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White Trash : The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America / Nancy Isenberg.
Publisher: New York, New York : Viking, [2016]Description: xvii, 460 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780670785971
- 0670785970
- HN90.S6 I84 2016
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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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Non-fiction | Main Collection | HN 90 .S6 I84 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5164617 |
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| HN 90 .S6 C563 2004 Class and news / | HN 90 .S6 F86 1984 Caste marks : style and status in the U.S.A. / | HN 90 .S6 H87 2010 Social inequality : forms, causes, and consequences / | HN 90 .S6 I84 2016 White Trash : The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America / | HN 90 .S65 N48 1988 Falling from grace : the experience of downward mobility in the American middle class / | HN 90 .V5 D47 2011 The wilding of America : money, mayhem, and the new American dream / | HN 90 .V5 G65 1975 Aggression and crimes of violence / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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