| Description |
272 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Defining and defying stereotypes. Sunset Trailer Park / Allan Berube with Florence Berube -- Name calling : objectifying "poor whites" and "white trash" in Detroit / John Hartigan, Jr. -- Partners in crime : African Americans and non-slaveholding whites in antebellum Georgia / Timothy J. Lockley -- Bloody footprints : reflections on growing up poor white / Roxanne A. Dunbar. pt. 2. White trash pictures. Crackers and whackers : the white trashing of porn / Constance Penley -- White trash girl : the interview / Laura Kipnis with Jennifer Reeder -- White savagery and humiliation, or a new racial consciousness in the media / Annalee Newitz -- Can whiteness speak? institutional anomies, ontological disasters, and three Hollywood films / Mike Hill. pt. 3. Producing and consuming poor whites. Trash-o-nomics / Doug Henwood -- White trash religion / Matt Wray -- Telling stories of "queer white trash" : race, class, and sexuality in the work of Dorothy Allison / Jillian Sandell -- Acting naturally : cultural distinction and critiques of pure country / Barbara Ching -- King of white trash culture : Elvis Presley and the aesthetics of excess / Gael Sweeney. |
| Subject |
Whites -- Social conditions.
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Whites -- Race identity.
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Social classes.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
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| Added Author |
Wray, Matt, 1964-
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Newitz, Annalee, 1969-
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| ISBN |
0415916925 (pbk.) |
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0415916917 |
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