Order the book from Amazon:

Wilburn Hayden's Book: Appalachian Black People: Identity, Location and Racial Barriers is available on-line. To get your copy of the book from Amazon, follow this link. Checkout: The Black Diaspora: Black Appalachians, Canadian Blacks and Descendants from the African Continent at http://africanablackpeoples.blogspot.com/

Thursday, March 9, 2017

Appalachian Studies Association Diversity and Inclusion Committee
Saturday March 11, 2017 8AM

40th Annual ASA Conference
EXTREME Appalachia! March 9-12, 2017 Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia

Appalachian Studies Association Diversity and Inclusion Committee
Agenda

The meeting is open to all. Please invite others who are interested.

  • Feedback on Friday’s session Building Transformative Communities and Collective People Power, led by Kierra Sims and Samir Rohlin Hazboun of Highlander – content, logistics, timing.
  • Next year’s Diversity and Inclusion-sponsored session for the ASA conference in Cincinnati
  • Guidelines for gender neutral pronouns and whether we want to adopt one of them for next year for both nametags and the program
  • Other 
Diversity and Inclusion Committee Conference Sessions

Friday 10:30-12:45pm; Session 2.1: Organizing | Diversity and Inclusion Committee Workshop
Building Transformative Communities and Collective People Power
Sponsored by the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at Virginia Tech
This workshop continues through lunch. Lunch is also offered courtesy of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at Virginia Tech to those who preregistered at http://tinyurl.com/ASAsignups.
This session will explore how systemic forms of oppression are manifested in our daily lives and will build collective analysis around the importance of acknowledging race and class privilege in an economic transition movement with lower and working class people at the forefront.
Conveners:
Kierra Sims, Highlander Research and Education Center
Samir Rohlin Hazboun, Highlander Research and Education Center

Friday 1-2:15 Urgent Issues: Confronting White Supremacy in Appalachian Communities
Facilitators: Izzy Broomfield and Beth Bingman
With Eastern Kentucky Organizers Liz Sanders and Stacie Sexton
This session will address the rise in white supremacist organizing in central Appalachia. Using Pikeville, KY as a case study, attendees will hear what's happening on the ground in eastern Kentucky, and will discuss strategies for confronting white supremacy in their own communities.

In addition, there is a session on Saturday led by members of Central Kentucky SURJ - Showing Up for Racial Justice.

There is also a room set aside for discussion of these and other important issues confronting the region.



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