The Bad Poor: Race, Class, and the Rise of Grit Lit by Mitch Ploskonka, Scott Romine (Series edited by) Sports Surviving middle school is hard

Surviving middle school is hard enough

” —The Wall Street Journal

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The Bad Poor: Race, Class, and the Rise of Grit Lit by Mitch Ploskonka, Scott Romine (Series edited by) Sports Surviving middle school is hardThe Bad Poor examines the rise of Grit Lit, a movement in contemporary southern literature written by and about poor southern whites. Examining issues of genre, race, and culture, Mitch Ploskonka traces the emergence of this iconoclastic mode through its major authors to reveal a literary cultural identity rooted in difference, marked by resistance to respectability and class performance, and shaped by reckoning with the legacies of whiteness and