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Q&A: Talking ‘Trash’ With Cedar Monroe
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The Daily Yonder
Cedar Monroe grew up in rural Grays Harbor County, Washington.
In 2024, he published his book Trash: A Poor White Journey, which delves into white supremacist narratives around poverty in America.
Cedar Monroe: After the Puget Sound War, the U.S. government seized the majority of land in Grays Harbor, at that time from Indigenous people.
And then really, really high rates of homelessness.
In Trash, you discuss how white supremacist narratives hurt everyone, including – particularly poor – white people.