What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia - by Elizabeth Catte (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>An insider's perspective on Appalachia, and a frank, ferocious assessment of America's recent fascination with the people and the problems of the region.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>"The most damning critique of <i>Hillbilly Elegy</i>."―<i>The New York Review of Books</i></b></p><p>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. <i>What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia</i> 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.<br></p><p>A much-needed insider's perspective on a deeply misunderstood region of America.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A brief, forceful, and necessary correction. --Frank Guan, <i>Bookforum</i><br><br>A necessary response to the bigotry against a much-maligned culture. --Chris Offutt, author, <i>Kentucky Straight</i><br><br>Highlighting decades of suppressed workers' rights movements, as well as prison facilities that still exploit low-cost labor, Catte expands the perspective on Appalachia. Readers will indeed get more right about this slice of the country after reading her book." --Cheryl Krocker McKeon, <i>Shelf Awareness</i><br><br>Succeeds in providing a richer, more complex view of a much-maligned region. --<i>Publishers Weekly</i><br><br>The most damning critique of <i>Hillbilly Elegy</i>. --Nancy Isenberg, <i>New York Review of Books</i><br><br>What are we getting wrong about Appalachia? A lot. And we are not just getting it wrong because we do not know. We are getting it wrong because reckoning with the reality of the Appalachia people and culture serves a historical project of disdain, distancing, and deliberate disinvestment in our nation. Elizabeth Catte has written an essential guide on how to talk about race, class, gender and the cultural geographies that shape our lives. Our discourse on Appalachia has been used a cudgel, much of it designed to obscure more than it reveals. Catte uses data and lived experiences to reveal an Appalachia that is not some 'othered' out there against which we compare ourselves to make inequality more palatable. This is a necessary antidote to the cyclical mainstream interest in Appalachia as a backwards, white working-class caricature." --Tressie McMillan Cottom, Professor of Sociology and author of <i>Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy</i><br><br>"A bold refusal to submit to stereotype." --<i>Kirkus Reviews</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Elizabeth Catte</b> 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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