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Berea's Appalachian Commitment

Berea's Appalachian Commitment Berea's Appalachian Commitment Richard B. Drake Appalachian Heritage, Volume 26, Number 3, Summer 1998, pp. 6-21 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1998.0021 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/435247/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 19:52 GMT from JHU Libraries Berea's Appalachian Commitment______ Richard B. Drake Both friends and critics of Berea College have analyzed and evaluated its Appalachian commitment across the years. Anthropologist Allen W. Batteau, in his influential The Invention of Appalachian says that Berea President William G. Frost (1892-1920), invented the rhetoric of Appalachia, and is the one responsible for the creation ofAppalachia as a region. Batteau says that Berea College, in fact, furnished the cadre of early workers for Appalachian development by intellectually linking Appalachia to eighteenth century Revolutionary America and viewing the people as "our contemporary ancestors," as well as essentially northern frontiersmen, thus making Appalachia seem interesting and important to mainline Americans.1 And historian Henry D. Shapiro, in an older but similar analysis, has seen Frost as a major architect of the vision of Appalachia as "a strange land inhabited by a peculiar people."2 In recent days there has been a substantial outpouring of concern over the closing http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Berea's Appalachian Commitment

Appalachian Review , Volume 26 (3) – Jan 8, 2014

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Berea's Appalachian Commitment Richard B. Drake Appalachian Heritage, Volume 26, Number 3, Summer 1998, pp. 6-21 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1998.0021 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/435247/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 19:52 GMT from JHU Libraries Berea's Appalachian Commitment______ Richard B. Drake Both friends and critics of Berea College have analyzed and evaluated its Appalachian commitment across the years. Anthropologist Allen W. Batteau, in his influential The Invention of Appalachian says that Berea President William G. Frost (1892-1920), invented the rhetoric of Appalachia, and is the one responsible for the creation ofAppalachia as a region. Batteau says that Berea College, in fact, furnished the cadre of early workers for Appalachian development by intellectually linking Appalachia to eighteenth century Revolutionary America and viewing the people as "our contemporary ancestors," as well as essentially northern frontiersmen, thus making Appalachia seem interesting and important to mainline Americans.1 And historian Henry D. Shapiro, in an older but similar analysis, has seen Frost as a major architect of the vision of Appalachia as "a strange land inhabited by a peculiar people."2 In recent days there has been a substantial outpouring of concern over the closing

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