Analyzes the origins of the derogatory phrase "white trash" by documenting the meanings projected on to poor rural whites in the U.S. from the early 1700s through the early 1900s.
Analyzes the origins of the derogatory phrase "white trash" by documenting the meanings projected on to poor rural whites in the U.S. from the early 1700s through the early 1900s.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Matt Wray is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a 2006–2008 Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar at Harvard University. He is a coeditor of The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness; Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life; and White Trash: Race and Class in America.
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Preface and Acknowledgements ix Introduction: White Trash as Social Difference: Groups, Boundaries, and Inequalities 1 1. Lubbers, Crackers, and Poor White Trash: Borders and Boundaries in the Colonies and the Early Republic 21 2. Imagining Poor Whites in the Antebellum South: Abolitionist and Pro-Slavery Fictions 47 3. “Three Generations of Imbeciles Are Enough”: American Eugenics and Poor White Trash 65 4. “The Disease of Laziness”: Crackers, Poor Whites, and Hookworm Crusaders in the New South 96 5. Limning the Boundaries of Whiteness 133 Notes 145 145 References 181 Index 211
Preface and Acknowledgements ix Introduction: White Trash as Social Difference: Groups, Boundaries, and Inequalities 1 1. Lubbers, Crackers, and Poor White Trash: Borders and Boundaries in the Colonies and the Early Republic 21 2. Imagining Poor Whites in the Antebellum South: Abolitionist and Pro-Slavery Fictions 47 3. “Three Generations of Imbeciles Are Enough”: American Eugenics and Poor White Trash 65 4. “The Disease of Laziness”: Crackers, Poor Whites, and Hookworm Crusaders in the New South 96 5. Limning the Boundaries of Whiteness 133 Notes 145 145 References 181 Index 211
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