Matt WrayNot Quite White
White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness
Matt Wray is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a 2006–2008 Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar at Harvard University. He is a coeditor of The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness; Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life; and White Trash: Race and Class in America.
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
