Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: place and place-making in Appalachia / William Schumann -- Part 1. Race, ethnicity, and gender. Revisiting Appalachia, revisiting self / Kathryn L. Duvall, Kelly A. Dorgan, and Sadie P. Hutson -- Carolina chocolate drops: performative expressions and reception of Affrilachian identity / Yunina Barbour-Payne -- Beyond a wife's perspective on politics: one woman's expression of identity in western North Carolina in the postwar period / Amanda Zeddy -- Intersections of Appalachian identity / Anna Rachel Terman -- Part 2. Language, rhetoric, and literacy. Appalachia beyond the mountains: ethical, community-based research in urban Appalachian neighborhoods / Kathryn Trauth Taylor -- Digital rhetorics of Appalachia and the cultural studies classroom / Jessica Blackburn -- Continuity and change of English consonants in Appalachia / Kirk Hazen, Jordan Lovejoy, Jaclyn Daugherty, and Madeline Vandevender -- Part 3. Economy and environment. Frackonomics / Jacqueline Yahn -- Revisiting Appalachian icons in the production and consumption of tourist art / Kristin Kant-Byers -- From the coal mine to the prison yard: the human cost of Appalachia's new economy / Melissa Ooten and Jason Sawyer -- Walking the fence line of the crooked road: engaging in the marketplace of tourism while empowering a place-based civic commons / Anita Puckett -- Part 4. Engagement. "No one's ever talked to us before": Participatory approaches and economic development in rural Appalachian communities / Tim Ezzell -- Strength in numbers: the federation of Appalachian housing enterprises / Diane N. Loeffler and Jim King -- When collaboration leads to action: collecting and making history in a deep south state / Mark Wilson -- Participation and transformation in twenty-first-century Appalachian scholarship / Gabriel A. Piser -- (Re)introduction: the global neighborhoods of Appalachian studies / Rebecca Adkins Fletcher -- Appendix: teaching exercises.