{"product_id":"song-for-a-hard-hit-people-a-memoir-of-antiracist-solidarity-from-a-coal-miners-daughter-hardcover","title":"Song for a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity from a Coal Miner's Daughter - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBeth Howard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn 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\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppalachia 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eToo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the midst of divisive rhetoric, violent repression, and grifters writing elegies, may this story be a song.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBeth Howard \u003c\/strong\u003eis the Cultural Strategist for Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), the largest national organization bringing white people into the fight for racial and economic justice. She grew up in a rural white working-class community in Eastern Kentucky and has organized in the American South for two decades, primarily in her beloved home state of Kentucky. Beth has been a lead organizer on campaigns to raise the minimum wage and restore voting rights. She's also engaged white working-class Southerners on successful electoral campaigns, including ones that defeated an abortion ban ballot initiative in the 2022 Kentucky midterms and reelected Democratic Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear in 2023--and ran a rural field office in the 2020 Georgia runoff election. Beth is the creator of the viral narrative campaign \u003cem\u003eRednecks for Black Lives\u003c\/em\u003e, and has been featured on the NBC News National Day of Racial Healing special, \u003cem\u003eMatter of Fact's Listening Tour with Soledad O'Brian\u003c\/em\u003e, NPR's \u003cem\u003eHere and Now\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNow This News\u003c\/em\u003e, in the book \u003cem\u003ePower Concedes Nothing: How Grassroots Organizing Wins Elections\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e. Beth lives in Lexington, Kentucky. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.6 x 9.1 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 21, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52043462377773,"sku":"9798888904893","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/song-for-a-hard-hit-people-a-memoir-of-antiracist-solidarity-from-a-coal-miners-daughter-hardcover-9129448.webp?v=1780171146","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/song-for-a-hard-hit-people-a-memoir-of-antiracist-solidarity-from-a-coal-miners-daughter-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}