Why I’m Assigning "Hillbilly Elegy" — Minding The Campus

Why I’m Assigning "Hillbilly Elegy" — Minding The Campus

This fall, I’m assigning J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis in my politics and geography class on a deeply liberal and historically activist campus. I can already anticipate the reaction. Some students will object before they’ve read a page, convinced that reading the memoir means endorsing Vance’s politics […] The post Why I’m Assigning “Hillbilly Elegy” appeared first on Minding The Campus.