Citations:Afrilachian

See also: Citations:Affrilachian

English citations of Afrilachian

• 2018, Tom Zaniello, Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff: An Expanded Guide to Films about Labor, Cornell University Press (→ISBN), page 323:

  ... tells of a preacher who long ago cursed her town for its loose living and predicted it would fall into hell. Sure enough, it (almost) did when the mines collapsed in 1985. Ivanhoe at the turn of the century had a sizable Afrilachian population; ...

• 2014, Wendy Welch, Public Health in Appalachia: Essays from the Clinic and the Field, McFarland (→ISBN), page 161:

  No one else in the room reacted to this incongruous comment, and discussion moved on to African American needs in rural settings, not specifically Afrilachian. Afterward the co-author spoke with the man who had made the comment. He was  ...

• 2003, Richard Drake, A History of Appalachia, University Press of Kentucky (→ISBN)

  ... within the forgotten Appalachian minority. This “Afrilachian” voice has struggled to be heard for more than thirty years, and was probably raised earliest by the John Henry Foundation of West Virginia.

• 2014, Saundra Gerrell Kelley, Southern Appalachian Storytellers: Interviews with Sixteen Keepers of the Oral Tradition, McFarland (→ISBN), page 188:

  ... area of the world, and it has spread throughout the culture. A bunch of African American writers came up with the term “Afrilachian.” They recognized that there are close to one million blacks living in Southern Appalachia, and that's a culture.

• 2012, Wendy Welch, The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book, Macmillan (→ISBN), page 241:

  ... a founding Afrilachian poet, along with Nikki Finney and Frank X Walker. Wild Fig, as Ron explained, stocked new books but was primarily a shop for used, and he'd only brought in the new books because most of the best books had left the ...

• 2007, Appalachian Heritage

  A founding member of the Afrilachian Writers, she was the featured author for the Spring 2006 issue of Appalachian Heritage. M. Quickmon Willis claims to be "a descendent of shore whalers and Lumbee Indian farmers [who] after a ..."