I got a blood feud with capitalism
We've all been bitten We've all been underground We've all been beaten, battered, bruised Told to get down —Refused, The Shape of Punk to Come This past weekend, I returned to Cincinnati, OH—where I lived for many years in the Over the Rhine and Lower Price Hill neighborhoods—to attend the Appalachian Studies Association conference. It… Continue reading The shape of Appalachia to come
A haint is stalkin' the mountains--the living memory of a century of class struggle in West Virginia.
Don West was an unapologetic radical and antiracist militant. He was an educator and co-founder of the Highlander Center and, later, the Appalachian South Folklife Center. He was also a popular poet. Largely relegated to footnotes in left literary tomes today, West's essays and poems remain strikingly relevant.
A short history of the social construction of the hillbilly
This is a partial list of some of the most useful resources that I've come across and recommend for people to read after/instead of Hillbilly Elegy.
