Song for a Hard-Hit People
A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity from a Coal Miner's Daughter
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Song for a Hard-Hit People
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ナレーター：
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Beth Howard
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著者：
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Beth Howard
概要
An Appalachian organizer’s excavation of the past, her own and her people’s, to spark a collective fight for a future where we all have what we need and deserve
In Song for a Hard-Hit People, Beth Howard shares her story of growing up in Appalachian Kentucky—the economic struggles, trauma, and ever-present sexism along with the loving care of her close-knit rural community. These complex people shaped Howard’s sense of justice and solidarity, and taught her about the inextricable bonds working-class people share, despite our differences. But her childhood also left her with emotional wounds that threatened to destroy the life she built for herself. While healing her wounds is deeply personal, there’s no separating it from the people and place that made her.
Appalachia is often framed as a place to escape from, where people are hateful, lazy, and bring tragedy upon themselves. But in her quest to understand her home and her people, Howard uncovers the powerful history of white Appalachians fighting alongside Black and Brown people, pushing back against billionaires who gain power by using racism to divide them. Appalachia, she realizes, has not only been hit hard; it is the place to wage a freedom struggle.
Too many of us are denied the basic necessities of life: somewhere decent to live, good food to eat, health care that doesn’t break the bank, jobs that don’t kill us. As Howard reminds us, we haven’t got a chance—unless we organize.
In the midst of divisive rhetoric, violent repression, and grifters writing elegies, may this story be a song.
©2026 Beth Howard (P)2026 Beth Howard批評家のレビュー
A Publisher's Marketplace 2026 Buzz Books Selection
“At a time when analysis is everywhere, and actual strategy is critically needed but hard to come by, Beth Howard's book gives us a road map to building the cross race, class solidarity we need to battle the rising authoritarianism of our times. In the best tradition of working class story telling, and with beauty, pain and inspiration, she takes us on her journey as a coal miners daughter, and her emergence as an effective, passionate organizer among her Appalachian Kentucky people. This book will make you cry, laugh, think, and feel. But most of all, it will leave you hopeful.”—Angela Y. Davis
"Political organizer Howard connects her Appalachian upbringing to her career in social justice, in this deeply felt debut....While Howard’s empathetic account stands in welcome contrast to caricatures of Appalachian life, of particular note is her unwillingness to let the gender and racial disparities endemic to the region slide. The result is a refreshing, clear-eyed chronicle of a political awakening."—Publisher's Weekly
"Song for a Hard Hit People is as heart-rending as it is inspiring. Writing from a place of love, grace, and conviction, Beth Howard recognizes the struggles and dignity of white working people without losing sight of the racism and patriarchy that remain the chief obstacles to freeing us from the rapaciousness of capitalism. And yet, the book’s most profound lesson is this: organizing for a better world saves lives—even the life of the organizer."—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, Race Rebels, Hammer and Hoe