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Monday Reads

Sep 30, 2024 | jill.substack.com | Sophie Neiman |Jia Tolentino |Arlie Russell Hochschild |Jasmine Mithani

Photo by Jonathan Singer on UnsplashHappy Monday! Here are some fine reads from around the web, plus what you might have missed from the newsletter and elsewhere this week. Jill Filipovic is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
JD Vance’s ancestral region is not what “Hillbilly Elegy” would have you believe

Sep 30, 2024 | motherjones.com | Arlie Russell Hochschild

Editor’s note: Eight years ago, on the eve of the 2016 election, Mother Jones published a story by Arlie Russell Hochschild, a renowned sociologist who had spent five years interviewing a group of white Southern conservatives to understand what drives the way they see America, politics, and Donald Trump.
The Decline of the Rust Belt and the Loss of Community

Sep 29, 2024 | freebeacon.com | Lainey Newman |Theda Skocpol |Arlie Russell Hochschild |David J. Garrow

My immediate Pittsburgh neighbors believe we live on perhaps the loveliest block in Squirrel Hill, a street so semi-rural that it lacks sidewalks but hosts a seemingly 24-7 population of young deer. I don’t disagree, but I also know that I live in the Mon Valley, a.k.a. Steel Valley, named for the huge river—Monongahela—that allowed it to host America’s premier industrial powerhouse for many decades. Now it’s mostly all gone.
Best history books of September 2024, as chosen by the Amazon Editors

Sep 12, 2024 | amazon.com | Arlie Russell Hochschild |Lindsay Powers |Abby Abell

Best history books of September 2024, as chosen by the Amazon EditorsThis September, the Amazon Editors are recommending new books from best-selling authors (Sapiens’ Yuval Noah Harari, National Book Award finalist Arlie Russell Hochschild), a promising debut, an Instagram star with millions of followers, and so much more. If your to-be-read list still has space, check out our top 10 best books in history, nonfiction, fiction—there’s truly something for everyone.
How Trump Weaponized White Rural America’s Shame

Sep 12, 2024 | msn.com | Arlie Russell Hochschild

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How Trump Weaponized White Rural America’s Shame

Sep 12, 2024 | time.com | Arlie Russell Hochschild

IdeasBy Arlie Russell HochschildSeptember 12, 2024 11:28 AM EDTRussell Hochschild is the professor emerita of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and the author of many groundbreaking books, including The Second Shift, The Managed Heart, and The Time Bind as well as Strangers in Their Own Land, which became an instant bestseller and was a finalist for a National Book Award.
Essay | For JD Vance’s Kentucky, Politics Is About Pride and Jobs

Aug 2, 2024 | wsj.com | Arlie Russell Hochschild

Kentucky’s 5th congressional district is the second-poorest in the U.S. and the one with the highest percentage of white residents, at more than 93%. This swath of Appalachian coal-mining country is where Ohio Sen.
The Black and White Southerners Who Changed the North

Sep 27, 2023 | nytimes.com | Arlie Russell Hochschild

As autoworkers strike across the country, "Hillbilly Highway" and "Black Folk" offer two views of the search for a better life by working-class migrants in the middle of the 20th century. HILLBILLY HIGHWAY: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class, by Max FraserBLACK FOLK: The Roots of the Black Working Class, by Blair LM KelleyBetween 1900 and 1970, millions of Americans left the South for the North, West and Midwest.