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These Are Our Mountains, Too!

These Are Our Mountains, Too! Ginny Carney Appalachian Heritage, Volume 23, Number 4, Fall 1995, pp. 4-7 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1995.0044 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/436638/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:07 GMT from JHU Libraries These Are Our Mountains, Too!_______ Ginny Carney "I like to remind people that there are African-Americans in the hills and mountains of northeast Georgia .... It's our heritage, too." —Doris Davenport, poet and performance artist When the interim Director of Berea College's Appalachian Center, Helen Lewis, invited me last October to join her and Andrew Baskin (Director of the Black Cultural Center and Interracial Education Pro- gram at Berea) as part of the core staff for the 1995 Summer Institute in Appalachian Studies, I was elated. The focus for this summer's class, we agreed, should be on the multicultural heritage of Appalachia and, ideally, the participants themselves would be a reflection of the ethnic diversity which we proposed to study during this three-week course. Representing Scotch-Irish, African-American, and Cherokee back- grounds ourselves, Helen, Andrew, and I contacted dozens of Appala- chian lecturers, storytellers, writers, filmmakers, and musicians from our collective lists of artists/scholars, and on June 11, twenty-three http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

These Are Our Mountains, Too!

Carney, Ginny.
Appalachian Review , Volume 23 (4) – Jan 8, 2014
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Ginny Carney Appalachian Heritage, Volume 23, Number 4, Fall 1995, pp. 4-7 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1995.0044 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/436638/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:07 GMT from JHU Libraries These Are Our Mountains, Too!_______ Ginny Carney "I like to remind people that there are African-Americans in the hills and mountains of northeast Georgia .... It's our heritage, too." —Doris Davenport, poet and performance artist When the interim Director of Berea College's Appalachian Center, Helen Lewis, invited me last October to join her and Andrew Baskin (Director of the Black Cultural Center and Interracial Education Pro- gram at Berea) as part of the core staff for the 1995 Summer Institute in Appalachian Studies, I was elated. The focus for this summer's class, we agreed, should be on the multicultural heritage of Appalachia and, ideally, the participants themselves would be a reflection of the ethnic diversity which we proposed to study during this three-week course. Representing Scotch-Irish, African-American, and Cherokee back- grounds ourselves, Helen, Andrew, and I contacted dozens of Appala- chian lecturers, storytellers, writers, filmmakers, and musicians from our collective lists of artists/scholars, and on June 11, twenty-three

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