White trash: the 400-year untold history of class in America
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Published:
New York, New York :
Format:
Book
Physical Desc:
xxix, 462 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Lexile measure:
1220L
Rating:
1220L
Status:
Description
"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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Hamden/Whitneyville Adult Nonfiction
305.5097/ISE
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HN90 .S6 I84 2016b
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Language:
Unknown
ISBN:
9780143129677, 0143129678
Lexile measure:
1220
Notes
General Note
"Published with a new preface in Penguin Books 2017."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-448) and index.
Description
"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.
Target Audience
1220L,Lexile
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APA Citation (style guide)
Isenberg, N. White trash: the 400-year untold history of class in America.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Isenberg, Nancy. White Trash: The 400-year Untold History of Class in America. .
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Isenberg, Nancy, White Trash: The 400-year Untold History of Class in America. .
MLA Citation (style guide)Isenberg, Nancy. White Trash: The 400-year Untold History of Class in America.
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
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