What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia Activism by George Monbiot

by George Monbiot

and author of Enlightenment’s Frontier: The Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism

and an approach to workers and their communities that more resembles the campaigns of the 1930s—in short

bell hooks and Quassan Castro

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What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia Activism by George Monbiotby Elizabeth Catte Belt Publishing 2 06 2018, paperback SKU: 9780998904146 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