team. this year we visit the 24 cities. right now we re going to show you several stops from our time in richmond, virginia. while until richmond, we took a driving tour of the city with merrill levar stoney. all right. mayor stoney, thank you for showing us around richmond today. thank you. if somebody has never been to richmond, virginia, what should they know about the city swl i think they should know that this is the cultural history arts capital of all things virginia. we re a city on the rise, we re drive, but imagine a thriving city with the backdrop of all the historic riches we have here as well. so we re going to a historic neighborhood right flou now then. we re headed to church zblil what makes it distinct? it s part of the original layout of the city of richmond. you re about to see the original part of the city right here on the right, saint john s church. tell me for those who don t know what happened at saint john s church, tell me about that
psychological tear orror. he also was instrumental in the concept of art or art s sake the. idea that a poem or work of literature or piece of art didn t have to teach teach you something or have a moral or make awe irrelevant better person, it was enough that i terror story scares you because it s doing its job. and this also meant that because a story didn t have to teach you something, virtue doesn t have to be rewarded. the villain could actually win in the end. richmond is where poe spent more of his life than any other city. he referred to himself as a virginian. this is where he was orphaned at the age of 2 and he grew up here with foster parents, john and francis alan. if it hadn t been for richmond he wouldn t have had the middle name of alan. we don t know what his middle name would have been if it weren t for them. this is where he first fell in love, this is where he wrote his first poetry. this is where he had a lot of those forward inspirations that inspired lit
violent hillbilly to rationalize the seizure of thousands of acres of land on the boundary between kentucky and west virginia. the image of appalachia as an impoverished and backward area continues to haunt the region to this day. indeed, many residents have absorbed and inverted negative stereotypes of the region and its people and have also constructed new identities for themselves based upon how they think they are perceived. a classic example of this, i think, is the recent best-selling book, j.d. vance s hillbilly-ology, a book we ll turn to later on in this lecture. for these reasons, it s beholden on us, i think, to understand how appalachian stereotypes have evolved over time and how they have been mobilized in different circumstances for the benefit of outsiders and those who live here. but i think i would like to start our story with a negative stereotype, and i want to dissect a negative image of ap latchians in american culture, beginning in the mid to late 19th c
so far, we have seen how appalachia, perhaps to a greater degree than any other american region is defined to the world and in the minds of its residents by outsiders. we have seen, for example, how industrialists employed the negative stereotype of the violent hillbilly to rationalize the seizure of thousands of acres of land on the boundary between kentucky and west virginia. the image of appalachia as an impoverished and backward area continues to haunt the region to this day. indeed, many residents have absorbed and inverted negative stereotypes of the region and its people and have also constructed new identities for themselves based upon how they think they are perceived. a classic example of this, i think, is the recent best-selling book, j.d. vance s hillbilly-ology, a book we ll turn to later on in this lecture. for these reasons, it s beholden on us, i think, to understand how appalachian stereotypes have evolved over time and how they have been mobilized in differe
this talk is about an hour. all right, let s go ahead and get started, everyone. welcome to class. over the course of this semester so far, we have seen how appalachia, perhaps to a greater degree than any other american region is defined to the world and in the minds of its residents by outsiders. we have seen, for example, how industrialists employed the negative stereotype of the violent hillbilly to rationalize the seizure of thousands of acres of land on the boundary between kentucky and west virginia. the image of appalachia as an impoverished and backward area continues to haunt the region to this day. indeed, many residents have absorbed and inverted negative stereotypes of the region and its people and have also constructed new identities for themselves based upon how they think they are perceived. a classic example of this, i think, is the recent best-selling book, j.d. vance s hillbilly-ology, a book we ll turn to later on in this lecture. for these reasons, it s