Book

Hillbilly Elegy

A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

JD Vance

2016

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Book Review

Left Behind

J.D. Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy" and Steven Stoll's "Ramp Hollow" both remind us that the history of poor and migratory people in Appalachia is a difficult story to tell.

by Nancy Isenberg via New York Review of Books on June 28, 2018
Q&A

Appalachia Isn’t Trump Country

A region that outsiders love to imagine but can’t seem to understand.

by Elizabeth Catte, Regan Penaluna via Guernica on March 7, 2018
Book Review

The Invention of the 'White Working Class'

A spate of new books explores the composition and motivations of the demographic that has been credited with electing Trump.

by Andrew J. Perrin via Public Books on January 30, 2018
Book Review

The Mythical Whiteness of Trump Country

"Hillbilly Elegy" has been used to explain the 2016 election, but its logic is rooted in a dangerous myth about race in Appalachia.

by Elizabeth Catte via Boston Review on November 7, 2017
Book Review

The Rage of White Folk

How the silent majority became a loud and angry minority.

by Steven Hahn via The Nation on September 27, 2017

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Still from the film Medium Cool, 1969.

That Ain't Cool

Capturing the 1968 DNC.

by Sammy Feldblum via The Baffler on August 20, 2024

A group of Transappalachain migrant workers in Department 312 of the Anderson Delco-Remy plant pose for a photograph in February 1953.

On the New Book, "Hillbilly Highway"

Recovering the long-overlooked significance of the “hillbilly highway” in the US, with implications for labor history as well as US history broadly.

by Max Fraser, Joseph Rathke via LaborOnline on December 15, 2023

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