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WHITE TRASH The 400-year untold history of class in America PB NEW FREE SHIP
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780143129677
- Book Title
- White Trash : the 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
- Item Length
- 8.4 in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- History, Social Science
- Topic
- Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General, Poverty & Homelessness, Social History, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, United States / General
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Item Weight
- 14.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 496 Pages
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The New York Times Bestseller, with a new preface from the author "This estimable book rides into the summer doldrums like rural electrification. . . . It deals in the truths that matter."--Dwight Garner, The New York Times "This eye-opening investigation into our country's entrenched social hierarchy is acutely relevant." -- O, The Oprah Magazine " White Trash will change the way we think about our past and present." --T. J. Stiles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Custer's Trials In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg, co-author of The Problem of Democracy, takes on our comforting myths about equality, uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing--if occasionally entertaining--poor white trash. "When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there's always a chance that the dancing bear will win," says Isenberg of the political climate surrounding Sarah Palin. And we recognize how right she is today. Yet the voters that put Trump in the White House have been a permanent part of our American fabric, argues Isenberg. The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement to today's hillbillies. They were alternately known as "waste people," "offals," "rubbish," "lazy lubbers," and "crackers." By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called "clay eaters" and "sandhillers," known for prematurely aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds. Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America's supposedly class-free society--where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction pitted poor white trash against newly freed slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics--a widely popular movement embraced by Theodore Roosevelt that targeted poor whites for sterilization. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and LBJ's Great Society; they haunt us in reality TV shows like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty. Marginalized as a class, white trash have always been at or near the center of major political debates over the character of the American identity. We acknowledge racial injustice as an ugly stain on our nation's history. With Isenberg's landmark book, we will have to face the truth about the enduring, malevolent nature of class as well.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0143129678
ISBN-13
9780143129677
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234905372
Product Key Features
Book Title
White Trash : the 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General, Poverty & Homelessness, Social History, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, United States / General
Publication Year
2017
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History, Social Science
Number of Pages
496 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
14.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Hn90.S6i84 2016b
Reviews
"Formidable and truth-dealing...necessary." - The New York Times "This eye-opening investigation into our country's entrenched social hierarchy is acutely relevant." - O Magazine "A gritty and sprawling assault on...American mythmaking." --Washington Post "An eloquent synthesis of the country's history of class stratification." -The Boston Globe "A bracing reminder of the persistent contempt for the white underclass." -The Atlantic "[ White Trash ] sheds bright light on a long history of demagogic national politicking, beginning with Jackson. It makes Donald Trump seem far less unprecedented than today's pundits proclaim."-- Slate "Isenberg . . . has written an important call for Americans to treat class with the same care that they now treat race...Her work may well help that focus lead to progress." --TIME "With her strong academic background and accessible voice, Isenberg takes pains to reveal classism's deep-seated roots." -Entertainment Weekly "Carefully researched...deeply relevant." -Christian Science Monitor
Copyright Date
2017
Lccn
2017-301116
Dewey Decimal
305.5/0973
Dewey Edition
23
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