Not Quite White
White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness
1st Edition
Published on 3. November 2006
232 pages
978-0-8223-8859-3 (ISBN)
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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.
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11/2006
Duke University Press
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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.
Content
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
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
