Color and Character: West Charlotte High and the American Struggle over Educational Equality by Pamela Grundy (review)

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tenable, given the ramifications of poststructuralist theory, the valuable and crucial achievements of African American, ethnic, and critical race studies as well as the rise of border studies in the wake of the transnational turn in the humanities especially” (8). Though the volume does represent several of the “multiple identities within Appalachia” mentioned by Worthington, the LGBTQ community is notably absent. Thus, the volume maps the complicated concept of an Appalachian home, but does not do so comprehensively. Ethan Mannon Mars Hill University