African Americans have had a profound impact on the economy, culture, and social landscape of southern Appalachia but only after a surge of study in the last tw

Appalachia resides in the American imagination at the intersections of race and class in a very particular way, in the tension between deep historic investments

Since the 2016 presidential election, Americans have witnessed countless stories about Appalachia: its changing political leanings, its opioid crisis, its incre

Although southern Appalachia is popularly seen as a purely white enclave, blacks have lived in the region from early times. Some hollows and coal camps are in f

Meredith Sue Willis’s Out of the Mountains is a collection of thirteen short stories set in contemporary Appalachia. Firmly grounded in place, the stories voy