Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia

by Karida L. Brown

Since the 2016 presidential election, Americans have witnessed countless stories about Appalachia: its changing political leanings, its opioid crisis, its increasing joblessness, and its declining population. These stories, however, largely ignore black Appalachian lives. Karida L. Brown's Gone Home offers a much-needed corrective to the current whitewashing of Appalachia. In telling the stories of African Americans living and working in Appalachian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469666065
• ISBN13: 9781469666068
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.8" x 9.2"