Matt Wray

Not Quite White

White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness

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Produktbeschreibung

Analyzes the origins of the derogatory phrase "white trash" by documenting the meanings projected on to poor rural whites in the U.S. from the early 1700s through the early 1900s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 158mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9780822338734
• ISBN-10: 0822338734
• Artikelnr.: 21606267

Autorenporträt

Matt Wray

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: White Trash as Social Difference: Groups, Boundaries, and
Inequalities 1
1. Lubbers, Crackers, and Poor White Trash: Borders and Boundaries in the
Colonies and the Early Republic 21
2. Imagining Poor Whites in the Antebellum South: Abolitionist and
Pro-Slavery Fictions 47
3. “Three Generations of Imbeciles Are Enough”: American Eugenics and Poor
White Trash 65
4. “The Disease of Laziness”: Crackers, Poor Whites, and Hookworm Crusaders
in the New South 96
5. Limning the Boundaries of Whiteness 133
Notes 145 145
References 181
Index 211