Frontmatter
Preface, by T. Elon Dancy II
Introduction: Poetics of Black Appalachia, by T. Elon Dancy II and Sabina Vaught
Part 1: returning to sacred places
Introduction to Section 1, by Sabina Vaught
Wawawpewnowat, by Jenn Johnson
Grounded Justice: Unearthing the Birthright of Liberated, Collective Black Environmental Justice Futures in Pittsburgh and Beyond, by M. Bea Dias, Cassie Quigley, Alyssa Lyon, Ariam Ford, and Ebony Lunsford-Evans
Liberation is Yet to Come: An Interview with S. L. Akines, by Stacey L. Akines, Robin-Renee Allbritton, and Win Nunley
Part 2: sometimes falling rain / carries memories of betrayal
Introduction to Section 2, by Lori Delale-O'Connor and T. Elon Dancy II
The Effects of a Black Child's Education, by Breanna Ewell
We're Going to Figure it Out: Interview with Amber Thompson, by Amber Thompson, Chetachukwu Agwoeme, and Candence Spruill
Excerpts from Slow Walking in Circles: The Struggle to Improve African American Student Achievement in the Pittsburgh Public Schools – A report of the Equity Advisory Panel (EAP), October 2020, by Anthony Mitchell, James Stewart, Wanda Henderson, and Tamanika Howze
Caste, Carcerality, and Educational Inequity: A Call to Restore Liberating Educational Opportunities for Black Pittsburgh, by Esohe Osai and Sean Means
Part 3: renegades roam here
Introduction to Section 3, by Lori Delale-O'Connor
Bridging Perspectives: Criminology, Education, and Lived Experiences with Children from Pittsburgh Sentenced to Death by Incarceration, by Juwan Bennett and Christy Mcguire
A Lost Soul in Someone's Body, by Briayelle Gaines
Black Caregivers' Educational Strategies to Avoid and Disrupt Potential Pathways Toward Criminal (In)justice, by Lori Delale-O'Connor, James Huguley, and Ming-Te Wang
Notes from Upstream: Salmon Girl, by Sheila Carter Jones
All Writing is Political: An Interview with Sheila Carter-Jones, by Sheila Carter Jones and Robin-Renee Allbritton
Resisting School Violence: Hip Hop as Pedagogy for Black Freedom Struggle, by Jasiri X, Christopher Wright, and Tiana Sharpe
In the Space that is Not Yet: A Dialogue with Marc Lamont Hill, by Marc Lamont Hill and T. Elon Dancy II
Part 4: fierce grief shadows me
Introduction to Section 4, by Sabina Vaught
They Always Come (A Note to My Son), by Medina Jackson
A Requiem for Antwon Rose II: Defending the Dead in the Afterlife of Slavery, by T. Elon Dancy II, Christopher Wright, and Chetachukwu Agwoeme
Prison Took My Daddy, by Nekiya Washington-Butler
Boy, by Sheila Carter Jones
Part 5: listen little sister / angels make their hope here
Introduction to Section 5, by Lori Delale-O'Connor
What a Free Future Looks Like to Me, by Candence Spruill
Our people that came before did an awful lot to be free: Interview with Tamanika Howze, by Tamanika Howze and Davonna Graham-Shannon
Let's Go Find Out, by Win Nunley
Discipline, Punishment, and Black Childhood: How carceral education shapes time for Black youth, by Ariana Brazier
Budding Off a New Kind of Tree: Interview with Tereneh Idía, by Tereneh Idía, Nekiya Washington-Butler, and Chelsea Jimenez
The journey to freedom: A conversation on freedom struggle with Sala Udin, by Sala Udin, Briayelle Gaines, and Christopher Wright
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Appalachian Futures: Black, Native & Queer Voices series
