White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

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In White Trash, Nancy Isenberg upends assumptions about America's supposedly class-free society and shows how poor whites have been deeply ingrained in the country's history for the past 400 years. They were central to the both the Civil War itself and the rise of the Republican Party, and still today feature in reality TV as entertainment. White trash have always been an integral part of the American identity, and here their history in both culture and politics in explored in depth. A fascinating work that's timely to today's public debate about rich and poor.

LOC Call Number

HN90 .S6 I84 2016

ISBN

9780670785971

Publication Date

2016

Department

Department of History

Publisher

Viking

City

New York

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

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