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White trash : the 400-year untold history of class in America / Nancy Isenberg

Isenberg, Nancy G. [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

New York, New York : Viking, [2016] [© 2016]

xvii, 460 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 25 cm

Englisch

Fables we forget by -- Part 1: 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 -- Patrt 2: 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 -- Part 3: 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

Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 323-446

978-0-670-78597-1 (hbk)

978-1-101-60848-7 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2016302095

OCoLC: 925398080     

OCoLC: 955150314 (aus SWB)     

LB 45610  | HD 474  | HD 470  | MS 1235  | NW 2708  | MS 1420      Ähnliche Literatur

HN90.S6

305.50973

Basisklassifikation: 15.87 (USA) <Geschichte> ; 71.12 (Soziale Stratifikation; soziale Mobilität)

Fachinformationsdienst(e): FID-AAC-DE-7

*USA ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; Armut ; Diskriminierung ; Ausgrenzung      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Social classes -- United States -- History ; Poor whites -- United States -- Social conditions -- History ; Working class whites -- United States -- Social conditions -- History

"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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