White trash the 400-year untold history of class in America
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...
| Main Author: | Isenberg, Nancy (Author) |
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| Other Authors: | Potter, Kirsten (Narrator) |
| Format: | Audiobooks Audiobook (CD) |
| Language: | English |
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Old Waybrook, CT :
Tantor,
[2016]
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| Edition: | Unabridged. |
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| Online Access: |
Go to Downloadable Audiobook Here. |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Fables we forget by
- pt. 1. 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
- pt. 2. 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
- pt. 3. 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.