Left Elsewhere

Left Elsewhere

by Elizabeth Catte, et al
Left Elsewhere

Left Elsewhere

by Elizabeth Catte, et al

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Overview

“Rural spaces,” writes Elizabeth Catte, author of What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia, “are often thought of as places absent of things, from people of color to modern amenities to radical politics. The truth, as usual, is more complicated.”

With activists, historians, and political scientists as guides, Left Elsewhere explores the radical politics of rural America—its past, its priorities, and its moral commitments—that mainstream progressives overlook. This volume shows how these communities are fighting, and winning, some of the left’s biggest battles. From novel health care initiatives in the face of the opioid crisis to living wages for teachers, these struggles do not fall neatly into the “puny language,” as Rev. William Barber says, of Democrat or Republican. Instead they help us rethink the rural–urban opposition at the heart of U.S. politics. The future of the left, this collection argues, could be found elsewhere.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781946511409
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Publication date: 02/19/2019
Series: Boston Review / Forum
Pages: 128
Product dimensions: 6.50(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Elizabeth Catte, a public historian and activist based in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, is the author of What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia, and coeditor of 55 Strong: Inside the West Virginia Teachers' Strike. Her work has been featured in All Things Considered, the Guardian, the Nation, the New Yorker, BookforumOn the MediaGuernica, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Review of Books.

Deborah Chasman is Coeditor-in-Chief of Boston Review.

Joshua Cohen is Coeditor-in-Chief of Boston Review, member of the faculty of Apple University, and Distinguished Senior Fellow in Law, Philosophy, and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Elizabeth Catte, a public historian and activist based in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, is the author of What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia, and coeditor of 55 Strong: Inside the West Virginia Teachers' Strike. Her work has been featured in All Things Considered, the Guardian, the Nation, the New Yorker, BookforumOn the MediaGuernica, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Review of Books.

Elizabeth Catte, a public historian and activist based in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, is the author of What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia, and coeditor of 55 Strong: Inside the West Virginia Teachers' Strike. Her work has been featured in All Things Considered, the Guardian, the Nation, the New Yorker, BookforumOn the MediaGuernica, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Review of Books.

Table of Contents

William J. Barber II, Lesly-Marie Buer, Elizabeth Catte, Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, Nancy Isenberg, Elaine C. Kamarck, Michael Kazin, Toussaint Losier, Robin McDowell, Bob Moser, Hugh Ryan, Matt Stoller, Ruy Teixeira, Makani Themba, and Jessica Wilkerson.
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