ISBN:
0415916917
,
0415916925
Language:
English
Pages:
272 S.
,
Ill., graph. Darst.
DDC:
305.5/6
Keywords:
Armoede
;
Blanken
;
Identiteit
;
Sociale klassen
;
Identität
;
Social classes
;
Whites Race identity
;
Whites Social conditions
;
Armut
;
Ethnische Identität
;
Weiße
;
Klassenbewusstsein
;
USA
;
United States Social conditions 1980-
;
USA
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
USA
;
Armut
;
Ethnische Identität
;
Weiße
;
USA
;
Klassenbewusstsein
;
Armut
;
Weiße
Abstract:
Poor or marginal whites occupy an uncharted space in recent identity studies, particularly because they do not easily fit the model of whiteness-as-power proposed by many multiculturalist or minority discourses. Associated in mainstream culture with "trashy" kitsch or dangerous pathologies rather than with the material realities of economic life, poor whites are treated as degraded caricatures rather than as real people living in conditions of poverty and disempowerment
Abstract:
White Trash situates the study of poor whites within the context of several academic disciplines, public-policy analysis, and popular or mass-media representations. Arguing that white racism is directed not only against people of color but also against certain groups of whites, the contributors to this volume explore the ways in which race and class in America are often talked about and represented in hidden, coded, or half-realized ways. In so doing, they demonstrate why the term white trash itself embodies yet another way in which some whites generate a debased "other" through pejorative naming practices
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