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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2019]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.