ISBN:
9780670785971
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9780143129677
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
xxix, 462 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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22 cm
Ausgabe:
Published with a new preface in Penguin Books 2017
Serie:
A Penguin book. History, Sociology
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Isenberg, Nancy G. White trash
DDC:
305.5/0973
Schlagwort(e):
Social classes History
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Poor whites Social conditions
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History
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Working class whites Social conditions
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History
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USA
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Weiße
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Armut
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Unterschicht
;
Geschichte
;
USA
;
Soziale Ungleichheit
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Armut
;
Diskriminierung
;
Ausgrenzung
;
Geschichte
;
USA
;
Weiße
;
Unterschicht
;
Armut
;
Geschichte
;
USA
;
Soziale Ungleichheit
;
Armut
;
Diskriminierung
;
Ausgrenzung
;
Geschichte
Kurzfassung:
"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
Kurzfassung:
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
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-448) and index
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