Marion Public Library Login My List - 0 Help
	EXPLORE THE LIBRARY   SEARCH FOR BOOKS   MY ACCOUNT

Basic Search Advanced Search History

Search:  Title KeywordAuthor KeywordSubject KeywordSeries KeywordTitle starts with...Author (last name, first name)Subject starts with...Series starts with...ISBN/ISSN number       Refine Search     > You're searching: Marion Public Library

Item Information   Holdings     Author Notes & Sketches     Fiction & Biography     First Chapter Excerpts         Library Journal Review         Publisher Weekly Review         Summary     Table of Contents       More by this author     Isenberg, Nancy author.     Subjects     Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld     Social classes -- United States -- History.     Poor whites -- United States -- Social conditions -- History.     Working class whites -- United States -- Social conditions -- History.     Social classes -- United States -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Isenberg, Nancy author.       by title:      White trash : the 40...         MARC Display

White trash : the 400-year untold history of class in America / Nancy Isenberg. by Isenberg, Nancy author. Subjects Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld   Social classes -- United States -- History.   Poor whites -- United States -- Social conditions -- History.   Working class whites -- United States -- Social conditions -- History.   Social classes -- United States -- History. Publisher Info:  New York, New York : Viking, [2016] ©2016 Description:  xvii, 460 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm RDA Types:  text unmediated volume ISBN:  0670785970 9780670785971 9781101608487 Contents:  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. Format Book:  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. URL:  Sample text Contributor biographical information Publisher description No. of Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Marion Public Library Top Floor 305.5 ISE Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.