| International Standard Book Number |
9798888904893 (hardcover)
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| Personal Name |
Howard, Beth (Cultural strategist), author.
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| Title Statement |
Song for a hard-hit people : a memoir of antiracist solidarity from a coal miner's daughter / Beth Howard.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
xxxi, 339 pages ; 24 cm.
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| General Note |
Kentucky authors.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Who are your people? -- If you could change something, what would it be? -- What's holding you back? -- Will you join me?
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| Summary, Etc. |
An Appalachian organizer's excavation of the past, her own and her people's, to spark a collective fight for a future where we all have what we need and deserve. In Song for a Hard-Hit People, Beth Howard shares her story of growing up in Appalachian Kentucky--the economic struggles, trauma, and ever-present sexism along with the loving care of her close-knit rural community. These complex people shaped Howard's sense of justice and solidarity, and taught her about the inextricable bonds working-class people share, despite our differences. But her childhood also left her with emotional wounds that threatened to destroy the life she built for herself. While healing her wounds is deeply personal, there's no separating it from the people and place that made her. Appalachia is often framed as a place to escape from, where people are hateful, lazy, and bring tragedy upon themselves. But in her quest to understand her home and her people, Howard uncovers the powerful history of white Appalachians fighting alongside Black and Brown people, pushing back against billionaires who gain power by using racism to divide them. Appalachia, she realizes, has not only been hit hard; it is the place to wage a freedom struggle. Too many of us are denied the basic necessities of life: somewhere decent to live, good food to eat, health care that doesn't break the bank, jobs that don't kill us. As Howard reminds us, we haven't got a chance--unless we organize. In the midst of divisive rhetoric, violent repression, and grifters writing elegies, may this story be a song.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Howard, Beth (Cultural strategist)
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Kentucky authors.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Anti-racism Appalachian Region.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Solidarity Appalachian Region.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Working class white people Appalachian Region.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Kentucky Authors.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Kentucky.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Informational works.
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