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Poverty Politics : Poor Whites in Contemporary Southern Writing /

"Representations of southern poor whites have long shifted between romanticization and demonization. At worst, poor southern whites are aligned with racism, bigotry, and right-wing extremism, and at best, regarded as the passive victims of wider, socioeconomic policies. In Poverty Politics: Poo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Robertson, Sarah, 1976 October 2- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Locating poor whites in contemporary travel narratives
  • Photo-narratives and the poor white self since the FSA
  • 'What I am here for is to claim my life' : life-writing and reclaiming the poor white self
  • 'A whitegirl helped me' : locating poor whites in literature
  • 'Culture springs from the actions of people in a landscape' : poor whites and environmentalism.