12 Rounds in Lo's Gym: Boxing and Manhood in Appalachia

Snyder, Todd

ISBN 10: 1946684120 / ISBN 13: 9781946684127

Editore: Center for Democracy/Citizenship Educ, 2018

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Riassunto:

Questions of class and gender in Appalachia have, in the wake of the 2016 presidential election and the runaway success of Hillbilly Elegy, moved to the forefront of national conversations about politics and culture. From Todd Snyder, a first generation college student turned college professor, comes a passionate commentary on these themes in a family memoir set in West Virginia coal country.
 

12 Rounds in Lo’s Gym is the story of the author’s father, Mike “Lo” Snyder, a fifth generation West Virginia coal miner who opened a series of makeshift boxing gyms with the goal of providing local at-risk youth with the opportunities that eluded his adolescence. Taking these hardscrabble stories as his starting point, Snyder interweaves a history of the region, offering a smart analysis of the costs—both financial and cultural—of an economy built around extractive industries.

Part love letter to Appalachia, part rigorous social critique, readers may find 12 Rounds in Lo’s Gym—and its narrative of individual and community strength in the face of globalism’s headwinds—a welcome corrective to popular narratives that blame those in the region for their troubles. 

Informazioni sull?autore:

Todd Snyder is associate professor of rhetoric and writing at Siena College and author of The Rhetoric of Appalachian Identity. 
 

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Titolo: 12 Rounds in Lo's Gym: Boxing and Manhood in...
Casa editrice: Center for Democracy/Citizenship Educ
Data di pubblicazione: 2018
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket