Appalachian Reckoning, with chapter by Professor Pruitt, wins American Book Award

The anthology Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy has won an American Book Award. Professor Lisa R. Pruitt contributed a chapter to the anthology, titled “What Hillbilly Elegy Reveals About Race in 21st-Century America.”

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.

The American Book Awards are presented by the Before Columbus Foundation. Established in 1976, the Before Columbus Foundation is a nonprofit educational and service organization dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of contemporary American multicultural literature.

UC Davis English Professor Joshua Clover also won an American Book Award, as an editor and publisher of Commune Editions. Writer and UC Davis Law alumnus Wajahat Ali ’07 is a Before Columbus Foundation board member.

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

 

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