Bibliograph

White trash, the 400-year untold history of class in America, Nancy Isenberg

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Label

White trash, the 400-year untold history of class in America, Nancy Isenberg

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

White trash

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

925398080

Responsibility statement

Nancy Isenberg

Sub title

the 400-year untold history of class in America

Summary

"A history of the class system in America from the colonial era to the present illuminates the crucial legacy of the underprivileged white demographic, citing the pivotal contributions of lower-class white workers in wartime, social policy, and the rise of the Republican Party, "--NoveList

Table Of Contents

Part I: To Begin the World Anew -- Chapter One Taking Out the Trash: Waste People in the New World -- Chapter Two John Locke's Lubberland: The Settlements of Carolina and Georgia -- Chapter Three Benjamin Franklin's American Breed: The Demographics of Mediocrity -- Chapter Four Thomas Jefferson's Rubbish: A Curious Topography of Class -- Chapter Five Andrew Jackson's Cracker Country: The Squatter as Common Man -- Part II: Degeneration of the American Breed -- Chapter Six Pedigree and Poor White Trash: Bad Blood, Half-Breeds and Clay-Eaters -- Chapter Seven Cowards, Poltroons, and Mudsills: Civil War as Class Warfare -- Chapter Eight Thoroughbreds and Scalawags: Bloodlines and Bastard Stock in the Age of Eugenics -- Chapter Nine Forgotten Men and Poor Folk: Downward Mobility and the Great Depression -- Chapter Ten The Cult of the Country Boy: Elvis Presley, Andy Griffith, and LBJ's Great Society -- Part III: The White Trash Makeover -- Chapter Eleven Redneck Roots: Deliverance, Billy Beer, and Tammy Faye -- Chapter Twelve Outing Rednecks: Slumming, Slick Willie, and Sarah Palin

Target audience

adult

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