Jim Branscome
2 posts
From an Urban Journalist: Times Prints Another Tired Stereotype of Appalachia
“Give me the streets of Manhattan,” Walt Whitman implored, and Eduardo Porter suggested avoiding rural America, maybe especially Appalachia. …
December 26, 2018
Review: New Book on Appalachia takes J.D. Vance Behind the Woodshed
Elizabeth Catte’s What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia rebuts the “tired ideas about race and culture” that J.D. Vance…
February 28, 2018