Un-White: Appalachia, Race, and Film by Meredith McCarroll

This is not at all a book about Blacks, or other racial minorities, in Appalachia. Instead it is a book about stereotypes of Appalachians, in the context of racial stereotypes, particularly in films. As Meredith McCarroll, the author, states in her Introduction, “There is now, in your hands, a book about the stereotypes used to represent Appalachia in Hollywood because, as the mainstream culture industry has shown with African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans, it believes that it knows well enough how to portray these types.”  Her chapters are, “Hillbilly as American Indian,” “Appalachian Woman as Mammy,” “Mountain Migrant as Mexican Migrant,” and “Appalachian Documentary,” with an “Appendix: Appalachian Types in Cinema.”  In her Introduction, McCarroll is explicit “that white privilege pervades even in situations of white poverty,” and that she resists “the notion that [similar stereotypes] make Appalachians similar to those who have been systematically and legally