Yet even as they disparaged the region and its people—who were really ... Her first book, Americanizing Appalachia: Mountain Reform and the Pursuit of a White American Identity, is under ...

CAPTURING HISTORY: Photographer Chris Aluka Berry spent six years documenting the lives of Black people ... into the mountains,” says Berry, whose father is Black and mother is white.

Appalachian foodways are unique and not often highlighted as a type of Southern cuisine. Post-Jim Crow era, many freed Black people found place in the mountains of Southern Appalachia which has ...