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Isenberg, Nancy author.
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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.
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White trash : the 400-year untold
history
of class in America / Nancy Isenberg.
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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.
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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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