Foreword, by Ronald D Eller A Note from William H. Turner, by William H. Turner Part 1: Race and Place 1. Appalachian African American: Black Identity, by Wilburn Hayden Jr. 2. Writing Black Life in Mountains: Race and Representation in an Emerging American Literary Field, by Anthony Kwame Harrison 3. I Pledge Allegiance to Affrilachia, by Marie T. Cochran 4.
The Affrilachian Writers: An Historical Overview to Situate Their Critical Contemporary Relevance and Importance, by Theresa Burriss Part 2: Migration and Memory 5. Living in the Black Shadow Community: Glimpses into the Complicated Life of Charles Ringo, by Cicero M. Fain III 6. The First Drag Queen was a Black Appalachian, by Skylar Baker-Jordan 7. Between Corbin and Lynch: Reconsidering the Great Migration and The Red Summer in Appalachia, by Matthew O'Neal 8. Stories of The Bottom: Memories of A Community Forged In "Undesirable" Space, by Enkeshi El-Amin 9. Blues Music, by Ted Olson 10. The Making of a Black Appalachian Oral History: Lessons in Collaboration, by Susan E.
Keefe 11. (Re)Locating Sites of Memory in Appalachia Through Black Spaces and Stories, by Kristan McCullum Part 3: Biography 12. Remaking the Schoolhouse: The Early Life of Olivia America Davidson Washington, by Sheena Harris Hayes 13. Freedman Daniel Richmond and His Encounter After the Civil War, by Preston Wade Mitchell 14. "Harnessing Press Coverage," from Carter G. Woodson: History, The Black Press, and Public Relations, by Burnis R. Morris 15. A Performance of Impossibilities: Mildred Katharine Ellis and the 1947 Negro Music Festival in Johnson City, Tennessee, by Jeremy A.
Smith Part 4: Discrimination and Segregation 16. Social Equality and the Spirit of Devilry: The Rhetoric of Racial Capitalism in the Birmingham Coal Industry, 1901-1908, by Kevin Slovinsky 17. The Crisis in Harlan: W. E. B. DuBois, Miner Strikes, and Racial Capitalism in Appalachia, by Faith Leone 18. Convict Labor in Central Appalachia, by William H. Turner 19.
The NAACP and the Desegregation of Schools in West Virginia, by Tamara Denmark Bailey 20. Racial Segregation in West Virginia Housing, 1929-1971, by Nathan Tauger 21. Beyond the Company Town: The Baldwin Felts Detective Agency and the Legacy of Appalachian Violence Work, by angie luvara and T.R.C. Hutton Part 5: Poetry, Photography, and Prose 22. Them Black Patent Leather Shoes, by Omope Carter Daboiku 23. Lessons from the Edge of Appalachia, by Omope Carter Daboiku 24.
Black Joy, by Omope Carter Daboiku 25. "Appalachian Ghost" and "Gauley Mountain Computer Work", by Norman Jordan 26. I, Too, Am an Appalachian, by Edward J. Cabbell 27. Black Appalachia in Images, by Builder Levy 28. Looking for Ghosts, by Raymond Thompson Jr. 29. Appalachian Chitlins (chitterlings), by Donovan Hayden 30.
Appalachian Links to Emmanuel Nine Massacre, by Vonnia Harris Davis Index Acknowledgments About the Contributors.