The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns

by William H. Turner

Book Overview

Weatherford Award Winner, Nonfiction

A personal remembrance from the preeminent chronicler of Black life in Appalachia.

The Harlan Renaissance is an intimate remembrance of kinship and community in eastern Kentucky's coal towns written by one of the luminaries of Appalachian studies, William Turner. Turner reconstructs Black life in the company towns in and around Harlan County during coal's final postwar...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1952271215
• ISBN13: 9781952271212
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: West Virginia University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"