Money in the Mountains

Appalachia's misery is caused by generations of colonial exploitation

List of contents

Introduction

1. Breaking the Cycle

2. Grounded in the Rural Working Class

3. Prejudice and Perception

4. Coal Keeps the Lights On

5. The Place of Pain and Profit

6. Manufactured Chaos

7. Toxic Individualism

8. The War Within

9. America the Beautiful Narcissist

10. United in Vulnerability

Conclusion

About the author

Rayelle Davis is a licensed therapist specialising in generational trauma in rural working-class communities. She started working as a counsellor in 2016, witnessing the personal stories behind the opioid epidemic, and has gone on to run her own private practice. She is currently working towards her doctoral degree in Counsellor Education and Supervision at Duquesne University. She lives in western Maryland.

Product details

• Authors: Rayelle Davis
• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 20.06.2026
• EAN: 9780745352152
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-5215-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: SELF-HELP / Motivational & Inspirational, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, North America, Psychiatry, Poverty & unemployment, Rural communities, Diseases & disorders, Social, group or collective psychology, Appalachian Mountains, Violence in society, Violence and abuse in society, Psychiatric and mental disorders, Poverty and precarity, PSYCHOLOGY / Cultural Psychology, Rural communities / rural life