Archive:Mark Meadows

• WCP: Who Speaks for Us?

  Whether it’s Representative Mark Meadows’s decision to have Lynne Patton stand behind him as “evidence” that President Trump is not racist or the media’s embrace of J.D. Vance’s version of Appalachian culture as the key to understanding white working-class voters, political discourse often anoints a single individual to represent a whole social group.

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance, John Russo, Lynne Patton, Mark Meadows, Rashida Tlaib, Sherry Linkon, Tokenism, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives