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What you are getting wrong about Appalachia / Elizabeth Catte.

By: Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio : Belt Publishing, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First editionDescription: 146 pages ; 18 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780998904146
  • 0998904147
Other title:
  • What you're getting wrong about Appalachia
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 975.044 23
LOC classification:
  • F217.A65 C38 2018
Contents:
Appalachia and the making of Trump country -- Hillbilly elegy and the racial baggage of J.D. Vance's "greater Appalachia" -- Land, justice, people.
Summary: "In 2016 headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America's "forgotten tribe" of white working-class voters. Following the presidential election, demystifying Appalachia and locating the roots of its dysfunction quickly seemed to become a national industry, shoring up the success of J.D. Vance's memoir Hillbilly Elegy and the author's rise to fame as the media's favorite working-class whisperer. With 'What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia, ' Elizabeth Catte offers a much-needed perspective on Appalachia, and a frank, ferocious assessment of America's recent fascination with the people and problems of the region summed up in shorthand as 'Trump Country'"--Back cover.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks F217 .A65 C38 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001456937

Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-142).

Appalachia and the making of Trump country -- Hillbilly elegy and the racial baggage of J.D. Vance's "greater Appalachia" -- Land, justice, people.

"In 2016 headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America's "forgotten tribe" of white working-class voters. Following the presidential election, demystifying Appalachia and locating the roots of its dysfunction quickly seemed to become a national industry, shoring up the success of J.D. Vance's memoir Hillbilly Elegy and the author's rise to fame as the media's favorite working-class whisperer. With 'What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia, ' Elizabeth Catte offers a much-needed perspective on Appalachia, and a frank, ferocious assessment of America's recent fascination with the people and problems of the region summed up in shorthand as 'Trump Country'"--Back cover.

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