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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Boston Review Left Elsewhere.
Editors’ Note
Deborah Chasman & Joshua Cohen
THE CARTOGRAPHY OF U.S. politics has hardened into cliché: islands of urban blue in a vast sea of rural red. In the recent midterm elections, however, rural w...
Left Elsewhere
Elizabeth Catte
WHEN MY GRANDFATHER was a child, his stepfather would bring him along as he sold moonshine to poor working men in southwestern Virginia coal country. The men adored my grandfath...
Why Institutions Drive Change
Michael Kazin
HISTORICAL MEMORY is both a powerful and perilous thing. It can inspire you to emulate the great deeds of your forerunners. But it can also offer the balm of false comfort when wh...
Class Matters
Nancy Isenberg
ELIZABETH CATTE IS RIGHT that the media treated Donald Trump voters as a group needing to be explained. Pundits in search of a grand narrative found it in J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly...
The Last Steep Ascent
Bob Moser
I GREW UP QUEER in a white working-class North Carolina clan during the 1970s, that moment in history when the backlash to civil rights and feminism and unionism was beginning to gath...
Legacies of Resistance
Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson
SINCE 2016 the number of people who want to chat with me about rural communities, particularly in the South, has dramatically increased. Popular questions include how ...