Kitta’s Work Reviewed in Journal of American Folklore

Dr. Andrea Kitta’s chapter in Advancing Folklorist was recently reviewed in the Journal of American Folklore.

“An Epidemic of Meanings,” situated in southwestern Pennsylvania, is a deep, deeply personal, unsparingly open, and critically resolute meditation on antivax and opioid addiction ethnography in her rural, conservative, white working-class home territory. Astutely observing that “arguing with them about their privilege or lack of otherness does not help” (p. 44), she interjects an otherwise neglected consideration of class, a critical reminder that the United States’ economically depressed hinterlands—largely populated by descendants of impoverished exploited immigrants—are decaying, abandoned colonies of rampant industrial capitalism.