White trash : the 400-year untold history of class in America / Nancy Isenberg.
Isenberg, Nancy, author.
2016
HN90.S6 I84 2016 (Mapit)
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Title White trash : the 400-year untold history of class in America / Nancy Isenberg.
Author Isenberg, Nancy, author.
ISBN 9780670785971 (hardcover)
0670785970 (hardcover)
9781101608487
Published New York, New York : Viking, [2016]
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Description xvii, 460 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number HN90.S6 I84 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.5/0973
Summary "Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America's supposedly class-free society----where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction pitted poor white trash against newly freed slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics---a widely popular movement embraced by Theodore Roosevelt that targeted poor whites for sterilization. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and LBJ's Great Society; they haunt us in reality TV shows like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty. Marginalized as a class, white trash have always been at or near the center of major political debates over the character of the American identity"--Publisher's website.
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Fables we forget by
To begin the world anew. Taking out the trash : waste people in the New World ; John Locke's Lubberland : the settlements of Carolina and Georgia ; Benjamin Franklin's American breed : the demographics of mediocrity ; Thomas Jefferson's rubbish : a curious topography of class ; Andrew Jackson's cracker country : the squatter as common man
Degeneration of the American Breed. Pedigree and poor white trash : bad blood, half-breeds and clay-eaters ; Cowards, Poltroons, and mudsills : civil war as class warfare ; Thoroughbreds and scalawags : bloodlines and bastard stock in the age of eugenics ; Forgotten men and poor folk : downward mobility and the Great Depression ; The cult of the country boy : Elvis Presley, Andy Griffith, and LBJ's Great Society
The white trash makeover. Redneck roots : Deliverance, Billy Beer, and Tammy Faye ; Outing Rednecks : slumming, Slick Willie, and Sarah Palin
America's strange breed : the long legacy of white trash.

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