ACC Learning Resources Center News!

 

Through a grant from the North Carolina Humanities Council the book club will be participating in NC Reads in April by reading "Hungry Roots:  How Food Communicates Appalachia's Search for Resilience" by Ashli Quesinberry Stokes and Wendy Atkins-Sayre with the rest of the state!

 

Book Description:

Depictions of Appalachian food culture and practices often romanticize people in the region as good, simple, and, often, white. These stereotypes are harmful to the actual people they are meant to describe as well as to those they exclude. In Hungry Roots: How Food Communicates Appalachia’s Search for Resilience, Ashli Quesinberry Stokes and Wendy Atkins-Sayre tell a more complicated story. The authors embark on a cultural tour through food and drinking establishments to investigate regional resilience in and through the plurality of traditions and communities that form the foodways of Southern Appalachia.

 

More info on NC Reads:  https://nchumanities.org/programs/north-carolina-reads/

 

Students that would like to join the book club to read this book please email the library to find out more information:  lrc@alamancecc.edu