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Picture book

A is for Affrilachia

Frank X Walker

An illustrated alphabet introduces places, people, and traditions in Black Appalachia.

Poetry

Affrilachia

Frank X Walker

Walker’s poems insist on the visibility of Black lives in the language and geography of Appalachia.

Essays

Belonging: A Culture of Place

bell hooks

Essays on place, race, land, and return connect hooks’s Kentucky roots with a wider ethic of belonging.

Poetry

Perfect Black

Crystal Wilkinson

Poems consider color, family, girlhood, and the landscapes that shaped Wilkinson’s sense of home.

Memoir

Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts

Crystal Wilkinson

Recipes and recollections connect Appalachian foodways with the stories of Black women across generations.