Black Appalachia: Race, Place, and Identity is the long-awaited sequel to Blacks in Appalachia (1985), the first modern anthology to examine the socioeconomic, cultural, and political experiences of Black Appalachians. Edited by Cicero M. Fain III, Sheena Harris Hayes, Wilburn Hayden Jr., and William H. Turner, Black Appalachia features over twenty-five emerging and established scholars and creatives who again challenge how we think about the region by asking fresh questions and finding different answers.

Through sections that cover themes such as migration, memory, discrimination, and the arts, this book demonstrates that Appalachia's Black residents maintain a significant role in shaping the area. It is a renaissance of ideas, music, poetry, photography, food, and more that uses innovative scholarship, perspectives, and fields of inquiry to reaffirm the continuing challenges and complexities of the Black Appalachian historical experience while situating Black Appalachians within a contemporary framework of new realities.

Black Appalachia expands upon the still largely untold stories of Black Americans, reframing their legacy and history not only by highlighting marginalized and unexplored communities but through celebration.