness among two generations of Harlan miners. It also elucidates the apparent contradictions between popular images of central Appalachians, as militant labor activists, on one hand, and passive, traditional, fatalistic hillbillies, on the other. The book accomplishes these tasks through a systematic consideration of the relationship between the central experiential bases and sources of identity among Harlan county miners--class, kinship, community, religion, and gender.

    They were expelled almost immediately, but their intrusion sparked a political crisis that led to the collapse of all civil authority in the Swahili towns. Feasts and Riot traces the background to that crisis, using the events of 1888 as a window through which to examine the nature of class conflict and popular consciousness in precolonial Africa. Glassman shows how the contours of market penetration were shaped by local patterns of struggle, particularly struggle over the definition of community institutions. Deriving his approach from the writings of Gramsci, the author focuses on the ambiguity of popular rebellion. Lower class rebels were motivated neither by a distinct, class-based vision of society, nor by dedication to any traditional way of life. Instead, they expressed a rebellious interpretation of community ideals, ideals that they held in common with their soci