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ISBN 10: 0143129678
ISBN 13: 978-0143129677
Author: Nancy Isenberg
“White Trash will change the way we think about our past and present.”
—T. J. Stiles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Custer’s Trials
In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg, co-author of The Problem of Democracy, takes on our comforting myths about equality, uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing—if occasionally entertaining—poor white trash.
“When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win,” says Isenberg of the political climate surrounding Sarah Palin. And we recognize how right she is today. Yet the voters that put Trump in the White House have been a permanent part of our American fabric, argues Isenberg.
The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement to today’s hillbillies. They were alternately known as “waste people,” “offals,” “rubbish,” “lazy lubbers,” and “crackers.” By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called “clay eaters” and “sandhillers,” known for prematurely aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds.
Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America’s supposedly class-free society––where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction pitted poor white trash against newly freed slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics–-a widely popular movement embraced by Theodore Roosevelt that targeted poor whites for sterilization. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and LBJ’s Great Society; they haunt us in reality TV shows like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty. Marginalized as a class, white trash have always been at or near the center of major political debates over the character of the American identity.
We acknowledge racial injustice as an ugly stain on our nation’s history. With Isenberg’s landmark book, we will have to face the truth about the enduring, malevolent nature of class as well.
White Trash The 400 Year Untold History of Class in America 1st Table of contents:
Part I: To Begin the World Anew
Chapter One: Taking Out the Trash: Waste People in the New World
Chapter Two: John Locke’s Lubberland: The Settlements of Carolina and Georgia
Chapter Three: Benjamin Franklin’s American Breed: The Demographics of Mediocrity
Chapter Four: Thomas Jefferson’s Rubbish: A Curious Topography of Class
Chapter Five: Andrew Jackson’s Cracker Country: The Squatter as Common Man
Part II: Degeneration of the American Breed
Chapter Six: Pedigree and Poor White Trash: Bad Blood, Half-Breeds, and Clay-Eaters
Chapter Seven: Cowards, Poltroons, and Mudsills: Civil War as Class Warfare
Chapter Eight: Thoroughbreds and Scalawags: Bloodlines and Bastard Stock in the Age of Eugenics
Chapter Nine: Forgotten Men and Poor Folk: Downward Mobility and the Great Depression
Chapter Ten: The Cult of the Country Boy: Elvis Presley, Andy Griffith, and Lbj’s Great Society
Part III: The White Trash Makeover
Chapter Eleven: Redneck Roots: Deliverance, Billy Beer, and Tammy Faye
Chapter Twelve: Outing Rednecks: Slumming, Slick Willie, and Sarah Palin
Epilogue: America’s Strange Breed: The Long Legacy of White Trash
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