Catte, Elizabeth

What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia -- Elizabeth Catte, Paperback

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"The most damning critique of Hillbilly Elegy."―The New York Review of Books


"A spiky polemic."--Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker


In recent years and in countless ways, Appalachia has been portrayed as ground zero for America's "forgotten tribe" of white, working-class people--in short, it's "Trump Country." And during the Trump Era, demystifying the region to explain its roots of dysfunction became a national industry, made most popular by J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy. But these assessments have only given us a skewed portrait of a region that is actually marked by racial diversity, a storied labor history, and people who fall on all sides of the political spectrum. In What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia, Elizabeth Catte offers her clear-eyed and uncompromising assessment of America's historical tendency to stereotype Appalachia's people and problems. It's a frank and ferocious insider's perspective that will complicate and illuminate your ideas about one of America's most misunderstood regions.

Author: Elizabeth Catte
Publisher: Belt Publishing
Published: 02/06/2018
Pages: 146
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.20h x 5.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780998904146

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/23/2017
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2017
Shelf Awareness 02/27/2018

About the Author
Elizabeth Catte is a writer and historian from East Tennessee. She holds a PhD in public history from Middle Tennessee State University and is the co-owner of Passel, a historical consulting and development company. She lives in Staunton, VA.

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