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Not quite white : white trash and the boundaries of whiteness /

White trash. The phrase conjures up images of dirty rural folk who are poor, ignorant, violent, and incestuous. But where did this stigmatizing phrase come from? And why do these stereotypes persist? Matt Wray answers these and other questions by delving into the long history behind this term of abu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wray, Matt, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
Colección:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: White trash as social difference : groups, boundaries, and inequalities
  • Lubbers, crackers, and poor white trash : borders and boundaries in the colonies and the early republic
  • Imagining poor whites in the antebellum South : abolitionist and pro-slavery fictions
  • "Three generations of imbeciles are enough" : American eugenics and poor white trash
  • "The disease of laziness" : crackers, poor whites, and hookworm crusaders in the new South
  • Limning the boundaries of whiteness.