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Author Wray, Matt, 1964-

Title Not quite white : white trash and the boundaries of whiteness / Matt Wray.

Publication Info. Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.

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 Moore Stacks  E184.A1 W83 2006    Available  ---
Description xiii, 213 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-210) and index.
Contents Introduction: White trash as social difference : groups, boundaries, and inequalities -- Lubbers, crackers, and poor white trash : borders and boundaries in the colonies and the early republic -- Imagining poor whites in the antebellum South : abolitionist and pro-slavery fictions -- "Three generations of imbeciles are enough" : American eugenics and poor white trash -- "The disease of laziness" : crackers, poor whites, and hookworm crusaders in the new South -- Limning the boundaries of whiteness.
Subject White people -- Race identity -- United States.
White people -- Race identity.
United States.
White people -- United States -- Public opinion.
White people.
Public opinion.
Rural poor -- United States -- Public opinion.
Rural poor.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) -- United States.
Stereotypes (Social psychology)
Difference (Psychology)
Difference (Psychology)
Social stratification -- United States.
Social stratification.
Social classes -- United States.
Social classes.
United States -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
United States -- Race relations.
Race relations.
Public opinion -- United States.
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