What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia

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In 2016, headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America s forgotten tribe of white working class voters Journalists flocked to the region to extract sympathetic profiles of families devastated by poverty, abandoned by establishment politics, and eager to consume cheap campaign promises What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia is a frank assessment of America s recent fascination with the people and problems of the region The book analyzes trends in contemporary writing on Appalachia, presents a brief history of Appalachia with an eye toward unpacking Appalachian stereotypes, and provides examples of writing, art, and policy created by Appalachians as opposed to for Appalachians The book offers a must needed insider s perspective on the region. New Download Books What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia By Elizabeth Catte – kino-fada.fr A Rebuttal to Hillbilly ElegyWhile reading Hillbilly Elegy was a fun read, I also saw it as a book that held the same ideals as those of a certain segment of our society that believe that you just need to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and get religion, and then all will be okay Hillbilly Elegy also stereotyped those living in the Appalachian Mountains For some reason they were all white Scot Irish when they are also from other European countries, and are also American Indians, Blacks and A Rebuttal to Hillbilly ElegyWhile reading Hillbilly Elegy was a fun read, I also saw it as a book that held t...If you felt at all compelled to read Hillbilly Elegy, do yourself a favor by reading Elizabeth Catte s work She convincingly tears apart many of the stereotypes Vance perpetuates, giving a muchnuanced history of the region, from the vast exploitation of land, people, and resources to the resulting labor movements and radical acts of rebellion Recent media coverage portraying parts of Appalachia as backward and tragically impoverished is nothing new, and she does a better job than most ot If you felt at all compelled to read Hillbilly Elegy, do yourself a favor by reading Elizabeth Catte s work She convincingly tears apart many of the stereotypes Vance perpetuates, giving a muchnuanced history of the region, from the vast exploitation of land, people, and resources to the resulting labor movements and radical acts of rebellion Recent media coverage portraying parts of Appalachia as backward and tragically impoverished is nothing new, and she does a better job than most other writers I ve read illustrating why these stereotypes have led to mistrust and caused genuine pain She connects Vance s ideas on a distinct Scots Irish heritage, through the sources and particular terminol...To begin with a mea culpa Even though I knew Catte was fighting against the stereotypes, I still expected this book to be a sort of coffee table book one might find described in Stuff White People Like A sumptuous publication in large format comprising artistic black and white photos ofweird poor people Nice white people could talk about how awful it all is and how they wish they could do something about it Pass the organic vegan caviar, please What did I know about Appalachia befor To begin with a mea culpa Even though I knew Catte was fighting against the stereotypes, I still expected this book to be a sort of coffee table book one might find described in Stuff White People Like A sumptuous publication in large format comprising artistic black and white photos ofweird poor people Nice white people could talk about how awful it all is and how they wish they could do something about it Pass the organic vegan caviar, please What did I know about Appalachia before I read this Image one said black and white pictures Image two fiddle music Image three Deliverance So yeah, not just fiddles, banjoes too.As a consequence of this, if somebody had asked me, I would have guessed that Appalachia was small It fits the homogeneity of the sense of the place See Place Place is small It s a thing that s clea...I started reading Elizabeth Catte s book and could not stop I ve underlined and written notes all through the text of course My guess is that a good proportion of my friends saw thorough J D Vance s hideous Hillbilly Elegy , but it s a monster best seller and soon to be Ron Howard movie, so maybe not Read this Catte eviscerates Vance who at one point she likens to the monster in It Follows , along with other prime exa...She gives voice to my issues with Hillbilly Elegy In Elegywhite Appalachians take on the qualities of an oppressed minority much in the same way that conservative individuals view African Americans as people who have suffered hardships, but ultimately are only holding themselves back This construction allows conservative intellectuals to talk around stale stereotypes of African Americans and other nonwhite individuals while holding up the exaggerated degradations of a white group though She gives voice to my issues with Hillbilly Elegy In Elegywhite Appalachians take on the qualities of an oppressed minority much in the same way that conservative individuals view African Americans as people who have suffered hardships, but ultimately are only holding themselves back This construction allows conservative intellectuals to talk around stale stereotypes of African Americans and other nonwhite individuals while holding up the exaggerated degradations of a white group thought to defy evidence of white privilege , BUT she is in DIRE need of an editor Maybe two or three editors Stories start halfway through and expect you to know references to the region s history Many references are not explained Many of her points begin and end somewhere in the middl...I m going to quit my job and walk the earth with a knapsack full of copies of this book and hand them out whenever I hear someone mention hillbilly elegy.When I came across commentary about Hillbilly Elegy by J D Vance, I thought about what I knew of the history of the region and it didn t sit right So I never did read it I figured that I wouldn t get any fresh insight from Vance I read Kephart s Our Southern Highlanders many years ago So I m familiar with that perspective I was glad to come across What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia by historian Elizabeth Catte who is also native to the region I thought I could learn something fr When I came across commentary about Hillbilly Elegy by J D Vance, I thought about what I knew of the history of the region and it didn t sit right So I never did read it I figured that I wouldn t get any fresh insight from Vance I read Kephart s Our Southern Highlanders many years ago So I m f...A must read And as someone who s from Appalachia, I really appreciate her analysis of the region and rebuttal against the horrific stereotypes we re plagued with.I thought I knew a few things about Appalachia, but in 150 pages, Catte has taught me That sympathy for the region and disgust for it can be two sides of the same coin That any problem you can find in Appalachia, you can find all over America That the image of Appalachia as Trump Country not only ignores the radical opposition, it s part of a century long effort to paint Appalachia as backward, stuck in time, a country of its own in short, an ideology that has been used to exploit the peopl I thought I knew a few things about Appalachia, but in 150 pages, Catte has taught me That sympathy for the region and disgust for it can be two sides of the same coin That any problem you can find in Appalachia, you can find all over America That the image of Appalachia as Trump Country not only ignores the radical opposition, it s part of a century long effort to paint Appalachia as backward, stuck in time, a country of its own in short, an ideology that has been used to exploit the people of the region and ignore their own wishes That casting Appalachia as uniformly white and Scots Irish is wrong, because it ignores the African American, Native American, Jewish, and Latino populations who have long contributed to the ...Author highlights the blacks liberals Latinos progressives of this mountain region and how tree and coal and people exploitation has shaped the culture and economy And how many many people are fighting to change that pattern.

What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia
  • English
  • 26 October 2017
  • Paperback
  • 150 pages
  • 0998904147
  • Elizabeth Catte
  • What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia