| Description |
xvii, 460 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-446) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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Social classes -- United States -- History.
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Social classes. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Poor white people -- United States -- Social conditions -- History.
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Social conditions. |
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Working class white people -- United States -- Social conditions -- History.
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Working class white people. |
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Poor white people. |
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Social classes -- United States -- History. |
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Working class white people -- Social conditions. |
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Eugenics -- history. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| ISBN |
0670785970 |
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9780670785971 (hardback) |
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9781101608487 (e-book) |
| Standard No. |
9780670785971 52800 |
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