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An edition of White trash: the 400-year untold history of class in America (2016)

White trash : the 400-year untold history of class in America

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A history of poor whites in America, mainly in the South.

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Viking
Language
English
Pages
460

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Subjects

poverty, class, American history, Social conditions, Poor whites, Social classes, Working class whites, History, Mountain people, Rednecks, Classism, Social classes, united states, Poor, united states, Whites, history, Working class, history, Working class, united states, United states, social conditions, United states, history, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2016-07-10, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, HISTORY, Social History, United States, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Soziale Schichtung, Soziale Klasse, Unterschicht, Armut, Diskriminierung, Ausgrenzung, Eugenics, Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer

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1600s-2016s
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Table of Contents

Contents
Page ix
List of Illustrations
Page xi
Preface
Page xiii
Introduction - Fables We Forget By
Page 1
I. To Begin the World Anew
1. Taking Out the Trash: Waste People in the New World
Page 17
2. John Locke's Lubberland: The Settlements of Carolina and Georgia
Page 43
3. Benjamin Franklin's American Breed: The Demographics of Mediocrity
Page 64
4. Thomas Jefferson's Rubbish: A Curious Topography of Class
Page 85
5. Andrew Jackson's Cracker Country: The Squatter as Common Man
Page 105
II. Degeneration of the American Breed
6. Pedigree and Poor White Trash: Bad Blood, Half-Breeds, and Clay-Eaters
Page 135
7. Cowards, Poltroons, and Mudsills: Civil War as Class Warfare
Page 154
8. Thoroughbreds and Scalawags: Bloodlines and Bastard Stock in the Age of Eugenics
Page 174
9. Forgotten Men and Poor Folk: Downward Mobility and the Great Depression
Page 206
10. The Cult of the Country Boy: Elvis Presley, Andy Griffith, and LBJ's Great Society
Page 231
III. The White Trash Makeover
11. Redneck Roots: Deliverance, Billy Beer, and Tammy Faye
Page 269
12. Outing Rednecks: Slumming, Slick Willie, and Sarah Palin
Page 291
Epilogue
America's Strange Breed: The Long Legacy of White Trash
Page 310
Notes
Page 323
Index
Page 447

Edition Notes

Published in
New York City, New York, USA

Classifications

Library of Congress
HN90.S6I84 2016, HN90.S6 I84 2016b, HN90.S6 I84 2016

The Physical Object

Format
hardcover
Pagination
xvii, 460p
Number of pages
460
Weight
760 grams

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL25938400M
Internet Archive
whitetrash400yea0000isen_v5s4
ISBN 13
9780670785971
LCCN
2017301116, 2016302095
OCLC/WorldCat
964501874, 925398080

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OL17360507W

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