White trash : the 400-year untold history of class in America
Record details
- ISBN: 0670785970
- ISBN: 9780670785971
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Physical Description:
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xvii, 460 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm - Publisher: New York, New York : Viking, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 37.00 |
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Subject: | Social classes United States History Poor whites United States Social conditions History Working class whites United States Social conditions History |
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Stroud Branch | 305.50973 Ise | 31681020043345 | NONFIC | Available | - |