From the Book - First edition.
Introduction. Why this book? / Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll.
Part I. Considering Hillbilly Elegy. Interrogating. Hillbilly elitism / T.R.C. Hutton
Social capital / Jeff Mann
Once upon a time in "Trumpalachia": Hillbilly Elegy, personal choice, and the blame game / Dwight B. Billings
Stereotypes on the syllabus: exploring Hillbilly Elegy's use as an instructional text at colleges and universities / Elizabeth Catte
Benham, Kentucky, coal miner / Wise County, Virginia, landscape / Theresa Burriss
Panning for gold: A reflection of life from Appalachia / Ricardo Nazario y Colón
Will the real hillbilly please stand up? Urban Appalachian migration and culture seen through the lens of Hillbilly Elegy / Roger Guy
What Hillbilly Elegy reveals about race in twenty-first-century America / Lisa R. Pruitt
Prisons are not innovation / Lou Murrey
Down and out in Middletown and Jackson: drugs, dependency, and decline in J.D. Vance's Capitalist Realism / Travis Linnemann and Corina Medley. Responding. Keep your "elegy": the Appalachia I know is very much alive / Ivy Brashear
HE said/SHE said / Crystal Good
The hillbilly miracle and the fall / Michael E. Maloney
In defense of J.D. Vance / Kelli Hansel Haywood
It's crazy around here, I don't know what to do about It, and I'm just a kid / Allen Johnson
"Falling in love," Balsam Bald, the Blue Ridge Parkway, 1982 / Danielle Dulken
Black hillbillies have no time for elegies / William H. Turner.
Part II. Beyond Hillbilly Elegy. Nothing familiar / Jesse Graves
Tether and plow / Jesse Graves
On and on: Appalachian accent and academic power / Meredith McCarroll
Olivia's ninth birthday party / Rebecca Kiger
Kentucky, coming and going / Kirstin L. Squint
Resistance, or our most worthy habits / Richard Hague
Notes on a mountain man / Jeremy B. Jones
These stories sustain me: the wyrd-ness of my Appalachia / Edward Karshner
Watch children / Luke Travis
The mower-1933 / Robert Morgan
Consolidate and salvage / Chelsea Jack
How Appalachian I am / Robert Gipe
Aunt Rita along the King Coal Highway, Mingo County, West Virginia / Roger May
Loving to fool with things / Rachel Wise
Antebellum cookbook / Kelly Norman Ellis
How to make cornbread, or thoughts on being an Appalachian from Pennsylvania who calls Virginia home but now lives in Georgia / Jim Minick
Tonglen for my Mother / Linda Parsons
Olivia at the intersection / Meg Wilson
Appalachian apophenia, or the psychogeography of home / Jodie Childers
Canary dirge / Dale Marie Prenatt
Poet, priest, and "poor white trash" / Elizabeth Hadaway.
