Kentucky.com excerpts Professor Pruitt's essay from Appalachian Reckoning anthology

Kentucky.com (the Lexington Herald Leader’s website) published Professor Lisa Pruitt’s essay “What ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ reveals about race in 21st-century America,” excerpted from the anthology Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy (West Virginia University Press, 2019).

Appalachian Reckoning is a response by scholars and others to author J.D. Vance’s portrayal of Appalachia in his best-selling 2016 book Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and a Culture in Crisis. Dwight Garner, in his New York Times review of Appalachian Reckoning, praised Pruitt’s contribution to the anthology.

Lisa R. Pruitt, Martin Luther King, Jr. professor at UC Davis School of Law, is a scholar whose recent work explores the legal relevance of rural spatiality, including how it inflects dimensions of gender, race, and ethnicity.  Pruitt's work also considers rural-urban difference in transnational and international contexts