What you are getting wrong about Appalachia

by Elizabeth Catte, Jo Anna Perrin

Audiobook

Published July 18, 2018 by Tantor Media.

ISBN:: 978-1-9773-9762-1
OCLC Number:: 1046066008

(12 reviews)

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.

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What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia

4 stars

A blistering jeremiad about Appalachia and what you, frankly, are getting wrong about the region. Although it refers to Vance's Hillbilly Elegy, the book is not a point-by-point refutation of Vance's work. Rather, the book asks, pointedly, why we allow so many of the stereotypes about the region to endure. As our national press will no doubt continue to take voyages into "Trump country," Catte's guide to the region will continue to serve as a useful corrective to the media's assumptions.