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Jeffrey Howard's avatar

Welcome to southern Appalachia, Sara. I'm less than an hour down the mountain from you, in Burke County.

I'm wrestling with (and writing about) similar questions about regional identity and white supremacy (past and present) throughout western North Carolina and elsewhere in southern Appalachia.

Personally, I'm far more connected to and interested in raising consciousness/affinity around Appalachian identity rather than the southern part.

I'd love your perspective on a few thorny questions: What do you think makes a person or a cultural practice Appalachian? What do you consider Appalachian culture(s)? How do we complicate and challenge harmful stereotypes about southern Appalachia without completely undermining more authentic notions of Appalachianness?

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Gia Mora's avatar

I love those t-shirts.

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