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These Are Our Mountains, Too!

These Are Our Mountains, Too! 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 Program 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 backgrounds ourselves, Helen, Andrew, and I contacted dozens of Appalachian lecturers, storytellers, writers, filmmakers, and musicians from our collective lists of artists/scholars, and on June 11, twenty-three women and men--reflecting great diversity of age and occupation, as well as ethnicity--registered for the course. From Wilma Dykeman's keynote address on the first evening, to the closing ceremonies of the final day, the prevailing theme of the institute was "Unity in Diversity," 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, 1995
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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 Program 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 backgrounds ourselves, Helen, Andrew, and I contacted dozens of Appalachian lecturers, storytellers, writers, filmmakers, and musicians from our collective lists of artists/scholars, and on June 11, twenty-three women and men--reflecting great diversity of age and occupation, as well as ethnicity--registered for the course. From Wilma Dykeman's keynote address on the first evening, to the closing ceremonies of the final day, the prevailing theme of the institute was "Unity in Diversity,"

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Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press

Published: Jan 8, 1995

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