Matt Wray

Not Quite White

White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Study of the historical development of the category "white trash" in American culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 162mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9780822338826
• ISBN-10: 0822338823
• Artikelnr.: 21994363

Autorenporträt

Matt Wray

Inhaltsangabe

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