Ellen Wayland-Smith

Ellen Wayland Smith is associate professor of writing at the University of Southern California. She is author of The Angel in the Marketplace: Adwoman Jean Wade Rindlaub and the Selling of America and Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table.

The Logic of Eugenics Still Haunts Virginia

Elizabeth Catte’s new book examines how Virginia progressives believed the forced sterilization of poor whites would pave the way to a bright future—and how their legacy endures in national parks and prisons.

  • Ellen Wayland-Smith

J. D. Vance’s Political Mythology

Why Hillbilly Elegy strikes such a national nerve.

  • Ellen Wayland-Smith
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