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How Black poets and writers gave a voice to 'Affrilachia'

  • Written by Amy M. Alvarez, Assistant Teaching Professor, English, West Virginia University
image'Untitled' from the series 'Imaging/Imagining.' Photo by Raymond Thompson, Jr.

Appalachia, in the popular imagination, stubbornly remains poor and white.

Open a dictionary and you’ll see Appalachian described as a “native or inhabitant of Appalachia, especially one of predominantly Scotch-Irish, English, or German ancestry.”

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